Tag: Legislature

  • Apportionment

    Apportionment in United States Apportionment Definition The division or distribution of a subject-matter in proportionate parts. Co. Litt. 147; 1 Swanst. 37, note; 1 Story, Eq. Jur. 475a. Of Contracts. The allowance, in case of the partial performance of a contract, of a proportionate […]

  • Powers

    Powers in the United States Copyright and Patent Powers in the Legislative Process The Congress's power, established in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, to regulate the granting of copyrights and patents to the creators of artistic works and inventors of new technologies. The idea of copyrights […]

  • Powers

    Powers in the United States Copyright and Patent Powers in the Legislative Process The Congress's power, established in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, to regulate the granting of copyrights and patents to the creators of artistic works and inventors of new technologies. The idea of copyrights […]

  • Appropriations

    Appropriations in the United States Introduction to Appropriations The purpose of Appropriations is to provide a broad appreciation of the Appropriations legal topic. Select from the list of U.S. legal topics for information (other than Appropriations). Finding the law: Appropriations in the […]

  • Adoption

    Adoption in United States Adoption Definition The act by which a person takes the child of another into his family, and treats him as his own. A juridical act creating between two persons certain relations, purely civil, or paternity and filiation. 6 Demolombe Code Nap. § 1. As […]

  • Appeal

    Appeal in the United States A request to an appellate or superior court to review a final judgment made in a lower court. Appellate jurisdiction is the power conferred upon appeals courts to conduct such a review. It empowers the court to set aside or modify the lower court decision. An […]

  • Clerk

    Clerk in United States Clerk Definition In Commercial Law. A person in the employ of a merchant, who attends only to a part of his business, while the merchant himself superintends the whole. He differs from a factor in this, that the latter wholly supplies the place of his principal in […]

  • Clerk

    Clerk in United States Clerk Definition In Commercial Law. A person in the employ of a merchant, who attends only to a part of his business, while the merchant himself superintends the whole. He differs from a factor in this, that the latter wholly supplies the place of his principal in […]

  • Senate

    Senate in the United States Senate in the Legislative Process The upper house of the United States legislature and part of the United States Congress. In the Senate, all states—no matter how large or small they may be—have equal representation, so populous California gets the […]

  • Budget

    Budget in the United States United States Constitution According to theEncyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 546 BUDGETThe federal budget is the comprehensive annual program of income and expenditure of the federal government. The budget is not a constitutional […]

  • Budget

    Budget in the United States United States Constitution According to theEncyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 546 BUDGETThe federal budget is the comprehensive annual program of income and expenditure of the federal government. The budget is not a constitutional […]

  • Expulsion

    Expulsion in United States Expulsion Definition (Lat. expellere, to drive out). The act of depriving a member of a body politic or corporate, or of a society, of his right of membership therein, by the vote of such body or society, for some violation of his duties as such, or for some […]

  • Expulsion

    Expulsion in United States Expulsion Definition (Lat. expellere, to drive out). The act of depriving a member of a body politic or corporate, or of a society, of his right of membership therein, by the vote of such body or society, for some violation of his duties as such, or for some […]

  • Secretary of the Senate

    Secretary of the Senate in the United States Secretary of the Senate Definition in the Legislative Process The following is a definition of Secretary of the Senate , by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL): A non-legislator officer appointed or elected by the members of the […]

  • Secretary of the Senate

    Secretary of the Senate in the United States Secretary of the Senate Definition in the Legislative Process The following is a definition of Secretary of the Senate , by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL): A non-legislator officer appointed or elected by the members of the […]