community of interest. 1. Participation in a joint venture characterized by shared liability and shared opportunity for profit. See JOINT VENTURE. [Cases: Joint Adventures 1.2(7).] 2. A common grievance that must be shared by all class members to maintain the class action. See CLASS ACTION. [Cases: Federal Civil Procedure 165; Parties 35.17. C.J.S. Parties §§ […]
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community of interest 共同利益；团体利益 本词用于大型合伙〔joint adventure〕的内部关系时，指合伙人双方或全体的共同利益〔interest common〕，即在合伙中存在的混合的或一致的利益，该利益团体中的每一个人都相互关联，而且每个人都从中获取利益并共同承担责任。在集团诉讼中，本词指申诉集团用以对抗被告的任何主要事由。在劳动法中，该词用以确定适当的谈判小组〔bargaining unit〕，包括下列因素：谈判经历、操作上的协调统一、地理位置的远近、共同的监督，以及在工作职能和僱员交流方面的相似性。
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A lease in which a number of lessors owning interests in separate tracts execute a lease in favor of a single lessee.
community. 1. A neighborhood, vicinity, or locality. 2. A society or group of people with similar rights or interests. 3. Joint ownership, possession, or participation.
Personal property that, having been acquired in a non-community-property state, would have been community property if acquired in a community-property state. • If a community-property state is the forum for a divorce or administration of a decedent’s estate, state law may allow the court to treat qua-si-community property as if it were community property when
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Family law. In a community-property state, the deliberate hiding or fraudulent transfer of community assets before a divorce or death for the purpose of preventing the other spouse from claiming a half-interest ownership in the property.
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Assets owned in common by husband and wife as a result of its having been acquired during the marriage by means other than an inheritance or a gift to one spouse, each spouse generally holding a one-half interest in the property. • Only nine states have community-property systems: Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico,
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community property. Assets owned in common by husband and wife as a result of its having been acquired during the marriage by means other than an inheritance or a gift to one spouse, each spouse generally holding a one-half interest in the property. • Only nine states have community-property systems: Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada,
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natural resource. 1. Any material from nature having potential economic value or providing for the sustenance of life, such as timber, minerals, oil, water, and wildlife. 2. Environmental features that serve a community’s well-being or recreational interests, such as parks. [Cases: Environmental Law 13.]
neighborhood. 1. The immediate vicinity; the area near or next to a specified place. 2. People living in a particular vicinity, usu. forming a community within a larger group and having similar economic statuses and social interests. 3. The condition of being close together.