Coventry Act (k[schwa]v-[schwa]n-tree orkov-). An 1803 English statute establishing the death penalty for anyone who, with malice aforethought, did “cut out or disable the tongue, put out an eye, slit the nose, cut off a nose or lip, or cut off or disable any limb or member of any subject; with the intention in so […]
cats and dogs. Slang. 1. Nonperforming securities. 2. Highly speculative securities. “Wall Street disdainfully regards most penny stocks as cats and dogs, a popular phrase in use since 1879 to describe low-priced, often worthless, speculative securities. The single word dog also means a worthless security, and the related pup meant a low-priced, inactive stock during
publici juris (p[schwa]b-li-sIjoor-is), adj. [Latin] Of public right; of importance to or available to the public (a city holds title to its streets as property publici juris) (words that are in general or common use and that are merely descriptive are publici juris and cannot be appropriated as a trademark).
highway. 1. Broadly, any main route on land, on water, or in the air. 2. A free and public roadway or street that every person may use. [Cases: Highways 18.] “Every thoroughfare which is used by the public, and is, in the language of the English books, ‘common to all the king’s subjects,’ is a
A U.S. patent that describes and claims a series of process steps that, as a whole, constitutes a method of doing business. • Until 1998, methods for doing business were not expressly recognized as being patentable. In that year, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals held in State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature
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Law Courts 〈英〉法院；法庭 泛指「法院」或「法庭」，也与Equity Court(衡平法院或法庭)相对，指审理普通法案件的法院或法庭。在英国，Law Courts(法院)通常是皇家法院〔Royal Courts of Justice〕这一司法机构所处之建筑物的简称。它位于伦敦斯特兰德大街北侧〔on the north side of the Strand, London〕，在圣克莱门特·戴恩教堂〔St.Clement Dane’s Church〕和文秘署巷〔Chancery Lane〕之间。其中有英格兰和威尔士最高法院〔Supreme Court of Judicature〕的法庭和办公室。现在它又向后延伸到卡里街〔Carey Street〕。在1882年该建筑物交付使用之前，高等法院衡平分庭坐落在林肯律师公会〔Lincoln’s Inn〕的楼宇中，王座分庭和离婚、遗嘱检验和海事分庭则坐落在威斯敏斯特宫附近的楼宇里。当然并不是所有的法院都位于这处建筑物。英国议会的上议院在威斯敏斯特的国会大厦〔Westminster Hall〕，枢密院司法委员会在唐宁街〔Downing Street〕，中央刑事法院在老贝莱〔Old Bailey〕，而高等法院和刑事法院则可以在英格兰和威尔士的六个巡回区内的不同城镇定期开庭。由巡回法官或刑事法院法官担任主审法官的郡法庭，也可在伦敦以及英格兰和威尔士开庭。苏格兰和北爱尔兰在各自的管辖区内都有自己的法院机构。