a. 1. (usu. cap. & often ital.) A hypothetical person (A deeds Blackacre to B). 2. [Latin] From; by; in; on; of; at. 3. [Law Latin] With. 4. [Law French] Of; at; to; for; in; with. 5. Securities. A letter used in a newspaper stock-transaction table to indicate that cash was paid during the year […]
insured, n. A person who is covered or protected by an insurance policy. — Also termed assured. [Cases: Insurance 2100. C.J.S. Insurance § 389.] additional insured. A person who is covered by an insurance policy but who is not the primary insured. • An additional insured may, or may not, be specifically named in the
original source. The person or persons who first disclosed fraud to the government, derived from direct and indirect information on which a qui tam complaint is based under the False Claims Act or a similar state law.
marketplace of ideas. A forum in which expressions of opinion can freely compete for acceptance without governmental restraint. • Although Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was the first jurist to discuss the concept as a metaphor for explaining freedom of speech, the phrase marketplace of ideas dates in American caselaw only from 1954.
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The first determination made by the Social Security Administration of a person’s eligibility for benefits. [Cases: Social Security and Public Welfare 8.5, 142.15, 175.25. C.J.S. Social Security and Public Welfare §§ 13, 75.]
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equally divided. 1. (Of property) apportioned per capita — not per stirpes — among heirs on the testator’s death. • A provision in a will calling for property to be divided “share and share alike” has the same effect. [Cases: Wills 530. C.J.S. Wills §§ 1015–1016.] 2. (Of a court, legislature, or other group) having
waterpower. 1. The force obtained by converting water into energy. 2. The riparian owner’s right consisting of the fall in the stream as it passes over or through the riparian owner’s land; the difference of the level between the surface where the stream first touches one’s land and the surface where the water leaves the
lex fori (leks for-I). [Latin] The law of the forum; the law of the jurisdiction where the case is pending (the lex fori governs whether the death penalty is a possible punishment for a first-degree-murder conviction). — Also termed lex ordinandi. Cf. LEX LOCI(1). [Cases: Action 17. C.J.S. Actions §§ 18–20; Conflict of Laws §§
Attempting to patent an invention that is an obvious variation of another invention by the same inventor when the first invention has already been patented or has a pending patent application. • Double patenting is grounds for rejecting a patent application, limiting the term of a patent through a terminal disclaimer, or invalidating a patent.
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aetas infantiae proxima (ee-tas in-fan-shee-ee prok-s[schwa]-m[schwa]), n. [Latin] Roman law. The first part of the period of childhood between infancy (up to 7 years) and puberty (12 to 14 years); esp., for males, the period between 7 and 10 1/2 years of age. Cf. AETAS PUBERTATI PROXIMA; PUERITIA.
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