Law Dictionary Definitions

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]

aggregate sentence.See SENTENCE. [Blacks Law 8th]

aggregate income.See INCOME. [Blacks Law 8th]

aggregate demand.See DEMAND(4). [Blacks Law 8th]

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

aggregate   concept.Tax.   An   approach   to   taxing   business   organizations   whereby   an organization  is  viewed  as  a  collection  of  its  individual  owners,  not  as  a  separate  taxable  entity. [Cases: Internal Revenue    3879; Taxation    1015. C.J.S. Internal Revenue §§ 17–18; Taxation § 1707.] [Blacks Law 8th]