interpretivism. A doctrine of constitutional interpretation holding that judges must follow norms or values expressly stated or implied in the language of the Constitution. Cf. NONINTERPRETIVISM; ORIGINALISM. “A long-standing dispute in constitutional theory has gone under different names at different times, but today’s terminology seems as helpful as any. Today we are likely to call […]
probation. 1. A court-imposed criminal sentence that, subject to stated conditions, releases a convicted person into the community instead of sending the criminal to jail or prison. Cf. PAROLE. [Cases: Sentencing and Punishment 1811.] — probationary, adj. bench probation. Probation in which the offender agrees to certain conditions or restrictions and reports only to the
involuntary, adj. Not resulting from a free and unrestrained choice; not subject to control by the will. — involuntariness, n. “[T]he law, like everyday thought, usually confines the notion of involuntary to that subclass of cases which involve purely physical, physiological, or psychological movements of our limbs, like reflexes and convulsions, movements in sleep, during
A tenant whose tenancy is for a defined number of years, months, weeks, or days, set when the tenancy is created.
Corn Products doctrine. Tax. The principle that a capital asset should be narrowly defined to exclude invento-ry-related property that is integrally tied to the day-to-day operations of a business. Corn Prods. Refining Co. v. C.I.R., 350 U.S. 46, 76 S.Ct. 20 (1955). [Cases: Internal Revenue 3178, 3230. 1. C.J.S. Internal Revenue § 110.]
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