detainer n. (1)(对财产的)扣押；扣留；占有 尤指非法占有。 (→unlawful detainer) (2)拘留；羁押 (3)〈美〉指控服刑犯的通知；即将释放服刑犯的通知 指检察官、法官或其他官员告知监狱官员某一服刑犯受到了刑事指控，需要其对指控作出答辩并要求对该犯人继续关押的通知，或者指监狱告知上述人员某一服刑犯即将被释放的通知。根据《州际指控服刑犯通知的协议》〔Interstate Agreement on Detainers〕的规定，该词指一州的控诉机关或警察机关向另一州某一犯人的服刑机关提出的说明该犯人在本州正受到刑事指控的通知。 (4)〈英〉续行拘禁 指在民事诉讼程序中受到拘禁的人，在被释放前，又对其签发了另一拘禁令，从而对其继续执行拘禁。在1838年的《判决法》〔Judgments Act〕废除了依中间令状的拘禁〔arrest on mesne process〕后，续行拘禁的做法亦被废除。
recklessness, n. 1. Conduct whereby the actor does not desire harmful consequence but nonetheless foresees the possibility and consciously takes the risk. • Recklessness involves a greater degree of fault than negligence but a lesser degree of fault than intentional wrongdoing. [Cases: Negligence 274. C.J.S. Negligence §§ 104–105, 109.] 2. The state of mind in
commitment, n. 1. An agreement to do something in the future, esp. to assume a financial obligation (the shipper made a firm commitment to deliver the goods). 2. The act of entrusting or giving in charge (commitment of money to the bank). 3. The act of confining a person in a prison, mental hospital, or
An obligation arising from a contract or agreement.
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Landrum–Griffin Act. A federal law, originally enacted in 1959 as the Labor–Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, designed to (1) curb corruption in union leadership and undemocratic conduct in internal union affairs, (2) outlaw certain types of secondary boycotts, and (3) prevent so-called hot-cargo provisions in collective-bargaining agreements. See HOT CARGO.
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A doctor’s failure to exercise the degree of care and skill that a physician or surgeon of the same medical specialty would use under similar circumstances. — Often shortened to med. mal. [Cases: Health 600–835. C.J.S. Parent and Child § 328.]
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stop-list. Antitrust. An illegal means by which manufacturers sometimes attempt to enforce price maintenance, by having suppliers agree among themselves not to supply any party who competes actively and breaks anticompetitive price “rules.”
attornment ([schwa]-t[schwa]rn-m[schwa]nt), n. 1. A tenant’s agreement to hold the land as the tenant of a new landlord. [Cases: Landlord and Tenant 15. C.J.S. Landlord and Tenant §§ 21–22, 277, 279.] 2. A constructive delivery involving the transfer of mediate possession while a third person has immediate possession; esp., a bailee’s acknowledgment that he or
nonbailable, adj. 1. (Of a person) not entitled to bail (the defendant was nonbailable because of a charge of first-degree murder). [Cases: Bail 43. C.J.S. Bail; Release and Detention Pending Proceedings§§ 18–23.] 2. (Of an offense) not admitting of bail (murder is a nonbailable offense).
oeconomus (ee-kon-[schwa]-m[schwa]s). [Latin fr. Greek] Civil law. A manager or administrator.