Also known as the ADA, this is a federal law prohibiting discrimination against people with physical or mental disabilities in employment and services. … [Read more...]

contracts. To alien lands in mortmain. AMOTION. In corporations and companies, is the act of removing an officer from his office; it differs from disfranchisement, which is applicable to members. The power of amotion is incident to a corporation. 2 Str. 819; 1 Burr. 639. 2. In Rex v. Richardson, Lord Mansfield specified three sorts of offences for which an officer might be … [Read more...]

Skillful with both hands; one who plays on both sides. Applied anciently to an attorney who took pay from both sides, and subsequently to a juror guilty of the same offense. Cowell. Ambigua responsio contra proferentem est accipienda. An ambiguous answer is to be taken against (is not to be construed in favor of) him who offers it. 10 Coke, 59. Ambiguis casibus semper … [Read more...]

Subject to answer to the Jaw; accountable; responsible; liable to punishment. Miller v. Com., 1 Duv. (Ky.) 17. Also means tractable, that may be easily led or governed: formerly applied to a wife who is governable by her husband. Cowell. … [Read more...]

Latin: From ambiguus, doubtful, uncertain, obscure. Ambiguity; uncertainty of meaning. Ambiguitas latens, a latent ambiguity; ambiguitas patens, a patent ambiguity. See Ambiguity. Ambiguitas veborum latens verifl eatione suppletnr; nam quod ex facto oritur ambignnm verificatione facti tol litur. A latent ambiguity in the language may be removed by evidence; for whatever … [Read more...]