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Constructive dismissal
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Constructive dismissalAn employee resigns if he leaves his employment as a matter of choice. However, where there is a serious breach by the employer of the employment contract, the employee may be entitled to resign and claim constructive dismissal. Before the employer accepts a resignation, it ought to be clear and unambiguous with a specified leaving date. Great care should be taken if it is intended to rely on words uttered in temper or when interpreting an employee's contract as implied resignation. The test is whether the reasonable employer would have perceived the words or conduct as a resignation.
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Employee
One who is authorized to act for another; a mandatory.
Employment
An employment is an office.
Matter
Some substantial or essential thing, opposed to form; facts.
Choice
Preference either of a person or thing, to one of several other persons or things. Election.
Breach
The breaking or violating of a law, right, or duty, either by commission or omission. The failure of one part to carry out any condition of a contract.
Employer
One who has engaged or hired the services of another. He is entitled to rights and bound to perform duties.
Contract
A negotiated oral or written agreement setting forth the terms for an exchange of value between parties (which may be individuals or companies) and under which each party promises to perform an obligation. Certain terms, such as the obligations to be performed and the terms for setting price or compensation must be mutually understood, known in legal lingo as a "meeting of the minds," and promised to by the parties to form a legal contract.
Claim
A demand for resolution or remedy of a grievance, or for something that is rightly the claimant's. Example: A demand for payment to recover a loss protected by an insurance policy. A demand in a court of law filed by a claimant on any juridical issue he / she considers.
Dismissal
Dismissal may take place if the employer terminates the contract of employment, or if a fixed contract of employment expires. It also occurs in cases of constructive dismissal (breach of contract by the employer leading to the employee's resignation); or deemed dismissal in the case of refusal to allow a woman back to work after maternity leave. It may be contrasted with resignation (at the employee's instance) which does not amount to dismissal
Resignation
The act of an officer by which he declines his office, and renounces the further right to use it. It differs from abdication.
Date
Latin datum, a thing given. The primary signification is time "given" or specified, - in some way ascertained and fixed. In the ancient form the clause ran: datum apud, etc., specifying the place and time; thence called the datum clause, afterward shortened to "date".
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.
Test
Something by which to ascertain the truth respecting another thing.
Reasonable
Conformable or agreeable to reason; just; rational.
Conduct
Law of nations. This term is used in the phrase safe conduct, to signify the security given, by authority of the government, under the great seal, to a stranger, for his quietly coming into and passing out of the territories over which it has jurisdiction.
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Consanguinei
Blood relations.
Consanguinity
Latin consanguineus: con, together; sanguis, blood. The connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor.
Conscience
The moral sense, or that capacity of our mental constitution, by which we irresistibly feel the difference between right and wrong.
Consecutive sentence
Sentence must be served after another sentence has been served.
Consecutive sentences
Successive sentences, one beginning at the expiration of another, imposed against a person convicted of two or more violations.
Consensu
(United Kingdom) Unanimously or, by general consent.
Consensual
Civil law. This word is applied to designate one species of contract known in the civil laws; these contracts derive their name from the consent of the parties which is required in their formation, as they cannot exist without such consent.
Consensus
A result achieved through negotiation whereby a hybrid solution is arrived at between parties to an issue, dispute or disagreement, comprising typically of concessions made by all parties, and to which all parties then subscribe unanimously as an acceptable resolution to the issue or disagreement.
Consensus ad idem
Latin term meaning an agreement, a meeting of the minds between the parties where all understand the committments made by each. This is a basic requirement for each contract.
Consensus facit legem
Consent makes the law.
Consensus tollit errorem
Consent removes error: the effect of a mistake is obviated or waived by concurrence.
Consensus, non concubitus, facit matrimonium
Consent, not intercourse, creates marriage.
Consent
Agreement; voluntary acceptance of the wish of another.
Consequential damages
Torts. Those damages or those losses which arise not from the immediate act of the party, but in consequence of such act.
Conservator
A preserver, a protector.
Conservatorship
Legal right given to a person to manage the property and financial affairs of a person deemed incapable of doing that for himself or herself.
Consideratio curlae
Practice. The judgment of the court. In pleadings where matters are determined by the court, it is said, therefore it is considered and adjudged by the court ideo consideratum est per curiam.
