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Non-executive director
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Non-executive directorA director who is not an employee of the company and who only dictates part of his available time to the company is known as a non-executive director. Usually a person with particular experience or skills who holds a seat on the board to exercise a steadying influence on board decisions. His legal obligations to the company and creditors of skill and honesty are the same as those of an executive director.
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Employee
One who is authorized to act for another; a mandatory.
Company
An association of a number of individuals for the purpose of carrying on some legitimate business.
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.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Board
This word is used to designate all the magistrates of a city or borough, or all the managers or directors of any institution; as, the board of aldermen; the board of directors of the Bank of North America. The majority of the board have in general the power to perform the acts of the whole board, but sometimes they are restrained by their charters, and it requires a greater number to perform certain acts.
Influence
Authority, credit, ascendance.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Honesty
That principle which requires us to give every one his due. Nul ne doit slenrichir aux de ens du droit d'autrui. The very object of social order is to promote honesty, and to restrain dishonesty; to do justice and to prevent injustice. It is no less a maxim of law than of religion, do unto others as you wish to be done by.
Executive
Government. That power in the government which causes the laws to be executed and obeyed: it is usually. confided to the hands of the chief magistrate; the president of the United States is invested with this authority under the national government; and the governor of each state has the executive power in his hands.
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Non-competition clause
Non-competition clause/ Non-Compete/ Exclusivity/ Predatory Soliciting Clause. A contractual promise to the employing company under which a contractor, usually an ex-employee, agrees not compete with the original client by contracting with business competitors. Also found in third party contracts with agencies or brokers. These clauses are enforced, although courts will look unfavorably on a clause that imposes an undue hardship on the employee, such as a broad prohibition that forecloses an employee from working in his/her particular trade, or that has an unnecessarily broad geographic scope or time frame.
Non-Contact Visit
In the US penitentiary jargon, a visit in which the inmate and the visitor are not permitted to be in physical contact and are generally separated by a physical barrier.
Non-custodial parent
The parent who does not have physical custody of the child, and who typically is paying child support to the child.
Non-joinder
When a person who should have been made a party to a legal proceedings has been forgotten or omitted. This is usually addressed by asking the court to amend documents and including the forgotten party to the proceedings. It is the opposite of mis-joinder.
Non-marital property
Property considered by the courts to belong to one spouse or another and that which is not available for equitable distribution.
Non-separation agreement
An agreement between a carrier and a cargo owner following a general average act which permits the cargo owner to have his goods discharged at the port of refuge and forwarded to destination by the carrier in another ship, thus terminating the common maritime adventure, in return for cargo contributing to future general average loss, according to values stated in the agreement, as if the common adventure were continued.
Non-vessel-operating common carrier
A common carrier that does not operate the vessel by which the ocean transportation is provided, and is a shipper (infra) in its relationship with an ocean common carrier.
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Non tenuit
He did not hold. The name of a plea in bar in replevin, when the plaintiff has avowed for rent arrear, by which the plaintiff avows that he did not hold in manner and form as the avowry alleges.
Non tenure
Pleading. A plea in a real action, by which the defendant asserted, that he did not hold the land, or at least some part of it, as mentioned in the plaintiff's declaration.
Non term
The vacation between two terms of a court.
Non-competition clause
Non-competition clause/ Non-Compete/ Exclusivity/ Predatory Soliciting Clause. A contractual promise to the employing company under which a contractor, usually an ex-employee, agrees not compete with the original client by contracting with business competitors. Also found in third party contracts with agencies or brokers. These clauses are enforced, although courts will look unfavorably on a clause that imposes an undue hardship on the employee, such as a broad prohibition that forecloses an employee from working in his/her particular trade, or that has an unnecessarily broad geographic scope or time frame.
Non-custodial parent
The parent who does not have physical custody of the child, and who typically is paying child support to the child.
Non-executive director
Nonfeasance
Not doing something that a person should be doing.
Nonimmigrant
An alien who seeks temporary entry to the United States for a specific purpose. The alien must have a permanent residence abroad (for most classes of admission) and qualify for the nonimmigrant classification sought.
Non-joinder
When a person who should have been made a party to a legal proceedings has been forgotten or omitted. This is usually addressed by asking the court to amend documents and including the forgotten party to the proceedings. It is the opposite of mis-joinder.
