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  • “severe form of trafficking in persons” has the meaning given the term in section 7102 of title 22 . / "severe form of trafficking in persons" has the meaning given the t

  • The term “severe forms of trafficking in persons” has the meaning given the term in section 7102 of title 22 . / The terms “severe forms of trafficking in persons” and “sex traffic

  • The term "severely disabled individual" means an individual who is blind (as defined in section 8501 of title 41) or a severely disabled individual (as defined in such se

  • The term “severely distressed public housing” means a public housing project (or building in a project)— (A) that— (i) requires major redesign, reconstruction or redevelopment, or

  • The term "severely financially distressed employer" means an eligible employer as defined in paragraph (2), determined by substituting "less than 10 percent" fo

  • The terms “other severely handicapped” and “severely handicapped individuals” mean an individual or class of individuals under a physical or mental disability, other than blindness

  • The term “severe marine debris event” means atypically large amounts of marine debris caused by a natural disaster, including a tsunami, flood, landslide, or hurricane, or other so

  • Severe mental pain or suffering defined.—In this section, the term “severe mental pain or suffering” has the meaning given that term in section 2340(2) of title 18. / The term “sev

  • The term “severe physical problems” means, with respect to a dwelling unit, that the unit— (i) lacks hot or cold piped water, a flush toilet, or both a bathtub and a shower in the

  • The term “severe repetitive loss structure” means a structure that— (A) is covered under a contract for flood insurance made available under this chapter; and (B) has incurred floo

  • In this subparagraph, the term “severe wound” means a stage 3 wound, stage 4 wound, unstageable wound, non-healing surgical wound, infected wound, fistula, osteomyelitis, or wound

  • the term “severity incident” means an incident in which a covered employee is pre-positioned in an area in which conditions indicate there is a high risk of wildfires.

  • In this section, the term “severity of need index” means the index of the relative needs of individuals within a State or area, as identified by a number of different factors, and

  • Refuse flowing from 'sewers' in a 'liquid state' means to us 'sewage.

  • Where the effluent water from a sewage farm flows into a pool, the cleansing, levelling, and concreting the bottom of that pool to prevent the accumulation of sewage is a work for

  • the term “sewage sludge” means any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste generated by a wastewater treatment plant, other than an excluded material. / For purposes of this section, the

  • One who guards the sea-coast; custos maris.

  • A subterranean passage for drainage, usually constructed and maintained by a municipal corporation. Properly, a trench artificially made for the purpose of carrying water into the

  • The name of certain English courts created by commission under the great seal pursuant to the statute of sewers, (23 Hen. VIII. ¢. 5.)

  • in Title VII, although it coyly suggests that there is at least some support for a different and potentially relevant definition.

  • In ecclesiastical law. The second Sunday before Lent, being about the sixtieth day before Easter.

  • Lat. The action did not accrue within six years. The emphatic words of the old plea of the statute of limitations, hterally translated in the modem forms, and retained as the disti

  • The name of the plea of the statute of limitations, when the defendant alleges that the plaintiff's action has not acerued within six years. Actio non datur non damnificato. An act

  • the term “sex crime” means an act of sexual abuse that is a criminal act;

  • In Saxon law. The middle thanes, valued at 600s.

  • a person who was convicted of a "sex offense." § 16911(1).

  • The term "sex offender registry" means a registry of sex offenders, and a notification program, maintained by a jurisdiction. / The term “sex offender registry” means a r

  • The term “sex offender under SORNA” has the meaning given the term “sex offender” in section 111 of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 ( 42 U.S.C. 16911 ). 1 /

  • Except as limited by subparagraph (B) or (C), the term “sex offense” means— (i) a criminal offense that has an element involving a sexual act or sexual contact with another; (ii) a

  • The term “sex offense against a minor” means a specified offense against a minor, as defined in section 111 of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 ( 42 U.S.C. 16

  • In this section, the term “sex-related offense” means any of the following: (1) Rape or sexual assault under subsection (a) or (b) of section 920 of this title (article 120 of the

  • Lat. In Roman law. A subdivision of the as, containing two unciæ; the proportion of two-tvvelfths> or one-sixth. '2 Bl. Conun. 462, note.

  • In old records. An ancient measure of liquids, and of dry commodities; a quarter or seain. Spelman.

