disgrading. Hist. 1. The act of degrading. 2. The depriving of an order; the depriving of a dignity. “Disgrading, or degrading, is when a man having taken upon him a dignity temporal or spiritual, is afterwards thereof deprived, be he knight, clerk or other. Whereof if a clerk be delivered to his ordinary, and cannot […]
de tempore cujus contrarium memoria hominum non existit (dee tem-p[schwa]-ree k[y]oo-j[schwa]s k[schwa]n-trair-ee-[schwa]m m[schwa]-mor-ee-[ schwa] hom-[schwa]-n[schwa]m non eg-zis-tit). [Latin] From time whereof the memory of man does not exist to the contrary. See LEGAL MEMORY.
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treasure trove.[Law French “treasure found”] Valuables (usu. gold or silver) found hidden in the ground or other private place, the owner of which is unknown. • At common law in the United States, the finder of a treasure trove can usu. claim good title against all except the true owner. But until 1996, all treasure
absolute-priority rule. Bankruptcy. The rule that a confirmable reorganization plan must provide for full payment to a class of dissenting unsecured creditors before a junior class of claimants will be allowed to receive or retain anything under the plan. • Some jurisdictions recognize an exception to this rule when a junior class member, usu. a
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Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. A federal statute providing individuals with a right of action against foreign governments, under certain circumstances, to the extent the claim arises from the private, as opposed to the public, acts of the foreign state. 28 USCA §§ 1602–1611. — Abbr. FSIA. See RESTRICTIVE PRINCIPLE OF SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY. [Cases: International Law
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regalia (ri-gay-lee-[schwa]). 1. Hist. Rights held by the Crown under feudal law. • Regalia is a shortened form of jura regalia. regalia majora (m[schwa]-jor-[schwa]). [Latin “greater rights”] The Crown’s greater rights; the Crown’s dignity, power, and royal prerogatives, as distinguished from the Crown’s rights to revenues. regalia minora (mi-nor-[schwa]). [Latin “lesser rights”] The Crown’s lesser
Judicature Acts. A series of statutes that reorganized the superior courts of England in 1875. • The Judicature Acts were superseded by the Supreme Court Act of 1981.
profit à prendre (a prawn-dr[schwa] or ah prahn-d[schwa]r). [Law French “profit to take”] (usu. pl.) A right or privilege to go on another’s land and take away something of value from its soil or from the products of its soil (as by mining, logging, or hunting). — Also termed right of common. Pl. profits à
Council of Economic Advisers. A three-member council in the Executive Office of the President responsible for analyzing the national economy and advising the President on economic matters. • Created by the Employment Act of 1946, it now functions under Reorganization Plan No. 9 of 1953. Its members are appointed by the Pres-ident with the advice
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Office of Management and Budget. An office in the Executive Office of the President responsible for helping the President prepare the annual federal budget and supervising its administration. • It was originally established by Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1939 as the Bureau of the Budget. — Abbr. OMB.
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