Time that does not count for a particular purpose, such as time not included in calculating an employee’s wages or time not credited toward a prisoner’s sentence. • The time during which a prisoner has escaped, for example, is not credited toward the prisoner’s sentence. — Also termed nonrun time.
midnight deadline. A time limit for doing something, ending at midnight on a particular day. • For a bank, the midnight deadline is midnight on the next banking day following the day on which the bank receives the relevant item or from which the time for taking action begins to run, whichever is later. UCC
time. 1. A measure of duration. 2. A point in or period of duration at or during which something is alleged to have occurred. 3. Slang. A convicted criminal’s period of incarceration. dead time. Time that does not count for a particular purpose, such as time not included in calculating an employee’s wages or time
out of time. After a deadline; too late (because the statute of limitations expired before the action’s filing, this lawsuit is out of time and should be dismissed).
The time that a convicted person spends on parole or on other conditional release. • If the person’s parole is revoked, this time may or may not be credited toward the person’s sentence, depending on the jurisdiction and the particular conditions of that person’s parole. See dead time.
dead storage. The stowage of goods, esp. motor vehicles, for a long time in a public storage area, as opposed to the daily or regular stowage of goods in active use. Cf. LIVE STORAGE. [Cases: Insurance 2278(13). C.J.S. Insurance § 938.]
drop-dead date. The date by which performance is required as a condition. Cf. TIME-IS-OF-THE-ESSENCE CLAUSE.
deadhand control. The convergence of various legal doctrines that allow a decedent’s control of wealth to influence the conduct of a living beneficiary; esp., the use of executory interests that vest at some indefinite and remote time in the future to restrict alienability and to ensure that property remains in the hands of a particular
dead-ship doctrine. Maritime law. The rule that admiralty law no longer applies to a ship when its purpose has been so changed that it is no longer a vessel because it has no further navigation function. [Cases: Admiralty 6. C.J.S. Admiralty §§ 26–32.]
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