A bill brought when a decree could not be enforced without further court order because of the parties’ neglect or for some other reason. — Also termed bill to enforce a decree. [Cases: Equity 438.]
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侵占 英语：embezzlement 法语：détournement de fonds 德语：Unterschlagung 意大利语：appropriazione indebita, furto, malversazione 西班牙语：malversación de fondos, desfalco, estafa
Insurance that can be changed to another form without further evidence of insurability, usu. referring to a term-life-insurance policy that can be changed to permanent insurance without a medical examination. [Cases: Insurance 1908–1911.]
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administrative law. The law governing the organization and operation of administrative agencies (including executive and independent agencies) and the relations of administrative agencies with the legislature, the execu-tive, the judiciary, and the public. • Administrative law is divided into three parts: (1) the statutes endowing agencies with powers and establishing rules of substantive law relating
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In construction law, work not required under the contract; something done or furnished in addition to the contract’s requirements; work entirely outside and independent of the contract and not contemplated by it. • A contractor is usu. entitled to charge for extra work consisting of labor and materials not contemplated by or subsumed within the
peonage (pee-[schwa]-nij), n. Illegal and involuntary servitude in satisfaction of a debt. [Cases: Slaves 24. C.J.S. Peonage §§ 3–5.] — peon, n. “Peonage, which is a term descriptive of a condition that existed in Spanish America, and especially in Mexico, and in the territory of New Mexico, and which may be defined as the status
remit, vb. 1. To pardon or forgive (the wife could not remit her husband’s infidelity). 2. To abate or slacken; to mitigate (the receipt of money damages remitted the embarrassment of being fired). 3. To refer (a matter for decision) to some authority, esp. to send back (a case) to a lower court (the appellate
suggestion of bankruptcy. A pleading by which a party notifies the court that the party has filed for bankruptcy and that, because of the automatic stay provided by the bankruptcy laws, the court cannot take further action in the case. [Cases: Bankruptcy 3418. C.J.S. Bankruptcy § 102.]
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A receivership in which a further administrative proceeding is appointed in another state to help the principal receivership.
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failing-company doctrine. Antitrust. The rule that allows an otherwise proscribed merger or acquisition between competitors when one is bankrupt or near failure. 15 USCA §§ 12–27. — Also termed failing-firm defense. [Cases: Monopolies 20(1). C.J.S. Monopolies §§ 106–111, 115–116, 125.] “The 1992 guidelines provide a limited defense for failing firms and failing divisions of firms.
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