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scot.Hist. A payment; esp., a customary tax. soul scot.Hist. Eccles. law. See MORTUARY(3). — Also written soul shot. [Blacks Law 8th]

S corporation.See CORPORATION. [Blacks Law 8th]

scorched-earth defense.Corporations. An antitakeover tactic by which a target corporation sells its most valuable assets or divisions in order to reduce its value after acquisition and thus try to defeat a hostile bidder’s tender offer. Cf. CROWN-JEWEL DEFENSE; PAC-MAN DEFENSE. [Blacks Law 8th]

scope-of-work clause.A contractual provision that highlights in summary fashion what work is to be performed under the contract. [Blacks Law 8th] [Blacks Law 8th]

scope of employment.The range of reasonable and foreseeable activities that an employee engages in while carrying out the employer’s business; the field of action in which a servant is authorized to act in the master–servant relationship. See RESPONDEAT SUPERIOR. Cf. COURSE OF EMPLOYMENT; ZONE OF EMPLOYMENT . [Cases: Master and Servant 302.] [Blacks Law 8th]

scope of business.The range of activities that are reasonably necessary to operate a commercial venture successfully, as determined by the nature of the venture and the activities of others engaged in the same occupation in the same area. [Blacks Law 8th]

scope of authority.Agency. The range of reasonable power that an agent has been delegated or might foreseeably be delegated in carrying out the principal’s business. See SCOPE OF EMPLOYMENT; RESPONDEAT SUPERIOR. [Cases: Principal and Agent 26, 92–137. C.J.S. Agency §§ 19, 21–22, 44, 47, 50, 73, 143–165, 172, 174–242, 248–256, 361, 363–368, 378–379, 385–386, 388,…

scope of a patent.Patents. The limits of a patent’s protection, as defined by the allowed claims. [Cases: Patents 165. C.J.S. Patents §§ 283, 287, 290, 293, 304.] [Blacks Law 8th]

scope note.In a digest, a précis appearing after a title and showing concisely what subject matter is included and what is excluded. “In the Century and Decennial Digests, though not in the various digests of the Key-Number Series, there is printed immediately following each topic title a couple of paragraphs which are called the Scope-Note.…

scolding bridle.See BRANKS. [Blacks Law 8th]