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  • The term "technical assistance and support" includes— (A) assistance with— (i) identifying appropriate analytical methods for the detection of contaminants; (ii) understa

  • The term “technical assistance costs” means costs incurred for the use of existing personnel or the temporary employment of other qualified personnel (or both such types of personn

  • the term “technical assistance grants” means funding by multilateral development banks of services from the United States in connection with projects and programs supported by such

  • The term “technical assistance program costs” means the costs of carrying out a technical assistance program.

  • The term “technical data” means recorded information (regardless of the form or method of the recording) of a scientific or technical nature (including computer software documentat

  • In this section, the term “technical data with military or space application” means any blueprints, drawings, plans, instructions, computer software and documentation, or other tec

  • the term “Technical Documents” means the 7 documents which comprise the technical appendix to the Settlement Agreement and are dated August 27, 1988; / the term “Technical Document

  • An abstract and harmless error. See 102 Ind. 539. Teinds. Tithes, which see.

  • that Act was intended to prevent matters concerned with the mere etiquette of trials and with the formalities and minutiae of procedure from touching the merits of a verdict

  • In the patent context, 'technical fraud' encompasses 'an honest mistake as to the effect of prior installation upon patentability'; such good faith constitutes a complete defense t

  • A true and formal mortgage, as distinguished from other instruments which, in some respecte, have the character of equitable mortgages. Harrison v. Annapolis & E. R. R. Co., 50 Md.

  • The term “technical rectifications” means rectifications of an editorial character or minor technical or clerical changes which do not affect the substance or meaning of the text,

  • The term “technical regulation” means a document which lays down product characteristics or their related processes and production methods, including the applicable administrative

  • The term “Technical Secretariat” means the Technical Secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons established by the Chemical Weapons Convention.

  • “Technical services” means activities or programs designed to enable businesses, commerce, and industrial establishments to acquire and use scientific and engineering information m

  • The term “technical standard” has the meaning given such term in section 12(d)(4) 1 of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995. / The term “technical standard”

  • all nonacademic admissions criteria that are essential to participation in the program in question.

  • It was a perishable cargo, and much injured by the accident, though it does not appear to be to the amount of one half its value; and it was liable to still farther deterioration.

  • The term “Technical Working Group” means Brown Tree Snake Technical Working Group established under the authority of section 4728 of title 16.

  • Technicians.—(1) For the purpose of this subsection, the term "technician" has the meaning given such term by section 8337(h)(1) of this title. / As used in this subsecti

  • The term "technological abuse" means an act or pattern of behavior that occurs within domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence or stalking and is intended to ha

  • The term “technological system of continuous emission reduction” means— (A) a technological process for production or operation by any source which is inherently low-polluting or n

  • For purposes of this section, the term “technologies and practices” means those technologies and practices that— (1) may be retrofitted— (A) on existing vessels or incorporated in

  • the term “technology” refers to any form of computer hardware and software; computer-based systems, services, and support for the creation, processing, exchange, and delivery of in

  • The term “technology and industrial base sector” means a group of public or private persons and organizations that engage in, or are capable of engaging in, similar research, devel

  • The term “technology cluster” means a concentration of technology-related business concerns, institutions of higher education, or nonprofit institutions, that reinforce each other'

  • In this subsection, the term “technology development program” means— (A) the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research of the National Science Foundation, as establish

  • The term "technology-enabled collaborative learning and capacity building model" means a distance health education model that connects health care professionals, and part

  • The term “technology equipment” means any physical asset related to a computer or information technology, including any peripheral component, tablet, communication device (such as

  • The term "technology protection features" means the technical modifications necessary to protect critical program information, including anti-tamper technologies and othe

  • The term “technology protection measure” means a specific technology that blocks or filters Internet access to the material covered by a certification under paragraph (5) or (6) to

  • The term “technology-related business concern” means a for-profit corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, or small business concern that— (A) conducts scientific or e

  • Un longaync—No. Nar. 16. a. b.—a House of Office, a Jakes—a Shecp walk. Perefoys

  • Spreading. Tedding grass is spreading it out after it is cut in the swath. 10 East, 5.

