A board of directors whose members’ terms of service overlap so that only part of the board’s makeup is voted on in any single election. • Typically, members serve terms of two or more years, with some members’ terms expiring at each annual election. See Del. Code Ann. tit. 8, § 141 (1991) (authorizing classified […]
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corrector of the staple. Hist. A clerk who records merchants’ transactions at a staple. See STAPLE(2).
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Science and Technology Directorate. The division of the Department of Homeland Security responsible for coordinating research and development, including preparing for and responding to terrorist threats involving weapons of mass destruction. • The Directorate also works with the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Countermeasures Program and the Environmental Measurements Lab in the Department of Energy,
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A series of books, published annually, containing a roster and ratings of lawyers and law firms in most cities of the United States, corporate legal departments, government lawyers, foreign lawyers, and lawyer-support providers, as well as a digest of the laws of the states, the District of Columbia, and territories of the United States, and
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A law that indicates only what should be done, with no provision for enforcement. Cf. mandatory statute. [Cases: Statutes 227. C.J.S. Statutes §§ 362–369.]
An agreement to indemnify corporate directors and officers against judgments, settlements, and fines arising from negligence suits, shareholder actions, and other business-related suits. — Often shortened to D & O liability insurance; D & O insurance. [Cases: Insurance 2377.]
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impropriate rector (教会法)带圣俸的俗界堂区长 指通过圣俸转交俗人〔impropriation〕这一过程而部分地享用圣俸的俗界堂区长，他任命堂区长代理〔vicar〕或助理牧师〔curate〕行使宗教管辖权。而由教士担任的堂区长〔spiritual rector〕领受完整的圣俸并行使宗教管辖权。 (=lay rector)
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sinecure rector 〈英〉挂名堂区长 指不行使宗教管辖权〔cure of souls〕的堂区长。旧时具有圣职推荐权的堂区长往往授权一个堂区长代理〔vicar〕管理堂区的宗教事务，而堂区长自己则只有名义上的职衔。禁止这类行为的立法是1840、1841年的《宗教事务委员会法》〔Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act〕。