An error resulting from a minor mistake or inadvertence, esp. in writing or copying something on the record, and not from judicial reasoning or determination. • Among the boundless examples of clerical errors are omitting an appendix from a document; typing an incorrect number; mistranscribing a word; and failing to log a call. A court […]
collective bargaining. Negotiations between an employer and the representatives of organized employees to determine the conditions of employment, such as wages, hours, discipline, and fringe benefits. See CONCESSION BARGAINING. [Cases: Labor Relations 171. C.J.S. Labor Relations § 148.] “Collective bargaining means the joint determination by employees and employers of the problems of the em-ployment relationship.
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Larceny that occurs when a property owner mistakenly gives another person more property than is due, and the recipient knows about the error but does not disclose it before taking the excess property with the intent of converting it to his or her own use.
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租赁/租赁协议 英语：lease (noun)/lease agreement 法语：bail, contrat de bail 德语：Mietvertrag, Pachtvertrag 意大利语：contratto d’affitto, contratto di locazione 西班牙语：contrato de arrendamiento o de alquiler
abnormal law. The law as it applies to persons who are under legal disabilities such as infancy, alienage, insanity, criminality, and (formerly) coverture.
An association of business organizations having similar concerns and engaged in similar fields, formed for mutual protection, the interchange of ideas and statistics, and the establishment and maintenance of industry standards. • A trade association may be composed of members of a single industry (e.g., the Chemical Manufacturers Association) or members having a common interest
single-source requirement. Under the common-law tort of false advertising, the necessity to show that the plaintiff is the only supplier of the genuine goods in question and that buyers would have bought the plaintiff’s goods if the true nature of the defendant’s goods had been known. Ely–Norris Safe Co. v. Mosler Safe Co., 7 F.2d
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dram-shop act. A statute allowing a plaintiff to recover damages from a commercial seller of alcoholic beverages for the plaintiff’s injuries caused by a customer’s intoxication. — Also termed civil-liability act; civil-damage law. [Cases: Intoxicating Liquors 282–324. C.J.S. Intoxicating Liquors §§ 428–463.] “Largely at the behest of the temperance movement, statutes (called ‘dram shop acts’)
indigency, n. The state or condition of a person who lacks the means of subsistence; extreme hardship or neediness; poverty. • For purposes of the Sixth Amendment right to appointed counsel, indigency refers to a defendant’s inability to afford an attorney. — Also termed indigence. — indigent, adj. & n. “Supreme Court opinions speak generally
shoplifting, n. Theft of merchandise from a store or business; specif., larceny of goods from a store or other commercial establishment by willfully taking and concealing the merchandise with the intention of converting the goods to one’s personal use without paying the purchase price. See LARCENY. [Cases: Larceny 1. C.J.S. Larceny §§ 1(1, 2), 9.]