damnum fatale (dam-n[schwa]m f[schwa]-tay-lee). [Latin “unavoidable damage”] Roman law. Damage caused by an unavoidable circumstance, such as a storm or a shipwreck, for which bailees or others will not be held liable. • But an exception was made for damages resulting from theft. “The liability of innkeepers, carriers, and stable keepers, at Roman law, was […]
vacation, n. 1. The act of vacating (vacation of the office) (vacation of the court’s order). 2. The period between one term of court and the beginning of the next; the space of time during which a court holds no sessions. [Cases: Courts 69. C.J.S. Courts § 122.] • The traditional vacations in England were
self-defense, n. 1. The use of force to protect oneself, one’s family, or one’s property from a real or threatened attack. • Generally, a person is justified in using a reasonable amount of force in self-defense if he or she believes that the danger of bodily harm is imminent and that force is necessary to
Uniform Juvenile Court Act. A 1968 model statute designed to (1) provide for the care, protection, and moral, mental, and physical development of the children who come under its provisions, (2) provide juvenile delinquents with treatment, training, and rehabilitation rather than criminal punishment, (3) attempt to keep families together unless separation of parents and children
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vested, adj. Having become a completed, consummated right for present or future enjoyment; not contingent; unconditional; absolute (a vested interest in the estate). [Cases: Estates in Property 1. C.J.S. Estates §§ 2–5, 8, 15–21, 116–128, 137, 243.] “[U]nfortunately, the word ‘vested’ is used in two senses. Firstly, an interest may be vested in possession, when
point of attachment. Copyright. A connection with a copyright-convention member nation sufficient to make a work eligible for protection under that convention. • For example, a work is eligible for Berne Convention protection if the author is a citizen of a Berne member nation or if the work originated in a Berne member nation. —
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computer matching. The comparing of computer records in two separate systems to determine whether the same record exists in both systems. • The government, for example, uses computer matching to find persons who are both employed and receiving welfare payments and to find instances in which both divorced parents are claiming the same child on
termination fee. A fee paid if a party voluntarily backs out of a deal to sell or purchase a business or a business’s assets. • Termination fees are usu. negotiated and agreed on as part of corporate merger or acquisition negotiations. The fee is designed to protect the prospective buyer and to deter the target
inlagare (in-l[schwa]-gair-ee), vb. [Law Latin] Hist. To restore (an outlaw) to the protection of the law. Cf. UTLAGARE.
lawbook. A book, usu. a technical one, about the law; esp., a primary legal text such as a statute book or book that reports caselaw. — Also spelled law book.