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aggressor  doctrine.The  principle  precluding  tort  recovery  for  a  plaintiff  who  acts  in  a  way that would provoke a reasonable person to use physical force for protection, unless the defendant in turn uses excessive force to repel the plaintiff. [Cases: Assault and Battery    13. C.J.S. Assault and Battery §§ 19–21.] [Blacks Law 8th]

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

aggression.Int’l  law.A  grave  breach  of  international  law  by  a  nation.  •  The  prohibition  of aggression is a pe-remptory rule (jus cogens). Aggressors are guilty of an international crime. But there  is  no  generally  accepted  definition  of  what  constitutes  aggression  despite  many  attempts over the years to devise one. In 1974, the United Nations General Assembly…

aggregation rejection.See REJECTION. [Blacks Law 8th]

aggregation of claims.Patents. In a patent application, an excessive number of claims that do not differ significantly in scope and are essentially duplicative. • Although a patent applicant may claim an invention and its various features in a reasonable number of ways, each claim must differ materially  from  the  others.  —  Also termed  multiplicity  of …

aggregation doctrine.The rule that precludes a party from totaling all claims for purposes of meeting  the  minimum  amount  necessary  to  give  rise  to  federal  diversity  jurisdiction  under  the amount-in-controversy requirement. See diversity jurisdiction under JURISDICTION; AMOUNT IN CONTROVERSY. [Cases: Federal Courts    344.] [Blacks Law 8th]

aggregation.Patents. 1. A set of  parts that  do not cooperate in structure or function, and are therefore unpatentable as an invention; the opposite of a combination. [Cases: Patents    25. C.J.S. Patents § 86.] 2.Hist. A patent examiner’s label for a claimed invention that may or may not be a patentable  combination  but  whose  claims  do …

aggregatio     mentium     (ag-r<<schwa>>-gay-shee-oh     men-shee-<<schwa>>m).     [Latin “gathering together of minds”] See MEETING OF THE MINDS. [Blacks Law 8th]

aggregate theory  of  partnership.The theory that a partnership does not have a separate legal existence (as does a corporation), but rather is only the totality of the partners who make it up. Cf. ENTITY THEORY OF PART-NERSHIP. [Cases: Partnership    63. C.J.S. Partnership § 68.] [Blacks Law 8th]

aggregate supply.See SUPPLY. [Blacks Law 8th]