Miller–Tydings Act. A federal law, enacted in 1937 as an amendment to the Sherman Act, exempting fair-trade laws from the application of the Sherman Act and legalizing resale-price-maintenance agreements between producers and retailers of products. • The Act was repealed by the Consumer Goods Pricing Act of 1975.
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reeve (reev). Hist. 1. A ministerial officer of high rank having local jurisdiction; the chief magistrate of a hundred. • The reeve executed process, kept the peace, and enforced the law by holding court within the hundred. 2. A minor officer serving the Crown at the hundred level; a bailiff or deputy-sheriff. 3. An overseer
nonintromittent clause (non-in-troh-mit-[schwa]nt).English law. A clause in the charter of a borough exempting it from the jurisdiction of the justices of the peace appointed for the borough’s county.
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bloodwite. Hist. 1. EFFUSIO SANGUINIS(1). 2. EFFUSIO SANGUINIS(2). 3. The right to levy a fine involving the shedding of blood. 4. The exemption from the payment of a fine involving the shedding of blood. 5. Scots law. A penalty for a brawl or riot in which blood is shed.
essendi quietum de tolonio (e-sen-dI kwI-ee-t[schwa]m dee t[schwa]-loh-nee-oh). [Latin “a writ to be free of a toll”] Hist. A writ available to a citizen or a burgess of any city or town who, by charter or prescription, is exempt from a particular toll.
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Generally, an itemized deduction of job or investment expenses; a deduction other than those allowable in computing adjusted gross income, those enumerated in IRC (26 USCA) § 67(b), and personal exemptions. • This type of deduction is allowed only to an itemizing taxpayer whose total miscellaneous itemized deductions exceed a statutory percentage of adjusted gross
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A husband’s sexual intercourse with his wife by force or without her consent. • Marital rape was not a crime at common law, but under modern statutes the marital exemption no longer applies, and in most jurisdictions a husband can be prosecuted for raping his wife. — Also termed spousal rape. [Cases: Rape 4. C.J.S.
property of the debtor. Bankruptcy. Property that is owned or (in some instances) possessed by the debtor, including property that is exempted from the bankruptcy estate. 11 USCA § 541(b). — Also termed debtor’s property. [Cases: Bankruptcy 2531–2559. C.J.S. Bankruptcy §§ 105–109, 111, 113–120, 122.]
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Chapter 7. 1. The chapter of the United States Bankruptcy Code allowing a trustee to collect and liquidate a debtor’s nonexempt property, either voluntarily or by court order, to satisfy creditors. [Cases: Bankruptcy 2251. C.J.S. Bankruptcy § 50.] 2. A bankruptcy case filed under this chapter. • An individual debtor who undergoes this type of
commercial-activity exception. An exemption from the rule of sovereign immunity, permitting a claim against a foreign state to be adjudicated in the courts of another state if the claim arises from private acts undertaken by the foreign state, as opposed to the state’s public acts. See RESTRICTIVE PRINCIPLE OF SOVEREIGN IM-MUNITY ; JURE GESTIONIS; JURE
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