Law Dictionary Definitions

Act  of  Assembly.Scots  law.  A  piece  of  legislation  passed  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the Church of Scotland for governing the affairs of that church and its members. [Blacks Law 8th]

Act of Adjournal.Scots law. A regulation issued by the  High  Court  of Justiciary to regulate procedure both in that court and in the lower criminal courts. [Blacks Law 8th]

acto (ahk-toh), n. Spanish law. 1.ACT(1).2.ACT(2).3. An action or lawsuit. [Blacks Law 8th]

activity incident to service.An act undertaken by a member of the armed forces as a part of a military operation or as a result of the actor’s status as a member of the military. • For example, if a member of the military takes advantage of that status by flying home on a military aircraft,…

activity. 1. The collective acts of one person or of two or more people engaged in a common enterprise. 2.MARKET VOLUME. [Blacks Law 8th]

active waste.See commissive waste under WASTE(1). [Blacks Law 8th]

active trust.See TRUST. [Blacks Law 8th]

active  supervision.Antitrust.  Under  the  test  for  determining  whether  a  private  entity  may claim a state-action exemption from the antitrust laws, the right of the state to review the entity’s anticompetitive  acts  and  to  disap-prove  those  acts  that  do  not  promote  state  policy.  See STATE-ACTION   DOCTRINE;   MIDCAL   TEST.   [Cases:   Monopolies      12(15.5).   C.J.S. Monopolies §§ 136, 138–143.]…

active-operations  duty.Maritime  law.  A  shipowner’s  obligation  to  provide  safe  working conditions, in the work areas that it controls, for the longshoremen who are loading or unloading the    ship.    —    Also    termed    ac-tive-control-of-vessel    duty.    Cf.    TURNOVER    DUTY; INTERVENTION DUTY. [Cases: Shipping    84(3.2).] [Blacks Law 8th]

active negligence.See NEGLIGENCE. [Blacks Law 8th]