Social perspective of a legal rule’s validity being authorized by law and socially accepted versus being based on natural or moral law. View of man-made law as posited by man for man,

Lawfully certified weight based on the use of a lawfully certified scale or weight counterbalance. An article’s unit weight is calculated by adding the article’s basic weight and the wrapping and container

Jurisdiction’s basis of applying law consists of (1) A constitution, written or oral; (2) Primary legislation, statutes, and laws; authorized by constitutionally authorized legislative body; (3) Primary legislation authorized body enacts subsidiary

Person unable to make rational decisions or engage in responsible actions. Mental and/or physical deficiency, disability, illness, drug use causing temporary or permanent impairment.

Common legal phrase. Lawful action, such as an agreement consciously agreed to by two or more entities, establishing lawful accountability. For example, an apartment lease legally binds the lessor and the lessee.

Gaining status slowly by making one decision at a time.

Caution: Federal law prohibits dispensing without a prescription’ labeled drug.

A perspective that legal rules are to benefit the larger society and public policy based on judicial decisions. Neither dogma or supernatural authority applies. A court is expected to determine ‘legal rights’

Travel taken from one stop to another. Also known as portion or segment.

Airline industry dimensioning method to compute the largest permissible shipment’s size. Formula: Length as the largest measurement plus (2 times the Width) plus (2 times Height).

For a common cause or in mutual benefit, friendly parties exchange or transfer of goods and services to each other.

Statement in promissory notes curbing default recovery, by lender agreement, if default occurs for reasons beyond the borrower’s control, for a stated period of time.

Stay in a hospital or similar medical facility as a total length of days.

Form for commercial-crime insurance coverage of the loss of non-cash items held within an insured’s safe deposit box kept in a depository facility, like a bank.

A party is excused from sharing liabilities arising out of the agreement as a stated provision in said agreement.

Law passed to prevent consumers from being stuck with non-performing, unwanted products.

Present value of future lease income plus the leased asset’s present value of its projected end of lease term value.

Organizing by alphabetic method, ordering entries by letter-sequence. This method treats a multi-word entry as a single stream of letters with no spaces in it. Most reference books follow this method. One

Standard measure of surrounding medium toxicity. Half of the sample population (50%) of a specific test-animal in a specified period die from exposure via inhalation or respiration. As a toxicity comparison, LC50

Cargo failing to qualify for freight rates given to a standard shipping container due to insufficient quantity or weight. Shipping term.