  • tething'-peiiny, saos. lowance to the sheriflE from each charge of keeping courts, etc.

  • A small tax to the sheriff from each tithing toward the charge of keeping courts, etc. Cowell.

  • government. Before entering on the duties of his office, the treasurer is required to give bond with sufficient sureties, approved by the secretary of the treasury and the first co

  • In Hindu law. A note of hand; a promissory note given by a native banker or money-lender to zemindars and others, to enable them to furnish government with security for the payment

  • In the civil law. A tile. Dig. 19, 1, 18.

  • Of the goods of the testator, or intestate. A term applied to a judgment awarding execution against the property of a testator or intestate, as distinguished from the individual pr

  • In Scotch Law. A court which has jurisdiction of matters relating to teinds or tithes.

  • Those entitled to tithes.

  • In Scotch law. That liquidated proportion of the rents or goods of the people which is due to churchmen for performing divine service, or exercising the other spiritual functions p

  • Thainland (g. v.) TELEGRAPH lAE. Written evidence of things past. Blount. TELLER {tallier, one who keeps a tally). An officer in a bank or other institution; a person appointed to

  • the term “telecast” means— (A) to broadcast by a television broadcast station; or (B) to transmit by a cable television system or a satellite television distribution service.

  • the term "telecommunication" means any transmission, emission or reception of signs, signals, writings, images, and sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, o

  • the term “telecommunication identifying information” means electronic serial number or any other number or signal that identifies a specific telecommunications instrument or accoun

  • The term “telecommunications” means the transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user's choosing, without change in the form or content of

  • The term “telecommunications carrier”— (A) means a person or entity engaged in the transmission or switching of wire or electronic communications as a common carrier for hire; and

  • The term “telecommunications equipment” means equipment, other than customer premises equipment, used by a carrier to provide telecommunications services, and includes software int

  • The term “telecommunications industry” means communications businesses using regulated or unregulated facilities or services and includes broadcasting, telecommunications, cable, c

  • In this section, the term "telecommunications interagency working group" means the interagency working group established under subsection (b)(1).

  • The term “telecommunications product” means— (A) any paging devices provided for under item 685.65 of such Schedules, and (B) any article classified under any of the following item

  • The term “telecommunications relay services” means telephone transmission services that provide the ability for an individual who is deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind, or who has a

  • the term “telecommunications service” has the meaning given such term in section 3 of title I of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 153 ); / The term “telecommunications se

  • The term “telecommunications support services” means a product, software, or service used by a telecommunications carrier for the internal signaling or switching functions of its t

  • Subject to paragraphs (8) and (9), the Secretary shall pay for telehealth services that are furnished via a telecommunications system by a physician (as defined in section 1395x(r)

  • the term “telecommuting” means the use of telecommunications to perform work functions under circumstances which reduce or eliminate the need to commute;

  • Definition.—In this section, the term “telecommuting centers” means flexiplace work telecommuting centers.

  • the term “Telecommuting Pilot Program” means the pilot program established under subsection (d)(1)(A); and

  • In this section, the term “teleconsultation” means the use by a health care specialist of telecommunications to assist another health care provider in rendering a diagnosis or trea

  • A telegraphic dispatch; a message sent by telegraph.

  • Intercourse between the states by the telegraph is interstate commerce.

  • A word occasionally used in old English law to describe ancient documents or written evidence of things past. Blount.

