The legal fiction, assumed under the rule against perpetuities, that a woman can become pregnant as long as she is alive. • The case that gave rise to this fiction was Jee v. Audley, 1 Cox 324, 29 Eng. Rep. 1186 (ch. 1787). See W. Barton Leach, Perpetuities: New Hampshire Defertilizes Octogenarians, 77 Harv. L. […]
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origination clause. (often cap.) 1. The provision in the U.S. Constitution that all bills for increasing taxes and raising revenue must originate in the House of Representatives, not the Senate (U.S. Const. art. I, § 7, cl. 1). • The Senate may, however, amend revenue bills. 2. A provision in a state constitution requiring that
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harassment (h[schwa]-ras-m[schwa]nt orhar-[schwa]s-m[schwa]nt). Words, conduct, or action (usu. repeated or persistent) that, being directed at a specific person, annoys, alarms, or causes substantial emotional distress in that person and serves no legitimate purpose. • Harassment is actionable in some circumstances, as when a creditor uses threatening or abusive tactics to collect a debt. [Cases: Civil
master in chancery. 1. An officer appointed by a court of equity to assist the court. 2. English law. (usu. cap.) A senior official or clerk of a court of chancery who assists the Chancellor in various duties such as inquiring into matters referred by the court, examining cases, taking oaths and affidavits, hearing testimony,
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market-making, n. The practice of establishing prices for over-the-counter securities by reporting bid-and-asked quotations. • A broker-dealer engaged in this practice, which is regulated by both the NASD and the SEC, buys and sells securities as a principal for its own account, and thus accepts two-way bids (both to buy and to sell). See BID
antipiracy, adj. Copyright & trademarks. Of or pertaining to an effort to combat or discourage illegal reproduction, distribution, or use of copyrighted or trademarked products (an antipiracy group).
aggregation. Patents. 1. A set of parts that do not cooperate in structure or function, and are therefore unpatentable as an invention; the opposite of a combination. [Cases: Patents 25. C.J.S. Patents § 86.] 2. Hist. A patent examiner’s label for a claimed invention that may or may not be a patentable combination but whose
clearly proved 已清楚证明了的；已明确证明了的 形容以证据优势〔preponderance of evidence〕所达到的证明程度。它使得事实审理者在内心确信其证明力可使任何一个有理性的人相信该事实是成立的。
detinue (det-i-nyoo or -noo). A common-law action to recover personal property wrongfully taken by another. Cf. REPLEVIN; TROVER. [Cases: Detinue 1. C.J.S. Detinue § 1.] “A claim in detinue lies at the suit of a person who has an immediate right to the possession of the goods against a person who is in actual possession