An electronic symbol, sound, or process that is either attached to or logically associated with a document (such as a contract or other record) and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document. • Types of electronic signatures include a typed name at the end of an e-mail, a digital […]
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additional extended coverage. Insurance. A policy endorsement providing supplemental residential coverage for a variety of perils, including vandalism, damage from falling trees, and water damage from the plumbing system.
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bonus. 1. A premium paid in addition to what is due or expected (year-end bonus). • In the employment context, workers’ bonuses are not a gift or gratuity; they are paid for services or on consideration in addition to or in excess of the compensation that would ordinarily be given. 2. BOUNTY(3). 3. Oil &
Procedure. An objection that an opposing party has used a peremptory challenge to exclude a potential juror on the basis of race, ethnicity, or sex. • It is named for Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712 (1986), a criminal case in which the prosecution struck potential jurors on the basis of race.
et seq. (et sek).abbr. [Latin et sequens “and the following one,” et sequentes (masc.) “and the following ones,” or et sequentia (neuter) “and the following ones”] And those (pages or sections) that follow (11 USCA §§ 101 et seq.).
tax situs (sI-t[schwa]s). A state or jurisdiction that has a substantial connection with assets that are subject to taxation. [Cases: Taxation 97. C.J.S. Taxation § 153.]
A philosophical approach to law stressing the actual social effects of legal institutions, doctrines, and practices. • This influential approach was started by Roscoe Pound in 1906 and became a precursor to legal realism. — Also termed sociology of law. See LEGAL REALISM.
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ante litem motam (an-tee lI-tem moh-t[schwa]m). [Law Latin “before the lawsuit was started”] Hist. Before an action has been raised; before a legal dispute arose — i.e., at a time when the declarant had no motive to lie. • This phrase was generally used in reference to the evidentiary requirement that the acts upon which
hypothetical-person defense. An entrapment defense in which the defendant asserts that an undercover law-enforcement officer (or person acting at the law-enforcement officer’s direction) encouraged the defendant to engage in the criminal conduct either by making false representations designed to convince the defendant that the conduct was not prohibited, or by using persuasive methods that created
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