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  • 111just cause — A cause outside legal cause, which must be based on reasonable grounds, and there must be a fair and honest cause or reason, regulated by good faith. Dubois v. Gentry, 182 Tenn. 103, 184 S.W.2d 369, 371. Fair, adequate, reasonable cause. In re… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 112by the law of the land — By due process of law; by a law that gives a man an opportunity to be heard, before depriving him of his life, liberty, or property; by a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. See… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 113procedural due process — A regular course of justice, which is not unreasonable or arbitrary, upon notice and hearing, in pursuance of an efficacious remedy secured by the law of the state. 16 Am J2d Const L § 549. An orderly proceeding appropriate to the case or adapted …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 114summarily — Expeditiously; dispensing with formalities which merely delay action. A statute giving the orphans court the power summarily to direct payment of the prorated portions of an estate tax will be construed as not dispensing with the essential… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 115summary forfeiture — A forfeiture to the state of property without giving the owner opportunity to be heard. Anno: 17 ALR 574 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 116summary proceeding — A proceeding by which a controversy is settled, case disposed of, or trial conducted in a prompt, simple manner without the aid of a jury and without observance of requirements which prevail in a plenary action in reference to commencement of… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 117glasnost — [gläs′nôst, gläs′nōst] n. [Russ glasnost , opportunity to be heard] the Soviet policy of the 1980s of publicly acknowledging the nation s social and economic problems and of allowing open discussion of them …

    English World dictionary

  • 118United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …

    Universalium

  • 119France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …

    Universalium

  • 120UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, country in N. America. This article is arranged according to the following outline: introduction Colonial Era, 1654–1776 Early National Period, 1776–1820 German Jewish Period, 1820–1880 East European Jewish Period,… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism