1. A cruel and unusual punishment for masochistic first-year law students interested in furthering their competitive instincts in another academic venue.
2. The method by which egomaniacal law professors can get away with lazy academic work and/or inattention to detail.
Law reviews and student law journals feast on first-years willing to put in the requisite hours to subcite. Subciting entails verifying both the technical and substantive aspects of citations.
Subsidiarity: the concession by which the sovereign parliaments of member-countries of the EU are required to pass into law those rules, regulations etc which have already been legislated in Brussels.
Eurocrat dictator in Brussels - " the EU imperialist project is in grave danger, Senor Barosso. The Irish might vote No to the Lisbon Treaty!"
Barosso - "Don't worry Pierre, I got da boys down da Vatican hittin''em up on prime time TV with a dose of good ol' fashioned subsidiarity til dey give us a Yes."
Paying part of the cost of producing (something) to reduce prices for the buyer.
I am going to stop paying my taxes so that the government doesn't subsidize my money towards constructing highways, which would benefit one part of the population at the cost of another.