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Class action
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Class actionWhen different persons combine their lawsuits because the facts and the defendant are so similar. This is designed to save Court time and to allow one judge to hear all the cases at the same time and to make one decision binding on all parties. Class action lawsuits would typically occur after a plane or train accident where all the victims would sue the transportation company together in a class action suit.
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When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Defendant
A party who is sued in a personal action.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Time
Contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided into years, months. days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. 2) Pleading. The avertment of time is generally necessary in pleading; the rules are different, in different actions.
Judge
An elected or appointed public official with authority to hear and decide cases in a court of law.
Cases
General term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; questions contested before a court of justice.
Decision
Practice. A judgment given by a competent tribunal. The French lawyers call the opinions which they give on questions propounded to them, decisions.
Parties
Contracts. Those persons who engage themselves to do, or not to do the matters and things contained in an agreement.
Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.
Transportation
Punishment. In the English law, this punishment is inflicted by virtue of sundry statutes; it was unknown to the common law. 2 H. Bl. 223. It is a part of the judgment or sentence of the court, that the party shall be transported or sent into exile.
Company
An association of a number of individuals for the purpose of carrying on some legitimate business.
Suit
An action. The word suit in the 25th section of the judiciary act of 1789, applies to any proceeding in a court of justice, in which the plaintiff pursues, in such court, the remedy which the law affords him. An application for a prohibition is therefore a suit.
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Class action lawsuit
A group lawsuit in which several or many individuals join forces to sue a given company or industry.
Class action litigation
Collective litigation by many people against a certain company or person.
Class action movie
A movie about collective civil lawsuits.
Class action reform
1) Reform of a class action lawsuit during the procedures. 2) Reforming the class action laws.
Classaction lawsuit
A class action lawsuit.
Classaction lawsuit case
A popular name for a class action lawsuit case.
Classaction lawyer
Another way to call a class action lawyer.
Classactionsuit
A popular name for a class action lawsuit.
Classification override (prison)
In the US penitentiary jargon, a decision based on either aggravating or mitigating circumstances, to assign an inmate higher or lower public risk and/or institutional risk scores and/or to an alternative institutional placement of higher of lower security and/or custody levels than is designated by either the initial classification or reclassification process.
Classification societies
Classification societies are institutions (often non-profit) which inspect, study and report on the seaworthiness and the general and particular condition of individual ships. They also often perform port state control inspections. Finally, they may provide surveying services to national maritime administrations by contract with the governments of those countries.
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Civiliter
Civilly; opposed to criminaliter or criminally.
Civiliter mortuus
Civilly dead; one who is considered as if he were naturally dead, go far as his rights are concerned.
Claimant
When a person is authorized and admitted to defend the libel, he is called the claimant.
Clandestine
That which is done in secret and contrary to law.
Clarendon
The constitutions of Clarendon were certain statutes made in the reign of Henry H., of England, in a parliament holden at Clarendon, by which the king cheeked the power of the pope and his clergy.
Class action
Classification societies
Classification societies are institutions (often non-profit) which inspect, study and report on the seaworthiness and the general and particular condition of individual ships. They also often perform port state control inspections. Finally, they may provide surveying services to national maritime administrations by contract with the governments of those countries.
Clause
Contracts. A particular disposition which makes part of a treaty; of an act of the legislature; of a deed, written agreement, or other written contract or will.
Clausum
Latin. A close; an inclosure.
Clausum fregit
Torts, remedies. He broke the close.
Clayton act
A federal law which is an amendment to the Sherman Act dealing with antitrust regulations and unfair trade practices.
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When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Defendant
A party who is sued in a personal action.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Time
Contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided into years, months. days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. 2) Pleading. The avertment of time is generally necessary in pleading; the rules are different, in different actions.
Judge
An elected or appointed public official with authority to hear and decide cases in a court of law.
Cases
General term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; questions contested before a court of justice.
Decision
Practice. A judgment given by a competent tribunal. The French lawyers call the opinions which they give on questions propounded to them, decisions.
Parties
Contracts. Those persons who engage themselves to do, or not to do the matters and things contained in an agreement.
Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.
Transportation
Punishment. In the English law, this punishment is inflicted by virtue of sundry statutes; it was unknown to the common law. 2 H. Bl. 223. It is a part of the judgment or sentence of the court, that the party shall be transported or sent into exile.
Company
An association of a number of individuals for the purpose of carrying on some legitimate business.
Suit
An action. The word suit in the 25th section of the judiciary act of 1789, applies to any proceeding in a court of justice, in which the plaintiff pursues, in such court, the remedy which the law affords him. An application for a prohibition is therefore a suit.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Class action lawsuit
A group lawsuit in which several or many individuals join forces to sue a given company or industry.
Class action litigation
Collective litigation by many people against a certain company or person.
Class action movie
A movie about collective civil lawsuits.
Class action reform
1) Reform of a class action lawsuit during the procedures. 2) Reforming the class action laws.
Classaction lawsuit
A class action lawsuit.
Classaction lawsuit case
A popular name for a class action lawsuit case.
Classaction lawyer
Another way to call a class action lawyer.
Classactionsuit
A popular name for a class action lawsuit.
Classification override (prison)
In the US penitentiary jargon, a decision based on either aggravating or mitigating circumstances, to assign an inmate higher or lower public risk and/or institutional risk scores and/or to an alternative institutional placement of higher of lower security and/or custody levels than is designated by either the initial classification or reclassification process.
Classification societies
Classification societies are institutions (often non-profit) which inspect, study and report on the seaworthiness and the general and particular condition of individual ships. They also often perform port state control inspections. Finally, they may provide surveying services to national maritime administrations by contract with the governments of those countries.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Civiliter
Civilly; opposed to criminaliter or criminally.
Civiliter mortuus
Civilly dead; one who is considered as if he were naturally dead, go far as his rights are concerned.
Claimant
When a person is authorized and admitted to defend the libel, he is called the claimant.
Clandestine
That which is done in secret and contrary to law.
Clarendon
The constitutions of Clarendon were certain statutes made in the reign of Henry H., of England, in a parliament holden at Clarendon, by which the king cheeked the power of the pope and his clergy.
Class action
Classification societies
Classification societies are institutions (often non-profit) which inspect, study and report on the seaworthiness and the general and particular condition of individual ships. They also often perform port state control inspections. Finally, they may provide surveying services to national maritime administrations by contract with the governments of those countries.
Clause
Contracts. A particular disposition which makes part of a treaty; of an act of the legislature; of a deed, written agreement, or other written contract or will.
Clausum
Latin. A close; an inclosure.
Clausum fregit
Torts, remedies. He broke the close.
Clayton act
A federal law which is an amendment to the Sherman Act dealing with antitrust regulations and unfair trade practices.
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