Absorption - Law Dictionary Search Results
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absorption : the application to the states of rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution [while Powell [v. Alabama] was sometimes described as having absorbed the right to counsel, the Court there clearly limited any such "W. R. LaFave and J. H. Israel"] ...
Merger
Merger [fr. mergo, Lat., to sink], an annihilation, by act of law, of a particular in an expectant estate consequent upon their union in the same person without an intervening estate in another person--thus accelerating into possession the expectant which swallows up the particular estate. It is the drowning of one estate in another, and differs from suspension, which is but a partial extinguishment for a time; while extinguishment, properly so termed, is the destruction of a collateral thing in the subject itself out of which it is derived. 'In order that there may be a merger, the two estates which are supposed to coalesce must be vested in the same person at the same time and in the same right' [Re Radcliffe, (1892) 1 Ch 231, per Lindley, LJ]. An estate tail, however is an exception to the rule; for a man may have in his own right both an estate tail and a reversion in fee; and the estate tail, though a less estate, will not merge in the fee, 2 Bl. Com. 177.The doctrine of merger pr...
merger
merger 1 : the absorption of a lesser estate or interest into a greater one held by the same person compare confusion 2 : the incorporation and superseding of one contract by another 3 a : the treatment (as by statute) of two offenses deriving from the same conduct such that a defendant cannot be or is not punished for both esp. when one offense is incidental to or necessarily included in the other [a of offenses in a statute] [a of convictions] b : the doctrine according to which such offenses must be merged compare double jeopardy NOTE: Merger commonly involves the interpretation of statutes and legislative intent in deciding whether two or more offenses deriving from the same conduct remain distinct. 4 : a doctrine in civil litigation: a judgment in favor of a plaintiff incorporates and supersedes the cause of action and any claims based on it and requires that further litigation in the case by the defendant be concerned with the judgment itself compare bar estoppel by judg...
Merger in law
Merger in law, is defined as the absorption of a thing of lesser importance by a greater, whereby the lesser ceases to exist, but the greater is not increased; and absorption or swallowing up so as to involve a loss of identity and individuality, Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. LVIII, pp. 1067-68....
Bibulously
In a bibulous manner with profuse imbibition or absorption...
cutaneous
Of or pertaining to the skin existing on or affecting the skin as a cutaneous disease cutaneous absorption cutaneous respiration cutaneous nerves a cutaneous infection...
Dewar
A double walled glass vessel for holding liquid air liquid nitrogen etc having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat called also according to the particular shape Dewar bulb Dewar tube etc...
endoergic
occurring with absorption of energy...
Endothermic
Designating or pert to a reaction which occurs with absorption of heat formed by such a reaction as an endothermic substance opposed to exothermic...
Fluorescence
A luminescence emitted by certain substances due to the absorption of radiation at one wavelength and the almost instantaneous re emission of radiation at another usually longer wavelength The re radiation stops almost as soon as the incident radiation is halted thus distinguishing this phenomenon from phosphorescence in which re radiation of light may continue for some time after the incident radiation is halted...
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