Affirmative
81affirmative charge — The general affirmative charge is an instruction to the jury that, whatever the evidence may be, defendant cannot be convicted under the count in the indictment to which the charge is directed …
82affirmative pregnant — In common law pleading, an affirmative allegation implying some negative in favor of the adverse party …
83affirmative relief — Relief, benefit, or compensation which may be due and granted to defendant. Relief for which defendant might maintain an action independently of plaintiffs claim and on which he might proceed to recovery, although plaintiff abandoned his cause of …
84affirmative statute — A statute couched in affirmative or mandatory terms. One which directs the doing of an act, or declares what shall be done; as a negative statute is one which prohibits a thing from being done, or declares what shall not be done …
85affirmative action — Constructive action rather than mere negation. As the term is used in the National Labor Relations Act in authorizing affirmative action by the Labor Relations Board in ordering the reinstatement of an employee who was discharged for union… …
86affirmative easement — An easement which entitles the owner of the dominant tenement to use the servient tenement, or which clothes him with authority to do some act on the servient tenement which would otherwise be unlawful. Rights of way, and rights of discharge of… …
87affirmative pregnant — An allegation in the affirmative form implying a negative in favor of the adverse party. Such allegations are denounced as bad pleading because they are ambiguous. See Fields v State, 134 Ind 46, 32 NE 780 …
88affirmative easement — noun or affirmative servitude : positive easement …
89affirmative pregnant — noun in pleading : an affirmative allegation implying or not excluding some negative in favor of the adverse party …
90affirmative servitude — noun see affirmative easement …
