Search results for: “enforcement actions”
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Parties
Hello Hello Legal Definition and Related Resources of Parties Meaning of Parties Those named in an action either as plaintiffs or defendants, petitioners or respondents; those who take part or are directly interested in any affair, contract or […]
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Exhibit
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Exhibit Meaning of Exhibit A paper, document, drawing, photograph, article that is produced and exhibited to a court during a trial or hearing , as evidence . As a verb, the term means to present as to […]
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Tenant
One who holds, uses or enjoys the property of another with his consent or by his permission or letting. In a narrower but more popular sense, a lessee . In order to constitute a tenant in the sense of a lessee, he must be in possession under a lease , written or oral, express or…
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Abuse of Process
A perverted use of legal process; occurs where a party employs legal process for some unlawful object, not for the purpose intended by law. Issuing or launching legal process frivolously, without any cause of action, to gain a collateral advantage. To improperly use legal process or pervert […]
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Auditor
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Auditor Meaning of Auditor One who is qualified to examine and scrutinize accounts. One who officially examines and allows as proper and lawful , or rejects as unlawful , the items of an account or […]
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Pledge
A bailment of personal property as a security for some debt or engagement, the property being redeemable on specified terms and subject to sale in the event of default. See Mechanics & T. Ins. Co. v Kiger, 103 U.S. 352, 26 L.Ed. 433. A form of vadium which occurs where goods or chattels are […]
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Pledge
A bailment of personal property as a security for some debt or engagement, the property being redeemable on specified terms and subject to sale in the event of default. See Mechanics & T. Ins. Co. v Kiger, 103 U.S. 352, 26 L.Ed. 433. A form of vadium which occurs where goods or chattels are […]
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Emu
EMU in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of EMU.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Policeman Law Enforcement Agency Further Reading EMU in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement […]
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Emu
EMU in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of EMU.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Policeman Law Enforcement Agency Further Reading EMU in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement […]
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Semi-conductor
Semi-conductor in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, semi-conductor is: a dispute with the United States and Japan brought before the GATT Council by the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1986. The case made by the EEC stemmed from an arrangement made between the United States and Japan […]
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Semi-conductor
Semi-conductor in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, semi-conductor is: a dispute with the United States and Japan brought before the GATT Council by the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1986. The case made by the EEC stemmed from an arrangement made between the United States and Japan […]
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Not Guilty
The proper form of plea to a criminal charge for an accused wishing to deny the charge. By such a plea, he is denying the entire case of the prosecution and laying upon it the burden of proving its case. This plea puts in issue all material facts of the case and all of the…
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Insanity
Unsoundness of mind; madness. Mental alienation or derangement of mind. Legal insanity which exonerates from crime or incapacitates from civil actions is a mental deficiency with reference to the particular act in question and not a general incapacity. In criminal law it connotes a […]
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Civil Action
One founded on private rights . Western union v Taylor, 11 S.E. 396, 84 Ga. 408. Encompasses equitable or legal relief or both. Luddington v Merrill, 71 A. 504, 81 Conn. 400.