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abstention

-rÄ -] : an abstention grounded esp. on the involvement in the federal case of questions of state concern that are also at issue in a parallel case in state court Pull·man abstention [pl-mən-] : an abstention

informational picketing

picketing : picketing by a labor union for the purpose of informing the public about a matter of concern to the union

de minimis non curat lex

de minimis non curat lex [New Latin, the law does not concern itself with trifles] : the principle that the law is not concerned with insignificant or minor matters

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care

care 1 : watchful or protective attention, caution, concern, prudence, or regard usually towards an action or situation ;esp : due care [a person has a duty

account

entries to cover transactions involving a particular item (as cash or notes receivable) or a particular person or concern b : a statement of transactions during a fiscal period showing the resulting balance sometimes used in the

Successor-in-interest

the following words: Did the purchaser purchase the whole of the business? Was the business purchased a going concern at the time of the sale transaction? Is the business purchased carried on at the same place as

states' rights

rights that has been used to justify state resistance to federal authority in matters seen as the exclusive concern of the states and that is most often associated with the states favoring slavery and secession in the

Symbol'ography

make written instruments. It is either judicial or extra-judicial; the latter being wholly occupied with such instruments as concern matters not yet judicially in controversy, such as instruments of agreements or contracts, testaments or last wills, West's

small business

Small Business Administration or by state law regarding number of employees and yearly income called also small business concern see also Small Business Administration in the Important Agencies section

Subject

Subject (logic), that concerning which the affirmation in a proposition is made; the first word in a proposition, Mill's Logic. See PREDICATE.

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