Incoterm (in[g]-koh-t[schwa]rm). A standardized shipping term, defined by the International Chamber of Commerce, that apportions the costs and liabilities of international shipping between buyers and sellers. See EX WORKS; COST, INSURANCE, AND FREIGHT ; COST AND FREIGHT; COST, INSURANCE, AND FREIGHT; FREE ALONGSIDE SHIP ; FREE CARRIER; FREE ON BOARD. [Cases: Shipping 104. C.J.S. Shipping […]
precinct. A geographical unit of government, such as an election district, a police district, or a judicial district. [Cases: Municipal Corporations 40.] magisterial precinct. A county subdivision that defines the territorial jurisdiction of a magistrate, constable, or justice of the peace. — Also termed magisterial district. [Cases: Justices of the Peace 52. C.J.S. Justices of
ward. 1. A person, usu. a minor, who is under a guardian’s charge or protection. See GUARDIAN(1). [Cases: Guardian and Ward 1, 9. 5.] permanent ward. A ward who has been assigned a permanent guardian, the rights of the natural parents having been terminated by a juvenile court. [Cases: Guardian and Ward 9.5; Infants 155.]
glebe (gleeb). [fr. Latin gleba “clod of earth”] 1. Roman law. The soil of an inheritance; an agrarian estate. • Servi addicti glebae (“slaves bound to the land”) were serfs attached to and passing with the estate. 2. Eccles. law. Land possessed as part of the endowment or revenue of a church or ecclesiastical benefice.
accommodation, n. 1. A loan or other financial favor. 2. The act of signing an accommodation paper as surety for another. See ACCOMMODATION PAPER. 3. The act or an instance of making a change or provision for someone or something; an adaptation or adjustment. See PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION; REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION . 4. A convenience supplied by
Carriage of Goods by Sea Act. Maritime law. A 1936 federal statute regulating a carrier’s liability for the loss or damage, and sometimes the delay, of ocean cargo shipped under a bill of lading. 46 USCA §§ 1300–1315. • The Act defines many of the rights and responsibilities of both the issuers and the holders
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petroleum-conservation law. Oil & gas. A state law that limits the rule of capture and defines the correlative-rights doctrine by regulating the drilling and operation of oil-and-gas wells. • Petroleum-conservation laws are intended to prevent waste and protect correlative rights.
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Hist. A tenure obligating the tenant to perform an expressly defined divine service, such as singing a certain number of masses or distributing a fixed sum of alms. Cf. lay tenure.
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A species that has been fully and narrowly defined. • For example, a species may be defined generally as “magnetic metals, including iron and steel,” or particularly, such as “sodium chloride.”
pure theory. The philosophy of Hans Kelsen, in which he contends that a legal system must be “pure” — that is, self-supporting and not dependent on extralegal values. • Kelsen’s theory, set out in such works as General Theory of Law and the State (1945) and The Pure Theory of Law (1934), maintains that laws