color of law. The appearance or semblance, without the substance, of a legal right. • The term usu. implies a misuse of power made possible because the wrongdoer is clothed with the authority of the state. State action is synonymous with color of [state] law in the context of federal civil-rights statutes or criminal law. […]
jetsam n. 沉入海底的抛货 指因船舶在海上遇风暴或其他紧急情事，为减轻船货重量而被迫自愿抛投的货物，且于此后被弃沉于海底。它与其他抛货有所不同，例如被抛投而漂浮于海面的货物为「flotsam」、系有浮标以便于日后寻找的沉入海底的抛货为「ligan」。在英国，上述任一种抛投货物均属于王室，除非其所有人在此后提出主张。 (→jettison; flotsam; ligan; waveson)
redubber. Hist. One who buys stolen cloth and redyes it or makes it into something so that the cloth is unrecognizable.
frontage (fr[schwa]n-tij). 1. The part of land abutting a street or highway or lying between a building’s front and a street or highway (the property’s value was so low because of its narrow frontage). 2. The linear distance of a frontage (the lot’s frontage was 90 feet).
vestita viro (ves-tI-t[schwa] vI-roh). [Law Latin] Hist. Clothed with a husband. “A married woman is said to be vestita viro, and so long as this coverture exists her person cannot be attached on civil diligence, unless that diligence proceeds upon a decree ad factum praestandum, for the performance of some act which she is bound
tribal land. A part of an Indian reservation that is not allotted to or occupied by individual Indians but is held as the common land of the tribe. Cf. INDIAN LAND. [Cases: Indians 9. C.J.S. Indians § 67.]
student-benefit theory. A principle that allows state funds to be provided to private-school pupils if the allotment can be justified as benefiting the child. • The Supreme Court upheld a Louisiana law that allowed the purchase of textbooks for all children throughout the state — even those in private schools — under this theory. Cochran
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purpart (p[schwa]r-pahrt). A share of an estate formerly held in common; a part in a division; an allotment from an estate to a coparcener. — Formerly also termed purparty; perparts; pourparty.