Consideration
Under common law, there can be no binding contract without consideration, which was defined in an 1875 English decision as "some right, interest, profit or benefit accruing to the one party, or some forbearance, detriment, loss or responsibility given, suffered or undertaken by the other". Common law did not want to allow gratuitous offers, those made without anything offered in exchange (such as gifts), to be given the protection of contract law. So they added the criteria of consideration. Consideration is not required in contracts made in civil law systems and many common law states have adopted laws which remove consideration as a prerequisite of a valid contract.
Consideratum est per curiam
It is considered by the court.
Consign
To leave an item of property in the custody of another. A item can be consigned to a transportation company, for example, for the purpose of transporting it from one place to another. The consignee is the person to receive the property and the consignor is the person who ships the property to the consignee.
Consignation
Contracts. In the civil law, it is a deposit which a debtor makes of the thing that he owes, into the hands of a third person, and under the authority of a court of justice.
Consignee
The party to whom delivery of the goods is to be made under a contract for the carriage of goods by water.
Consignment
The goods or property sent by a common carrier from one or more persons called the consignors, from one place, to one or more persons, called the consignees, who are in another. By this term ig also understood the goods sent by one person to another, to be sold or disposed of by the latter for and on account of the former.
Consignor
Contracts. One who makes a consignment to another.
Consilium
Dies consilii, practice. A time allowed for the accused to make his defence, and now more commonly used for a day appointed to argue a demurrer.
Consistent
That which agrees with something else; as a consistent condition, which is one which agrees with all other parts of a contract, or which can be reconciled with every other part.
Consistory
Ecclesiastical law. An assembly of cardinals convoked by the pope. The consistory is public or secret.
Consolato del mare
The name of a code of sea laws compiled by order of the ancient kings of Aragon. Its date is not very certain, but it was adopted on the continent of Europe, as the code of maritime law, in the course of the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. It comprised the ancient ordinances of the Greek and Roman emperors, and of the kings of France and Spain; and the laws of the Mediterranean islands, and of Venice and Genoa. It was originally written in the dialect of Catalonia, as its title plainly indicates, and it has been translated into every language of Europe.
Consolidation
Civil law. The union of the usufruct with the estate out of which it issues, in the same person which happens when the usufructuary acquires the estate, or vice versa.
Consort
A man or woman married. The man is the consort of his wife, the woman is the consort of her husband.
Conspiracy
An agreement between two or more persons to commit a criminal act. Those forming the conspiracy are called conspirators.
Conspirators
Persons guilty of a conspiracy.
Constable
A person who is given the legal right to serve process.
Constablewick
England. In England, by this word is meant the territorial jurisdiction of a constable.
Constat
English law. The name of a certificate, which the clerk of the pipe and auditors of the exchequer make at the request of any person who intends to plead or move in the court for the discharge of anything; and the effect of it is, the certifying what constat (appears) upon record touching the matter in question.
Constituent
He who gives authority to another to act for him.
Constituimus
A Latin word which signifies we constitute.
Constituted authorities
Those powers which the constitution of each people has established to govern them, to cause their rights to be respected, and to maintain tliose of eacli of its members.
Constitution
1) Contracts. The constitution of a contract, is the making of the contract as, the written constitution of a debt. 2) Government. The fundamental law of the state, containing the principles upon which the government is founded, and regulating the divisions of the sovereign powers, directing to what persons each of these powers is to be confided, and the, manner it is to be exercised as, the Constitution of the United States.
Constitutional
Pertaining to the Constitution, the country's main and highest piece of legislation.
Constitutional government
Applies to a state whose fundamental rules and maxims not only define how those shall be chosen or designated to whom the exercise of sovereign powers shall be confided, but also impose efficient restraints on the exercises for the purpose of protecting individual rights and privileges, and shielding them against any assumption of arbitrary power. Calhoun, Works I, II; Cooley, Principles Const. Law 22.
Constitutional law
The specific area of the legal profession dealing with constitutional matters.
Constitutor
Civil law. He who promised by a simple pact to pay the debt of another; and this is always a principal obligation.
Constraint
It is a general rule, that when one is compelled into a contract, there is no effectual consent, thougb, ostensibly, there is the form of it. In such case the contract will be declared void.
Construction
The legal process of interpreting a phrase or document; of trying to find it's meaning. Whether it be a contract or a statute, there are times when a phrase may be unclear or of several meanings. Then, either lawyers or judges must attempt to interpret or "construct" the probable aim and purpose of the phrase, by extrapolating from other parts of the document or, in the case of statutes, referring to a interpretation law which gives legal construction guidelines. Generally, there are two types of construction methods: literal (strict) or liberal.
