A contract the courts will enforce as a legal
obligation.
Potential jurors who are assembled and then selected
to try civil cases.
The particular locality in which a court with
jurisdiction may hear a case.
The unification into a single company of all the
steps involved in making and selling a product, from raw materials to
production to sales.
A merger between firms with a buyer-seller
relationship; that is, in which a firm buys either its customer or its
supplier.
In product liability cases, a concept that a court
may apply to determine which par ties in a product's chain of distribution are
liable to the consumer. For example, the consumer may be able to recover
against a retailer but not against the manufacturer if vertical privity is held
not to extend to the manufacturer.
A restraint of trade involving an agreement between
companies at different stages of producing and distributing some product or
service.
Refers to an employee's right to participate in a
pension plan and to receive the money that the employer has contributed to the
plan. Many plans require employees to work a minimum number of years in order
to have a right to a pension, that is, to be vested.
An injury or breach of duty. In criminal law, a petty
offense such as a parking or speeding ticket.
A contract that is defective but may still be
enforceable. Generally, one party to the contract may choose to withdraw from
it or to have it enforced.
A contract with no legal force.
Questioning of a selection of potential jurors by the
trial judge or the lawyers for each side, in order to determine eligibility to
serve and to ascertain preexisting bias or interest.
