judicial review. 1. A court’s power to review the actions of other branches or levels of government; esp., the courts’ power to invalidate legislative and executive actions as being unconstitutional. 2. The constitutional doctrine providing for this power. 3. A court’s review of a lower court’s or an administrative body’s factual or legal findings. [Cases: […]
test paper. A writing that has been proved genuine and submitted to a jury as a standard by which to determine the authenticity of other writings. • The court decides the test paper’s authenticity as a matter of law before it is used by the jury. Direct evidence, such as a witness to the writing’s
legisprudence (lee-jis-proo-d[schwa]nts). The systematic analysis of statutes within the framework of jurisprudential philosophies about the role and nature of law.
buffer zone. Land-use planning. An area of land separating two different zones or areas to help each blend more easily with the other, such as a strip of land between industrial and residential areas. [Cases: Zoning and Planning 31, 272. C.J.S. Zoning and Land Planning §§ 40, 42, 122.]
culpa (k[schwa]l-p[schwa]). [Latin] 1. Roman & civil law. Fault, neglect, or negligence; unintentional wrong. See NEGLIGENCE. Cf. DILIGENTIA; CASUS (1); DOLUS(1). 2. Roman law. Conduct that made a party to a contract, or quasi-contract, liable to the other party. lata culpa (lay-t[schwa] k[schwa]l-p[schwa]). [Latin “grave fault”] Gross negligence amounting to bad fath (dolus). • This
profession. 1. A vocation requiring advanced education and training; esp., one of the three traditional learned professions — law, medicine, and the ministry. “Learned professions are characterized by the need of unusual learning, the existence of confidential relations, the adherence to a standard of ethics higher than that of the market place, and in a
A for-profit corporation providing an essential public service. • An example is an electric company or other utility.
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A mutual fund that typically invests in well-established companies whose earnings are expected to increase. • Growth funds usu. pay small dividends but offer the potential for large share-price increases.
provisional right. Patents. The right to obtain a reasonable royalty for use of a patented invention or process by an infringer with actual notice during the period between the publication of a patent application and the time a patent is issued. • The right is available only if the invention as claimed in the issued
Funds invested in a new enterprise that has high risk and the potential for a high return. — Also termed risk capital. See SEED MONEY.