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Home Dictionary Name: nerve center testNerve - center test
Nerve - center test, a method courts sometimes use to determine the location of a company's principal place of business, by which the principal place of business is determined to be the location where the corporate officers, directors, and (sometimes) shareholders reside, and where they direct and contest the corporation's activities, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1061....
nerve
One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers with the accompanying tissues which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body...
Inhibitory motor
A term applied to certain nerve centers which govern or restrain subsidiary centers from which motor impressions issue...
Excito motory
Exciting motion said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex actions by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition...
Incito motor
Inciting to motion applied to that action which in the case of muscular motion commences in the nerve centers and excites the muscles to contraction Opposed to excito motor...
substantial capacity test
substantial capacity test : a test used in many jurisdictions when considering an insanity defense which relieves a defendant of criminal responsibility if at the time of the crime as a result of mental disease or defect the defendant lacked the capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his or her conduct or to conform the conduct to the requirements of the law called also ALI test Model Penal Code test compare diminished capacity, irresistible impulse test, m'naghten test NOTE: This test was first formulated in the Model Penal Code and has been adopted by many jurisdictions. ...
Frye test
Frye test [from United States v. Frye, 293 F. 1013 (1923), the case that established the rule] : a common-law rule of evidence: the results of scientific tests or procedures are admissible as evidence only when the tests or procedures have gained general acceptance in the particular field to which they belong called also Frye rule NOTE: In Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 509 U.S. 579 (1993), the Supreme Court held that the Federal Rules of Evidence supersede the Frye test, and as a result scientific evidence (as expert testimony) needs to meet only the requirements of the Federal Rules of Evidence in order to be admissible. ...
irresistible impulse test
irresistible impulse test : a test used in some jurisdictions when considering an insanity defense that involves a determination of whether an impulse to commit a criminal act was irresistible due to mental disease or defect regardless of whether the defendant knew right from wrong compare diminished capacity, durham rule, m'naghten test, substantial capacity test ...
rational basis test
rational basis test : a test less intensive than strict scrutiny or an intermediate review that involves a determination of whether a statutory or regulatory classification of persons (as by age or offender status) has a rational basis and does not deny equal protection under the Constitution [if the classification neither affects a fundamental right, nor creates a suspect classification, nor is based on gender, then the rational basis test is applied "Charlton v. Kimata, 815 P.2d 946 (1991)"] called also rational relationship test ...
Tested
Tested, to bear the teste. A writ is issued in the name of the sovereign, and the Lord Chancellor is supposed to witness it. All writs are, by R.S.C. 1883, Ord. II., r. 8, tested in the name of the Lord Chancellor. They were before the Judicature Acts tested in the name of the Lord Chancellor if issuing from the Court of Chancery, or of the Lord Chief Justice if issuing from the Queen's Bench, etc....
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