Deep Water - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: deep waterdeep water
having waters of great depth as a deep water port...
deep six
to discard in a deep body of water also used figuratively to discard contemptuously...
Knee deep
Rising to the knees knee high as water or snow knee deep...
slit shell
Any species of Pleurotomaria a genus of beautiful pearly spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip Many fossil species are known and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas...
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 ...
Deep sea
Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea as a deep sea line i e a line to take soundings at a great depth deep sea lead deep sea soundings explorations etc...
Offing
That part of the sea at a good distance from the shore or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot also distance from the shore as the ship had ten miles offing we saw a ship in the offing...
oilfish
A very large deep water snake mackerel Ruvettus pretiosus...
Pentacrinus
A genus of large stalked crinoids of which several species occur in deep water among the West Indies and elsewhere...
Riprap
A foundation or sustaining wall of stones thrown together without order as in deep water or on a soft bottom or in a river channel...
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