Public Utility Holding Company Act. A federal law enacted in 1935 to protect investors and consumers from the economic disadvantages produced by the small number of holding companies that owned most of the nation’s utilities. • The Act also sought to protect the public from deceptive security advertising.15 USCA §§ 79 et seq. — Abbr. […]
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clam (klam), adv. [Latin] Roman & civil law. Secretly; covertly. • Under Roman law, an act (such as occupying or altering the condition of someone else’s property) was committed clam when it was done with the intent to conceal it in an effort to avoid liability. See INTERDICTUM QUOD VI AUT CLAM.
dry exchange. Something that pretends to pass on both sides of a transaction, but passes on only one side. “Dry exchange … seems to be a subtil term invented to disguise usury, in which something is pretended to pass on both sides, whereas in truth nothing passes on the one side.” Termes de la Ley
liquidation, n. 1. The act of determining by agreement or by litigation the exact amount of something (as a debt or damages) that before was uncertain. 2. The act of settling a debt by payment or other satisfaction. 3. The act or process of converting assets into cash, esp. to settle debts. one-month liquidation. A
intention, n. The willingness to bring about something planned or foreseen; the state of being set to do something. — intentional, adj. “Intention is the purpose or design with which an act is done. It is the foreknowledge of the act, coupled with the desire of it, such foreknowledge and desire being the cause of
compassing n. 想像；设想 指单纯的思想活动，若未伴以外在行为〔open, or overt, act〕，则不受司法追究。但英国1315年《叛逆法》〔Treason Act〕规定，想像或设想国王、王后及其长子和嗣子〔heir〕死亡，构成叛逆罪〔treason〕。
合同关系 英语：privity of contract 法语：effet relatif des contrats 德语：Rechtsbeziehung zwischen den unmittelbaren Vertragsparteien 意大利语：vincolo contrattuale, relatività del contratto 西班牙语：relación contractual
denial, n. 1. A refusal or rejection; esp., a court’s refusal to grant a request presented in a motion or petition (denial of the motion for summary judgment). 2. A defendant’s response controverting the facts that a plaintiff has alleged in a complaint; a repudiation (the worker filed a denial alleging that physical contact never
stream-of-commerce theory. 1. The principle that a state may exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant if the defendant places a product in the general marketplace and the product causes injury or damage in the forum state, as long as the defendant also takes other acts to establish some connection with the forum state, as by
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Hist. A tenant in tail’s assurance that the estate tail will be barred and converted into an estate in fee. • The Fines and Recoveries Act (3 & 4 Will. 4 ch. 74) introduced this way of barring an entail. It authorized nearly every tenant in tail, if certain conditions were met, to dispose of