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The term “7-year property” includes— (i) any railroad track, (ii) any motorsports entertainment complex, (iii) any Alaska natural gas pipeline, (iv) any natural gas gathering line

For purposes of this section, the term “80-percent distributee” means only the corporation which meets the 80-percent stock ownership requirements specified in section 332(b). For

it is only when the interference with § 7 rights outweighs the business justification for the employer's action that § 8(a)(1) is violated. A violation of § 8(a)(1) alone therefore

Under that section both discrimination and a resulting discouragement of union membership are necessary, but the added element of unlawful intent is also required.

It forbids a union to induce employees to strike against or to refuse to handle goods for their employer when an object is to force him or another person to cease doing business wi

The terms “VHS format”, “8mm format”, “Beta format”, “automatic gain control copy control technology”, “colorstripe copy control technology”, “four-line version of the colorstripe

The term "8 percent rate equivalent percentage" means, with respect to any United States shareholder for any taxable year, the percentage which would result in the amount

For purposes of this subsection, the term “90/10 mixed-fuel vehicle” means a mixed-fuel vehicle which operates using at least 90 percent alternative fuel and not more than 10 perce

The term “9–1–1 services” includes both E9–1–1 services and Next Generation 9–1–1 services.

For purposes of paragraph (1), the term “988 hedging transaction” means any transaction— (A) entered into by the taxpayer primarily— (i) to manage risk of currency fluctuations wit

Lat. The letter marked on the ballots by which, among the Romans, the people voted against a proposed law. It was the initial letter of the word "antiquo," I am for the old law. Al

Of the highest qualities. An expression which originated in a practice of underwriters of rating vessels in three classes, —A, B, and C; and these again in ranks numbered. Abbott A

The term "A–3 visa" means a nonimmigrant visa issued pursuant to section 1101(a)(15)(A)(iii) of this title.

An ancient mode of weighing scales hanging or with hooks fastened to each

To have and to hold.

Conclusions as to use cannot be drawn from abuse.

Lat An officer having charge of acta, public records, registers, journals or minutes; an officer who entered on record the acta or proceedings of a court; a clerk of court; a notar

Lat [from abigere, to drive away.] In the Roman law. A driver away of cattle and other animals; one who drove away cattle from the herd, or smaller animals in numbers, with the mte

A cattle thief.

In Spanish law. Lands, towns, and villages belonging to an abbot, and under his jurisdiction. All lands belonging to ecclesiastical corporations, and as such exempt from taxation.

Disabled; unable to act. AB ANTE (Lat. ante, before). In advance. AB ANTECEDENTE (Lat. antecedens). Beforehand. 5 Maule & S. 110. AB ANTIQUO (Lat.) Of old.

I In the civil law. To alienate; to transfer without reserve.

To transfer interest or title.

In Roman law. The perfect conveyance or transfer of property from one Roman citizen to another. This term gave place to the simple alienatio, which is used in the Digest and Instit

Lat. In the civil law. A great-great-grandfather's sister, (abavi soror.) Inst. 3, 6, 6; Dig. 38, 10, 3. Called amita maxima. Id. 38, iO, 10, 17. Called, in Brac-ton, abamita magna

“abandon” means to moor, strand, wreck, sink, or leave a barge of more than 100 gross tons as measured under section 14502 of this title, or an alternate tonnage measured under sec

"abandoned areas" means sections, panels, and other areas that are not ventilated and examined in the manner required for working places under section 863 of this title;

stock certificates and undelivered dividends thereon may also be abandoned property subject to the disposition of the domiciliary state of the corporation when the whereabouts of t

a seizure, or capture, call it which we may, if once abandoned, without the influence of superior force, loses all its validity, and becomes a complete nullity. Like the common cas

A party to whom a right or property is abandoned or relinquished by another. Applied to the insurers of vessels and cargoes. Lord Ellenborough, C. J., 5 Maule & S. 82; Abbott, J.,

by the word 'abandonment,' I understand a yielding, ceding, or giving up; and, in general, it applies to cases, where there has been a great loss, and the assured, resorting to the

contracts.— In insurances the act by which the insured relinquishes to the assurer all the property to the thing insured. No particular form is required for an abandonment, nor nee

In maritime contracts in the civil law, principals are generally held indefinitely responsible for the obligations which their agents have contracted relative to the concern of the

The certificate issues not primarily to protect the railroad, but to protect interstate commerce from undue burdens or discrimination. The Commission by its order removes an obstru

In Civil Law. The relinquisbment of a slave or animal who had committed a trespass to the person injured, in discbarge of the owner's liability for such trespass or injury- Lf this

The relinquishment of an animal or a slave in settlement of liability.

The insurance is but a wager between the parties to it, on the safety of the vessel. By the rule of the contract the ship may be abandoned, and the whole insurance claimed, when th

The physical alteration of facilities is not a sine qua non restricting the Commission's jurisdiction under § 7(b). A natural-gas company that ceases taking and transporting gas, w

if an inventor makes his discovery public, looks on, and permits others freely to use it, without objection or assertion of claim to the invention, of which the public might take n

Mere forbearance to apply for a patent during the progress of experiments, and until the party has perfected his invention and tested its value by actual practice, affords no just

An inventor may abandon his invention, and surrender or dedicate it to the public. This inchoate right, thus once gone, cannot afterwards be resumed at his pleasure; for, where gif

An actual abandonment of possession by a locator of a mining claim, such as would work an abandonment of any other easement, would terminate all the right of possession which the l

The election, then, by the Kohnyo claimant, filed in the land office June 14, 1898, was an abandonment of the south 700 feet of the Kohnyo claim, which took effect eo instanti.

Discontinuance of operations by the trustee is abandonment of operations by a carrier within the meaning of § 1(18).

No matter by what means an invention may be communicated to the public, before a patent is obtained; any acquiescence in the public use, by the inventor, will be an abandonment of

or ABANDUM. Anything sequestered, proscribed, or abandoned. Abandon, i. e., in bannum res missa, a thing banned or denounced as forfeited or lost; whence to abandon, desert, or for

Anything 6equestered, proscribed or abandoned. Abandon, i. e., in bannum res missa, a thing banned ordenounced as forfeited or lost, whence to abandon, desert or forsake, as lost a

In advance.

In advance.

From ancient time.

Lat. From burning. The word arson is said to be derived ab ardendo; from ardendoy I. e. from burning. 4 Bl. Com. 220. See Arson, Ab aaaaetia BdH lit Injaria. From things to which o

Lat. To detect or discover, and disclose to a magistrate, any secret crime. Leges Canuti, cap. 10.

l, Abuse. In the civil law. Departure from use; immoderate or improper use.

No injury is done by things long acquiesced in. Jenk. Cent. Cas. Introd. viii. AB EPISTOLIS (Lat.) An officer having charge of the correspondence (epistolae) of his superior or sov

{., Abatement. The act of abating, t. Abatare. Debts are abated among creditors when, there being not enough funds to pay them in full, they are paid in part. A freehold is abated

L. Lat. In old English law. An abatement of freehold; an entry upon lands by way of interposition between the dcath of the ancestor and the entry of the heir. Co. Litt. 277a; Yel.

To abate. Yelv. 151.

The possible abatement—partial reduction or annulment—there referred to depended upon the future decision of the Commissioner.

In Chancery Practice. A suspension of all proceedings in a suit, from the want of proper parties capable of proceeding therein. It differs from an abatement at law in this; that in

dissolution of a corporation at common law abates all litigation in which the corporation is appearing either as plaintiff or defendant

in courts of equity, an abatement of the suit, by the death of a party, has always been held to have a very different effect; for such abatement amounts to a mere suspension, and n

The removal, prostration or destruction of, that which causes a nuisance, whether by breaking or pulling it down or otherwise removing, disintegrating or effacing it. Ruff v. Phill

Awrongful entry by a stranger on lands of a decedent before the heir or devisee has taken possession. 3 Bl. Comm. 167. See, also, "Amotion;' "Intrusion;" "Disseisin."

