trade dress. Trademarks. The overall appearance and image in the marketplace of a product or a commercial enterprise. • For a product, trade dress typically comprises packaging and labeling. For an enterprise, it typically comprises design and decor. If a trade dress is distinctive and nonfunctional, it may be protected under trademark law. — Also […]
A trust, usu. honorary, that is established for the care and maintenance of a particular animal or group of animals. • Pet trusts are generally invalid because animals are incapable of compelling a trustee to act, and animals have no standing in law. Effectively, the trust has no beneficiary. But some states (e.g., Colorado) statutorily
A statutory merger that is less expensive and time-consuming than an ordinary statutory merger, usu. permitted when a subsidiary merges into a parent that already owns most of the subsidiary’s shares. • Such a merger is generally accomplished when the parent adopts a merger resolution, mails a copy of the plan to the subsidiary’s record
International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993. A federal statute that implemented the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. 18 USCA § 1204. See HAGUE CONVENTION ON THE CIVIL ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION.
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Goods that are anything other than mobile goods, minerals, or goods covered by a certificate of title. • The current UCC does not distinguish between ordinary and mobile goods. [Cases: Secured Transactions 14. C.J.S. Secured Transactions § 13.]
pooling clause. Oil & gas. A provision found in most oil-and-gas leases granting the lessee the right to combine part or all of the leased acreage with other properties for development or operation.
empresario (em-pre-sahr-ee-oh), n. [Spanish] 1. Spanish law. A businessperson; one who invests in or manages a business; esp., a land developer. 2. Hist. A person receiving extensive land grants as consideration for bringing people into Mexico (esp. into what would become Texas) and settling them on the land for the purpose of increasing the population,
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. An international bill of rights proclaimed by the United Nations in December 1948, being that body’s first general enumeration of human rights and fundamental freedoms. • The preamble states that “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is
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development. 1. A human-created change to improved or unimproved real estate, including buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filing, grading, paving, excavating, and drilling. 2. An activity, action, or alteration that changes undeveloped property into developed property.
The cash flow from operations minus preferred stock dividends, divided by the number of outstanding common shares.
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