criminal-referral form. A form once required by federal regulatory authorities (from 1988 to 1996) for reporting every instance when a bank employee or affiliate committed or aided in committing a crime such as credit-card fraud, employee theft, or check-kiting. • This form, like the suspicious-transaction report, has since been superseded by the suspicious-activity report. — […]
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feu (fyoo), n. [fr. Law Latin feudum “a fee”] 1. A right to land given to a person in exchange for service to be performed. 2. Scots law. Land held by a vassal in return for an annual payment in money, crops, or services (called feu duty). • This type of tenure was abolished in
in forma pauperis (in for-m[schwa] paw-p[schwa]-ris), adv. [Latin “in the manner of a pauper”] In the manner of an indigent who is permitted to disregard filing fees and court costs (when suing, a poor person is generally entitled to proceed in forma pauperis). See 28 USCA § 1915; Fed. R. App. P. 24. • For
socage (sok-ij). Hist. A type of lay tenure in which a tenant held lands in exchange for providing the lord husbandry-related (rather than military) service. • Socage, the great residuary tenure, was any free tenure that did not fall within the definition of knight-service, serjeanty, or frankalmoin. Cf. KNIGHT-SERVICE; VILLEINAGE. “If they [the peasant’s duties]
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
malpractice (mal-prak-tis). An instance of negligence or incompetence on the part of a professional. • To succeed in a malpractice claim, a plaintiff must also prove proximate cause and damages. — Also termed professional negligence. [Cases: Negligence 321. C.J.S. Negligence § 162.] legal malpractice. A lawyer’s failure to render professional services with the skill, prudence,
Lord Ordinary. Scots law. A judge of the Court of Session, sitting alone at first instance in the Outer House. See COURT OF SESSION(1).
not law. A judicial decision regarded as wrong by the legal profession. “Even when it is not possible to point out any decision that affects the point in question in any one of the ways enumerated, it sometimes happens that the profession has grown to ignore the old decision as wrong or obsolete; and though
incitement, n. 1. The act or an instance of provoking, urging on, or stirring up. 2. Criminal law. The act of persuading another person to commit a crime; SOLICITATION(2). [Cases: Criminal Law 45. C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 115, 124–126.] — inciteful, adj. “An inciter is one who counsels, commands or advises the commission of a
decreta (di-kree-t[schwa]), n. [Latin “decisions”] Roman law. Judgments of magistrates; esp., sentences pronounced by the emperor as the supreme judge. See DECRETUM. “Decreta. In Roman law decisions of magistrates given after investigation of a case by cognitio… and in particular, decisions of the emperor as judge of first instance after trial by cognitio, or as