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Also known as blue laws or Sunday closing law where certain businesses are prohibited from operation on Sundays or Sunday mornings (such as the sale of beer on Sunday mornings before noon in some locales.) … [Read more...] about SUNDAY LAWS

In medical Jurisprudence. The formation of a fetus as the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation, but before the birth of the offspring produced by it Webster. … [Read more...] about SUPERFETATION, SUPERFOETATION

A specific clause which is currently in effect but which will cease to be in effect as of a certain date unless the law is renewed by the legislature so as to keep it in effect. … [Read more...] about SUNSET CLAUSE

Lat. In the civil law. He who has built upon the soil of another, which he has hired for a number of years or forever, yielding a yearly rent Dig. 43, 18, 1. In other words, a tenant on ground-rent … [Read more...] about SUPERFICIARIES

A law that requires the renewal of a program or an agency that is established or it is automatically terminated at the end of the period prescribed, for example, a drug program to last for two years that is terminated automatically unless renewed. … [Read more...] about SUNSET LAW