The first very minor one is that the only real legal meaning of a credit rating refers to how much capital a bank has to allocate to a holding in a particular asset.
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First he argued laches, the legal term meaning Lemelson had waited too long to press claims over his bar-code reader supposedly invented in the early 1950s.
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Politics aside, experts point out that classifying an attack as terrorism carries important legal and investigative meaning.
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Former Solicitor General Walter Dellinger, who served under President Clinton, has filed a friend of the court brief arguing persuasively that these intervenors do not have standing to sue (meaning they have no legal stake in the issue, but only political interest).
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The new policy only applies to new locked phones purchased after Saturday, meaning it will still be legal to unlock phones purchased before January 26 without permission.
Most are structured as a class action, meaning that the ones that gain legal traction will automatically include institutions with similar issues, an approach that dramatically increases the stakes.
Not every state has a mandatory land fill ban on their electronics, meaning that in some states it is legal to throw stuff out without any regard for environmental or health damage.
The BBC's legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman said the High Court "meaning hearing" was held in front of a judge and involved both sides arguing over the meaning of the words in the tweet.
Most offer nominee services, meaning their own people will act as directors, legal owners or bank signatories for clients seeking to preserve anonymity.
Until now, some EU nations had no legal definition of terrorism, or specific anti-terrorism legislation, meaning terrorist groups could evade controls by moving around the 15-nation bloc which has largely abolished internal border controls.
In theory, the outsourcing firms like Hudson Legal include overhead in what they charge plaintiff firms for their lawyers, meaning they should just pass through those charges to their shareholder clients, instead of marking them up.
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The legal basis to detain enemy combatants under the law of war remains the same, meaning they can be held until the end of hostilities.
"If courts create their own arbitrary definition of marriage as a mere legal contract and cut marriage off from its cultural, religious and natural roots, then the meaning of marriage is lost, and the institution is weakened, " he said.
Bosses covered their legal obligations by introducing equal opportunities policies and training sessions, requiring staff to discuss and consider the meaning of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour in the work-place.
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