Germ Theory - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: germ theoryGerm theory
The theory that living organisms can be produced only by the development of living germs Cf Biogenesis Abiogenesis...
grand unified theory
Any of a class of physics theories that attempts to explain the electroweak forces stong force and gravitation within a single mathematical conceptual scheme In the 1990s string theory and superstring theory were prominent examples Abbreviated GUT plural GUTs...
Theory of basic structure
Theory of basic structure, the theory of a 'basic stru-cture' of the Constitution cannot be used to build into the Constitution an imaginary part which may be in conflict with constitutional provisions. The Constitution cannot have a base cut away from the superstructure. The theory of a basic structure of the Constitution as anything more than a part of a well-recognised mode of construing a document. The Constitution, like any other document, has to be read and construed as a whole, Additional District Magistrate v. Shivakant Shukla, AIR 1976 SC 1207 (1317): (1976) 2 SCC 521: (1976) Supp SCR 172....
Germ
That which is to develop a new individual as the germ of a fetus of a plant or flower and the like the earliest form under which an organism appears...
fraud on the market theory
fraud on the market theory : a theory of liability in securities fraud cases: a defendant's material misrepresentation regarding a security traded in the open market that affects the price of the security is presumed to have been relied on by a plaintiff who purchased the security and suffered a loss compare efficient market ...
silent witness theory
silent witness theory : a theory or rule in the law of evidence: photographic evidence (as photographs or videotapes) produced by a process whose reliability is established may be admitted as substantive evidence of what it depicts without the need for an eyewitness to verify the accuracy of its depiction ...
big bang theory
The theory that the known universe originated in an explosive event the big bang in which all of the matter and energy of the universe was contained in a single point and began to rapidly expand and evolve starting as high energy particles and radiation and as it cooled over time evolving into ordinary subatomic particles atoms and then stars and galaxies According to this theory the four dimensional space time continuum which we perceive as our universe continues to expand to the present time but it is unknown whether the expansion will continue indefinitely or eventually stop or even reverse possibly leading to a contraction to a single point sometimes referred to as the ldquobig crunchrdquo The competing ldquoSteady state Theoryrdquo gradually lost favor in the 1980s and 1990s See also big bang...
Bad-man theory
Bad-man theory, is a jurisprudential doctrine or belief that a bad person's view of the law represents the best test of what the law actually is because that person will carefully calculate precisely what the rules allow and operate up to the rules limits. This theory was first espoused by Oliver Wendell Holmes in his essay 'The Path of the Law, 10 Harv L Rev 457 (1897)', Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 135....
Dingdong theory
The theory which maintains that the primitive elements of language are reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions that is as stated by Max Muumlller the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first time through the brain a phonetic expression jocosely so called from the analogy of the sound of a bell induced by the stroke of the clapper...
Domino theory
A political theory current in the 1960s according to which the conversion of one country in South Asia to communism will start a sequential process causing all Asian countries to convert to Communism...
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