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Defined in 5 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

United States Code

26 U.S.C. § 4941 — for purposes of this section

The terms “correction” and “correct” mean, with respect to any act of self-dealing, undoing the transaction to the extent possible, but in any case placing the private foundation in a financial position not worse than that in which it would be if the disqualified person were dealing under the highest fiduciary standards.

26 U.S.C. § 4945 — for purposes of this section (2 versions over time)

The terms “correction” and “correct” mean, with respect to any taxable expenditure, (A) recovering part or all of the expenditure to the extent recovery is possible, and where full recovery is not possible such additional corrective action as is prescribed by the Secretary by regulations, or (B) in the case of a failure to comply with subsection (h)(2) or (h)(3), obtaining or making the report in question.

26 U.S.C. § 4951 — for purposes of this section

The terms “correction” and “correct” mean, with respect to any act of self-dealing, undoing the transaction to the extent possible, but in any case placing the trust in a financial position not worse than that in which it would be if the disqualified person were dealing under the highest fiduciary standards.

26 U.S.C. § 4952 — in this section

The terms “correction” and “correct” mean, with respect to any taxable expenditure, recovering part or all of the expenditure to the extent recovery is possible, and where full recovery is not possible, contributions by the person or persons whose liabilities for black lung benefit claims (as defined in section 192(e)) are to be paid out of the trust to the extent necessary to place the trust in a financial position not worse than that in which it would be if the taxable expenditure had not been made.

26 U.S.C. § 4955 — for purposes of this section

The terms “correction” and “correct” mean, with respect to any political expenditure, recovering part or all of the expenditure to the extent recovery is possible, establishment of safeguards to prevent future political expenditures, and where full recovery is not possible, such additional corrective action as is prescribed by the Secretary by regulations.

26 U.S.C. § 4958 — for purposes of this section (2 versions over time)

The terms “correction” and “correct” mean, with respect to any excess benefit transaction, undoing the excess benefit to the extent possible, and taking any additional measures necessary to place the organization in a financial position not worse than that in which it would be if the disqualified person were dealing under the highest fiduciary standards, except that in the case of any correction of an excess benefit transaction described in subsection (c)(2), no amount repaid in a manner prescribed by the Secretary may be held in any donor advised fund.

26 U.S.C. § 4975 — for purposes of this section

The terms “correction” and “correct” mean, with respect to a prohibited transaction, undoing the transaction to the extent possible, but in any case placing the plan in a financial position not worse than that in which it would be if the disqualified person were acting under the highest fiduciary standards.

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

HOUSE OF. A reformatory.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Chastisement, by one having authority, of a person « mmlte, for the purpose of Li. hiiu into legal subjection. It is chiefly exercised in a parental mannor by parents, or those who are placed in loco parentis. A parent may therefore justify the correction of the child either corporally or by confinement; and a schoolmast. t may justify similar correction; hut the correction in both cases must he moderate and in a proper manner; Com. Dig. Pleader, (3 -M.i P.); Hawk. c. 60, s. 23, c. ' 62, s. 2, C. 29, s. 5; Johnson v. State, 2 Humph, (Tenn, Am. Dee. 322; state v. Pen, dergrass, 19 N. 0. 365, 31 Am. Dec 416; Cook v. Neely, 143 Mo. App. 632, 128 B. W. 233. See Assault; Whipping. The master of an apprentice, for disob* lience, may correct him moderately; 1 B. & O. 469; Cro. Car. 179; Mitchell v. An. 10 Mart. O. S. (La.) 38; hut he cannot delegate the authority to another. A master has no right to correct his servants who are not apprentices; Matthews v. Terry, 10 Conn. 455; 2 Greenl. Ev. § 97; see Assault for cases of undue correction. A master may he found guilty of murder for whipping a servant so that he dies, although he has a right to inflict the punishment, and the Instrument is proper, if the punishment is so prolonged and barbarous as to indicate malice; State v. Shaw, 64 S. C. 566, 43 S. E. 14, 60 L. R. A. 801, 92 Am. St. Rep. 817. Soldiers were formerly liable to moderate correction from their superiors. For the sake of maintaining discipline in the navy, the captain of a vessel, belonging either to the United States or to private individuals, might formerly inflict moderate correction on a sailor for disobedience or disorderly conduct; Ah. Sh. 100; Brown v. Howard, 14 Johns. (X. Y.) 119; Sampson v. Smith, 15 Mass. 305; Flemming v. Ball. 1 Bay (S. C.) 3; Aertsen v. Aurora, Bee 161, Fed. Cas. No. 95; Thorne v. White, 1 Pet. Adm. 168, Fed. Cas. No. 13.9^9; Moll. 209; Turner's Case, 1 Ware S3. Fed. Cas. No. 14,2-lS. Such has been the ireneral rule. But Bogging and other degrading punishments are now forbidden in the army, navy, merchant service, and military prisons; R. S. §§ 1342, 1624, 4611, 1364. The husband, by the old law, might give his wife moderate correction; l Hawk. P. C. 2. But in later times this power of correction began to be doubted; and a wife may now have security of the peace against her husband, or a husband against his wife; 1 Bla. Com. 4 14; Stra. 478, 875, 1207; 2 Lev. 128. See Married WOidD ty guilty of an assault and battery and liable to all its consequences; Com. v. Randall, 4 Gray (Mass.) 36. See Assault. In some prisons, tbe keepers are permitted to correct the prisoners. The King's Council, in the minority of Henry VI. authorized a subject to chastise the king "when he trespasseth or doth amys." 3 Holdsw. Hist. E. L. 356.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Discipline; chastisement administered by a master or other person in authority to one who has committed an offense, for the purpose of curing his faults or bringing him into proper subjection.

Correction, house of. A prison for the reformation of petty or juvenile offenders.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Discipline; chastise ment administered by a master or other person in authority to one who has committed an offense, for the purpose of curing his faults or bringing him into proper subjeetion.