Law Dictionary

authority to compel the creation of handwriting exemplars.

evidence, the statement made by a witness under oath or affirmation. Vide Bill to rpetuate testimony.

The term “testing date” means the earliest date on which all of the following requirements are met: (i) The indebtedness is federally-subsidized indebtedness. (ii) The taxpayer is

The term “testing period” means the period beginning with the month in which the qualified HSA distribution is contributed to the health savings account and ending on the last day

The term “testing program” means the alcohol and controlled substances testing program required under title 49, Code of Federal Regulations.

A witness.

4 Inst. 279. An eye-witness is preferred to others.

An eye-witness outweighs the others.

Moore, 817. A lewd person is a sufficient witness to an act committed in a brothel.

No one can be a witness in his own cause.

No one can be a witness in his own cause.

One eye-witness is worth more than ten ear-witnesses.

4 Inst. 279. One eye-witness is worth more than ten ear-witnesses.

The fact by of which aright comes into existence; a grant of a monopoly, the death of one’s x. Toll. Jur. 132.

This is an old and barbarous French word, signifying, in the old books, evidence. Comyn, Dig. TESTMOIGNES NE POENT TESTIFIE le negative, mes I'affirmative. Witnesses cannot witness

Witnesses cannot testify to a negative, but they may to an affirmative.

Witnesses cannot testify to a negative; they must testify to an affirmative, 4 Inst. 279.

An oath required as a condition precedent to the right to fill a public office. Generally, an oath of present allegiance, or of denial of connection with some past insurrection.

the test of a jury case is simply whether the proofs justify with reason the conclusion that employer negligence played any part, even the slightest, in producing the injury or dea

The true test of a commercial usage is, its having existed long enough to have become generally known, and to warrant a presumption that contracts are made in reference to it.

By the terms of the Employers' Liability Act the true test is the nature of the work being done at the time of the injury, and the mere expectation that plaintiff would presently b

It is the effect upon the interstate commerce or its regulation, regardless of the particular form which the competition may take, which is the test of federal power

It is when the change in the stream is sudden, or violent, and visible, that the title remains the same. It is not enough that the change may be discerned by comparison at two dist

The test of the outcome—is the Government merely a temporary occupier of an unexpired leasehold or has it absorbed the term of the lease?

any requirement that a person as a prerequisite for voting or registration for voting (1) demonstrate the ability to read, write, understand, or interpret any matter, (2) demonstra

In this section, the term “test organization” means a test organization of the Major Range and Test Facility Base specified in Department of Defense Directive 3200.11 or any succes

The term "test or training range" means an area designated for operating unmanned maritime systems and other types of systems for the purpose of— (i) evaluating the perfo

A paper submitted to the jury as a test or standard by which to determine the genuineness of other writings. raised concerning it. See 14 N. Y. 439; 1 Greenl. Ev. §581.

For purposes of this paragraph, except as provided in regulations, the term “test-period beneficiary” means any person who is an owner or a principal user of facilities being finan

“test platform” means any floating or moored platform, barge, ship, or other vessel which is designed for limited-scale, at sea operation in order to test or evaluate the operation

The term “test range” means a defined geographic area where research and development are conducted as authorized by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, and in

See Precipitin Test.

any requirement that a person as a prerequisite for voting or registration for voting (1) demonstrate the ability to read, write, understand, or interpret any matter, (2) demonstra

The term “test weight” and the abbreviation “tw” mean the vehicle curb weight added to the gross vehicle weight rating (gvwr) and divided by 2.

One who holds; a holder, especially of lands or tenements; in the largest sense, one who holds lands or tenements by any kind of title, whether for years, for life, or in fee. Tena

I. I In old English law. A tenement; a thing held by service; an estate which a tenant holds of a lord; a corporeal thing held of another, — a thing capable of being viewed, entere

A word of greater extent than land, and though in popular acceptation it applies only to houses and other buildings, yet in its original, proper, and legal sense it signifies every

any book or book substitute which a pupil uses as a text or text substitute in a particular class or program in the school he regularly attends.

A legal treatise which lays down principles or collects decisions on any branch of the law.

books, reusable workbooks, or manuals, whether bound or in looseleaf form, intended for use as a principal source of study material for a given class or group of students, a copy o

The term “fiber” or “textile fiber” means a unit of matter which is capable of being spun into a yarn or made into a fabric by bonding or by interlacing in a variety of methods inc

The term “textile fiber product” means— (1) any fiber, whether in the finished or unfinished state, used or intended for use in household textile articles; (2) any yarn or fabric,

The term “textile or apparel good” means a good listed in the Annex to the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing referred to in section 3511(d)(4) of this title, other than a good lis

The term “Textiles Agreement” means the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing referred to in section 3511(d)(4) of this title .

The term "text message"— (i) means a message consisting of text, images, sounds, or other information that is transmitted to or from a device that is identified as the re

The term "text messaging service" means a service that enables the transmission or receipt of a text message, including a service provided as part of or in connection wit

In old English law. The Rochester text. An ancient manuscript containing many of the Saxon laws, and the rights, customs, tenures, etc., of the church of Rochester, drawn up by Ern

1 1. In old English law. A wall; a sea-wall^ a mound, bank or wall erected as a protection against the sea.

Inforestlaw. Thefawning season of deer.

