privacy. The condition or state of being free from public attention to intrusion into or interference with one’s acts or decisions. autonomy privacy. An individual’s right to control his or her personal activities or intimate personal decisions without outside interference, observation, or intrusion. • If the individual’s interest in an activity or decision is fundamental, […]
Public property that has not traditionally been open for public assembly and debate but that the government has opened for use by the public as a place for expressive activity, such as a public-university facility or a publicly owned theater. • Unlike a traditional public forum, the government does not have to retain the open
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rattening (rat-ning). Hist. The practice of taking away tools, destroying machinery, and the like in an attempt either to compel a worker to join a union or to enforce a company’s compliance with union rules. • Rattening was formerly a common labor-union tactic in England, and it was a criminal offense.
compulsory (k[schwa]m-p[schwa]l-s[schwa]-ree), adj. Compelled; mandated by legal process or by statute (compulsory counterclaim). compulsory, n. Eccles. law. An order that compels the attendance of a witness.
initiative (i-nish-ee-[schwa]-tiv or i-nish-[schwa]-tiv). An electoral process by which a percentage of voters can propose legislation and compel a vote on it by the legislature or by the full electorate. • Recognized in some state constitutions, the initiative is one of the few methods of direct democracy in an otherwise representative system. Cf. REFERENDUM. [Cases:
chancer (chan-s[schwa]r), vb. To adjust according to equitable principles, as a court of chancery would. • The practice arose in parts of New England when the courts had no equity jurisdiction, and were compelled to act on equitable principles. “The practice of ‘chancering’ is a very old one. A forfeiture could be ‘chancered’ under a
accounting. 1. The act or a system of establishing or settling financial accounts; esp., the process of recording transactions in the financial records of a business and periodically extracting, sorting, and summarizing the rec-orded transactions to produce a set of financial records. — Also termed financial accounting. 2. A rendition of an account, either voluntarily
work-product rule. The rule providing for qualified immunity of an attorney’s work product from discovery or other compelled disclosure. Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(3). • The exemption was primarily established to protect an attorney’s litigation strategy. Hickman v. Taylor, 329 U.S. 495, 67 S.Ct. 385 (1947). — Also termed work-product immunity; work-product privilege; work-product exemption;
An individual’s right to control his or her personal activities or intimate personal decisions without outside interference, observation, or intrusion. • If the individual’s interest in an activity or decision is fundamental, the state must show a compelling public interest before the private interest can be overcome. If the individual’s interest is acknowledged to be
computus (kom-py[schwa]-t[schwa]s). [Latin computo “to count up; to reckon”] Hist. A writ to compel a guardian, bailiff, receiver, or accountant to render an accounting. — Also spelled compotus.