Slang for excessive bureaucracy and prolonged requirements such as extensive paperwork. In a derivative sense, order carried to fastidious excess; system run out into trivial extremes. Webster v. Thompson, 55 Ga. 434. … [Read more...]

Sax. Advice; counsel. … [Read more...]

Usually to explain a process in litigation where evidence that is not relevant to a case that should remain private is obfuscated from view of the opposing party. For example, a private memo containing confidential business secrets that are not relevant to the case may be blocked (or blackened) from view with the remaining relevant portion of the memo remaining readable. … [Read more...]

As used in the United States Internal revenue laws, this term is not confined to a person who runs spirits through charcoal, but is applied to any one who rectifies or purifies spirits in any manner whatever, or who makes a mixture of spirits with anything else, and sells it under any name. Quantity of Distilled Spirits, 3 Ben. 73, Fed. Cas. No. 11,494. … [Read more...]

An entire parish church, with all its rights, glebes, tithes, and other profits whatsoever; otherwise commonly called a "benefice." See Gibson v. Brockway, 8 N..H. 470, 31 Am. Dec. 200; Pawlet v. Clark, 9 Cranch, 826, 3 L. Ed. 735. A rector's manse, or; parsonage house. Spelman. … [Read more...]