Issue

Issue in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of issue.

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Issue

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c. 1300, “an exit,” from Old French issue “a way out, a going out, exit; final event,” from femenine past participle of issir “to go out,” from Latin exire “go out, go forth; become public; flow, gush, pour forth” (source also of Italian uscire, Catalan exir), from ex- “out” (see ex-) + ire “to go,” from PIE root *ei- (1) “to go” (see ion). Meaning “discharge of blood or other fluid from the body” is from 1520s; sense of “offspring, children” is from late 14c. Meaning “outcome of an action, consequence, result” is attested from late 14c., probably from this sense in French. Meaning “action of sending into publication or circulation” is from 1833. Legal sense developed from the notion of “end or result of pleadings in a suit (by presentation of the point to be determined by trial),” hence “the controversy over facts in a trial” (early 14c., Anglo-French) and transferred sense “point of contention between two parties” (early 15c.) and the general sense “an important point to be decided” (1836). Hence also the verbal phrase take issue with (1797, earlier join issue, 1690s) “take up an affirmative or negative position in a dispute with another.” To have issues “have unresolved conflicts” is by 1990.

Resources

See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Work
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• issue in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• issue in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

Issue Definition (in the Accounting Vocabulary)

The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants offers the following definition of Issue in a way that is easy for anybody to understand: Stock or BONDS sold by a CORPORATION or a government entity at a particular time.

Issue Meaning in the U.S. Court System

A disputed point between parties in a lawsuit. (2) To send out officially, as in a court issuing an order.

Meaning of Issue in the U.S. Legal System

Definition of Issue published by the National Association for Court Management, with alternative senses: (1) The disputed point in a disagreement between parties in a lawsuit. (2) To send out officially, as in to issue an order.

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