minitrial. A private, voluntary, and informal form of dispute resolution in which each party’s attorney presents an abbreviated version of its case to a neutral third party and to the opponent’s representatives, who have settlement authority. • The third party may render an advisory opinion on the anticipated outcome of litigation. Cf. summary jury trial […]
A trademark that tends to bring a person or class of people into contempt or disrepute. • Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act prohibits the registration of disparaging marks. 15 USCA § 1052(a). — Also termed disparaging mark. See prohibited and reserved trademark. [Cases: Trade Regulation 282. C.J.S. Trade-Marks, Trade-Names, and Unfair Competition § 190.]
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issuer. 1. A person or entity (such as a corporation or bank) that issues securities, negotiable instruments, or letters of credit. 2. A bailee that issues negotiable or nonnegotiable documents of title. nonreporting issuer. An issuer not subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act because it (1) has not voluntarily become subject to
child-sexual-abuse accommodation syndrome. The supposed medical and psychological condition of a child who has suffered repeated instances of sexual abuse, usu. from a relative or family friend. • This so-called “syndrome” has been repudiated by the scientific community. It cannot be validated and thus cannot discriminate between abuse and nonabuse cases. — Abbr. CSAAS. —
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printed-matter doctrine. Patents. The rule that printed matter may not be patented unless it is a physical part of a patentable invention. • For example, the doctrine has been used to deny patents for systems of representing sheet music and for methods of compiling directories. But it cannot be used to deny a patent for
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United States Geological Survey. A unit in the U.S. Department of the Interior responsible for preparing and publishing maps, technical reports, and fact sheets, and for compiling information about energy and mineral resources and the use and quality of the nation’s water resources. — Abbr. USGS.
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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 A federal law, originally enacted in 1959 as the Labor–Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, designed to (1) curb corruption in union leadership and undemocratic conduct in internal union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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The constructive delivery of the subject matter of a sale or gift by the actual delivery of an article that represents the item, that renders access to it possible, or that provides evidence of the title to it, such as the key to a warehouse or a bill of lading for goods on shipboard. [Cases:
A note requiring small periodic payments but a very large final payment. • The periodic payments usu. cover only interest, while the final payment (the balloon payment) represents the entire principal.
Parliamentary Debates 〈英〉《议会辩论集》 记载联合王国议会辩论情况的报告，共五辑，前四辑记载1803-1908年的议会辩论。1909年在下议院、1920年在上议院开始分别出版《官方报告》〔Official Reports〕连载议会的辩论。议会辩论记录不能作为法院解释法律的依据。
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