Eminent domain. Sales of like property in the same locality and time frame, admissible in a condemnation action to determine the marketable value of the particular property at issue. [Cases: Evidence 142. C.J.S. Evidence §§ 774–775, 780–781.]
sovereign state. 1. A state that possesses an independent existence, being complete in itself, without being merely part of a larger whole to whose government it is subject. 2. A political community whose members are bound together by the tie of common subjection to some central authority, whose commands those members must obey. — Also
Inn of Chancery. Hist. Any of nine collegiate houses where students studied either to gain entry into an Inn of Court or to learn how to frame writs in order to serve in the chancery courts. • Over time, the Inns — Clement’s, Clifford’s, Lyon’s, Furnival’s, Thavies’, Symond’s, Barnard’s, Staples’, and the New Inn —
infrastructure. The underlying framework of a system; esp., public services and facilities (such as highways, schools, bridges, sewers, and water systems) needed to support commerce as well as economic and residential development.
框架（主）协议 英语：framework (master) agreement 法语：accord-cadre 德语：Rahmenvertrag 意大利语：accordo quadro 西班牙语：contrato-tipo
Roman law. The legal system of the ancient Romans, forming the basis of the modern civil law; CIVIL LAW(1). “The Roman law is the body of rules that governed the social relations of many peoples in Europe, Asia, and Africa for some period between the earliest prehistoric times and 1453 A.D. This date should perhaps
litis contestatio (lI-tis kon-tes-tay-shee-oh). [Latin] 1. Roman law. The final agreement of the parties to a suit on the formula the praetor would issue to the judex. — Also termed contestatio litis. See FORMULA. “Both parties being present, or represented, before the praetor, the plaintiff stated the nature of his claim and asked for an
maker. 1. One who frames, promulgates, or ordains (as in lawmaker). 2. A person who signs a promissory note. See NOTE(1). Cf. COMAKER. [Cases: Bills and Notes 48, 118. C.J.S. Bills and Notes; Letters of Credit§§ 23, 80–82.] 3. DRAWER. accommodation maker. One who signs a note as a surety. See ACCOMMODATION(2); accommodation indorser under
legisprudence (lee-jis-proo-d[schwa]nts). The systematic analysis of statutes within the framework of jurisprudential philosophies about the role and nature of law.
clear-and-present-danger test. Constitutional law. The doctrine allowing the government to restrict the First Amendment freedoms of speech and press if necessary to prevent immediate and severe danger to interests that the government may lawfully protect. • This test was formulated by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47, 39 S.Ct.
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