suspension. 1. The act of temporarily delaying, interrupting, or terminating something (suspension of business operations) (suspension of a statute). 2. The state of such delay, interruption, or termination (corporate transfers were not allowed because of the suspension of business). 3. The temporary deprivation of a person’s powers or privileges, esp. of office or profession; esp., […]
A foreclosure process by which, according to the mortgage instrument and a state statute, the mortgaged property is sold at a nonjudicial public sale by a public official, the mortgagee, or a trustee, without the stringent notice requirements, procedural burdens, or delays of a judicial foreclosure. • Power-of-sale foreclosure is authorized and used in more
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A hypothetical market condition in which there is only one buyer and one seller, resulting in transactional delays because either party can hold out for a better deal without fearing that the other party will turn to a third party.
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festinum remedium (fes-tI-n[schwa]m ri-mee-dee-[schwa]m). [Latin] Hist. A speedy remedy. • It was used in cases, such as actions for dower or assize, where the redress of injury was given without unnecessary delay.
ex continenti (eks kon-t[schwa]-nen-tI). [Latin] Civil law. Immediately; without any interval or delay.
postpone, vb. 1. To put off to a later time. 2. To place lower in precedence or importance; esp., to subordinate (a lien) to a later one. 3. Parliamentary law. To temporarily or permanently suppress a main motion. — postponement, n. postpone definitely. To delay a main motion’s consideration to a specified time or until
reasonable person. 1. A hypothetical person used as a legal standard, esp. to determine whether someone acted with negligence; specif., a person who exercises the degree of attention, knowledge, intelligence, and judgment that society requires of its members for the protection of their own and of others’ interests. • The reasonable person acts sensibly, does
detention, n. 1. The act or fact of holding a person in custody; confinement or compulsory delay. — detain, vb. investigative detention. The holding of a suspect without formal arrest during the investigation of the suspect’s participation in a crime. • Detention of this kind is constitutional only if probable cause exists. pretrial detention. 1.
A spontaneous confession made promptly after arrest and without interrogation by the police. • The issue whether the defendant’s statement is a threshold confession usu. arises when the defendant challenges the admissibility of the confession on grounds that he or she suffered an impermissibly long delay before being brought before a magistrate. Courts generally admit
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A criminal defendant’s first appearance in court to hear the charges read, to be advised of his or her rights, and to have bail determined. • The initial appearance is usu. required by statute to occur without undue delay. In a misdemeanor case, the initial appearance may be combined with the arraignment. See ARRAIGNMENT. [Cases:
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