Toxic Substance: A chemical or mixture that may present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment.
Toxic Waste: A waste that can produce injury if inhaled, swallowed, or absorbed through the skin.
DESTRUCTIVE SUBSTANCE - Any explosive substance, flammable material, infernal machine, or other chemical, mechanical, or radioactive device or matter of a combustible, contaminative, corrosive, or explosive nature. USC 18 ...
Controlled Substance A drug that has been declared by federal or state law to be illegal for sale or use, but may be dispensed by prescription.
Substance: The true, basic meaning of something; the real thing, as opposed to something imaginary or unrealistic.
Substitute: One who takes the place of another who is unable or unwilling to continue to fill a particular role or office.
substance/procedure or substantive/procedural: these terms serve to distinguish between the law that governs general human conduct and the law that governs the resolution of disputes.
Substance Abuse Education: A community based program for drug offenders that provides education about the harmful effects of drug abuse and also supervises community service.
Substance theory vs. bundle theory
Whether objects are just collections of properties or separate from those properties appears to be a strict dichotomy. That is, it seems that objects must be either collections of properties or something else.
A substance that counteracts a toxin or poison.
Appeal:
Legal process used to ask a superior court (see "appellate court") to review a decision made by an inferior court in a legal matter.
3) Substance abuse: excessively using or misusing a legal or illegal substance.
The substance of the above article is repeated from Professor E. Robertson's (Lord Lochee's) article " Law," in the 9th ed. of this work.
Drugs or substances that result in drowsiness and dulling of the senses.
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Matter of substance
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: a matter concerning the merits of a case rather than form or relatively inessential details
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hazardous substance : 1. Any material that poses a threat to human health and- /or the environment. Typical hazardous substances are toxic, corrosive, ignitable, explosive, or chemically reactive. 2.
controlled substance
n. a drug which has been declared to be illegal for sale or use, but may be dispensed under a physician's prescription.
26. - 2. The substance of the issue joined between the parties must be proved. 1 Phil. Ev. 190. Under this rule will be considered the quantity of evidence required to support particular averments in the declaration or indictment.
Controlled Drugs and Substances ActFederal statute controlling drugs, such as marijuana and cocaine, and other potentially harmful substances.ConvictionThe act of finding someone guilty.
The commons were the knights and the townspeople of substance—the burgesses or bourgeoisie. The sovereign would occasionally consult the three estates and consider their grievances.
"(A)ccretion denotes the increase which land bordering on a river or on the sea undergoes through the silting up of soil, sand or other substance, or the permanent retiral of the waters.
Blood tests are often requested where substances other than alcohol are suspected to be impairing the driver in a DUI-DWI case, or where an accident may require that the person suspected of drunk driving is already going to a hospital.
Tangible Property: Property that has physical substance and can be touched. Anything other than real estate or money, including furniture, cars, jewelry and china. Intangible property (example: a checking account) lacks this physical quality.
indorsed complaint: A statement of the nature and substance of the cause of action, for money only, which indicates the amount of the claim. It may be set forth upon the summons or attached to it.
corpus delicti - The substance or foundation of a crime; the substantial fact that a crime has been committed, e g., the corpse of a homicide victim, the charred remains of a burned house.
substantive 1 : of or relating to a matter of substance as opposed to form or procedure [a issue] [the instructions to the jury] [was dismissed on procedural and grounds] compare procedural 2 : affecting ...
corpus delicti - The body (material substance) upon which a crime has been committee, e.g., the corpse of a murdered man or the charred remains of a house burned by an arsonist.
The act which deals with the handling, storage, use, disposal and emissions of substances, and of hazardous and non-hazardous waste. Covers dumping, statutory nuisances and even dumping of supermarket trolleys.
Landowner's rights to the water, minerals and other substances below the surface of land. These rights may be sold or transferred to another party like other land rights.
Tax Credit
An allowed reduction in tax liability.
purport (noun) Meaning, substance, or legal effect; e.g., the purport of an instrument means the substance of it, as it appears on the face of the instrument.
Intangible:
Long-term or non-current asset that lacks physical substance, but which confers valuable rights or privileges upon the holders; e.g., patents, goodwill.
Composition of Matter: An invention in which the substance and not the form or shape is the inventive subject matter.
toxic tort - A personal injury caused by exposure to a toxic substance.
trade name - The official name of a business.
Under the influence of drugs, alcohol or any mind altering substance;
Causes serious bodily injury which involves a substantial risk of death, serious permanent disfigurement or loss/ impairment of the function of any part or organ of the body.
Food and Drug (FDA) - A federal agency which sets safety and quality standards for Administration food, drugs, cosmetics, and household substances.
Foreclosure - A court proceeding upon default in a mortgage to vest title in the mortgagee.
Corpus. Latin. A body; also, the principal thing, the essential part, the substance.
Corpus comitatus. The body of the county.
Patent drawings must be included in the application unless the nature of the invention precludes such them, as would be the case with the formula for a new substance.
is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a patentee (the inventor or assignee) for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) ...
Drugs and Narcotics
Drugs and Narcotics - the area of the law dealing with the defense of criminal proceedings involving the use and/or sale of illegal substances.
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Upon successful completion of the required program(s), the criminal case is dismissed. Pretrial intervention is most often used in substance abuse and domestic violence where the crime charged is the defendant's first offense.
It is the sum and substance of due process and gives wisdom to the Rule of Law. Black’s Law Dictionary (2nd Edition, 1910) puts it best.
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