one-day, one-trial method. A system of summoning and using jurors whereby a person answers a jury summons and participates in the venire for one day only, unless the person is actually empaneled for a trial, in which event the juror’s service lasts for the entire length of the trial. • This system, which is used […]
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disbarment, n. The action of expelling a lawyer from the bar or from the practice of law, usu. because of some disciplinary violation. • One who has passed the bar, been called to the bar, or been admitted to the bar is privileged to stand inside the wooden barrier that separates the gallery from the
A bill that levies or raises taxes. • Federal revenue bills must originate in the House of Representatives. U.S. Const. art. I, § 7, cl. 1. — Also termed money bill.
United States Mint. A unit in the U.S. Department of the Treasury responsible for producing coins to be used in trade and commerce, numismatic coins, gold and silver coins, and national medals. • It also operates the gold-storage facility at Fort Knox, Kentucky. It was formerly termed the Bureau of the Mint.
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reciprocity (res-[schwa]-pros-i-tee). 1. Mutual or bilateral action (the Arthurs stopped receiving social invitations from friends because of their lack of reciprocity). 2. The mutual concession of advantages or privileges for purposes of commercial or diplomatic relations (Texas and Louisiana grant reciprocity to each other’s citizens in qualifying for in-state tuition rates). — Also termed mutuality
The qualified privilege that a government can invoke to prevent disclosure of the identity and communications of its informants. • In exercising its power to formulate evidentiary rules for federal criminal cases, the U.S. Supreme Court has consistently declined to hold that the government must disclose the identity of informants in a preliminary hearing or
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divestment, n. 1. Property. The cutting short of an interest in property before its normal termination. 2. The complete or partial loss of an interest in an asset, such as land or stock. 3. DISINVESTMENT(2). — divest, vb.
utilitarianism. The philosophical and economic doctrine that the best social policy is that which does the most good for the greatest number of people; esp., an ethical theory that judges the rightness or wrongness of actions according to the pleasure they create or the pain they inflict and recommending whatever action creates the greatest good
criminal law. The body of law defining offenses against the community at large, regulating how suspects are investigated, charged, and tried, and establishing punishments for convicted offenders. — Also termed penal law. “The criminal law represents the pathology of civilization.” Morris R. Cohen, Reason and Law 70 (1961). “Often the term ‘criminal law’ is used
SLAPP (slap).abbr. A strategic lawsuit against public participation — that is, a suit brought by a developer, corporate executive, or elected official to stifle those who protest against some type of high-dollar initiative or who take an adverse position on a public-interest issue (often involving the environment). — Also termed SLAPP suit. [Cases: Pleading 358,