Your Free Online Legal Dictionary • Featuring Black’s Law Dictionary, 2nd Ed.

JUNIOR SUITE

A separate living / sitting area that is not a separate room is attached to a bedroom in this hotel accommodation.

JUNK FAX

Sending unsolicited stock ads by facsimile transmission (fax). Just like junk mail or spam, over the lines instead of by postal mail or electronic mail. A marketing strategy.

JUNK FEES

Lender fees, paid in dollars versus a percentage of the loan total. Described in unfavorable terms.

JUNK MAIL

Direct marketing or direct mail that is unsolicited. For introducing new products, books and magazines, investment opportunities, merchandise catalogs. It is a very big business in industrialized countries, specifically the US, UK,

JUNKET

With someone else paying, like taxpayers, taking an extravagant business and/or pleasure trip.

JURIDICAL PERSON

Entity, as a firm, that is not a single natural person, as a human being, authorized by law with duties and rights, recognized as a legal authority having a distinct identity, a

JURISDICTIONAL STRIKE

Illegal strike in an organization over a particular group of employees in dispute about the right to represent a existing trade union.

JUS SANGUINIS

A person’s citizenship is by ‘blood’, that of the parents. This rule is followed in most countries of the world. Canada and US use Jus Solis (where born) instead.

JUST CAUSE

A reason that is legally acceptable or sufficient. A request’s just cause is essential to get certain court action. Also known as good cause.

JUST IN TIME INSTRUCTION

To avoid a time gap and loss of retention, required knowledge and skills are learned for immediate application in this training scheme.

JUST IN TIME MANUFACTURING

For quicker response to customer needs with no large finished goods or goods-in-process inventories, JIT inventory system is applied to production lines.

JUST ON TIME

To achieve uninterrupted single-piece flow through an entire manufacturing process, Just-in-time (JIT) becomes just-on-time, as successive downstream activities immediately follow previous upstream activities.

JUSTICE

Protecting rights and punishing wrongs using fairness. It is possible to have unjust laws, even with fair and proper administration of the law of the land as a way for all legal

JUSTIFICATION AND APPROVAL

Documented contracting statement detailing why a noncompetitive contract award instead of open competition was selected.

JUSTIFIED TEXT

Spacing option of a paragraph or text block to force the first and last word in a line against the margins. Not considered suitable for personal communication, like letters. Used in books

JUST-WORLD PHENOMENON

Theory that bad things happen to people due to their previous bad acts. human tendency to rationalize injustice thinking that people will eventually want get what they want because the world is

KAIZEN

Small but continual improvements involving everyone from the chief executive to the lowest level workers achieves higher standards in quality enhancement and waste reduction. Mosaki Imai popularized it in his book ‘Kaizen:

KAIZEN BUDGETING

A budgeting approach that includes product improvement costs. With the objective of reducing actual costs below standard costs, projected costs of improvement are already incorporated in the budget . Also refer to

KAIZEN COSTING

Reducing product costs even if being produced. A process involving effective waste management, continuous product improvement and raw material price reduction. Cost minimization is a strategy in overall product cost reduction.

KARAT

Fineness, as a measure of the purity, of gold. It also indicate gold proportion in an alloy. UK spelling of both carat and karat is carat. Germany spelling is karat. 24 karats

Topic Archives:

Disclaimer

This site contains general legal information but does not constitute professional legal advice for your particular situation. The Law Dictionary is not a law firm, and this page does not create an attorney-client or legal adviser relationship. If you have specific questions, please consult a qualified attorney licensed in your jurisdiction.