The extinction or removal of a nuisance by physical means or by suit. See 50 Ga. 130.

in real and personal actions, the death of either party, before judgment, did at common law abate the suit; and... the 31st section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, c. 20., was necess

While it is true that the duty required concerns the state, the suit is against [the officer] as an individual, and he alone can be punished for the failure to obey an injunction,

There is a material distinction between the death of parties before judgment and after judgment, and while a writ of error is depending. In the former case, all personal actions by

Abatre. L.Fr. To beat down, overthrow, or demolish. Stat. Westm. 1. c. 17. ^t%e Abate. To abate, or quash. // n'est reason de abater le brief; it is no reason for quashing the writ

Lat. Diminished. v. Moneta abatuda. Abatus, fr. Beaten or thrown down; abated; quashed. Thus, mur abatu, a wall thrown down; bois abatu, wood cut or fallen; arbres abatues de vent,

One who abates or destroys a nuisance. One who, having no right of entry, gets the ancestor died, and before the heir or devisee enters. Litt. § 397; Perk. § 383; 2 Prest. Abstr. 2

abbatre, abater, fr. To abate, throw Abatre maison: to raze a house. Abatus down by the wind.

Anything diminished; as, moneta abatuda, which is money clipped or diminished in value. Cowell.

Abatu. L. Fr. [from abater, q. v.] Beaten or thrown down. Bois abatu; wood cut or fallen. Kelham. Abated, quashed. Un briefe fuit abatu. A writ was quashed. Reg. Orig. 97 b, nota.

A great-great-grandmother.

Used for abamita, which see.

A great-great-grandmother's brother. Calvinus, Lex.

A great-great-grandfather, or fourth male ascendant.

The government of a religious house, and the revenues thereof, subject to an abbot, as a bishopric' is to a bishop. Cowell.

Fr. Abeyance. See Abeyance.

In criminal law. The form or ceremony of calling a prisoner to the bar, and (in treason or felony) making him hold up his hand, or otherwise own himself to be the party charged; re

Arrainare. L. Lat. To arraign; to conduct in an orderly manner; to prosecute, institute or bring. Assisam arrainare; to bring an assise, (an action so called.) In assisa quam idem

Lat. An abbess. Beg. Jud. 4 b.

Abettare. L. Lat. To abet. Rast. Entr. 54. Abettasse et procurasse; to have abetted and procured. Reg. Orig. 131 a. See Abet.

1 1. In old English law. Abetment

abettare, Lat. In old English law. To abet, q. v. Abettasse et procurasse: to have abetted and procured. Abettans: abetting. Abettans, comfortans, et manutenens: abetting, comforti

Lat. Abetment. Beg. Orig. 270 a. Stat. Westm. 2, c. 12. See Abetment.

A monastery or convent for the use of an association of religious per. having an abbot or abbess to preside over them.

5 1. To shorten, condense; to epitomize, reduce, contract. A reasonable abridgment of a copyrighted publication is permitted as a new production, involving in its preparation intel

i Not governed by fixed rules; not defined by statute; discretionary: as, arbitrary punishment. See Discretion; Judge. Without cause or reason shown; as, an arbitrary challenge.^ A

They were prelates in the 13th century who had had an Immemorial right to sit in the national assembly. Taylor, Science of Jurispr. 287.

An abstract of ancient judicial records prior to the Year-books.

In Scotch Jaw. An abstract. Ersk. Inst. bk. 2, tit. 12, § 43.

The term “abbreviated drug application” means an application submitted under section 355(j) of this title for the approval of a drug that relies on the approved application of anot

In Scotch law. The recorded abstract of an adjudication {q. v.) ABBREViATiO PLACITORUi Vl. An abstract of ancient judicial records, prior to the Year Books. See Steph. PL (7th Ed.)

I. l, Abbreviation. In old English law. Contraction in the writing in old records and law writings. Abbreviationnm ille nnmerus et sensus accipiendns est, nt concessio non sit inan

A shortened form of a word obtained by the omission of one or more letters or syllables from the middle or end of the word. The abbreviations in common use in modern times consist

Shortened conventional expressions, employed as substitutes for names, phrases, dates, and the like, for the saving of space, of time in transcribing, etc. Abbott,

In abbreviations, that number and sense should be taken which will not avoid the grant.

An abstract of ancient judicial records, prior to the Year Books. See Steph. PI. (7th Ed.) 410.

In ecclesiastical law. Officers whose duty it is to assist in drawing up the pope's briefs, and reducing petitions into proper form, to'be converted into papal bulls.