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Home Dictionary Name: readilyamenable
amenable 1 : legally subject or answerable [the corporation is not to suit in New York] 2 a : suited by nature [an adult is not to a juvenile treatment program] b : readily yielding, submitting, or cooperating [defendant is to rehabilitation "National Law Journal"] ame·na·bil·i·ty [ə-mē-nə-bi-lə-tē, -me-] n ...
detective
detective : a person engaged or employed in detecting lawbreakers or in getting information that is not readily or publicly accessible [a police ] [hired a private ] ...
liquidated
liquidated 1 : settled or determined by liquidating see also liquidated damages at damage 2 : capable of being readily fixed, calculated, or ascertained as a sum esp. without dispute or reliance on opinion or discretion ...
magnuson- moss warranty act
magnuson- moss warranty act A federal statute requiring that written warranties to consumer products must fully and conspicuously disclose the terms and conditions of the warranty in simple, readily understood language. (15 U.S.C. Sec. 2301) Source: FindLaw ...
manifest
manifest 1 : capable of being readily perceived by the senses and esp. by sight [a injury] 2 : capable of being easily understood or recognized : clearly evident, obvious, and indisputable [vacating an arbitrator's award because of the arbitrator's disregard of the law] man·i·fest·ly adv vt : to make evident or certain by showing or displaying [ing the intent to make a gift] man·i·fes·ta·tion [ma-nə-fə-stā-shən, -fe-stā-] n n : a list of passengers or an invoice of cargo for a vehicle (as a ship or plane) ...
money
money pl: moneys or: mon·ies [mə-nēz] 1 : an accepted or authorized medium of exchange ;esp : coinage or negotiable paper issued as legal tender by a government 2 a : assets or compensation in the form of or readily convertible into cash b : capital dealt in as a commodity to be lent, traded, or invested [mortgage available from a lender] [the supply] c pl : sums of money [collect tax moneys] ...
obvious
obvious : easily seen, discovered, or understood ;specif : readily apparent to a person of ordinary skill in a particular art considering the scope and content of the prior art see also patent NOTE: An invention that is found to be obvious cannot be patented. ob·vi·ous·ness n ...
patent
patent [Anglo-French, from Latin patent- patens, from present participle of patēre to be open] 1 a : open to public inspection see also letters patent at letter b : secured or protected by a patent [a nonexclusive license to produce and sell the product] [sought to enforce her rights against infringement] 2 : of, relating to, or concerned with the granting of patents esp. for inventions [a lawyer] [involved in litigation] 3 : readily seen, discovered, or understood [a defect] [if no bad faith or abuse is ] compare latent pat·ent·ly adv [pat-nt] n 1 : an official document conferring a right or privilege : letters patent at letter 2 a : the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention or products made by an invented process that is granted to an inventor and his or her heirs or assigns for a term of years see also intellectual property at property compare copyright, trademark NOTE: A patent may be granted for a process, act, or method t...
res ipsa loquitur
res ipsa loquitur Latin, the thing speaks for itself] : a doctrine or rule of evidence in tort law that permits an inference or presumption that a defendant was negligent in an accident injuring the plaintiff on the basis of circumstantial evidence if the accident was of a kind that does not ordinarily occur in the absence of negligence [a plaintiff who establishes the elements of res ipsa loquitur can withstand a motion for summary judgment and reach the jury without direct proof of negligence "Cox v. May Dept. Store Co., 903 P.2d 1119 (1995)"] NOTE: For res ipsa loquitur to apply, the accident in question must not be due to any voluntary action or contribution by the plaintiff. The doctrine has traditionally required that a defendant have exclusive control over the instrumentality of an injury, but now it is commonly applied when multiple defendants have joint or sometimes successive control (as by the manufacturer and retailer of a defective product). In addition to the control ...
Beta rays
a form of ionizing radiation emitted by radioactive substances such as radium more penetrating than alpha rays and consisting of negatively charged electrons The electrons are the same kind of particle as those of cathode rays but have much higher velocities about 35000 to 180000 miles per second They are readily deflected by a magnetic or electric field...
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