separate-sovereigns rule. Criminal procedure. The principle that a person may be tried twice for the same offense — despite the Double Jeopardy Clause — if the prosecutions are conducted by separate sovereigns, as by the federal government and a state government or by two different states. See DOUBLE JEOPARDY . [Cases: Double Jeopardy 183. C.J.S. […]
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majority rule. 1. The principle that a majority of a group has the power to make decisions that bind the group; the principle that in the choice of alternatives, the one preferred by the greater number is selected. • It is governance by the majority of those who actually participate, regardless of the number entitled
special rule. 1. A rule applicable to a particular case or circumstance only. See RULE(1). 2. A deliberative assembly’s rule that supplements or supersedes its parliamentary authority. See PARLIAMENTARY AUTHORITY. 3. A rule that applies only to a particular matter, such as a specific bill. In senses 2 & 3, see RULE(2), (3).
final-judgment rule. The principle that a party may appeal only from a district court’s final decision that ends the litigation on the merits. • Under this rule, a party must raise all claims of error in a single appeal. 28 USCA § 1291. — Also termed final-decision rule; finality rule. Cf. FINALITY DOCTRINE ; INTERLOCUTORY
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rule of destructability of contingent remainders 不确定之剩余地产权的可消灭性规则 指在其前一项财产权终止之前或终止之时，如果不确定之剩余地产权并没有进行授权，则该剩余地产权即消灭。(→contingent remainder)
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Model Rules of Professional Conduct 〈美〉《模范律师职业行为规则》 美国律师协会〔American Bar Association〕于1983年制定的一部规则，1987年又作了一些技术上的修正。它广泛地规定了律师在与法院、对方律师、己方当事人及其他人的交往中可以以及不可以从事哪些行为的规则，从而取代了美国律师协会原制定的、且已被多数州采用的《律师职业责任法典》〔Code of Professional Responsibility〕。
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rule of inconvenience. The principle of statutory interpretation holding that a court should not construe a statute in a way that will jeopardize an important public interest or produce a serious hardship for anyone, unless that interpretation is unavoidable. — Often shortened to inconvenience. [Cases: Statutes 181(2). C.J.S. Statutes § 318.]
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convenience of employer rule 僱主提供便利规则 该规则在计算僱员的总收入时排除了僱主所提供给僱员的膳食和住宿开支。
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high probability rule (海商法)(全损)高度可能性规则 关于作为被保险人的船东所享有的弃船权的一项规则，根据该规则，弃船权不是基于船舶、货物或船货的确定性全损，而是基于全损的高度可能性。如果存在着极度的风险，致使可能发生的费用将超过船舶价值的一半时，被保险人可以弃船，尽管此后该船可能会以较低的费用得以修复。
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Hist. A collection of English pleading rules designed to ease the strict pleading requirements of the special-pleading system, esp. by limiting the scope of the general issue in the formed actions and by forcing the defendant to set up affirmatively all matters other than a denial of the breach of duty or of the wrongful