picketing. The demonstration by one or more persons outside a business or organization to protest the entity’s activities or policies and to pressure the entity to meet the protesters’ demands; esp., an employees’ demonstration aimed at publicizing a labor dispute and influencing the public to withhold business from the employer. • Picketing is usu. considered […]
s Act. Hist. An English statute that rendered marriages within certain degrees of kinship null and void. Marriage Act of 1835, 5 & 6 Will. 4, ch. 54. — Also termed Lord Lyndhurst’s Act.
mild exigency. A circumstance that justifies a law-enforcement officer’s departure from the knock-and-announce rule, such as the likelihood that the building’s occupants will try to escape, resist arrest, or destroy evidence. See KNOCK-AND-ANNOUNCE RULE.
comaker. One who participates jointly in borrowing money on a promissory note; esp., one who acts as surety under a note if the maker defaults. — Also termed cosigner. Cf. MAKER. [Cases: Bills and Notes 48, 118. C.J.S. Bills and Notes; Letters of Credit §§ 23, 80–82.]
essoin day. Hist. English law. The first general return day of the term, when the courts sat to receive essoins. • By the Law Terms Act (1830), essoin days were eliminated as a part of the term. St. 11 Geo. 4;1 Will. 4, ch. 70, § 6.
means-plus-function clause. Patent law. An element in a patent claim, usu. in a claim for an apparatus patent, asserting that the design is a way to perform a given function or is a step in the process of performing a given function. • The claim will be interpreted as including the structure or means stated
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deliberate speed, with all. As quickly as the maintenance of law and order and the welfare of the people will allow, esp. with respect to the desegregation of public schools. Brown v. Board of Educ., 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686 (1954). [Cases: Schools 13(9). C.J.S. Civil Rights § 117.]
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nonrecourse, adj. Of or relating to an obligation that can be satisfied only out of the collateral securing the obligation and not out of the debtor’s other assets. [Cases: Bills and Notes 44; Secured Transactions 227, 240. C.J.S. Bills and Notes; Letters of Credit § 11; Secured Transactions §§ 152, 164–166, 168–169, 172, 174–175, 180–183.]
demesne (di-maynor di-meen), n. [French] 1. At common law, land held in one’s own right, and not through a superior; esp., land attached to a manor and reserved for the court’s own use. 2. Domain; realm. — Also spelled demain. ancient demesne. Hist. A manor that was held by the Crown at the time of
caveator (kay-vee-ay-t[schwa]r). One who files a caveat, esp. to challenge the validity of a will; CON-TESTANT(1).