Regulation Fair Disclosure. An October 2000 SEC rule requiring companies to disclose material information to all investors at the same time. • The regulation is intended to prevent some investors from receiving advance information about earnings, mergers and acquisitions, product discoveries, changes in auditors, and any other information that a reasonable investor would consider in […]
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Warsaw Convention 《华沙公约》 1929年在波兰首都华沙签订的国际航空货物运输方面的国际公约，其全称是《关于统一国际航空运输某些规则的公约》〔Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Air Carriage〕。
quod nota (kwod noh-t[schwa]). [Latin] Hist. Which note; which mark. • This is a reporter’s note directing attention to a point or rule.
legal ethics 律师职业道德 指律师的职业行为应符合最低限度的可接受的标准，即在对待当事人、同行和法院的行为方面应遵守相应的义务和惯例。如律师应尽量维护其当事人的利益；应当协助而不是误导法庭；不得同时代理两个利益冲突的当事人；对当事人告诉他的事项应严格保密；不得以广告招揽业务等。英格兰的律师总会〔General Association of the Bar〕和美国的美国律师协会〔American Bar Association〕在规范律师遵守职业道德方面起着重要作用。在美国，大多数州已采用了美国律师协会制定的《模范律师职业行为规则》〔Model Rules of Professional Conduct〕。
public domain. 1. Government-owned land. 2. Hist. Government lands that are open to entry and settlement. • Today virtually all federal lands are off-limits to traditional entry and settlement. 3. Intellectual property. The universe of inventions and creative works that are not protected by intellectual-property rights and are therefore available for anyone to use without
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.]
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Uniform Simultaneous Death Act. A 1940 model statute creating a rule that a person must survive a decedent by at least 120 hours in order to avoid disputes caused by simultaneous deaths (as in a common disaster) or by quickly successive deaths of persons between whom property or death benefits pass on the death of
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Slang. The three doctrines — contributory negligence, the fellow-servant rule, and assumption of the risk — used by 19th-century courts to deny recovery to workers injured on the job.
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doctrine of identification. Hist. English law. The rule that if a person traveling in a conveyance is injured in an accident that occurs because of someone else’s negligence, and the driver of the conveyance is contributorily negligent, the passenger cannot claim damages against the tortfeasor since the passenger is “identified” with the contributorily negligent driver.
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