Sentences with phrase «uniform legal definition»

As these examples illustrate, the boundary between what can count as an amendment and what constitutes a new contract for regulatory or tax purposes has to be evaluated based upon the context of that particular regulatory or tax system and doesn't have a uniform legal definition.

The question of where you are a resident is supposed to be a matter of objective fact rather than subjective viewpoint, but the law (in Illinois) does not give a uniform legal definition of residency.

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More than two decades ago, when the U.S. Congress passed its 1990 Farm Bill, a congressional mandate was included in the bill (Title 21) instructing the USDA to create a national legal definition of «organic» that would provide reliable, uniform, enforceable standards for any food bearing the term «organic.»

There is no one uniform definition of occurrence, many definitions of when an occurrence takes place are not sufficiently precise to exclude either Gecko or NoState in this fact pattern, and generally speaking, there is a legal rule that interprets legal language in an insurance contract in favor of the insured to the extent that there is any doubt as to its meaning.

Child physical abuse has been defined by the World Health Organization as the intentional use of physical force against a child that results or has a high likelihood of resulting in harm for the child's health, survival, development or dignity.2 Legal definitions of physical abuse typically require physical harm to have occurred; governmental definitions of abuse and neglect are not uniform.