commerce, contracts. A person employed by the owner of property which is sold at auction to bid it up, who does so accordingly, for the purpose of raising the price upon bona fide bidders. 2. This is a fraud which at the choice of the purchaser invalidates the sale. … [Read more...]

(A) The action of making something public or generally known. With regard to defamation, it is the act of communicating a false statement to a third person. With regard to legal procedure, it is a method of providing legal notice through publication in a recognized and approved newspaper in the relevant country. With regard to copyright law, it is copying the work and making … [Read more...]

The general practice of salespeople inflating the importance of a product available for sale with exaggerated marketing. While general puffing does not usually result in damages, there is responsibility if those exaggerated statements extend to facts that are clearly inaccurate and there will be liability for misrepresentation and fraud. … [Read more...]

Latin: Of public right This term, as applied to a thing or right, means that it is open to or exercisable by all persons. When a thing is common property, so that any one can make use of it who likes, it is said to be "publici juris;" as in the case of light air, and public water. Sweet Or it designates things which are owned by "the public;" that is, the entire state or … [Read more...]

In law French. Afterwards; since. Puis darrein continuance. Since the last continuance. The name of a plea which a defendant is allowed to put in, after having already pleaded, where some new matter of defense arises after issue joined; such as payment, a release by the plaintiff, the discharge of the defendant under an insolvent or bankrupt law, and the like. 3 Bl. Comm. 316: … [Read more...]