A contractor who has the knowledge, skill, experience, and available equipment to do the work that he or she is employed to do without creating an unreasonable risk of injury to others and who has the personal characteristics necessary to carry out the work.
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head money. 1. A tax on people who fit within a designated class; a poll tax. See capitation tax, poll tax under TAX. [Cases: Taxation 106. C.J.S. Taxation §§ 1671–1672.] 2. A bounty offered by a government for a prisoner taken at sea during a naval engagement. • This bounty is divided among the officers
eviction. The act or process of legally dispossessing a person of land or rental property. See FORCIBLE ENTRY AND DETAINER. Cf. EJECTMENT. [Cases: Forcible Entry and Detainer 6; Landlord and Tenant 287.] actual eviction. A physical expulsion of a person from land or rental property. [Cases: Landlord and Tenant 171(1). C.J.S. Landlord and Tenant §
feudatory, adj. Hist. (Of a vassal) owing feudal allegiance to a lord. feudatory, n. Hist. The grantee of a feud; the vassal or tenant who held an estate by feudal service. — Also termed feudary; feodatory. “Every receiver of lands, or feudatory, was therefore bound, when called upon by his benefactor, or immediate lord of
lewdness. Gross, wanton, and public indecency that is outlawed by many state statutes; a sexual act that the actor knows will likely be observed by someone who will be affronted or alarmed by it. See Model Penal Code § 251. 1. — Also termed open lewdness. Cf. INDECENT EXPOSURE; OBSCENITY. [Cases: Lewdness 1. C.J.S. Lewdness
Pennsylvania System 〈美〉宾夕法尼亚制 亦称费城制，由费城学会〔Philadelphia Society〕倡导的对犯人实行单独囚禁的监狱制度，以促使罪犯悔罪改过。1829年在费城的切里·希尔〔Cherry Hill〕东部州立监狱〔Eastern State Penitentiary〕首次试行。后其被奥本制〔Auburn System〕取代。
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contract of affreightment ([schwa]-frayt-m[schwa]nt).Maritime law. An agreement for carriage of goods by water. • A contract of affreightment may employ a bill of lading, a charterparty, or both to ship the goods. — Abbr. COA. — Also termed contract of carriage. See CHARTERPARTY. [Cases: Shipping 104. C.J.S. Shipping §§ 247–250, 252–254.]
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neutral, adj. 1. Indifferent. 2. (Of a judge, mediator, arbitrator, or actor) refraining from taking sides in a dispute. neutral, n. 1. A person or country taking no side in a dispute; esp., a country that is at peace and is committed to aid neither of two or more belligerents. Cf. BELLIGERENT. “The rights of
sum certain. 1. Any amount that is fixed, settled, or exact. 2. Commercial law. In a negotiable instrument, a sum that is agreed on in the instrument or a sum that can be ascertained from the document. [Cases: Bills and Notes 157. C.J.S. Bills and Notes; Letters of Credit § 135.]
bottom-hole agreement. Oil & gas. A support agreement in which the contributing party agrees to make a cash contribution to the drilling party in exchange for geological or drilling information if the well is drilled to the agreed depth. See SUPPORT AGREEMENT. [Cases: Mines and Minerals 79. 2. C.J.S. Mines and Minerals § 296.]
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