bounty hunter. A person who for a fee pursues someone charged with or suspected of a crime; esp., a person hired by a bail-bond company to find and arrest a criminal defendant who has breached the bond agreement by failing to appear in court as ordered. — Also termed bail-enforcement agent.
permissive subject of bargaining. Labor law. An employment or collective-bargaining issue, other than a basic employment issue, that is not required to be the subject of collective bargaining but that cannot be implemented by management without union approval. • For example, altering the scope of the bargaining unit does not affect a term or condition
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conventio (k[schwa]n-ven-shee-oh). [fr. Latin convenire “to come together”] 1. Eccles. law. The act of con-vening the parties to an action by summoning the defendant. 2. Hist. An agreement or convention; an agreement between two or more persons respecting a legal relation between them. See CONVENTION(1). “Conventio is a word much used both in Ancient and
certificate of conference. A section of a pleading or motion filed with the court, usu. contained separately on a page near the end of the document, whereby the party filing the pleading or motion certifies to the court that the parties have attempted to resolve the matter, but that a judicial determination is needed because
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reciprocal dealing. A business arrangement in which a buyer having greater economic power than a seller agrees to buy something from the seller only if the seller buys something in return. • Reciprocal dealing usu. violates antitrust laws. — Also termed reciprocal-dealing arrangement. Cf. TYING ARRANGEMENT.
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facio ut des (fay-shee-oh [schwa]t deez). [Latin “I do so that you give”] Civil law. 1. An innominate contract in which a person agrees to do something for recompense. See innominate contract under CONTRACT. 2. The consideration in such a contract.
A condition that is not expressly mentioned, but is imputed by law from the nature of the transaction or the conduct of the parties to have been tacitly understood between them as a part of the agreement. See constructive condition; implied-in-fact condition. [Cases: Contracts 220. C.J.S. Contracts § 355.]
property settlement. 1. A judgment in a divorce case determining the distribution of the marital property between the divorcing parties. • A property settlement includes a division of the marital debts as well as assets. — Also termed property division; division of property. [Cases: Husband and Wife 248.] 2. A contract that divides up the
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generation. 1. A single degree or stage in the succession of persons in natural descent. 2. The average time span between the birth of parents and the birth of their children.
A previously unenforceable promise that a promisor revives and agrees to fulfill, as when a debtor agrees to pay a creditor an amount discharged in the debtor’s bankruptcy.