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The apportionment created by this statute is "apportionment in respect of time." The cases to which it applies are mainly cases of either: apportionment of rent due under leases where at a time between the dates fixed for payment the lessor or lessee dies, or some other alteration in the position of parties occurs; or
An apportionment is an Office of Management and Budget-approved plan to use budgetary resources (31 U.S.C. §§ 1513–b; Executive Order 11541). [1] It typically limits the obligations the federal government may incur for specified time periods, programs, activities, projects, objects, etc. [1] An apportionment is legally binding, and obligations and expenditures (disbursements) that exceed ...
A different apportionment of costs has been ordered by the Board of Appeal. The patent proprietor has requested, under Rule 88(2) EPC and Rule 100 EPC, about €26,000 to be paid by the opponent. [57] During first instance proceedings, a decision on apportionment of costs forms part of the main decision of the Opposition Division.
Apportionment (politics), the process of allocating the power of a set of constituent voters among their political representatives Biproportional apportionment; Apportionment of votes in a proposed United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
By this definition, the Sainte-Laguë method is the least-biased apportionment method, [19] while Huntington-Hill exhibits a mild bias towards smaller parties. [18] However, other researchers have noted that slightly different definitions of bias, generally based on percent errors , find the opposite result (The Huntington-Hill method is ...
The United Nations Charter, in Article 17, established that "the expenses of the Organization shall be borne by the Members as apportioned by the General Assembly."As such on 13 February 1946, the General Assembly created a 10-member Committee on Contributions with the mandate to apportion UN expenses among members, make assessments for new members, hear appeals by members for a change of ...
When using the Hare quota, this rule is called Hamilton's method, and is the third-most common apportionment rule worldwide (after Jefferson's method and Webster's method). [1] Despite their intuitive definition, quota methods are generally disfavored by social choice theorists as a result of apportionment paradoxes.
Apportionment is the process by which seats in a legislative body are distributed among administrative divisions, such as states or parties, entitled to representation. This page presents the general principles and issues related to apportionment.