Bed Rock - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bed rockBed rock
The solid rock underlying superficial formations Also Fig...
Bedded
Provided with a bed as double bedded room placed or arranged in a bed or beds...
Bedding
A bed and its furniture the materials of a bed whether for man or beast bedclothes litter...
Deep Rock doctrine
Deep Rock doctrine [from Deep Rock, a debtor corporation found to have been used for fraudulent transfers to its parent corporation in the Supreme Court case Taylor v. Standard Gas and Electric Co. (Deep Rock), 306 U.S. 307(1939)] : a doctrine holding that the claim of a stockholder and esp. a stockholder with controlling interest who makes a loan to his or her own corporation will be subordinated to the claims of outside creditors if the corporation is deemed undercapitalized ...
separation from bed and board
separation from bed and board :legal separation ...
Bed
An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on a couch Specifically A sack or mattress filled with some soft material in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed as a feather bed or this with the bedclothes added In a general sense any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in as a quantity of hay straw leaves or twigs...
Bed steps
Steps for mounting a bed of unusual height...
Bed of Justice
Bed of Justice [lit de justice, Fr.], the seat or throne upon which the King of France sat when personally present in Parliament; hence it signified the Parliament itself....
Death Bed
Death Bed, Scots Law of. By this law an heir in Scotland was entitled to keep his heritage as against a disposition of it by his predecessor. But the law is repealed by 34 & 35 Vict. c. 81, the Act 'to abolish Reductions ex capite Lecti in Scotland.' See REDUCTION EX CAPITE LECTI.A state of serious illness, sickness which ends in death....
Rocking
Having a swaying rolling or back and forth movement used for rocking...
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