power to inspect. Patents. The authority of a third party to review a patent application. • The power may be given by the applicant or an assignee, often to a potential buyer. It must specify which application the person is authorized to see, and it becomes part of the record of the application. See ACCESS(4), […]
The power to inspect or make decisions about an entity’s operations. — Also termed visitorial power.
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review, n. 1. Consideration, inspection, or reexamination of a subject or thing. 2. Plenary power to direct and instruct an agent or subordinate, including the right to remand, modify, or vacate any action by the agent or subordinate, or to act directly in place of the agent or subordinate (Subject to the Assembly’s review, the
visitatorial (viz-[schwa]-t[schwa]-tor-ee-[schwa]l), adj. Of or relating to on-site inspection or supervision. — Also termed visitorial. “To eleemosynary corporations, a visitatorial power is attached as a necessary incident…. [P]rivate and particular corporations, founded and endowed by individuals for charitable purposes, are subject to the private government of those who are the efficient patrons and founder. If
navigable water. 1. At early common law, any body of water affected by the ebb and flow of the tide. • This test was first adopted in England because most of England’s in-fact navigable waters are influenced by the tide, unlike the large inland rivers that are capable of supporting commerce in the United States.