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antitrust

antitrust : of, relating to, or being legislation against or opposition to business trusts or combinations ;specif : consisting of laws to protect trade and commerce from unlawful restraints and monopolies

agency

agent is authorized to perform on behalf of the principal in all matters in furtherance of a particular business of the principal compare special agency in this entry implied agency : an actual agency created by acts

long-arm statute

personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant who has some connection (as ownership or use of property, transaction of business, or commission of a tort) with the state called also single-act statute see also doing business statute, minimum

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Main Pot

if they have netted a gain; sales, exchanges, or condemnations of depreciable or real property used in a business for more than one year; and condemnations of capital assets held for more than one year in connection

minimum contacts

sufficient under due process to support the assertion of personal jurisdiction under a long-arm statute see also doing business statute, fair play and substantial justice International Shoe Co. v. Washington in the Important Cases section NOTE: In

drive in window

a window at a business establishment such as a bank or restaurant where patrons may transact business or order goods while staying in

Adjournment Motion

that the member has not the leave of the House. Rules and Procedure and Conduct of (Rajya Sabha) Business in Council of States 5th Edn. 2000, p. 56. Means the adjournment proposed is not of the proceedings

Address

Address, a petition, also a place of business or residence. Means to speak, write or otherwise communicate directly to, to deliver a prepared or formal speech

Abode

continuance. In law it is used in different senses, to denote the place of a man's residence, or business, temporary or permanent. For some purposes in law a man may be deemed to have an 'abode' where

Shyster

A trickish knave one who carries on any business especially legal business in a mean and dishonest way

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