pocket part. A supplemental pamphlet inserted usu. into the back inside cover of a lawbook, esp. a treatise or code, to update the material in the main text until the publisher issues a new edition of the entire work. • Legal publishers frequently leave a little extra room inside their hardcover books so that pocket […]
modus operandi (moh-d[schwa]s op-[schwa]-ran-dIor -dee). [Latin “a manner of operating”] A method of operating or a manner of procedure; esp. a pattern of criminal behavior so distinctive that investigators attribute it to the work of the same person (staging a fight at the train station was part of the pickpocket’s modus operandi). — Abbr. M.O.
dives costs (dI-veez), n. Ordinary court costs granted to a successful party, as distinguished from limited costs (such as out-of-pocket costs) allowed to a successful pauper who sued or defended in forma pauperis. • The term derives from the name of Dives, the supposed name of the rich man in the parable of the rich
benefit-of-the-bargain rule. 1. The principle that a party who breaches a contract must pay the aggrieved party an amount that puts that person in the same financial position that would have resulted if the contract had been fully performed. [Cases: Damages 117.] 2. The principle that a defrauded buyer may recover from the seller as
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The interest of a nonbreaching party in being put in the position that would have resulted if the contract had not been made, including out-of-pocket costs. [Cases: Damages 117.]
coverture (k[schwa]v-[schwa]r-ch[schwa]r also -tyoor), n. Archaic. The condition of being a married woman (under former law, a woman under coverture was allowed to sue only through the personality of her husband). See feme covert under FEME. [Cases: Husband and Wife 55.] — covert (k[schwa]v-[schwa]rt), adj. “Coverture, is a french word signifying any thing that covereth,