fiat justitia (fI-at j[schwa]s-tish-ee-[schwa]). [Latin] Hist. Let justice be done. • This phrase signaled the Crown’s commission to the House of Lords to hear an appeal. “Fiat Justitia, ruat coelum, says another maxim, as full of extravagance as it is of harmony: Go heaven to wreck — so justice be but done: — and what […]
plagiarism. The deliberate and knowing presentation of another person’s original ideas or creative expressions as one’s own. • Generally, plagiarism is immoral but not illegal. If the expression’s creator gives unrestricted permission for its use and the user claims the expression as original, the user commits plagiarism but does not violate copyright laws. If the
memorial, n. 1. An abstract of a legal record, esp. a deed; MEMORANDUM(1). [Cases: Records 1, 30–31. C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 449–450; Records§§ 2, 60, 62–63, 65, 74–93, 95.] 2. A written statement of facts presented to a legislature or executive as a petition.
child labor. The employment of workers under the age of majority. • This term typically focuses on abusive practices such as exploitative factory work; slavery, sale, and trafficking in children; forced or compulsory labor such as debt bondage and serfdom; and the use of children in prostitution, pornography, drug-trafficking, or anything else that might jeopardize
personality theory. Intellectual property. A rationalization of intellectual-property laws, esp. copyright, drawing on the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel, holding that personal expression is a form of self-actualization that gives the creator inalienable moral rights in the creations. • As a way of analyzing intellectual-property rights, personality theory takes the point of view of the individual
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filiation (fil-ee-ay-sh[schwa]n). 1. The fact or condition of being a son or daughter; relationship of a child to a parent. • Despite Bentham’s protest (see below), filiation is usual in this sense. — Also termed filiality. “In English we have no word that will serve to express with propriety the person who bears the relation