Consumer Protection Advisory Committee 〈英〉消费者权益保护咨询委员会 根据1973年《公平交易法》〔Fair Trading Act〕设立的机构，其职能是根据政府大臣、部长或公平交易总监〔Director General of Fair Trading〕的要求，考察消费品交易有否损害英国消费者的经济利益。
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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
indefeasible (in-d[schwa]-feez-[schwa]-b[schwa]l), adj. (Of a claim or right) not vulnerable to being defeated, revoked, or lost (an indefeasible estate).
Court of Assistants. Hist. A colonial body organized in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 to act as a legislature and court for the colony. Cf. GENERAL COURT . “The court of assistants, made up of governor, deputy governor, and magistrates, heard appeals from lower courts, and took original jurisdiction in certain cases — for example,
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An assignment given in exchange for consideration.
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A promise made in exchange for nothing; a promise not supported by consideration. • A gratuitous promise is not ordinarily legally enforceable. — Also termed bare promise; naked promise. [Cases: Contracts 47. C.J.S. Contracts §§ 83–84.]
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主张，宣称 英语：assertion 法语：revendication, assertion 德语：Behauptung 意大利语：dichiarazione, rivendicazione 西班牙语：declaración, aseveración
price/cost analysis. A technique of determining, for antitrust purposes, whether predatory pricing has occurred by examining the relationship between a defendant’s prices and either its average variable cost or its average total cost.
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in re mercatoria (in ree m[schwa]r-k[schwa]-tor-ee-[schwa]). [Latin] Scots law. In a mercantile transaction. • Documents made in or connected with a mercantile transaction did not require the typical formalities in order to be binding. “All writings in re mercatoria are privileged, and are held valid and binding, although wanting the solemnities common and necessary to