Constructive abandonment
The refusal of one spouse to engage in sexual relations with the other spouse. in some states and provinces this is considered grounds for divorce if lasting for a certain length of time.
Constructive service of process
When the service of process is delivered through other methods such as a newspaper due to the unknown where abouts of the spouse.
Constructive trust
A trust which a court declares or imposes onto participants of very specific circumstances such as those giving rise to an action for unjust enrichment, and notwithstanding the lack of any willing settlor to declare the trust (contrast with express trusts and resulting trusts).
Consuetudines feudorum
The name of an institute of the feudal system and usages, compiled about the year 1170, by authority of the emperor Frederic, surnamed Barbarossa.
Consuetudo
Latin. Custom; usgage; practice.
Consuetudo est altera lex
Custom is another law.
Consuetudo interpres legum
Custom is the expounder of laws.
Consuetudo loci observanda
The custom of the place is to be conformed to.
Consultancy
There is a distinction between someone who works full time for a company on an exclusive basis (as an employee) and someone who is engaged occasionally to assist or provide advice but who provides similar services to a range of businesses (consultant). Often the distinction is blurred, for example: in the case of non-executive directors or sales agents. The Inland Revenue will be quick to scrutinise any "border-line" consultancy relationships.
Consultant
Where a person is taken on a self-employed or consulting basis to perform a role, as a consultant, there is tax flexibility for the worker and lower administrative burdens for the employer. Accordingly, the Inland Revenue may scrutinise such arrangements to see if they are genuine or whether they are schemes to avoid deductions of Schedule E income tax under PAYE, and National Insurance Contributions.
Consultation
1) English law. The name of a writ whereby a cause, being formerly removed by prohibition out of an inferior court into some of the king's courts in Westminster, is returned thither again for if the judges of the superior court, comparing the proceedings with the suggestion of the party, find the suggestion false or not proved, and that therefore the cause was wrongfully called from the inferior court, then, upon consultation and deliberation, they decree it to be returned, where upon this writ issues. 2) French law. The opinion of counsel, on a point of law submitted to them. 3) practice. A conference between the counsel or attorneys engaged on the same side of a cause, for the purpose of examining their case, arranging their proofs, and removing any difficulties there may be in their way.
Consumer bankruptcy
A proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code filed by an individual (or husband and wife) who is not in business.
Consummate
What is completed. A right is said to be initiate, when it is not complete; and when it is perfected, it is consummated.
Consummation of marriage
The first time that the husband and wife cobabit together, after the ceremony of marriage has been performed, is thus called.
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Constitutional government
Applies to a state whose fundamental rules and maxims not only define how those shall be chosen or designated to whom the exercise of sovereign powers shall be confided, but also impose efficient restraints on the exercises for the purpose of protecting individual rights and privileges, and shielding them against any assumption of arbitrary power. Calhoun, Works I, II; Cooley, Principles Const. Law 22.
Constitutor
Civil law. He who promised by a simple pact to pay the debt of another; and this is always a principal obligation.
Constraint
It is a general rule, that when one is compelled into a contract, there is no effectual consent, thougb, ostensibly, there is the form of it. In such case the contract will be declared void.
Construction
The legal process of interpreting a phrase or document; of trying to find it's meaning. Whether it be a contract or a statute, there are times when a phrase may be unclear or of several meanings. Then, either lawyers or judges must attempt to interpret or "construct" the probable aim and purpose of the phrase, by extrapolating from other parts of the document or, in the case of statutes, referring to a interpretation law which gives legal construction guidelines. Generally, there are two types of construction methods: literal (strict) or liberal.
Constructive abandonment
The refusal of one spouse to engage in sexual relations with the other spouse. in some states and provinces this is considered grounds for divorce if lasting for a certain length of time.
Constructive dismissal
Constructive service of process
When the service of process is delivered through other methods such as a newspaper due to the unknown where abouts of the spouse.
Constructive trust
A trust which a court declares or imposes onto participants of very specific circumstances such as those giving rise to an action for unjust enrichment, and notwithstanding the lack of any willing settlor to declare the trust (contrast with express trusts and resulting trusts).
