psychiatric examination. Criminal law. An analysis performed by a psychiatrist to determine a defendant’s mental state. • A defendant in a criminal prosecution may undergo a psychiatric examination to determine competence to stand trial or to establish a defense based on some mental condition, such as insanity. — Also (more broadly) termed mental examination. See […]
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antidissection rule. Trademarks. A rule, applied in comparing potentially conflicting marks, that requires that the marks be compared as a whole or as they are viewed by consumers in the marketplace, not broken down into their component parts. • The antidissection rule does not preclude an analysis of the dominant and subordinate features of a
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device. 1. Patents. A mechanical invention, as differentiated in patent law from a chemical discovery. • A device may be an apparatus or an article of manufacture. — Also termed machine. [Cases: Patents 11. C.J.S. Patents §§ 20, 25.] 2. A scheme to trick or deceive; a stratagem or artifice, as in the law relating
Insurance purchased by a person who may suffer a loss at the hands of another. • This is the converse of liability insurance, which is purchased by potential defendants.
confessor n. (1)认罪者；供认者；忏悔者 (2)听取忏悔的神父 指听取认罪者忏悔并给予赦免的神父。在普通法中，忏悔不属于法律准许不外泄的内情，而美国大多数州的制定法、法院判决或规则均将忏悔列为可拒绝泄露的内情。 (→confidential communication)
area-standards picketing. Labor law. The practice that a union undertakes to protect its members in a particular region by picketing employers that may undercut the market through the potentially lower labor costs of a non-union workforce.
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juridical link. A legal relationship between members of a group, such as those in a potential class action, sufficient to make a single suit more efficient or effective than multiple suits. — Also termed juridical relationship. [Cases: Federal Civil Procedure 164; Parties 35.13. C.J.S. Parties §§ 31, 34.]
clausa rebus sic stantibus (klawz-[schwa] ree-b[schwa]s sik stan-t[ schwa]-b[schwa]s). [Law Latin] Int’l law. 1. A treaty provision stating that the treaty is binding only as long as the circumstances in existence when the treaty was signed remain substantially the same. 2. A doctrine by which the law supplies such a provision to a treaty that
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equal protection. The 14th Amendment guarantee that the government must treat a person or class of persons the same as it treats other persons or classes in like circumstances. • In today’s constitutional jurisprudence, equal protection means that legislation that discriminates must have a rational basis for doing so. And if the legislation affects a