What is CLASSIFICATION? Definition of CLASSIFICATION in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
A grouping into classes. Davison v. Parke Austin & Lipscomb, 19 N.Y.S.2d 117, 121, 173 Misc. 782.
It is the grouping of things in speculation or practice because they agree with one another in certain particulars and differ from other things in those particulars. Southern Package Corporation v. State Tax Commission, 164 So. 45, 47, 174 Miss. 212; Anderson v. Board of Public Instruction of Hillsborough County, 102 Fla, 695, 136 So. 334. The putting together of like subjects or facts under common designation, Tuttle v. Board of Education of Salt Lake City, 77 Utah, 270, 294 P. 294, 299.
The word may have two meanings, one primarily signifying a division required by statutes, fundamental and substantial, and the other secondary, signifying an arrangement or enumeration adopted for convenience only. In re Wichita Falls & Southern Ry. Co., D.C.Tex., 30 F.Supp. 750, 751.
In the practice of the English chancery division, where an administration action, it appears to the judge (or chief clerk) that any of the parties form a class having the same interest, he may require them to be represented by one solicitor, to prevent expense of each attending by separate solicitors. In practice the term is also applied to the directions given by the chief clerk as to which of the parties are to attend on each of the accounts and inquiries directed by the judgment. Sweet.
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