Affair
English Spanish Translation of Affair
Asunto
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What does Affair mean in American Law?
The definition of Affair in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:
Any matter of concern, including business (“man of affairs”); government (“affairs of state,” “public affairs”); social relationships of divers kinds, e.g., (“They gave a big affair [i.e., party] in connection with the engagement,” “He had an affair [i.e., sexual dalliance] with Cornu’s wife”); and various combinations (e.g., the great political crisis surrounding the attempt by Henry VIII to divorce Catherine of Aragon in order to marry Anne Boleyn, which eventuated in the English break with the Papacy,
was called by contemporaries, perhaps with consciousness of the pun, “The King’s Great Affair”). (“Affair” is still French for “lawsuit.”)
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Grammar
This term is a noun.
Etimology of Affair
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c. 1300, “what one has to do, ordinary business,” from Anglo-French afere, Old French afaire “business, event; rank, estate” (12c., Modern French affaire), from the infinitive phrase à faire “to do,” from Latin ad “to” (see ad-) + facere “to do, make” (from PIE root *dhe- “to set, put”). According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), a Northern word originally, brought into general use and given a French spelling by Caxton (15c.). General sense of “vague proceedings” (in romance, war, etc.) first attested 1702. Meaning “an affair of the heart; a passionate episode” is from French affaire de coeur (itself attested as a French phrase in English from 1809); to have an affair with someone in this sense is by 1726, earlier have an affair of love: ‘Tis manife_tly contrary to the Law of Nature, that one Woman _hould cohabit or have an Affair of Love with more than one Man at the _ame time. [”Pufendorf’s Law of Nature and Nations,” transl. J. Spavan, London, 1716] Related: Affairs.
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