valuable papers. Documents that, upon a person’s death, are important in carrying out the decedent’s wishes and in managing the estate’s affairs. • Examples include a will, title documents, stock certificates, powers of attorney, letters to be opened on one’s death, and the like. Some statutes require that, to be effective, a holographic will devising […]
wage, n. (usu. pl.) Payment for labor or services, usu. based on time worked or quantity produced; specif., com-pensation of an employee based on time worked or output of production. • Wages include every form of remu-neration payable for a given period to an individual for personal services, including salaries, commissions, vaca-tion pay, bonuses, and
munera publica (myoo-n[schwa]r-[schwa] p[schwa]b-li-k[schwa]). [Latin] Roman law. Public duties, such as performing the offices of tutor and curator, and of index privatus. Sing. munus publicum. “Among the Romans there were certain offices regarded as public duties, which no citizen (unless he could plead certain specified excuses) could refuse to accept of and fulfil; and among
scope note. In a digest, a précis appearing after a title and showing concisely what subject matter is included and what is excluded. “In the Century and Decennial Digests, though not in the various digests of the Key-Number Series, there is printed immediately following each topic title a couple of paragraphs which are called the
An obligation composed of multiple performances that can be separately rendered or enforced; esp., an obligation in which several objects are connected by and (not or) or are in some other way clearly meant to be separately included in the contract. • For example, a loan agreement’s conjunctive obligation may require payment of four loan
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treasure trove.[Law French “treasure found”] Valuables (usu. gold or silver) found hidden in the ground or other private place, the owner of which is unknown. • At common law in the United States, the finder of a treasure trove can usu. claim good title against all except the true owner. But until 1996, all treasure
animal law, n. The field of law dealing with vertebrates other than humans. • The field cuts across many traditional doctrinal areas (e.g., contracts, torts, administrative law) as well as jurisprudence. Topics include wild-life-management law, laws concerning treatment of laboratory animals, and laws relating to companion animals.
comminatorium (k[schwa]-min-[schwa]-tor-ee-[schwa]m). [Latin comminari “threaten”] Hist. A clause often included at the end of a writ, admonishing the sheriff to be faithful in the writ’s execution.
Berlin Act. Copyright. A 1908 revision of the Berne Convention prohibiting formalities as a requirement for copyright protection, recommending (but not requiring) a term of protection equal to the life of the author plus 50 years, and expanding the types of works eligible for copyright protection. • Motion pictures were included in copyright protection for
long-run incremental cost. Antitrust. A cost threshold for determining whether predatory pricing has occurred, consisting of all costs that, over a several-year period, would not be incurred if the product in question were not offered. • It differs from average variable cost because it includes some costs that do not vary in the short run
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