retroactive, adj. (Of a statute, ruling, etc.) extending in scope or effect to matters that have occurred in the past. — Also termed retrospective. Cf. PROSPECTIVE(1). [Cases: Administrative Law and Procedure 419; Courts 100(1); Statutes 261–278. C.J.S. Courts §§ 147–148; Public Administrative Law and Procedure §§ 89, 98; Statutes §§ 407–431.] — retroactivity, n. “ […]
additional claims after allowance. Patents. Claims submitted for the first time by amendment after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has informed the applicant of the patent application’s allowance. • Once a notice of allowance has been issued, the applicant may not by right submit additional claims. But in some circumstances, such as when the
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F.Supp.abbr. Federal Supplement, a series of reported decisions of the federal district courts (from 1932 to 1998), the U.S. Court of Claims (1932 to 1960), and the U.S. Customs Court (from 1949 to 1998, but renamed the Court of International Trade in 1980). • It is the first of the Federal Supplement series.
secta unica tantum facienda pro pluribus haereditatibus (sek-t[schwa] yoo-n[ schwa]-k[schwa] tan-t[schwa]m fay-shee-en-d[schwa] proh ploor-[ schwa]-b[schwa]s h[schwa]-red-[schwa]-tay-t[schwa]-b[schwa]s), n. [Law Latin “one suit alone to be performed for several inheritances”] Hist. A writ exempting the eldest heir, distrained by a lord to perform several services for the coheirs, from performing all services but one.
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Act of Supremacy. Hist. A statute that named the English sovereign as supreme head of the Church of England (26 Hen. 8, ch. 1). • The Act was passed in 1534 during Henry VIII’s reign and confirmed in 1559 (1 Eliz., ch. 1) to counteract pro-Catholic legislation enacted during the reign of Mary Tudor. In
parentelic method (par-[schwa]n-tee-lik or -tel-ik). A scheme of computation used to determine the paternal or maternal collaterals entitled to inherit when a childless intestate decedent is not survived by parents or their issue. • Under this method, the estate passes to grandparents and their issue; if there are none, to great-grandparents and their issue; and
diplomatic protection. Protection given by one country’s representatives to a person, usu. its citizen, against another country’s alleged violation of international law. “The term diplomatic protection is not altogether precise. First, not only diplomatic agents and missions and other foreign offices may and do exercise diplomatic protection, but also, at a different level, consuls, and,
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Material depicting a person under the age of 18 engaged in sexual activity. • Child pornography is not protected by the First Amendment — even if it falls short of the legal standard for obscenity — and those directly involved in its distribution can be criminally punished. [Cases: Infants 13; Obscenity 5. C.J.S. Infants §§
equity of redemption. Real estate. The right of a mortgagor in default to recover property before a foreclosure sale by paying the principal, interest, and other costs that are due. • A defaulting mortgagor with an equity of redemption has the right, until the foreclosure sale, to reimburse the mortgagee and cure the default. In
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An agent acting for an individual in that person’s private affairs. [Cases: Principal and Agent 92(3).]