  • The term “telehealth” has the meaning given the term in section 254c–16(a) of title 42. / The term “telehealth” means the use of electronic information and telecommunications techn

  • Subject to paragraph (8), the term “telehealth service” means professional consultations, office visits, and office psychiatry services (identified as of July 1, 2000, by HCPCS cod

  • the term “telehealth services” includes a rural health clinic service or Federally qualified health center service that is furnished using telehealth to the extent that payment cod

  • The term “telehealth technologies” means technologies relating to the use of electronic information, and telecommunications technologies, to support and promote, at a distance, hea

  • The term “telemarketing” means a plan, program, or campaign which is conducted to induce purchases of goods or services, or a charitable contribution, donation, or gift of money or

  • In this chapter, the term “telemarketing or email marketing”— (1) means a plan, program, promotion, or campaign that is conducted to induce— (A) purchases of goods or services; (B)

  • The term “telemedicine” means a telecommunications link to an end user through the use of eligible equipment that electronically links health professionals or patients and health p

  • The term “telemental health” means the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance mental health care, patient and professional-relat

  • As used in this section, the term “telemessaging service” means voice mail and voice storage and retrieval services, any live operator services used to record, transcribe, or relay

  • In a general sense, the name "telephone" applies to any Instrument or apparatus which transmits sound beyond the limits of ordinary audibllity. But, since the recont discoveries in

  • Telephone bank.—The term “telephone bank” means more than 500 telephone calls of an identical or substantially similar nature within any 30-day period. / The term “telephone bank”

  • The term “telephone-billed purchase” means any purchase that is completed solely as a consequence of the completion of the call or a subsequent dialing, touch tone entry, or compar

  • The term “telephone exchange service” means (A) service within a telephone exchange, or within a connected system of telephone exchanges within the same exchange area operated to f

  • The term “telephone facsimile machine” means equipment which has the capacity (A) to transcribe text or images, or both, from paper into an electronic signal and to transmit that s

  • a transmitter and receiver capable of use in the transmitting and receiving of telephone communications

  • The term “telephone solicitation” means the initiation of a telephone call or message for the purpose of encouraging the purchase or rental of, or investment in, property, goods, o

  • the term “telephones used with private radio services” means telephones and other customer premises equipment used in whole or in part with private land mobile radio services and o

  • the term “telephones used with public mobile services” means telephones and other customer premises equipment used in whole or in part with air-to-ground radiotelephone services, c

  • The term “telephone toll service” means telephone service between stations in different exchange areas for which there is made a separate charge not included in contracts with subs

  • For purposes of this subchapter, the term “teletypewriter exchange service” means the access from a teletypewriter or other data station to the teletypewriter exchange system of wh

  • The term “television broadcast station”— (A) means an over-the-air, commercial or noncommercial television broadcast station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission under

  • The term “television network” means a television network in the United States which offers an interconnected program service on a regular basis for 15 or more hours per week to at

  • The term "telework" has the meaning given the term in section 6501. / The term “telework” or “teleworking” refers to a work flexibility arrangement under which an employe

  • The term “telework” or “teleworking” refers to a work flexibility arrangement under which an employee performs the duties and responsibilities of such employee’s position, and othe

  • The term “teller’s check” means any check issued by a depository institution and drawn on another depository institution.

  • In the language of parliament, the "tellers" are the members of the house selected to count the members when a division takes place. In the house of lords, a division is effected b

  • In the language of parliament, the "tellers" are ithe members of the house selected to count the members when a division takes place. In the house of lords a division is effected b

  • An Anglo-Saxon charter of land. 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, c. 1, p. 10.

  • telligraifum, charter or deed of land; a writing to lands; literally, a land-writing.

  • A row of wire strands hung over a railroad track so as to touch and warn train hands on top of the cars of a bridge or tunnel ahead. See 63 Hun (N. Y) 632.

  • In railroad practice ropes placed in the relation of landlord and tenant. suspended from a wire across the track See Landlord and Tenant; 5 M. & G. 54. warning of a low bridge. Wes

  • That labor which a tenant was bound to do for his lord for a certain numbsr of days.

  • or TENEMENTALE. A tax of two shillings upon every ploughland; a decennary {q. v.) TEMERE (Lat.) In the civil law. Rashly; inconsiderately; without sufficient cause. A plaintiff was

  • A tax of two shillings upon every plow-land, a decennary.

  • Rashly.

  • It has no fixed legal in land to indicate the person entitled to a meaning as contradistinguished from its usu- particular estate, us tenant in common, by al import. It is habitual