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In order to qualify for a utility patent, it must be within one of the five categories set forth in 35 United States Code, Section 101: compositions of matter, manufactures, machines, processes, and new and useful improvements of the four major categories. The entire group is called statutory subject matter. … [Read more...] about STATUTORY SUBJECT MATTER

The name of a statute passed the 52 Hen. III, A. D. 1267, so called because it was enacted at Marlebridge. Barr. on Stat. 58. … [Read more...] about STATUTE OF MARLEBRIDGE

Latin: In the civil law. Established; determined. A term applied to judicial action. Dig. 50, 16, 46, pr. In old English law. A statute; an act of parliament Statutum do mercatoribus. The statute of Acton Burnell. (q. t?.)-Statutum Hibernis de cohaeredibus. The statute 14 Hen. III. The third public act in the statute-book, It has been pronounced not to be a statute. In the form … [Read more...] about STATUTUM

A statute so called, because the parliament or rather council, which enacted it, sat at Merton, in Surrey. … [Read more...] about STATUTE OF MERTON

The name of a statute passed in the reign of Edw. I., which enacted severe and absurd penalties against the Jews. Barr. on Stat. 197. 2. The Jews were exceedingly oppressed during the middle ages throughout Christendom, and, are so still in some countries. In France, a Jew was a serf, and his person and goods belonged to the baron on whose demesnes he lived. He could not change … [Read more...] about STATUTUM DE JUDAISMO