Diplomatic negotiations assisted by emissaries, who travel back and forth between negotiating countries. • In legal contexts, the term usu. refers to a similar approach used by a mediator in negotiating the settlement of a lawsuit. The mediator travels back and forth between different rooms, one of which is assigned to each side’s decision-makers and […]
savings-and-loan association. A financial institution — often organized and chartered like a bank — that primarily makes home-mortgage loans but also usu. maintains checking accounts and provides other banking services. — Often shortened to S & L. — Also termed loan association; thrift institution; thrift. Cf. BUILDING-AND-LOAN ASSOCIATION. [Cases: Building and Loan Associations 1, 24–40.
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Court for Consideration of Crown Cases Reserved 〈英〉刑事案件再审法庭 1848年创立，目的是为了审议某些叛逆罪、重罪或轻罪案件中提出的法律问题，这些案件由刑事巡回听审法庭〔Court of Oyer and Terminer〕、巡回季审法庭〔assizes of quarter sessions〕或中央刑事法庭〔Central Criminal Court〕等庭的法官保留下来。该庭由5名以上高等法院法官组成，其裁决是终局性的。它对已裁定罪名的案件仅就其法律问题发表意见，如果认为原案审理中存在适用法律错误，则可撤销原审法庭的有罪指控。1907年废除，其职能转归刑事上诉法院〔Court of Criminal Appeal〕。也称作Court for Crown Cases Reserved。 (→crown cases reserved)
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ward. 1. A person, usu. a minor, who is under a guardian’s charge or protection. See GUARDIAN(1). [Cases: Guardian and Ward 1, 9. 5.] permanent ward. A ward who has been assigned a permanent guardian, the rights of the natural parents having been terminated by a juvenile court. [Cases: Guardian and Ward 9.5; Infants 155.]
amicus curiae ([schwa]-mee-k[schwa]s kyoor-ee-Ior [schwa]-mI-k[schwa]s kyoor-ee-ee al-soam-i-k[schwa]s). [Latin “friend of the court”] A person who is not a party to a lawsuit but who petitions the court or is requested by the court to file a brief in the action because that person has a strong interest in the subject matter. — Often shortened to
Particular days set aside by the Court of Common Pleas for specific matters, including the appearance of parties and service of process. — Also termed dies in banco.
glebe (gleeb). [fr. Latin gleba “clod of earth”] 1. Roman law. The soil of an inheritance; an agrarian estate. • Servi addicti glebae (“slaves bound to the land”) were serfs attached to and passing with the estate. 2. Eccles. law. Land possessed as part of the endowment or revenue of a church or ecclesiastical benefice.
Lockean labor theory. The philosopher John Locke’s justification of private property, based on the natural right of one’s ownership of one’s own labor, and the right to nature’s common property to the extent that one’s labor can make use of it. • Locke’s theory, from the fifth chapter of his Second Treatise on Civil Government,
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scilicet (sil-[schwa]-set or -sit). [fr. Latin scire licet “that you may know”] That is to say; namely; VIDELICET. • Like videlicet, this word is used in pleadings and other instruments to introduce a more particular statement of matters previously mentioned in general terms. It has never been quite as common, however, as videlicet. — Abbr.
nonintervention. Int’l law. The principle that a country should not interfere in the internal affairs of another country. • The U.N. Charter binds it from intervening “in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state ….” U.N. Charter art. 2(7). — Also termed principle of nonintervention.