Law Dictionary

The term “antitrust law” includes: (1) Each provision of law defined as one of the antitrust laws by section 12 of this title; and (2) Any statute enacted on and after September 19

the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, and any other Acts in pari materia.

The term "antitrust leniency agreement," or "agreement," means a leniency letter agreement, whether conditional or final, between a person and the Antitrust Div

The term "antitrust leniency applicant," or "applicant," means, with respect to an antitrust leniency agreement, the person that has entered into the agreement.

The term “antitrust mutual assistance agreement” means a written agreement, or written memorandum of understanding, that is entered into by the United States and a foreign state or

The term “antitrust order” means any final order, decree, or judgment of any court of the United States, duly entered in any case or proceeding arising under any antitrust law;

The term “antitrust violation” means any act or omission in violation of any antitrust law, any antitrust order or, with respect to the International Antitrust Enforcement Assistan

Another action pending.

The right of another.

Another's life. A person holding an estate for or during the life of another is called a tenant "pur autre vie," or "pur terme d'autre me." Litt. § 56; 2 Bl. Comm. 120.

or AMTRUSTIO. In early feudal law. A confidential vassal. A term applied to the followers of the ancient German chiefs, and of the kings and counts of the Franks. Spelman. ANUELS L

L. Fr. The Year Books. Kelham.

LI. A showing of armor; military training.

A great-great-great-aunt.

/. An annuity; a yearly rent. Anoyer,/r. To trouble, annoy. Annoysance: a nuisance.

anute, I. fr. Annuity, v. Annuette. Any. One, indefinitely or indifferently. It sometimes has the sense of "some," but more commonly that of "all" or "every." -

Lat. In feudal and old English law. Aid; help to defend a suit; help to commit a crime; a subsidy or tallage paid to the king; a kind of tribute paid by vassal to lord, as one of t

what it says; and that Congress was fully informed as to the significance of § 1404(a).

any claim but that of servicemen." The statute does contain twelve exceptions.

to assure that all "state," as well as federal, courts are subject to the anti-injunction prohibition.

any such court "of competent jurisdiction."

As used in this section, the term “any employee welfare benefit plan or employee pension benefit plan” means any employee benefit plan subject to any provision of title I of the Em

activities that are not covered in tribes' contracts, including "improvements in health care facilities." Ibid.

by the revision to do more than to eliminate the uncertainty deriving from the words 'employer' and 'employee' and thereby to extend to railroads the same protections which other e

any authoritative decision." Ante, at 7, 8.

The phrase is comprehensive and means that if the forbidden effect or tendency is produced in one out of all the various lines of commerce, the words 'in any line of commerce' lite

Anyone who violates any of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner as provided by sections 106 through 122 or of the author as provided in section 106A(a), or who imports copie

that, in order to obtain judicial review, each of the enumerated parties must be "aggrieved by a final decision under subsection (c)." This implies, in turn, that each party may se

the common-law grounds of prejudice, malice, and the like, and, if so, what would be the rights and remedies of an indicted person who had had no opportunity to challenge a given j

anything less than the Court's interpretation, then the technical amendments, again contrary to their stated purpose, made important substantive changes to § 307(b)(1).

only law enforcement officers acting in a customs or excise capacity.

any person not identified as a PRP in §§107(a)(1)-(4).

terms imposed by state courts (internal quotation marks omitted)).

The term “any other weapon” means any weapon or device capable of being concealed on the person from which a shot can be discharged through the energy of an explosive, a pistol or

all persons and not merely those who by § 1 are required to register and pay the tax.

the term “any person aggrieved” shall include any person with proprietary rights in the intercepted communication by wire or radio, including wholesale or retail distributors of sa

the whole human race.

among others, Porto Rico, the Philippines and the Virgin Islands." The Department thus sought to introduce a qualification as to the significance of ' foreign country ' not found i

physical things, as the Court recognized when it previously considered Fidel Castro's expropriations and noted that the Cuban Government "nationalize[d] by forced expropriation pro

breadth of coverage," we held that "wages" means remuneration for "the entire employer-employee relationship"; in other words, "wages" embraced pay for active service plus pay rece

the very statute in which this statement was contained.

the bonds mentioned in the introductory part of the sentence, that is, to bonds for duties which have become payable, and are not paid.

In Massachusetts, this term, in the statutes relating to additional punishment, means not less than two years. Ex parte Seymour. 11 Pick. (Mass.) 40: Ex parte Dick, id. 86; Ex part

“anything of pecuniary value” means anything of value in the form of money, a negotiable instrument, a commercial interest, or anything else the primary significance of which is ec

In differentiating between operations over the 'route or routes' for which an application under the 'grandfather clause' is made as against operations 'within the territory', Congr

I. Acoeptilation declaring it paid when it

[L. Lat. ocauaanva ex post facto, — ^post effectum seelu». Spelman.'] In criminal law. One who, blowing a felony to have been committed by another, receives, relieves, comforts or

To ivhich the court agreed. AD QUOD DAMNUM (Lat.) What injury. A writ issuing out of and returnable into chancery, directed to the sheriff, commanding him to inquire by a jury what

The term "Apache Leap" means the approximately 807 acres of land depicted on the map entitled "Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2011–Apache Le

'Lt. Lat. From palatium, (a palace.) Counties palatine are hence so called. 1 Bl. Comm. 117. See Palatium.