  • Lands given to a church for maintenance of a sexton.—Cowell.

  • An attendant or care-taker in a church building, usually with care of the attached burying ground. A woman may be a sexton; 2 Stra. 1114.

  • The terms “severe forms of trafficking in persons” and “sex trafficking” have the meanings given, respectively, in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 2

  • The term "sex trafficking of a minor" means an offense described in section 1591(a) of title 18 or a comparable State law, against a minor. / The term "sex trafficki

  • The term “sex trafficking victim” means a victim of— (A) sex trafficking (as defined in section 7102(10) 1 of title 22); or (B) a severe form of trafficking in persons described in

  • The sixth decretal.

  • the term “sexual abuse” includes the employment, use, persuasion, inducement, enticement, or coercion of a child to engage in, or assist another person to engage in, sexually expli

  • The term “sexual act” means— (A) the penetration, however slight, of the penis into the vulva or anus or mouth; (B) contact between the mouth and the penis, vulva, scrotum, or anus

  • The terms “domestic violence”, “sexual assault”, “child abuse and neglect”, “dating violence”, “elder abuse”, and “stalking” have the meaning given such terms in section 3 of the V

  • The term “sexual assault dispute” means a dispute involving a nonconsensual sexual act or sexual contact, as such terms are defined in section 2246 of title 18 or similar applicabl

  • The term "sexual assault forensic examination" means an examination of a sexual assault patient by a health care provider, who has specialized education and clinical expe

  • The term "sexual assault forensic examiner" or "SAFE" means an individual who has specialized forensic training in treating sexual assault survivors and conduct

  • The term "sexual assault nurse examiner" or "SANE" means a registered or advanced practice nurse who has specialized training conducting medical forensic examin

  • The term "sexual assault response team" or "SART" means a multidisciplinary team that— (A) provides a specialized and immediate response to survivors of sexual

  • The term "sexual assault with an object" means the use of any hand, finger, object, or other instrument to penetrate, however slightly, the genital or anal opening of the

  • acts of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse, or physical contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, public area, buttocks or, if such person be a female, br

  • The term “sexual contact” means touching, or causing another person to touch, either directly or through the clothing, the vulva, penis, scrotum, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh,

  • the condition of human male or female genitals when in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal.

  • The term "sexual fondling" means the touching of the private body parts of another person (including the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks) for the

  • The term “sexual harassment” means conduct that constitutes the offense of sexual harassment as punishable under section 934 of this title (article 134) pursuant to the regulations

  • The term “sexual harassment dispute” means a dispute relating to conduct that is alleged to constitute sexual harassment under applicable Federal, Tribal, or State law. / The term

  • Ordinary and complete intercourse, not imperfect or partial. See 28 Am. Dec 448, note.

  • “sexually dangerous person” means a person who has engaged or attempted to engage in sexually violent conduct or child molestation and who is sexually dangerous to others; and / Th

  • The term “sexually explicit conduct” means actual or simulated genital-genital contact, oral-genital contact, anal-genital contact, or oral-anal contact, whether between persons of

  • The term “sexually explicit material” means an audio recording, a film or video recording, or a periodical with visual depictions, produced in any medium, the dominant theme of whi

  • In this subsection, the term “sexually oriented material” means any material that depicts sexually explicit conduct (as that term is defined in section 2256 of title 18 ), unless t

  • As used in this section, the term “sexually related mail matter” means any matter which is within the scope of section 3008(a) or 3010(d) of title 39.

  • The term “sexually reproduced” includes any production of a variety by seed, but does not include the production of a variety by tuber propagation.

  • The term “sexually violent offense” means any criminal offense in a range of offenses specified by State law which is comparable to or which exceeds the range of offenses encompass

  • The term “sexually violent predator” means a person who has been convicted of a sexually violent offense and who suffers from a mental abnormality or personality disorder that make

  • Nothing in this section creates a cause of action or a right to bring an action, including an action based on discrimination due to sexual orientation. As used in this section, the

  • such a manner as to be, in the judgment of the Board, likely to incite or encourage delinquency or sexual promiscuity on the part of young persons.' A film is so "likely to incite

  • The term "sexual violence" means any nonconsensual sexual act or contact proscribed by the criminal law of the Indian tribe that has jurisdiction over the Indian country

  • (L. Lat.) In old English law. Seisin; possession of lands; or of a freehold estate in lands. Bract, fol. 38b, 39.

