Content-based discrimination in which the government targets not a particular subject, but instead certain views that speakers might express on the subject; discrimination based on the content of a communication. • If restrictions on the content of speech are reasonable and not calculated to suppress a particular set of views or ideas, a governmental body […]
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manhood. 1. A male person’s majority. 2. Hist. A ceremony of a vassal paying homage to the vassal’s lord. — Also termed homagium. “Besides an oath of fealty, or profession of faith to the lord, which was the parent of our oath of allegiance, the vassal or tenant upon investiture did usually homage to his
boundary. 1. A natural or artificial separation that delineates the confines of real property (the creek serves as a boundary between the two properties). See METES AND BOUNDS. [Cases: Boundaries 1–25. C.J.S. Boundaries §§ 2–63.] “The object of all rules for the establishment of boundaries is to ascertain the actual location of the boundary as
Hist. The Exchequer’s records of royal revenue, including revenue from feudal holdings, judicial fees, and tax revenue collected by the sheriffs. • The Pipe Rolls comprise 676 rolls, covering the years 1131 and 1156 to 1833 (except for gaps in 1216 and 1403). — Also termed Great Rolls of the Exchequer.
leverage, n. 1. Positional advantage; effectiveness. 2. The use of credit or borrowed funds (such as buying on margin) to improve one’s speculative ability and to increase an investment’s rate of return. 3. The advantage obtained from using credit or borrowed funds rather than equity capital. 4. The ratio between a corporation’s debt and its
cum curiis et bloodwitis (k[schwa]m kyoor-ee-is et bl[schwa]d-wi-tis). [Law Latin] Scots law. With the power of holding courts and fining for blood. • Property disposed of cum curiis et bloodwitis entitled the purchaser of a barony to cumulative jurisdiction over barony matters.
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labes realis quae rei inhaeret (lay-beez ree-ay-lis kwee ree-I in-heer-it). [Latin] Scots law. A real defect that attaches to the thing. Cf. VITIUM REALE . “Theft, also, constitutes a labes realis in the title of any one holding the subject stolen, no matter how honestly he may have acquired it; and on this defect, which
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jail, n. A local government’s detention center where persons awaiting trial or those convicted of misdemeanors are confined. — Also spelled (esp. in BrE) gaol. — Also termed holding cell; lockup; jailhouse; house of detention; community correctional center. Cf. PRISON. [Cases: Prisons 1. C.J.S. Prisons and Rights of Prisoners §§ 2–3.] — jail, vb.
anarchy, n. 1. Absence of government; lawlessness. 2. A sociopolitical theory holding that the only legitimate form of government is one under which individuals govern themselves voluntarily, free from any collective power structure enforcing compliance with social order. — anarchic, adj. criminal anarchy. A doctrine advocating the overthrow of organized government by force or violence,
tenant-right. English law. A tenant’s right, upon termination of the tenancy, to payment for unexhausted improvements made on the holding. • This right is governed by the Agricultural Holdings Act of 1986.