In French Law. A portion set apart for the use and support of the younger ones, upon condition, however, that it should revert, upon failure of male issue, to his original donor an

In French law. A portion set apart for the use and support of the younger ones, upon condition, however, that it should revert, upon failure of male issue, to his original donor an

aparaile, appareillie, I fr. Ready. Apares,' I. I. Peers; equals.

aperlny, I. fr. By itself; separately.

See Apertment. APATORES, Apatores, Gr. [from a, without, and pater, a father.] In the civil law. Persons without a father; spurious children; bastards, (quasi sine patre filii.) In

A part of a house occupied by a person, while the rest is occupied by another, or others. 7 Man. & G. 95; 6 Mod. 214_; Woodfall, Landl. & Ten. 178. As to what is not an apartment,

a corporation resulting from a reorganization and includes both corporations in the case of an acquisition by one corporation of at least a majority of the voting stock and at leas

An agreement or compart. Du Cange.

Fr. To perceive. Britt. c. 40.

I In the civil law. To open, as a will or codicil. In feudal law. To escheat or revert to the lord.

Open, unsealed writs.

Aperment, Apartement. L. Fr. Openly, plainly. Apertment escries; openly defamed. Stat. Westm. 1, c. 15.

An overt act.

A form of proving a will, in the civil law, by the witnesses acknowledging before a magistrate their having sealed it. 1 Williams, Ex'rs, 329. APEX JURIS (Lat. the summit of the of

Open.

The term “Apex” means the New York Bight Apex consisting of the ocean waters of the Atlantic Ocean westward of 73 degrees 30 minutes west longitude and northward of 40 degrees 10 m

A subtlety of the law.

In mining law. The mineral laws of the United States give to the locator of a mining claim on the public domain the whole of every vein the apex of which lies within his surface ex

The term “Apex site” means that site within the Apex at which the dumping of municipal sludge occurred before October 1, 1983.

An affidavit intended to certify the service of a writ, notice, or other document.

i The fighting of two or more persons in some public place to the terror of his majesty's subjects. ^ When persons come together without a premeditated design to disturb the peace,

Aiffreightment; a contract for the hire of a vessel. From the Fr, fret, which, according to Cowell, meant tons or tonnage.

An apprentice to the law; a law student; a counsellor below the degree of serjeant; a barrister. See Apprentice en la Lei.

A mental affliction whereby one loses comprehension of the sense of words and of familiar objects.

In medical jurisprudence. Loss of the power of articulate speech in consequence of morbid conditions of some of the vocal organs. It may be incomplete, in which case the patient ca

Legal niceties are not laws. Co. Litt. 304; 3 Scott, 773; 10 Coke, 126; Broom, Leg. Max. 142. See "Apex Juris." APICES LITIGANDI (Lat.) Subtleties of law; extreme technicalities. A

Extremities or mere subtleties of law, are not rules of law, [are not law.] Co. Litt 3046; 10 Coke, 126; Wing. Max. 19, max. 14; Broom, Max. 188.

The extremes of the law are not the law. See 6 L. R. A. (N. S.) 494.

Extremes of the law.

Persons taken by pirates or robbers remain free. Dig. 49, 15, 19, 2; Gro. de J. B. lib. 3, c. 3, § 1.

Title to the booty of pirates and robbers does not change. See 1 Kent’s Comm. 108, 184.

We obtain possession of a thing with both the mind and the body, not with the mind alone nor with the body alone.

In medical Jurisprudence. Want of breath; difficulty in breathing; partial or temporary suspension of respiration; specifically, such difficulty of respiration resulting from over-

I. fr. Appurtenances. Used by Britton as another name for incorporeal thinga v. Appurtenance.

A receipt for payment.

Lat In the civil law. A writing acknowledging payments; acquittance. It differs from acceptilation in this: that acceptilation imports a complete discharge of the former obligation

Bills of lading.

gr.-l. In the civil lavx Acknowledgment of a payment of money.

In the civil law. An officer who took charge of the royal seal and signed royal dispatches.

A messenger; an ambassador.

In the civil law. An officer who took charge of the royal seal and signed royal dispatches,

L In ecclesiastical law. One who answers for another; originally an officer who brought ecclesiastical matters before the emperor and conveyed his answer's to the petitioners; a po

I I In old English law. Bills of lading.

In civil law. An examination and enumeration of things possessed; an inventory. Calv. Lex.

In Civil Law. An examination and enumeration of things possessed; an inventory. Calvinus, Lex.

Fr. To appointor direct. Id.

I. fr. To appoint or direct

In Medical Jurisprudence. The group of symptoms arising from rupture of a minute artery and consequent hemorrhage into the substance of the brain or from the lodgment of a minute c

gr.-l To be in difl Sculties; to be poor; to reduce to poverty

The total renunciation of Christianity, by embracing either a false.religion, or no religion at all. This offense can only take place in such as have once professed Christianity. 4