Search results for: “non state actors”
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Adviser
What does Adviser mean in American Law? The definition of Adviser in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is: Anyone who gives advice, but more frequently a person who does so on a regular basis, e.g., a lawyer, [an] investment […]
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Accounts Payable
Money owed to suppliers….
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Neutrality of Media
Neutrality of Media in Voting Law Definition of Neutrality of Media in the context of the United States election law: Principle by which media outlets, particularly during an election period, provide fair, impartial nondiscriminatory and equal coverage of electoral events and present various […]
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Neutrality of Media
Neutrality of Media in Voting Law Definition of Neutrality of Media in the context of the United States election law: Principle by which media outlets, particularly during an election period, provide fair, impartial nondiscriminatory and equal coverage of electoral events and present various […]
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Public Outreach
Public Outreach in Voting Law Definition of Public Outreach in the context of the United States election law: Provision of information to populations who might not otherwise have access to it. In many cases, groups providing information are not stationary but mobile. Outreach has an […]
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Public Outreach
Public Outreach in Voting Law Definition of Public Outreach in the context of the United States election law: Provision of information to populations who might not otherwise have access to it. In many cases, groups providing information are not stationary but mobile. Outreach has an […]
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Rules
Certain limits without the actual walls of the prison, where the prisoner, on proper security previously given to the proper authority, may reside. These limits are considered, for all legal and practical purposes, as merely a further extension of the prison walls. A general principle of […]
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Building Code
A set of regulations, usually municipal but sometimes statewide, providing, in various degrees of detail, specifications for the construction of buildings, enacted to insure certain levels of safety and convenience. It is usually provided that a building permit must be procured before beginning […]
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Credibility
In a witness. Worthiness of belief, as distinguished from competency or capacity to testify. …
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Yellow Book
Yellow Book Definition (in the Accounting Vocabulary)The The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants offers the following definition of Yellow Book in a way that is easy for anybody to understand: Written by the GENERAL ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE, the yellow book sets forth standards […]
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Stock Options
Stock Options Definition (in the Accounting Vocabulary)The The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants offers the following definition of Stock Options in a way that is easy for anybody to understand: Right to purchase or sell a specified number of shares of stock at specified […]
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Antagonistic cooperation
A relationship between or among persons in which they join their efforts to produce something of value to the participants, while at the same time being in conflict over other things, most particularly the division among themselves of the product of their joint efforts. The term has some […]
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Popular Definitions A-Z
Popular Legal Definitions A-Z Welcome to the Legal Dictionary Browse thousands of legal terms and phrases selected by the Lawi Project editors and suggest new words for the largest law dictionary of the world. Dictionary Popular Legal Terms: A absolute divorce absolute estate accessory contract act actual damages actual fraud adjective law administrative law administrative…