laws of the several states
laws of the several states 〈美〉几个州的法律 当该词用于法规中，要求联邦法院适用几个州的法律时，它不仅包括州的制定法，还包括各州对一般法律问题的裁决。
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laws of the several states
laws of the several states. State statutes and state-court decisions on questions of general law.
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uniform partnership act
Uniform Partnership Act. A 1914 model statute intended to bring uniformity to state laws governing general and limited partnerships. • The Act was adopted by almost all the states, but has been superseded in several of them by the Revised Uniform Partnership Act (1994). — Abbr. UPA. [Cases: Partnership 351. C.J.S. Partnership § 404.]
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torrens system
Torrens system (tor-[schwa]nz ortahr-[schwa]nz). A system for establishing title to real estate in which a claimant first acquires an abstract of title and then applies to a court for the issuance of a title certificate, which serves as conclusive evidence of ownership. • This system — named after Sir Robert Torrens, a 19th-century reformer of
tail
tail, n. The limitation of an estate so that it can be inherited only by the fee owner’s issue or class of issue. See FEE TAIL; ENTAIL. — Also termed (in Scots law) tailzie (tay-lee). [Cases: Descent and Distribution 29; Estates in Property 12; Wills 604. C.J.S. Estates §§ 22–27; Wills § 1258.] several tail.
legal dictionaries
legal dictionaries 法律词典 定义或阐释专业性的法律用语或出现在法律文本中具有特定含义的词和词组的意义和用法的词典。当然，大多数英美普通词典对这些词语也作解释。思想和语言的精准是成功的法律词典的首要因素。法律词典的作用在于减少概念上的混乱、语言上的含混及遣词上的不准确。与法律词典功能类似的是那些论述词和词组在司法语境中特定含义的书籍。第一部主要的法律词典是1527年由约翰·拉斯特尔〔John Rastell〕编纂的《英格兰法定义解释》〔Expositiones Terminorum Legum Anglorum〕。现代英格兰法律词典主要有：约翰·J.S.沃顿〔John J.S. Wharton〕于1848年编纂的《法律词汇》〔Law Lexicon〕；查尔斯·斯威特〔Charles Sweet〕于1882年编纂的《英格兰法律词典》〔Dictionary of English Law〕；W.G.伯恩〔W.G.Byrne〕于1923年编纂的《英格兰法律词典》〔Dictionary of English Law〕；厄尔·乔伊特〔Earl Jowitt〕以沃顿和伯恩的词典为基础于1959年编纂的《英格兰法律词典》〔The Dictionary of English Law〕，该词典于1977年再版，名为《乔氏英格兰法律词典》〔Jowitt’s Dictionary of English Law〕，编者为约翰·伯克〔John Burke〕；E.R.哈迪艾维米〔E. R. Hardy Ivamy〕于1988年编纂的第十版《莫兹利与怀特利法律词典》〔Mozley and Whiteley’s Law Dictionary〕；约翰·S.詹姆斯〔John S. James〕于1986年主编的第五版五卷本《斯特劳德氏词与词组司法词典》〔Stroud’s Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases〕；以及约翰·B.桑德斯〔John B. Saunders〕于1969年总编的第二版五卷本《词与词组法律界定》〔Words and Phrases〕;戴维·M.沃克〔David M. Walker〕于1980年编纂的《牛津法律总览》〔The Oxford Companion to Law〕。现代美国法律词典主要有：约翰·布维尔〔John Bouvier〕于1839年编纂的《参照大陆法系和其他外国法系适用于美国法律及一些州法的法律词典》〔Law Dictionary
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restatement
Restatement. One of several influential treatises published by the American Law Institute describing the law in a given area and guiding its development. • The Restatements use a distinctive format of black-letter rules, official comments, illustrations, and reporter’s notes. Although the Restatements are frequently cited in cases and commentary, a Restatement provision is not binding
covenant marriage
A special type of marriage in which the parties agree to more stringent requirements for marriage and divorce than are otherwise imposed by state law for ordinary marriages. • In the late 1990s, several states (beginning with Louisiana: see Acts 1997, No. 1380, § 5) passed laws providing for covenant marriages. The requirements vary, but