SECONDARY BENEFICIARY
secondary beneficiary.See contingent beneficiary (2) under BENEFICIARY. [Blacks Law 8th]
secondary beneficiary.See contingent beneficiary (2) under BENEFICIARY. [Blacks Law 8th]
secondary authority.See AUTHORITY(4). [Blacks Law 8th]
secondary assumption of risk.See ASSUMPTION OF THE RISK. [Blacks Law 8th]
secondary amendment.See AMENDMENT(3). [Blacks Law 8th]
secondary affinity.See AFFINITY. [Blacks Law 8th]
secondary activity.Labor law. A union’s picketing or boycotting a secondary or neutral party, with the goal of placing economic pressure on that party so that…
secondary abuse.See ABUSE. [Blacks Law 8th]
secondary,adj. (Of a position, status, use, etc.) subordinate or subsequent. secondary,n. Hist. An officer of the courts of the King’s Bench and common pleas, so…
Second Amendment.The constitutional amendment, ratified with the Bill of Rights in 1791, guaranteeing the right to keep and bear arms as necessary for securing freedom…
second,n. Parliamentary law. 1. A statement by a member other than a motion’s maker that the member also wants the assembly to consider the motion…
seck (sek), adj. Hist. 1. Lacking the right or remedy of distress. 2. Lacking profits, usu. due to a reversion without rent or other service.…
secession. The process or act of withdrawing, esp. from a religious or political association <the secession from the established church> <the secession of 11 states…
SEC.abbr.SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. sec.abbr.Section. See SECTION(1). [Blacks Law 8th]
seaworthy vessel.See VESSEL. [Blacks Law 8th]
seaworthy,adj. (Of a vessel) properly equipped and sufficiently strong and tight to resist the perils reasonably incident to the voyage for which the vessel is…
seaward. See CUSTOS MARIS. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such as harbors…
seat of government.The nation’s capital, a state capital, a county seat, or other location where the principal offices of the national, state, and local governments…
seated land.See LAND. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such as harbors and…
seat,n.1. Membership and privileges in an organization; esp., membership on a securities or commodities exchange <her seat at the exchange dates back to 1998>. [Cases:…
seasonal employment.See EMPLOYMENT. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such as harbors and…
seasonable,adj. Within the time agreed on; within a reasonable time < seasonable performance of the contract>. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or…
Sears–Compco doctrine.The principle that Congress, by passing copyright, trademark, and patent laws, has preempted some state-law protection of information that is not protected by those…
sea rover. 1. A person who roves the sea for plunder; a pirate. 2. A pirate vessel. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course…
sea reeve (see reev).Hist. An officer appointed to watch the shore and enforce a lord’s maritime rights, including the right to wreckage. sea lane.Int’l &…
search warrant.Criminal law. A judge’s written order authorizing a law-enforcement officer to conduct a search of a specified place and to seize evidence. See Fed.…
search report.Patents. A list of prior-art documents cited by the patent examiner during the patent application’s preliminary examination. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated…
search of patentability.See PATENTABILITY SEARCH. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such as…
search incident to arrest.See protective search under SEARCH. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted…
search committee.See COMMITTEE. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such as harbors and…
search book.A lawbook that contains no statements of the law but instead consists of lists or tables of cases, statutes, and the like, used simply…
search-and-seizure warrant.See SEARCH WARRANT. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such as harbors…
sea pass.See SEA LETTER. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such as harbors…
search,n.1.Criminal procedure. An examination of a person’s body, property, or other area that the person would reasonably be expected to consider as private, conducted by…
seaman’s will.See soldier’s will under WILL. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such…
seaman.Maritime law. Under the Jones Act and the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, a person who is attached to a navigating vessel as an…
seal of the United States.See great seal (1) under SEAL. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp.…
seal of the state.See great seal (2) under SEAL. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in…
seal of cause.Scots law. The seal of a burgh court, by which a royal burgh could, consistently with its charter powers, create a subordinate corporation…
sealing of records.The act or practice of officially preventing access to particular (esp. juvenile-criminal) records, in the absence of a court order. Cf. EXPUNGEMENT OF…
sea letter.Hist. A manifest issued during a war by authorities of a port where a neutral vessel is fitted, certifying the vessel’s nationality, specifying the…
sealed will.See mystic will under WILL. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such…
sealed verdict.See VERDICT. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such as harbors and…
sealed testament.See mystic will under WILL. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such…
sealed-record statute.See CONFIDENTIALITY STATUTE. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such as harbors…
sealed instrument.At common law and under some statutes, an instrument to which the bound party has affixed a personal seal, usu. recognized as providing indisputable…
sealed contract.See contract under seal under CONTRACT. [Blacks Law 8th]
sealed-container rule.Products liability. The principle that a seller is not liable for a defective product if the seller receives the product from the manufacturer and…
sealed bid.See BID(2). [Blacks Law 8th]
sealed and delivered.See SIGNED, SEALED, AND DELIVERED. [Blacks Law 8th]
sea law.See MARITIME LAW. [Blacks Law 8th]
sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such as harbors and straits. • Although…
seal,n.1. A fastening that must be broken before access can be obtained; esp., a device or substance that joins two things, usu. making the seam…
seagoing vessel.See VESSEL. [Blacks Law 8th]
sea brief.See SEA LETTER. [Blacks Law 8th]
seabed. The sea floor; the ground underlying the ocean, over which nations may assert sovereignty, esp. if underlying their territorial waters. [Blacks Law 8th]
sea. 1. The ocean <on the sea>.2. A large landlocked part of the ocean; a large body of salt water smaller than a regular ocean…
S.E.abbr.SOUTH EASTERN REPORTER. [Blacks Law 8th]
s/d b/l.abbr.Sight draft with bill of lading attached. See sight draft under DRAFT. [Blacks Law 8th]
S.D.abbr.Southern District, in reference to U.S. judicial districts. [Blacks Law 8th]
scyra (shy-r<<schwa>>), n.[Law Latin “shire”] Hist. 1.A county; shire. 2. A county’s inhabitants. [Blacks Law 8th]