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legislative rule

legislative rule : a rule adopted by a government agency in accordance with the notice and comment requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act that has the force of law and imposes new duties on the

Footnote

A note of reference or comment at the foot4 of a page

Contract, breach of, inducement of

216, and Temperton v. Russell, (1893) 1 QB 715; but the principles laid down in these cases were commented on in Allen v. Flood, 1898 AC 1. An Act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance

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Scholiast

A maker of scholia a commentator or annotator

Sententiary

One who read lectures or commented on the Sentences of Peter Lombard Bishop of Paris 1159 1160 a school divine

Accession

et G. l. 4, c. 7. The rule of the Roman Law was expressed thus: Accessio cedit principali. Commentators have used the word accessio not only for the increase itself, but also for the mode in which

Political party

of organised political parties are relatively recent. They were first acknowledged by Burke in 1769; according to some commentators, the parties originated in Whig and Tory Groups in the late seventeenth century, Political Parties in Modern Britain,

Criminal Evidence Act

not to be called except on his own application; (b) Failure to give evidence is not to be commented on by the prosecution; (c) The wife or husband is not to be called except on the applicationof

Ingrates

Ingrates, means ungrateful; (of conduct) marked by ingratitude. Ungrateful acts or words (such as spiteful comments from a freedom toward a former master) could form the basis for a return to a prior inferior

Jury

the introduction and growth of trial by jury in England, Forsyth's History of Trial by Jury; and for comments on and proposed amendments of the law, see Erle's Jury Laws and their Amendment, published by Stevens &

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