Nonjury trial
Trial before the court but without a jury.
Non-marital property
Property considered by the courts to belong to one spouse or another and that which is not available for equitable distribution.
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Employee
One who is authorized to act for another; a mandatory.
Company
An association of a number of individuals for the purpose of carrying on some legitimate business.
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.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Board
This word is used to designate all the magistrates of a city or borough, or all the managers or directors of any institution; as, the board of aldermen; the board of directors of the Bank of North America. The majority of the board have in general the power to perform the acts of the whole board, but sometimes they are restrained by their charters, and it requires a greater number to perform certain acts.
Influence
Authority, credit, ascendance.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Honesty
That principle which requires us to give every one his due. Nul ne doit slenrichir aux de ens du droit d'autrui. The very object of social order is to promote honesty, and to restrain dishonesty; to do justice and to prevent injustice. It is no less a maxim of law than of religion, do unto others as you wish to be done by.
Executive
Government. That power in the government which causes the laws to be executed and obeyed: it is usually. confided to the hands of the chief magistrate; the president of the United States is invested with this authority under the national government; and the governor of each state has the executive power in his hands.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Non-competition clause
Non-competition clause/ Non-Compete/ Exclusivity/ Predatory Soliciting Clause. A contractual promise to the employing company under which a contractor, usually an ex-employee, agrees not compete with the original client by contracting with business competitors. Also found in third party contracts with agencies or brokers. These clauses are enforced, although courts will look unfavorably on a clause that imposes an undue hardship on the employee, such as a broad prohibition that forecloses an employee from working in his/her particular trade, or that has an unnecessarily broad geographic scope or time frame.
Non-Contact Visit
In the US penitentiary jargon, a visit in which the inmate and the visitor are not permitted to be in physical contact and are generally separated by a physical barrier.
Non-custodial parent
The parent who does not have physical custody of the child, and who typically is paying child support to the child.
Non-joinder
When a person who should have been made a party to a legal proceedings has been forgotten or omitted. This is usually addressed by asking the court to amend documents and including the forgotten party to the proceedings. It is the opposite of mis-joinder.
Non-marital property
Property considered by the courts to belong to one spouse or another and that which is not available for equitable distribution.
Non-separation agreement
An agreement between a carrier and a cargo owner following a general average act which permits the cargo owner to have his goods discharged at the port of refuge and forwarded to destination by the carrier in another ship, thus terminating the common maritime adventure, in return for cargo contributing to future general average loss, according to values stated in the agreement, as if the common adventure were continued.
Non-vessel-operating common carrier
A common carrier that does not operate the vessel by which the ocean transportation is provided, and is a shipper (infra) in its relationship with an ocean common carrier.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Non tenuit
He did not hold. The name of a plea in bar in replevin, when the plaintiff has avowed for rent arrear, by which the plaintiff avows that he did not hold in manner and form as the avowry alleges.
Non tenure
Pleading. A plea in a real action, by which the defendant asserted, that he did not hold the land, or at least some part of it, as mentioned in the plaintiff's declaration.
Non term
The vacation between two terms of a court.
Non-competition clause
Non-competition clause/ Non-Compete/ Exclusivity/ Predatory Soliciting Clause. A contractual promise to the employing company under which a contractor, usually an ex-employee, agrees not compete with the original client by contracting with business competitors. Also found in third party contracts with agencies or brokers. These clauses are enforced, although courts will look unfavorably on a clause that imposes an undue hardship on the employee, such as a broad prohibition that forecloses an employee from working in his/her particular trade, or that has an unnecessarily broad geographic scope or time frame.
Non-custodial parent
The parent who does not have physical custody of the child, and who typically is paying child support to the child.
Non-executive director
Nonfeasance
Not doing something that a person should be doing.
Nonimmigrant
An alien who seeks temporary entry to the United States for a specific purpose. The alien must have a permanent residence abroad (for most classes of admission) and qualify for the nonimmigrant classification sought.
Non-joinder
When a person who should have been made a party to a legal proceedings has been forgotten or omitted. This is usually addressed by asking the court to amend documents and including the forgotten party to the proceedings. It is the opposite of mis-joinder.
Nonjury trial
Trial before the court but without a jury.
Non-marital property
Property considered by the courts to belong to one spouse or another and that which is not available for equitable distribution.
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