Fraus meretur fraudem. Plowd. 100. Fraud merits fraud.

or THANELAND. In old English law. The land which was granted hy the Saxon kings to their thains or thanes was so called. Crabb, Com. Law, 10.

A silver coin of Germany. The composition and value of this piece formerly varied considerably in different portions of the country, — the value ranging from ninety-five to- one hu

The 'Thalweg,' or downway, is the track taken by boats in their course down the stream, which is that of the strongest current.

That portion of the king's land of which a thane {a. v.) was the ruler or governor was termed " thanage of the king." Cowel.

In old English law. A certain part of the king's land or property, of which the ruler or governor was called "thane." Cowell; Blount.

In Saxon Law. A word which sometimes signifies a nobleman, at others a freeman, a magistrate, an officer, or minister. A tenant of the part of the king’s lands called the king’s “t

Such lands as were granted by charter of the Saxon kings to their thanes with all immunities, except from the trinoda necessitas. Cowell.

The office and dignity of a thane; the seigniory of a thane.

exactly the same thing as for a less sum of ■ money -than one dollar.

not "more "than twenty dollars per acre.

maintaining a prompt, sure, steady, and reliable service designed to place the daily events of the world at the breakfast table of the millions at a price that, while of trifling m

ten licensed physicians, appointed by the Board of Regents.

the State to "provid[e] " respondent with the laboratory report, " " in addition to moving to retry him within 60 days, " Davis, " 421 U.S., at 483 , 95 S.Ct. 1748 (emphasis added)

the application and the policy issued in pursuance thereof.

two judges, any one of whom is capable of performing judicial duties.

a tube adapted to slip upon a rope, and having on one of its sides an enlargement with interior screw-threads.

an operator undertakes to serve a carrier who is serving the public.

those issued under "the Alaska Anadromous Fish Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water and Clean Air acts, and the Protection of Wetlands, to name a few"); Dept.

the collection and' reduction to money of the 'assets of the bank, and the payment of creditors equally and ratably so far as the assets prove sufficient.

a person meets the basic statutory qualifications and (unless a disability diminishes) never goes away.

a large amount of testimony and of a correspondence by letter between the parties for a period of several years.

the pre-Constitution practice of using ""ex parte "examinations as evidence against the accused." " Ibid.

the fraud or misrepresentation for which waiver is sought, alluded to, through citation of § 1182 (a) (6)(G)(i), in the prologue.

an indigent defendant's loss of personal liberty through imprisonment.

the employment or use of deflecting plates, — one or two, — placed at the sides of a circular saw, for the purpose of enlarging or expanding the saw kerf to prevent the sawed stuff

the removing defendant to "show a nexus, a ' "causal connection" between the charged conduct and asserted official authority.' " Jefferson County v. Acker, 527 U. S. 423, 431 (1999

exactly what it says—i.e., no appeal from a motion in bar is to be granted after jeopardy attaches.

that if a State can achieve the same interest through other means, even if using race would allow it to achieve that interest in some (or even most) circumstances more effectively

the difference between the price paid at the North Dakota elevator and the market price, with an allowance for freight, at the Minnesota points to which the grain was shipped and s

those persons who desire to view television programs at times other than when they are broadcast, and who therefore purchase VTR recorders to enable them to time-shift.

recognizing that a business devoted to the sale of highly explicit sexual material can be found to be engaged in the marketing of obscenity, even though each book or film it sells

the supremacy of the authority of the United States when any conflict arises between the two governments.

any crime of violence (as defined in [ 18 U. S. C. § 16 ])" committed by certain persons, including spouses, former spouses, and parents.

a charge is filed with the EEOC alleging that an employer has engaged in an unlawful employment practice.

the certificate of a person who styles himself clerk of Baltimore county Court, that the paper to which his certificate is annexed, is a copy of a deed taken from the records of th

several tracts of land and the improvements put upon them, as is said, by community funds.

the statement signed by the master, mates and wheelman, and the declaration of the notary that he protests at the request of the master, as well on his own behalf as on the behalf

substantial-evidence review of the BIA's determination that Elias-Zacarias was ineligible for asylum.

an enhanced penalty for each and every § 924(c) count of conviction beyond a defendant's frst—even if those convictions were part of the same criminal prosecution.

part of a court-ordered reorganization and consolidation of 11 independent school districts in northern New Castle County.

the jury can consider relevant mitigating evidence of the character and record of the defendant and the circumstances of the crime.

the uninterrupted enjoyment of the possession.

reasonable jurists could debate whether (or, for that matter, agree that) the petition should have been resolved in a different manner." Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U. S. 473, 484 (2000

judicial inquiry into not only an organization's "motivations" but also its "activities." Id., at 33, 3 N. W. 3d, at 682.

the provision that wherever a lawful lower price of a competitor threatens to deprive a seller of a customer, the seller, to retain that customer, may in good faith meet that lower

the changes that its Provisional Plan set forth-but as applied only to registration for federal elections.

not only contributions made directly or indirectly to a candidate, political party, or campaign committee, and contributions made to other organizations or individuals but earmarke

various communications and reports, made to the bank, of their own transactions, and of the admissions of parties.

the employment or use of elastic clamps attached to the ordinary adjustable and elastic beds, between which the stuff is fed to the saw.

the employment or use of knives or cutters secured to the adjustable beds, and so arranged as to cut or smooth off the rough and projecting sides of the stuff at the ends, making i