second-look doctrine. 1. WAIT-AND-SEE PRINCIPLE. 2. An approach that courts use to monitor the continuing effectiveness or validity of an earlier order. • For example, a family court may reconsider a waiver of alimony, and a federal court may reconsider a law that Congress has passed a second time after the first law was struck […]
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standard descriptive characteristics. Parliamentary law. The basic rules that apply to and define a motion. • The characteristics include when the motion is in order; its rank — that is, what it takes precedence over, and what yields to it; whether making it may interrupt a speaker; whether it needs a second; whether it is
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stay of mandate. 1. The suspension of a lower court’s order of execution, imposed by a higher court. 2. An appellate court’s suspension of its own judgment for reconsideration.
poenitentia (pee-n[schwa]-ten-shee-[schwa] or pen-[schwa]-), n. [Latin “repentance”] Roman law. Reconsideration; changing one’s mind.
call up, vb. Parliamentary law. To bring before a deliberative assembly business that is ready for consideration (call up the motion to reconsider).
traverse the requirement, vb. Patents. To (1) respond in detail to a patent examiner’s decision that the patent application claims more than one invention and (2) ask that the restriction requirement be reconsidered. • The response must specifically explain why restriction should not be required, not merely assert that the requirement is wrong. Failure to
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out of order. 1. (Of a motion) not in order (the motion is out of order because it conflicts with the bylaws). See IN ORDER. • A motion may be “out of order” because it is inherently inappropriate for the deliberative assembly’s consideration at any time (e.g., because it proposes an unlawful action). A motion
resubmission of bill 再次提交起诉申请 再次向大陪审团提交曾被否决的指控犯罪的起诉申请。(→reconsideration of bill)
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