Excess

  • 101excess baggage — UK / US noun [uncountable] 1) excess baggage or excess luggage tourism bags that weigh more than the official limit that each person is allowed to take on a plane. You have to pay money to take them with you. 2) informal something that you want… …

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  • 102excess jurisdiction — Such exists where a court, having jurisdiction of persons and subject matter of the case before it, exceeds its power in trial of such case by dealing with matters about which it is without power or authority to act; and error in court s ruling… …

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  • 103excess of jurisdiction — A case in which court has initially proceeded properly within its jurisdiction but steps out of jurisdiction in making of some order or in the doing of some judicial act. Olson v. District Court of Salt Lake County, 93 Utah 145, 71 P.2d 529, 534 …

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  • 104excess policy — One that provides that the insurer is liable only for the excess above and beyond that which may be collected on other insurance. Brownsville Fabrics, Inc. v. Gulf Ins. Co., Tex.Civ.App., 550 S.W.2d 332, 337. See also excess clause …

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  • 105excess profits tax — Tax levied on profits which are beyond the normal profits of a business and generally imposed in times of national emergency such as war to discourage profiteering. The Internal Revenue Code also imposes a tax on corporations who accumulate an… …

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  • 106excess jurisdiction — Such exists where a court, having jurisdiction of persons and subject matter of the case before it, exceeds its power in trial of such case by dealing with matters about which it is without power or authority to act; and error in court s ruling… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 107excess of jurisdiction — A case in which court has initially proceeded properly within its jurisdiction but steps out of jurisdiction in making of some order or in the doing of some judicial act. Olson v. District Court of Salt Lake County, 93 Utah 145, 71 P.2d 529, 534 …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 108excess policy — One that provides that the insurer is liable only for the excess above and beyond that which may be collected on other insurance. Brownsville Fabrics, Inc. v. Gulf Ins. Co., Tex.Civ.App., 550 S.W.2d 332, 337. See also excess clause …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 109excess profits tax — Tax levied on profits which are beyond the normal profits of a business and generally imposed in times of national emergency such as war to discourage profiteering. The Internal Revenue Code also imposes a tax on corporations who accumulate an… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 110excess-profits tax — noun : a tax imposed especially during war on business profits that are in excess of the average profits over a specified base period, of a specified rate of return on invested capital, or of a specified rate of return on certain military… …

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