Consuetudines feudorum
The name of an institute of the feudal system and usages, compiled about the year 1170, by authority of the emperor Frederic, surnamed Barbarossa.
Consuetudo
Latin. Custom; usgage; practice.
Consuetudo est altera lex
Custom is another law.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Employee
One who is authorized to act for another; a mandatory.
Employment
An employment is an office.
Matter
Some substantial or essential thing, opposed to form; facts.
Choice
Preference either of a person or thing, to one of several other persons or things. Election.
Breach
The breaking or violating of a law, right, or duty, either by commission or omission. The failure of one part to carry out any condition of a contract.
Employer
One who has engaged or hired the services of another. He is entitled to rights and bound to perform duties.
Contract
A negotiated oral or written agreement setting forth the terms for an exchange of value between parties (which may be individuals or companies) and under which each party promises to perform an obligation. Certain terms, such as the obligations to be performed and the terms for setting price or compensation must be mutually understood, known in legal lingo as a "meeting of the minds," and promised to by the parties to form a legal contract.
Claim
A demand for resolution or remedy of a grievance, or for something that is rightly the claimant's. Example: A demand for payment to recover a loss protected by an insurance policy. A demand in a court of law filed by a claimant on any juridical issue he / she considers.
Dismissal
Dismissal may take place if the employer terminates the contract of employment, or if a fixed contract of employment expires. It also occurs in cases of constructive dismissal (breach of contract by the employer leading to the employee's resignation); or deemed dismissal in the case of refusal to allow a woman back to work after maternity leave. It may be contrasted with resignation (at the employee's instance) which does not amount to dismissal
Resignation
The act of an officer by which he declines his office, and renounces the further right to use it. It differs from abdication.
Date
Latin datum, a thing given. The primary signification is time "given" or specified, - in some way ascertained and fixed. In the ancient form the clause ran: datum apud, etc., specifying the place and time; thence called the datum clause, afterward shortened to "date".
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.
Test
Something by which to ascertain the truth respecting another thing.
Reasonable
Conformable or agreeable to reason; just; rational.
Conduct
Law of nations. This term is used in the phrase safe conduct, to signify the security given, by authority of the government, under the great seal, to a stranger, for his quietly coming into and passing out of the territories over which it has jurisdiction.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Consanguinei
Blood relations.
Consanguinity
Latin consanguineus: con, together; sanguis, blood. The connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor.
Conscience
The moral sense, or that capacity of our mental constitution, by which we irresistibly feel the difference between right and wrong.
Consecutive sentence
Sentence must be served after another sentence has been served.
Consecutive sentences
Successive sentences, one beginning at the expiration of another, imposed against a person convicted of two or more violations.
Consensu
(United Kingdom) Unanimously or, by general consent.
Consensual
Civil law. This word is applied to designate one species of contract known in the civil laws; these contracts derive their name from the consent of the parties which is required in their formation, as they cannot exist without such consent.
Consensus
A result achieved through negotiation whereby a hybrid solution is arrived at between parties to an issue, dispute or disagreement, comprising typically of concessions made by all parties, and to which all parties then subscribe unanimously as an acceptable resolution to the issue or disagreement.
Consensus ad idem
Latin term meaning an agreement, a meeting of the minds between the parties where all understand the committments made by each. This is a basic requirement for each contract.
Consensus facit legem
Consent makes the law.
Consensus tollit errorem
Consent removes error: the effect of a mistake is obviated or waived by concurrence.
Consensus, non concubitus, facit matrimonium
Consent, not intercourse, creates marriage.
Consent
Agreement; voluntary acceptance of the wish of another.
Consequential damages
Torts. Those damages or those losses which arise not from the immediate act of the party, but in consequence of such act.
Conservator
A preserver, a protector.
Conservatorship
Legal right given to a person to manage the property and financial affairs of a person deemed incapable of doing that for himself or herself.
Consideratio curlae
Practice. The judgment of the court. In pleadings where matters are determined by the court, it is said, therefore it is considered and adjudged by the court ideo consideratum est per curiam.
Consideration
Under common law, there can be no binding contract without consideration, which was defined in an 1875 English decision as "some right, interest, profit or benefit accruing to the one party, or some forbearance, detriment, loss or responsibility given, suffered or undertaken by the other". Common law did not want to allow gratuitous offers, those made without anything offered in exchange (such as gifts), to be given the protection of contract law. So they added the criteria of consideration. Consideration is not required in contracts made in civil law systems and many common law states have adopted laws which remove consideration as a prerequisite of a valid contract.
