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Majority
(n) Majority is the stage or position by which a person or a group of person attains or acquires the capability or a right to perform a legally binding Act.
Supermajority: With respect to shareholder and director voting, any required percentage higher than 50 percent.
Age of Majority definition:
An age generally specified by statute, at which time, upon an individual is given the full gamut of legal rights and responsibilities generally available to an adult of sound mind.
AGE OF MAJORITY - The age when a person acquires all the rights and responsibilities of being an adult. In most states, the age is 18.
The time when the law allows persons to do acts which, for want of years, they were prohibited from doing before.
After reaching the age of majority, a person is permitted to vote, make a valid will, enter into binding contracts, enlist in the armed forces, and purchase alcohol.
MAJORITY
(1) More than half of something, such as the votes cast in an election. (2) The age at which a person can exercise the legal rights of an adult, such as entering into contracts or voting.
Majority: 1. The major portion of; more than one-half. 2. The age at which someone is legally regarded as an adult, and therefore able to consummate a contract, vote, and marry without parental consent.
majority
n. 1) the age when a person can exercise all normal legal rights, including contracting and voting. It is 18. 2) 50 percent, plus one of votes cast.
MAJORITY, persons. The state or condition of a person who has arrived at full age. He is then said to be a major, in opposition to minor, which is his condition during infancy.
Majority
Definition - Noun
1 a : See also legal age
b : the status of one who has reached legal age
2 a : a number or quantity greater than half of a total
compare plurality
b : the excess of a majority over the remainder of the total ...
Majority opinion
The written, published opinion by the majority of the justices on an appeal. The justices who disagree prepare a dissenting opinion.
age of majority
Adulthood in the eyes of the law. After reaching the age of majority, a person is permitted to vote, make a valid will, enter into binding contracts, enlist in the armed forces and purchase alcohol.
The vast majority of patent rights, however, are not determined through litigation, but are resolved privately through patent licensing.
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Emancipation Term used to describe the act of freeing a person who was under the legal authority of another (such as a child before the age of majority) from that control (such as child reaching the age of majority).
In some cities, notably New York, a majority of the banks rationed in a similar way the stockbroking and speculative community, ...
In criminal cases, this is usually expressed as guilty or not guilty and may be unanimous or by a majority of 11-1 or 10-2. In a civil case, the verdict would be a finding for the plaintiff or for the defendant by at least nine of the 12 jurors.
A resolution passed by a majority of not less than three-fourths of such members as (being entitled to do so) vote in person or where proxies are allowed, by proxy, ...
If all the judges do not agree, the formal decision will be based on the majority view, and 1 member of the majority will write the opinion.
In the United States, verdicts must be unanimous in federal courts, but majority verdicts are constitutionally permissible in state courts. The jury may be instructed to render a general verdict, a special verdict, or both.
5 million prescriptions have been dispensed, the great majority of these for 10 days or less.
Before or at full age an infant may avoid a matter in fait; and a matter of record, during majority. - 1 Pars. Contr. 333. Wife de fait. A wife de facto. [see Factum, de facto above]. Faith.
A majority opinion is joined by a majority of the judges participating in the decision.
Chapter 7 bankruptcies allow individuals and businesses to seek a total liquidation of their property in return for the majority of their debts being wiped out. Chapter 13 bankruptcies can only be filed by individuals.
Opinion - A judge's written explanation of a decision of the court or of a majority of judges. A dissenting opinion disagrees with the majority opinion because of the reasoning and/or the principles of law on which the decision is based.
Dissent: A judge's disagreement with the majority opinion of a court. Appellate court cases are heard by a panel of judges, which can vary in number depending on the jurisdiction.
Some obstructions can be legally authorised but the majority are illegal whether they prevent use of a highway or not. An unlocked gate is a particularly contentious and all too common form of obstruction.
A motion of no confidence is passed in Her Majesty's Government by a simple majority and 14 days elapses without the House passing a confidence motion in any new Government formed ...
Minor: Someone under the age of majority. In NC, a minor is defined as anyone who has not reached the age of 18.
Minute Order: An official record of a court proceeding. It is prepared by the court clerk and is not a judgment.
In civil cases the parties may stipulate that a verdict of a stated majority of the jurors shall be taken as a verdict of the jury.
The custodial parent is the parent who has physical custody of his or her child/ren for the majority of the time.
Primary Caretaker: The parent who provides majority of the child's day to day care.
Privilege: The right a spouse has to make admissions to an attorney or counselor that can not be later used as evidence.
The former make up about 20% of stalkers, the vast majority with a mental disorder (often schizophrenia or paranoia), who form emotional attachments to strangers as they are unable to maintain normal social relationships.
The "Chip Smith Charge" is an instruction to deadlocked jurors in civil and criminal cases, urging those jurors who disagree with the majority vote to reexamine the majority views in an effort to reach a unanimous verdict.
The vast majority of defendants are entitled to have bail set. If they are unable to post the bail/bond then they remain incarcerated until trial.
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Age Of Consent See: legal age, age of majority
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UNANIMITY.
The agreement of all the persons concerned in a thing in design and opinion. 2. Generally a simple majority (q. v.) of... more
UNCERTAINTY.
That which is unknown or vague. Vide Certainty. ... more ...
Dissent - The disagreement of one or more judges of a court with the decision of the majority.
Docket - Book containing entries of all proceedings in a court.
dissentA term commonly issued to denote the disagreement of one or more judges of a court of appeals with the decision of the majority.
docketA brief entry or the book containing such entries of any proceeding in court.
Sui Juris
One who is competent and of the age of majority.
Suit
Any judicial proceeding in which a remedy is sought.
Term: Sui Juris
Definition: One who is competent and of the age of majority.
Term: Suit
Definition: Any judicial proceeding in which a remedy is sought.
Without a "quorum", decisions are invalid. Many organizations have a quorum requirement to prevent decisions being taken without a majority of members present. Typically, a quorum is one more than half of those who are members.
Dissent
To disagree. The word is used in legal circles to refer to the minority opinion of a judge which runs contrary to the conclusions of the majority.
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Dissent To disagree. - An appellate court opinion setting forth the minority view and outlining the disagreement of one or more judges with the decision of the majority.
The word is used in legal circles to refer to the minority opinion of a judge which runs contrary to the conclusions of the majority. TOP Dissolution : The act of ending, terminating or winding-up a company or state of affairs.
govern others unless their rule is just, tempered by fixed laws that prevent tyranny, laws that stop individuals from accumulating wealth by force, laws that keep those in high office from exercising power without restraint, laws that deny majority ...
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