  • I. I. In old English law. To take; to take possession; to seisa

  • In the civil law, an abbreviation of sine fraude sua, without fraud on his part. S. P. An abbreviation of sine prole, without issue. An abbreviation of "same point," or "same princ

  • COMMON OF. The right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle after harvest to feed promiscuously in such field.

  • Iron bands fastened on the ankles of a prisoner and joined by a chain.

  • must,' cf. Merced Rosa v. Herrero, 423 F.2d 591 , 593 n. 2 (CA1, 1970), yet the judge who called for the three-judge court here was not named to the panel.

  • to deliver to the office, and not send through the United States mails.

  • at least that the statement shall be definite, concise, and complete as distinguished from discursive, argumentative, obscure, or fragmentary.

  • the Commissioner of the Land Office; but the proviso that " should the applicant fail to make his first payment .

  • Pallio cooperlre. Literally, to cover with a cloth. The phrase refers to an ancient English custom, according to which, when parents of children born out of wedlock afterwards inte

  • shamdefined inCase Law

    The Government may look at actualities and upon determination that the form employed for doing business or carrying out the challenged tax event is unreal or a sham may sustain or

  • One that is false. See 70 Am. Dec. 635, note.

  • In so far as the contracts in question here use words fit for a contract of purchase, they are mere shams and devices to cover loans of money at usurious rates of interest. Loans a

  • One which is so clearly false in fact that it does not in reality involve any matter of substantial litigation. See 70 Am. Dec. 635, note.

  • There may be situations in which a publicity campaign, ostensibly directed toward influencing governmental action, is a mere sham to cover what is actually nothing more than an att

  • One which is palpably false in fact, though it be good in f orrti.

  • One good in form, but false in fact; one entered for delay and concerning matter which the pleader knows to be false. See 14 Colo. 65, 20 Am. St. Rep. 253, 23 Pac. 90.

  • [T]here was nothing of substance to be realized by Knetsch from this transaction beyond a tax deduction. What he was ostensibly 'lent' back was in reality only the rebate of a subs

  • Procuring or inducing, or attempting to do so, by force, or threats, or by representations which one knows or believes to be untrue, or while the person is intoxicated or under the

  • The term "shapefile" means a digital storage format containing geospatial or location-based data and attribute information— (A) regarding the availability of broadband in

  • The property or interest of a stockholder in an incorporated bank, commonly called a share, the shares in their aggregate totality being called sometimes the capital stock of the b

  • In equal shares or proportions.

  • A share-certificate is an instrument under the seal of the company, certifying that the person therein named is entitled to a certain number of shares; it is pnma facte evidence of

  • The term “shared appreciation provision” means any provision— (i) which is in connection with an obligation which is held by the real estate investment trust and is secured by an i

  • the term “shared employee” means an employee who is paid by more than one employing authority of the House of Representatives. / the term “shared employee” means an employee who is

  • For purposes of this paragraph, the term “shared equity financing agreement” means an agreement under which— (i) 2 or more persons acquire qualified ownership interests in a dwelli

  • The term “shared health facility” means any arrangement whereby— (A) two or more health care practitioners practice their professions at a common physical location; (B) such practi

  • In this section, the term “shared medical facility”— (1) means a building or buildings, or a campus, intended to be used by both the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Departme

  • The term "shared mobile service contract"— (A) means a mobile service contract for an account that includes not less than 2 consumers; and (B) does not include enterprise

  • The term “shared route” means a route that was a segment of more than 1 historic trail, including a route shared with an existing national historic trail.

  • For purposes of subsections (b) and (c), the term “shareholder” includes a holder of rights or of convertible securities. / The term “shareholder” includes a member in an associati

  • For purposes of subparagraph (B), the term “shareholder-employee” means an employee or officer of an S corporation who owns (or is considered as owning within the meaning of sectio

  • As used in this subparagraph, the terms “shares” and “shareholders” shall include beneficial interests and holders of beneficial interests, respectively.

  • The term “share-in-savings contract” means a contract under which— (A) a contractor provides solutions for— (i) improving the agency's mission-related or administrative processes;