Consideratum est per curiam
It is considered by the court.
Consign
To leave an item of property in the custody of another. A item can be consigned to a transportation company, for example, for the purpose of transporting it from one place to another. The consignee is the person to receive the property and the consignor is the person who ships the property to the consignee.
Consignation
Contracts. In the civil law, it is a deposit which a debtor makes of the thing that he owes, into the hands of a third person, and under the authority of a court of justice.
Consignee
The party to whom delivery of the goods is to be made under a contract for the carriage of goods by water.
Consignment
The goods or property sent by a common carrier from one or more persons called the consignors, from one place, to one or more persons, called the consignees, who are in another. By this term ig also understood the goods sent by one person to another, to be sold or disposed of by the latter for and on account of the former.
Consignor
Contracts. One who makes a consignment to another.
Consilium
Dies consilii, practice. A time allowed for the accused to make his defence, and now more commonly used for a day appointed to argue a demurrer.
Consistent
That which agrees with something else; as a consistent condition, which is one which agrees with all other parts of a contract, or which can be reconciled with every other part.
Consistory
Ecclesiastical law. An assembly of cardinals convoked by the pope. The consistory is public or secret.
Consolato del mare
The name of a code of sea laws compiled by order of the ancient kings of Aragon. Its date is not very certain, but it was adopted on the continent of Europe, as the code of maritime law, in the course of the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. It comprised the ancient ordinances of the Greek and Roman emperors, and of the kings of France and Spain; and the laws of the Mediterranean islands, and of Venice and Genoa. It was originally written in the dialect of Catalonia, as its title plainly indicates, and it has been translated into every language of Europe.
Consolidation
Civil law. The union of the usufruct with the estate out of which it issues, in the same person which happens when the usufructuary acquires the estate, or vice versa.
Consort
A man or woman married. The man is the consort of his wife, the woman is the consort of her husband.
Conspiracy
An agreement between two or more persons to commit a criminal act. Those forming the conspiracy are called conspirators.
Conspirators
Persons guilty of a conspiracy.
Constable
A person who is given the legal right to serve process.
Constablewick
England. In England, by this word is meant the territorial jurisdiction of a constable.
Constat
English law. The name of a certificate, which the clerk of the pipe and auditors of the exchequer make at the request of any person who intends to plead or move in the court for the discharge of anything; and the effect of it is, the certifying what constat (appears) upon record touching the matter in question.
Constituent
He who gives authority to another to act for him.
Constituimus
A Latin word which signifies we constitute.
Constituted authorities
Those powers which the constitution of each people has established to govern them, to cause their rights to be respected, and to maintain tliose of eacli of its members.
Constitution
1) Contracts. The constitution of a contract, is the making of the contract as, the written constitution of a debt. 2) Government. The fundamental law of the state, containing the principles upon which the government is founded, and regulating the divisions of the sovereign powers, directing to what persons each of these powers is to be confided, and the, manner it is to be exercised as, the Constitution of the United States.
Constitutional
Pertaining to the Constitution, the country's main and highest piece of legislation.
Constitutional government
Applies to a state whose fundamental rules and maxims not only define how those shall be chosen or designated to whom the exercise of sovereign powers shall be confided, but also impose efficient restraints on the exercises for the purpose of protecting individual rights and privileges, and shielding them against any assumption of arbitrary power. Calhoun, Works I, II; Cooley, Principles Const. Law 22.
Constitutional law
The specific area of the legal profession dealing with constitutional matters.
Constitutor
Civil law. He who promised by a simple pact to pay the debt of another; and this is always a principal obligation.
Constraint
It is a general rule, that when one is compelled into a contract, there is no effectual consent, thougb, ostensibly, there is the form of it. In such case the contract will be declared void.
Construction
The legal process of interpreting a phrase or document; of trying to find it's meaning. Whether it be a contract or a statute, there are times when a phrase may be unclear or of several meanings. Then, either lawyers or judges must attempt to interpret or "construct" the probable aim and purpose of the phrase, by extrapolating from other parts of the document or, in the case of statutes, referring to a interpretation law which gives legal construction guidelines. Generally, there are two types of construction methods: literal (strict) or liberal.
