legal education and practice

Command responsibility is a jurisprudential doctrine in international criminal law permitting the prosecution of military commanders for war crimes perpetrated by their subordinates.

• international criminal law
• war crimes

Article II Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, the Commander in Chief Clause, states that "[t]he President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service

• constitutional law
• President
• executive branch
• executive powers
• Article II powers

The Commerce Clause is Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, which gives Congress the power “to regulate commerce with foreign nations, among states, and with the Indian tribes.”

• commerce clause
• COMMERCE POWER
• interstate commerce
• U.S. CONSTITUTION
• constitutional law

Commerce power refers to Congress’s power to regulate the channels and instrumentalities of interstate commerce. 

• constitutional law

Commercial exploitation is a term referring to all activities used to benefit commercially from one's property. 

• Examples include making property, selling it, offering it for sale, or licensing its appropriation or use. 

Whether a party can commercially exploit their property depends on what kind of property it is and in what manner that property is owned. 

A commercial tort claim is a type of claim arising out of an action in tort.

• tort law

A commission is a fee or remuneration paid in return for services rendered.  Commission is often calculated as a percentage of the total transaction; a commission can be separate and in addition to fixed wages, or it can be the sole form of compensation, known as straight commission.

Community trusts are 501(c)(3) organizations designed to pool funds together to help fund projects in a community. These trusts can be used for a variety of needs such as scholarships, environmental projects, preservation, and affordable housing.

• trust

Comparative negligence is a tort principle used by the court to reduce the amount of damages that a plaintiff can recover in a negligence-based claim according to the degree of negligence each party contributed to the incident.

“Compare…with” is a signal used in legal writing that encourages the reader to compare at least two cited sources. Comparing the sources should either support or illuminate the author's preceding statements. 

This signal gets used as follows: Compare [source 1] with [source 2].