conference
Defined in 5 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Bouvier (1839)
United States Code
7 U.S.C. § 2255B — in this section (2 versions over time)
In this section, the term “conference”—
(1) means a meeting that—
(A) is held for consultation, education, awareness, or discussion;
(B) includes participants from at least one agency of the Department of Agriculture;
(C) is held in whole or in part at a facility outside of an agency of the Department of Agriculture; and
(D) involves costs associated with travel and lodging for some participants; and
(2) does not include any training program that is continuing education or a curriculum-based educational program, provided that such training program is held independent of a conference of a non-governmental organization.
28 U.S.C. § 639 — as used in this chapter
“Conference” shall mean the Judicial Conference of the United States;
42 U.S.C. § 12376 — for purposes of this subchapter
the term “Conference” means the 1993 White House Conference on Children, Youth, and Families; and
46 U.S.C. § 40102 — in this part
Conference.—The term “conference”—
(A) means an association of ocean common carriers permitted, pursuant to an approved or effective agreement, to engage in concerted activity and to use a common tariff; but
(B) does not include a joint service, consortium, pooling, sailing, or transshipment agreement.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
^^In French Law. A similarity between two laws or two systems of laws. In International Law. Verbal explanations between the representatives of at least two nations, for the purpose of accelerating matters by avoiding the delays and other difficulties necessarily attending written communications. In Legislation. Mutual consultations by two committees appointed, one by each house of a legislature, in cases where the houses cannot agree in their action. CONFESSIO FACTA IN JUDICIO OMNI probatione major est. A confession made in court is of greater effect than any proof. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 102.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A meeting of several persons for deliberation, for the interchange of opinion or for the removal of differencos or disputes. Thus, a meeting between a counsel and solicitor to advise on the cause of their client. In the practice of legislative bodies, when the two houses cannot agree upon a pending measure, each appoints a committee of "conference," and the committees meet and consult together for the purpose of removing differences, harmonizing conflicting views, and arranging a compromise which will be acoepted by both houses.
In international law. A personal meeting between the diplomatic agents of two or more powers, for the purpose of making statements and explanations that will obviate the delay and difficulty attending the more formal conduct of negotiations.
In French law. A concordance or identity between two laws or two systems of laws.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A meeting of several persons for deliberation, for the interchange of opinion, or for the removal of differences er disputes. Thus, a meeting between a counsel and solicitor to advise on the cause of their clieut. In the practice of legislative bodies, when the two houses cannot agres upon a pending mesure, each appoints a committee of “conference,” and the committees meet and consult together for the purpose of removing differences, harmonizing conflicting views, and arranging a compromise which will be accepted by both houses.
In international law. A personal meeting between the diplomatic agents of two or more powers, for the purpose of making statements and explanations that will obviate the delay and difficulty attending the more formal conduct of negotiations.
In French law. A concordance or identity between two laws or two systems of laws.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
practice, legislation. In practice, it is the meeting of the parties or their attorneys in a cause, for the purpose of endeavouring to settle the same. In legislation, when the senate and house of representatives cannot agree on a bill or resolution which it is desirable should be passed, committees are appointed by the two bodies respectively, who are called committees of conference, and whose duty tt 1s, if possible, to reconcile the differences between them. In the French law, this term is used to signify the similarity and comparison between two laws, or two systems of law; as the Roman and the common law. Encyclopédie, h. t.