Blue List. Securities. A daily listing (on blue paper) of secondary-market offerings of municipal bonds. “Municipal bonds available for resale in the secondary market are listed by state in The Blue List, along with such information as the number of bonds offered, issuer, maturity date, coupon rate, price, and dealer making the offering. Ratings are […]
community service. Socially valuable work performed without pay. • Community service is often required as part of a criminal sentence, esp. one that does not include incarceration.
airbill. A document serving as a bill of lading for goods transported by air. • The term includes air consignment notes and air waybills. [Cases: Carriers 51. C.J.S. Carriers § 390.]
POSSLQ (pahs-[schwa]l-kyoo).abbr. A person of opposite sex sharing living quarters. • Although this term (which is used by the Census Bureau) is intended to include only a person’s roommate of the opposite sex to whom the person is not married, the phrase literally includes those who are married. This overbreadth has occasionally been criticized. See
A state law that abolishes the rights of action for monetary damages as solace for the emotional trauma occasioned by a loss of love and relationship. • The abolished rights of action include alienation of affections, breach of promise to marry, criminal conversation, and seduction of a person over the legal age of consent. Many
Ashwander rules. A set of principles outlining the U.S. Supreme Court’s policy of deciding constitutional questions only when necessary, and of avoiding a constitutional question if the case can be decided on the basis of another issue. • These rules were outlined in Justice Brandeis’s concurring opinion in Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority, 297 U.S.
A plea that, rather than addressing the merits and denying the facts alleged, sets up some extrinsic fact showing why a criminal defendant cannot be tried for the offense charged. • Examples include the plea of autrefois acquit and the plea of pardon. [Cases: Criminal Law 286. C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 380, 453.]
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shaken-baby syndrome. The medical condition of a child who has suffered forceful shaking, with resulting brain injury. • Common injuries in shaken-baby syndrome include retinal hemorrhage and subdural and subarachnoid hemorrhage, with minimal or no signs of external cranial trauma. Many victims of shaken-baby syndrome are permanently blind or die. Shaken-baby syndrome is one of
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A signature made without actual, implied, or apparent authority. • It includes a forgery. UCC § 1-201(b)(41). [Cases: Banks and Banking 147; Bills and Notes 54, 279. Banks and Banking §§ 415–416; Bills and Notes; Letters of Credit §§ 26–30, 150–151.]
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statutory invention registration. Patents. An official procedure for placing an invention in the public domain by publishing the patent abstract (which is included with the invention’s original application) in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Official Gazette, thus making the abstract a prior-art reference as of the application’s filing date. • The process results in
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