carve out
carve out, vb. 1. To create an explicit exception to a broad rule. 2. Tax. To separate from property the income derived from the property.
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workers’ compensation board
workers’-compensation board. An agency that reviews cases arising under workers’-compensation statutes and administers the related rules and regulations. — Also termed workers’-compensation commission. [Cases: Workers’ Compensation 1076–1096.10. C.J.S. Workmen’s Compensation §§ 700–729.] “Workers’ compensation boards … are tribunals … of limited and special jurisdiction and have only such authority and power as have been conferred
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de contumace capiendo
de contumace capiendo (dee kon-ty[schwa]-may-see kap-ee-en-doh), n. [Law Latin “for arresting a contumacious person”] Hist. A writ issuing out of the Court of Chancery at the request of an ecclesiastical court that has found a person to be in contempt. • This writ came into use after the Ecclesiastical Courts Act of 1813 removed ecclesiastical
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warsaw convention
Warsaw Convention. Int’l law. A treaty (to which the United States is a party) negotiated in Warsaw, Poland, in 1929, consisting of uniform rules governing claims made for personal injuries arising out of international air travel. Cf. MONTREAL AGREEMENT. [Cases: Carriers 307; Treaties 8. C.J.S. Aeronautics and Aerospace §§ 265, 267; Carriers § 573; Treaties
law and economics
law and economics. (often cap.) 1. A discipline advocating the economic analysis of the law, whereby legal rules are subjected to a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether a change from one legal rule to another will increase or decrease allocative efficiency and social wealth. • Originally developed as an approach to antitrust policy, law and
jus cogens
jus cogens (j[schwa]s koh-jenz), n. [Latin “compelling law”] 1. A mandatory or peremptory norm of general international law accepted and recognized by the international community as a norm from which no derogation is permitted. • A peremptory norm can be modified only by a later norm that has the same character. Cf. JUS DISPOSITIVUM. [Cases:
provisione legis
provisione legis (pr[schwa]-vizh-ee-oh-nee lee-jis). [Law Latin] Hist. By provision of law. “Heirs who succeed according to the rules of law regulating succession, without the consent or appointment of their ancestor, are said to succeed provisione legis, and are known as heirs-at-law.” John Trayner, Trayner’s Latin Maxims 494 (4th ed. 1894).
joint inventor
joint inventor. Patents. A person who collaborates with another or others in developing an invention. • All joint inventors must be identified on a patent application. [Cases: Patents 92. C.J.S. Patents §§ 126, 134.] “Employing a friend, mechanic, model maker or other person to do work for one on an idea does not, as a
articles of war
articles of war. 1. The rules and regulations that govern the activities of an army and navy. 2. (cap.) The body of laws and procedures that governed the U.S. military until replaced in 1951 by the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
opt out class
A plaintiff class, certified under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3), from which class members may choose to exclude themselves if they do not want to be bound by the decisions or settlements reached in the case. • Rule 23(e) permits courts to dismiss class members who request exclusion. Class members may wait until the