cross-purchase buy-sell agreement. 1. BUY–SELL AGREEMENT(1). 2. A partnership insurance plan in which each partner individually buys and maintains enough insurance on the life or lives of other partners to purchase a deceased or expelled partner’s equity.
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disbarment, n. The action of expelling a lawyer from the bar or from the practice of law, usu. because of some disciplinary violation. • One who has passed the bar, been called to the bar, or been admitted to the bar is privileged to stand inside the wooden barrier that separates the gallery from the
eject, vb. 1. To cast or throw out. 2. To oust or dispossess; to put or turn out of possession. 3. To expel or thrust out forcibly (e.g., disorderly patrons). — ejector, vb.
forejudge, vb. 1. To prejudge; to judge beforehand. 2. Hist. To expel a person, esp. an officer or attorney, from court for some offense or misconduct. 3. To deprive (a person) of a thing by a judgment; to condemn (a person) to lose a thing. — Also spelled forjudge.
firearm. A weapon that expels a projectile (such as a bullet or pellets) by the combustion of gunpowder or other explosive. [Cases: Weapons 8. C.J.S. Weapons §§ 13–15.]
starr (stahr), n. [fr. Latin starrum fr. Hebrew sh’tar “a writing”] Hist. A Jewish contract (esp. for release of an obligation) that Richard I declared to be invalid unless it was placed in a lawful repository, the largest being in the king’s Exchequer at Westminster. Pl. starra, starrs. “It is well known that, before the
domus conversorum (doh-m[schwa]s kon-v[schwa]r-sor-[schwa]m), n. [Law Latin “house of the converts”] Hist. An institution, established by Henry III for converted Jews, that continued until Edward III expelled Jews from the kingdom and converted the institution to a chancery record office.
a cancellis curiae explodi (ay kan-sel-is kyoor-ee-I ek-sploh-dI). [Law Latin] Hist. To be expelled from the bar of the court.
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nonrefoulement (non-ri-fowl-m[schwa]nt). [French] A refugee’s right not to be expelled from one state to another, esp. to one where his or her life or liberty would be threatened. Cf. REFOULEMENT.
disciplinary proceeding. An action brought to reprimand, suspend, or expel a licensed professional or other person from a profession or other group because of unprofessional, unethical, improper, or illegal conduct. • A disciplinary proceeding against a lawyer may result in the lawyer’s being suspended or disbarred from practice. [Cases: Licenses 38. C.J.S. Agriculture § 4.5;
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