Constructive abandonment
The refusal of one spouse to engage in sexual relations with the other spouse. in some states and provinces this is considered grounds for divorce if lasting for a certain length of time.
Constructive service of process
When the service of process is delivered through other methods such as a newspaper due to the unknown where abouts of the spouse.
Constructive trust
A trust which a court declares or imposes onto participants of very specific circumstances such as those giving rise to an action for unjust enrichment, and notwithstanding the lack of any willing settlor to declare the trust (contrast with express trusts and resulting trusts).
Consuetudines feudorum
The name of an institute of the feudal system and usages, compiled about the year 1170, by authority of the emperor Frederic, surnamed Barbarossa.
Consuetudo
Latin. Custom; usgage; practice.
Consuetudo est altera lex
Custom is another law.
Consuetudo interpres legum
Custom is the expounder of laws.
Consuetudo loci observanda
The custom of the place is to be conformed to.
Consultancy
There is a distinction between someone who works full time for a company on an exclusive basis (as an employee) and someone who is engaged occasionally to assist or provide advice but who provides similar services to a range of businesses (consultant). Often the distinction is blurred, for example: in the case of non-executive directors or sales agents. The Inland Revenue will be quick to scrutinise any "border-line" consultancy relationships.
Consultant
Where a person is taken on a self-employed or consulting basis to perform a role, as a consultant, there is tax flexibility for the worker and lower administrative burdens for the employer. Accordingly, the Inland Revenue may scrutinise such arrangements to see if they are genuine or whether they are schemes to avoid deductions of Schedule E income tax under PAYE, and National Insurance Contributions.
Consultation
1) English law. The name of a writ whereby a cause, being formerly removed by prohibition out of an inferior court into some of the king's courts in Westminster, is returned thither again for if the judges of the superior court, comparing the proceedings with the suggestion of the party, find the suggestion false or not proved, and that therefore the cause was wrongfully called from the inferior court, then, upon consultation and deliberation, they decree it to be returned, where upon this writ issues. 2) French law. The opinion of counsel, on a point of law submitted to them. 3) practice. A conference between the counsel or attorneys engaged on the same side of a cause, for the purpose of examining their case, arranging their proofs, and removing any difficulties there may be in their way.
Consumer bankruptcy
A proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code filed by an individual (or husband and wife) who is not in business.
Consummate
What is completed. A right is said to be initiate, when it is not complete; and when it is perfected, it is consummated.
Consummation of marriage
The first time that the husband and wife cobabit together, after the ceremony of marriage has been performed, is thus called.
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Constitutional government
Applies to a state whose fundamental rules and maxims not only define how those shall be chosen or designated to whom the exercise of sovereign powers shall be confided, but also impose efficient restraints on the exercises for the purpose of protecting individual rights and privileges, and shielding them against any assumption of arbitrary power. Calhoun, Works I, II; Cooley, Principles Const. Law 22.
Constitutor
Civil law. He who promised by a simple pact to pay the debt of another; and this is always a principal obligation.
Constraint
It is a general rule, that when one is compelled into a contract, there is no effectual consent, thougb, ostensibly, there is the form of it. In such case the contract will be declared void.
Construction
The legal process of interpreting a phrase or document; of trying to find it's meaning. Whether it be a contract or a statute, there are times when a phrase may be unclear or of several meanings. Then, either lawyers or judges must attempt to interpret or "construct" the probable aim and purpose of the phrase, by extrapolating from other parts of the document or, in the case of statutes, referring to a interpretation law which gives legal construction guidelines. Generally, there are two types of construction methods: literal (strict) or liberal.
Constructive abandonment
The refusal of one spouse to engage in sexual relations with the other spouse. in some states and provinces this is considered grounds for divorce if lasting for a certain length of time.
Constructive dismissal
Constructive service of process
When the service of process is delivered through other methods such as a newspaper due to the unknown where abouts of the spouse.
Constructive trust
A trust which a court declares or imposes onto participants of very specific circumstances such as those giving rise to an action for unjust enrichment, and notwithstanding the lack of any willing settlor to declare the trust (contrast with express trusts and resulting trusts).
Consuetudines feudorum
The name of an institute of the feudal system and usages, compiled about the year 1170, by authority of the emperor Frederic, surnamed Barbarossa.
Consuetudo
Latin. Custom; usgage; practice.
Consuetudo est altera lex
Custom is another law.
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