Law Dictionary Definitions

allegation  of  faculties.Family  law.  Archaic.  A  statement  detailing  a  husband’s  or  wife’s property,  made by a spouse  who seeks alimony.  See FACULTIES. [Cases: Divorce    239. C.J.S. Divorce §§ 416–419, 421–426.] [Blacks Law 8th]

allegation,n.1. The act of declaring something to be true. 2. Something declared or asserted as a matter of fact, esp. in a legal pleading; a party’s formal statement of a factual matter as being true or provable, without its having yet been proved. — allege,vb. defensive allegation.Eccles. law. A defendant’s response in an ecclesiastical action;…

allegatio falsi (al-<<schwa>>-gay-shee-oh fal-sIorfawl-sI). [Latin] Hist. An untrue allegation. Cf. EXPRESSIO FALSI. [Blacks Law 8th]

allegata (al-<<schwa>>-gay-t<<schwa>>). [Latin] pl.ALLEGATUM. [Blacks Law 8th]

all-claims  rule.Patents.  The  now-abandoned  doctrine  that  a  patent  is  invalid  unless  every inventor named in the patent made an inventive contribution to every claim in the patent. • Section 116 of the Patent Act now expressly  provides that inventors  may apply for a patent jointly even though each did not make a contribution to the…

all and singular.Collectively and individually. [Blacks Law 8th]

ALJ.abbr.ADMINISTRATIVE-LAW JUDGE. [Blacks Law 8th]

aliunde  rule.Evidence.  The  doctrine  that  a  verdict  may  not  be  impeached  by  a  juror’s testimony unless a foun-dation for the testimony is first made by competent evidence from another source. [Blacks Law 8th]

aliunde   (ay-lee-y<<schwa>>n-dee),   adj.[Latin]   From   another   source;   from   elsewhere <evidence  aliunde>.  See  extrinsic  evidence  under  EVIDENCE.  [Cases:  Criminal  Law    957; Federal  Civil  Procedure    2371;  Trial    344.  C.J.S.  Criminal  Law  §§  1415–1418;  Trial  §§ 921–926.] [Blacks Law 8th]

alienate (ay-lee-<<schwa>>-nayt orayl-y<<schwa>>-), vb. To transfer or convey (property or a property right) to another. —Also termed alien. — alienator,n. [Blacks Law 8th]