lay investiture
lay investiture. Eccles. law. The ceremony by which a layperson places a bishop in possession of lands, money revenues, and other diocesan temporalities.
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hired gun
hired gun. Slang. 1. An expert witness who testifies favorably for the party paying his or her fee, often because of that financial relationship rather than because of the facts. 2. A lawyer who stops at nothing to accomplish the client’s goals, regardless of moral consequences.
visual artists rights act
Visual Artists Rights Act. Copyright. A 1990 federal law that gives a visual artist nontransferable moral rights of integrity and attribution in original and limited-edition creations. • Passed in order to meet Berne Convention standards, the Act protects the original artist — not the owner of the copyright — by granting some rights to prevent
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social legislation
social legislation 社会立法 是对具有显着社会意义事项立法的统称，例如涉及教育、住房、租金、保健、福利、抚恤养老金及其他社会保障等方面。最早的社会立法大概是《济贫法》〔Old Poor Law〕，但大量重要的社会立法是在19世纪，如当时有《工厂法》〔Factories Acts〕、《学徒健康与道德准则法》〔Health and Morals of Apprentices Acts〕和《劳工赔偿法》〔Workmen’s Compensation Legislation〕等。 (→social security)
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nuncupate
nuncupate (n[schwa]ng-ky[schwa]-payt), vb. [fr. Latin nuncupare “call by name”] 1. Hist. To designate or name. 2. To vow or declare publicly and solemnly. 3. To declare orally, as a will. 4. To dedicate or inscribe (a work).
nihilism
nihilism (nI-[schwa]l-iz-[schwa]m). 1. A doctrine maintaining that there is no rational justification for moral principles and that there is no objective truth. 2. The view that traditional beliefs are unfounded and that life is meaningless and useless. 3. A theory that the existing economic, social, or political institutions should be destroyed, regardless of the result,
obscene
obscene, adj. Extremely offensive under contemporary community standards of morality and decency; grossly repugnant to the generally accepted notions of what is appropriate. • Under the Supreme Court’s three-part test, material is legally obscene — and therefore not protected under the First Amendment — if, taken as a whole, the material (1) appeals to the
public welfare
A society’s well-being in matters of health, safety, order, morality, economics, and politics.
sin tax
An excise tax imposed on goods or activities that are considered harmful or immoral (such as cigarettes, liquor, or gambling). — Also termed repressive tax. Cf. luxury tax.
de ambitu
de ambitu (dee am-bi-tyoo). [Latin “of going around”] Of devious methods of securing a position, as through bribery. • Several Roman laws (such as the Lex Julia de Ambitu) dealt with these methods, such as prohibiting electoral bribery.