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  2. Scribal abbreviation - Wikipedia

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    In legal documents, legal abbreviations, called notae juris, appear but also capricious abbreviations, which scribes manufactured ad hoc to avoid repeating names and places in a given document. [ 3 ] Scribal abbreviations can be found in epigraphy , sacred and legal manuscripts, written in Latin or in a vernacular tongue (but less frequently ...

  3. Standard of review - Wikipedia

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    However, the term "standard of review" has an additional meaning in the context of reviewing a law for its constitutionality, which concerns how much deference the judiciary should give the legislature (i.e., the federal Congress or state legislatures) in determining whether legislation is constitutional.

  4. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    Used in legal documents in the same sense as "whereby". A per quod statement is typically used to show that specific acts had consequences which form the basis for the legal action. per se: by itself Something that is, as a matter of law. per stirpes: by branch

  5. Administrative Procedure Act - Wikipedia

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    Accordingly, arbitrary and capricious review is understood to be more deferential to agencies than substantial evidence review is. Arbitrary and capricious review allows agency decisions to stand as long as an agency can give a reasonable explanation for its decision based on the information that it had at the time.

  6. Section sign - Wikipedia

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    The section sign (§) is a typographical character for referencing individually numbered sections of a document; it is frequently used when citing sections of a legal code. [1] It is also known as the section symbol, section mark, double-s, or silcrow. [2] [3] In other languages it may be called the "paragraph symbol" (for example, German ...

  7. Capricious - Wikipedia

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    Capricious may refer to: Capricieuse, also spelled Capricious, ... Arbitrary and capricious, a legal term; Caprice (disambiguation) This page was last edited on ...

  8. Constitutional documents - Wikipedia

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    By convention, most common law jurisdictions divide the constitutional documents of companies into two separate documents: [1]. the Memorandum of Association (in some countries referred to as the Articles of Incorporation) is the primary document, and will generally regulate the company's activities with the outside world, such as the company's objects and powers.

  9. Plain meaning rule - Wikipedia

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    The plain meaning rule attempts to guide courts faced with litigation that turns on the meaning of a term not defined by the statute, or on that of a word found within a definition itself. According to the plain meaning rule, absent a contrary definition within the statute, words must be given their plain, ordinary and literal meaning.