Law Dictionary Definitions

final settlement.See SETTLEMENT(2).[Blacks Law 8th]

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

final receiver’s receipt.The government’s acknowledgment that it has received full payment from a person for public land, that it holds the legal title in trust for the person, and that it will in due course issue the person a land patent. [Cases: Public Lands 110. C.J.S. Public Lands §§ 134–136.][Blacks Law 8th]

final process.See PROCESS.[Blacks Law 8th]

final peace.See final concord under CONCORD.[Blacks Law 8th]

final-order doctrine.See FINALITY DOCTRINE.[Blacks Law 8th]

final order.See ORDER(2).[Blacks Law 8th]

final office action.See OFFICE ACTION.[Blacks Law 8th]

final-offer arbitration.See ARBITRATION.[Blacks Law 8th]

final-judgment rule.The principle that a party may appeal only from a district court’s final decision that ends the litigation on the merits. • Under this rule, a party must raise all claims of error in a single appeal. 28 USCA § 1291. — Also termed final-decision rule; finality rule. Cf. FINALITY DOCTRINE ; INTERLOCUTORY APPEALS…