coverage, n. 1. Inclusion of a risk under an insurance policy; the risks within the scope of an insurance policy. [Cases: Insurance 2091.] — cover, vb. dependent coverage. An insurance provision for protection of an insured’s dependents. full coverage. Insurance protection that pays for the full amount of a loss with no deduction. 2. The […]
locus publicus (loh-k[schwa]s p[schwa]b-li-k[schwa]s). [Latin] Roman law. A public place. “Locus publicus …. A parcel of public land. It is property of the Roman people and is protected by various interdicts … against violation by private individuals who might endanger its public character or its use by the people.” Adolf Berger, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman
law enforcement. 1. The detection and punishment of violations of the law. • This term is not limited to the enforcement of criminal laws. For example, the Freedom of Information Act contains an exemption from disclosure for information compiled for law-enforcement purposes and furnished in confidence. That exemption is valid for the enforcement of a
citizen suit. An action under a statute giving citizens the right to sue violators of the law (esp. environmental law) and to seek injunctive relief and penalties. • In the 1970s, during the heyday of antipollution statutes such as the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act, legislators believed that regulators sometimes become too
Database Directive. See DIRECTIVE ON THE LEGAL PROTECTION OF DATABASES.
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A promise that is prohibited because the performance, formation, or object of the agreement is against the law. • Technically speaking, an illegal contract is not a contract at all, so the phrase is a misnomer. Cf. unenforceable contract; void contract. [Cases: Contracts 103. C.J.S. Contracts §§ 195–200, 213–214.]
thereby, adv. By that means; in that way (Blofeld stepped into the embassy and thereby found protection).
attractive-nuisance doctrine. Torts. The rule that a person who owns property on which there is a dangerous thing or condition that will foreseeably lure children to trespass has a duty to protect those children from the danger ( the attractive-nuisance doctrine imposed a duty on the school to protect the children from the shallow, polluted
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manorial system. The medieval system of land ownership in which serfs and some freemen cultivated the soil of a manor in return for a lord’s protection. See MANOR(1).
feudalism (fyood-[schwa]l-iz-[schwa]m). 1. A landholding system, particularly applying to medieval Europe, in which all are bound by their status in a hierarchy of reciprocal obligations of service and defense. • The lord was obligated to give the vassal (1) some land, (2) protection, and (3) justice. The lord guaranteed the quiet occupation of the land