lodestar

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A star used as a navigation reference, particularly a pole star such as Polaris.

   “Tho when her ways he could no more descry, But to and fro at disaventure strayd; Like as a ship, whose lodestarre, suddenly Covered with cloudes, her pilot hath dismayd”

2. isim A guiding tenet or principle.

   “Selfe loue, to him ſelf tender, to the reſt tough, / Is, of iuſt iuſtice, neither roote, braunce, nor bough. / Loue (namely ſelfe loue) corruptibly growyng, / Is cheefe lodeſter of lets, in iuſtice ſhowing.”

3. isim A calculated amount to award as attorney's fees derived by multiplying the reasonable number of hours spent working on a case by the reasonable hourly billing rate.

   “Many, though not all, of the objections to lodestars seem to us to be overstated.”