Search results for: “subjects of international law”

  • Agent

    Agent

    (Lat. agens, from agere, to do). One who undertakes p transact some business, or to manage some affair, for another, by the authority and on account of the latter, and to render an account of it. 1 Livermore, Ag. 67; 2 Bouv. Inst. 3. The term is one of a very wide application, and […]

  • Agent

    Agent

    (Lat. agens, from agere, to do). One who undertakes p transact some business, or to manage some affair, for another, by the authority and on account of the latter, and to render an account of it. 1 Livermore, Ag. 67; 2 Bouv. Inst. 3. The term is one of a very wide application, and […]

  • License

    License

    Permission or authority . A license to do any particular thing is permission or authority to do that thing, and it transfers to grantee the right to do whatever right grantor can transfer to do that which is within the terms of the license. See federal Land Bank of Wichita v […]

  • License

    License

    Permission or authority . A license to do any particular thing is permission or authority to do that thing, and it transfers to grantee the right to do whatever right grantor can transfer to do that which is within the terms of the license. See federal Land Bank of Wichita v […]

  • Liberty

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Liberty Meaning of Liberty Freedom. Freedom from restraint, but under conditions regulated by law; freedom from extraneous control . Also used to denote a franchise or perÂsonal privilege ; […]

  • Liberty

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Liberty Meaning of Liberty Freedom. Freedom from restraint, but under conditions regulated by law; freedom from extraneous control . Also used to denote a franchise or perÂsonal privilege ; […]

  • Bottom-up Approach

    Bottom-up approach in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, bottom-up approach is: preparing an agenda for trade negotiations by agreeing on negotiating subjects item by item. The entries on trade policy are here. As agreement is reached on each item, the shape of the final agenda gradually […]

  • Tradition

    Tradition

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Tradition Meaning of Tradition (Lat. trans, over, do, dare, to give). In civxl law. The act by which a thing is delivered by one or more persons to one or more others. The delivery of possession by the […]

  • Title

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Title Meaning of Title A name by which anything is known. An appellation of honor or dignity . A right , particularly the right of ownership of property . In relation to property, while the primary […]

  • Liege

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Liege Meaning of Liege (from liga, a bond, or litis, a man wholly at command of his lord). In feudal law. Bound by a feudal tenure; bound in allegiance to the lord paramount, who owned no superior. The […]

  • Nude

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Nude Meaning of Nude Naked. Figuratively, this word is applied to various subjects. ‘ A nude contract, nudum pactum, is one without a consideration. Nude matter is a bare allegation of a thing done, […]

  • Court-martial

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Court-martial Meaning of Court-martial A court established for trying offenses against naval, military or airforce discipline, or against the ordinary law, by a member of the Armed Forces. <div […]

  • Heresy

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Heresy Meaning of Heresy An offense against ecclesiastical law , consisting in the holding of a false opinion contrary to the essential doctrines of Christianity. […]

  • Lex Talionis

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Lex talionis Meaning of Lex talionis (Lat.) The law of retaliation, an example of which is given in the law of Moses, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, etc. Amicable retaliation includes those acts […]

  • Corporeal Property

    In Civil Law. That which consists of such subjects as are palpable. In Common Law. The term to signify the same thing is property in possession.” It differs from incorporeal property, which consists of choses in action and easements, as a right of way, and the like. …