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in the interpretation of a doubtful or ambiguous statute the long-continued and uniform practice of the authorities charged with its administration is entitled to great weight, and

The term “administrative cost” means the cost of necessary administrative functions which— (i) the tribe or tribal organization incurs as a result of operating a tribal elementary

The term "administrative costs" means expenditures incurred in the performance of administrative functions under the vocational rehabilitation program carried out under s

The decision of the Court of Appeals under section 9 of the act of 1905 is not a judicial judgment. It is a mere administrative decision. It is merely an instruction to the Commiss

administrative entry, without consent, upon the portions of commercial premises which are not open to the public may only be compelled through prosecution or physical force within

the actual, "necessary costs and expenses of preserving the estate "including .

As used in this subsection, the term “administrative expenses of the receiver” includes— (A) the actual, necessary costs and expenses incurred by the receiver in preserving the ass

the finality provision of the 1952 Act in regard to exclusion refers only to administrative finality

That order was administrative in character. It determined no rights and prescribed no duties of the appellant as an ocean carrier. It demanded the filing of data. No notice or hear

An agency may not finally decide the limits of its statutory power. That is a judicial function.

the ultimate criterion is the administrative interpretation, which becomes of controlling weight unless it is plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation

it is sufficient if the inquiry is within the authority of the agency, the demand is not too indefinite and the information sought is reasonably relevant

That branch of the criminal law which regulates the manner in which the different agencies of the governing body are set in motion to punish crime, as opposed to the penal law, whi

the term "administrative leave" means leave— (A) without loss of or reduction in— (i) pay; (ii) leave to which an employee is otherwise entitled under law; or (iii) credi

a denial of a written claim in accordance with rules or regulations prescribed by the Administrator, War Shipping Administration.

Politically and as used in constitutional law, an officer of the executive department of government, and generally one of inferior rank ; legally, a ministerial or executive office

“administrative offset” means withholding funds payable by the United States (including funds payable by the United States on behalf of a State government) to, or held by the Unite

The term “administrative or clerical tasks” means the receipt, collection, and distribution of information common for the processing or underwriting of a loan in the mortgage indus

In this section, the term “administrative organization” means a nonprofit private organization that enters into an agreement with the Corporation to carry out this section.

The vice of the regulation, therefore, is that it assumes to convert what in the view of the statute is a question of fact requiring proof into a conclusive presumption which dispe

“administrative procedure” means procedure used in carrying out an administrative program and is to be broadly construed to include any aspect of agency organization, procedure, or

The term “administrative proceeding” means any procedure or other action before the Internal Revenue Service. / “administrative proceeding” means any Department of the Interior age

“administrative program” includes a Federal function which involves protection of the public interest and the determination of rights, privileges, and obligations of private person

The power of an administrative officer or board to administer a federal statute and to prescribe rules and regulations to that end is not the power to make law, for no such power c

rehearings were not matters of right, but were pleas to discretion. And likewise it has been considered that the discretion to be invoked was that of the body making the order, and

The term “administrative review” means a review open to the participation of the parents of the child, conducted by a panel of appropriate persons at least one of whom is not respo

Definition.—In this section, the term "administrative services and support" includes base or installation support services, office space, utilities, copying services, fir

in this context that any subpoena issued under the auspices of the SEC must come within the purview of a Formal Order of Investigation, see n. 1, supra.

The term “Administrative Supervisor” means the Oversight Board established under section 2121 of this title .

The term "Administrative Unit" means a national forest or national grassland.

the Administrator of EPA.

In the civil law. A manager or conductor of affairs, especially the affairs of another, in his name or behalf, A manager of public affairs in behalf of others. Calvin. A public off

An administrator with the will annexed.

By the common law his duties are confined to the personal estate, unadministered by his predecessor. Whatever authority he may possess as to the real estate must be derived from th

“Administrator of FEMA” means the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; / The terms “Administrator of FEMA”, “career fire department”, “combination fire departm

The instant the plaintiff recovered the judgment, it became a debt due her, on record, and was assets in her hands, for which it was not necessary for her to declare as administrat

One who administers an estate of a testator who named no executor or whose named executor cannot or will not act. See 109 Fed. 847, 54 L. R. A. 680, 4 C. C. A. 692.

A woman to whom letters of administration have been granted and who administers the estate. When an administratrix marries, that fact does not prevent her from suing as such; Cosgr

Lat He has administered. Used in the phrase plene administravit, which is the name of a plea by an executor or administrator to the effect that he has "fully administered" (lawfull

Lat. At the least. Ut ad minus teneatur ad interesse; that he may at least he held to the extent of his interest. Bract, fol. 18 b.

In European law. An officer who presided over the admiralitas or collegium ammiralitatis. Loce, de Jur. Mar. lib. 2, c. 2, § 1. In old English law. A high officer or magistrate tha

In Lat. Admiralty; the admiralty, or court of admiralty. In European law. An association of private armed vessels tor mutual protection and defense against pirates and enemies.

Probate, Divorce, Common at Durham, and by the Assize courts. pellate jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal 18), or of the same court sitting as a ruptcy; the jurisdiction of the Cou

The admiralty is the only court where such a question can be tried; for what other court, but a court of admiralty, has jurisdiction to try a question of salvage?

FIRST LORD OF THE. At the head of the British Navy are five Lords Commissioners. The First Lord is a member of the Cabinet, the others are called Sea Lords.

consistently interpreted as adopting for the United States the system of admiralty and maritime law, as it had been developed in the admiralty courts of England and the Colonies, a

It is a mistake, to consider the use of this process in the admiralty as borrowed from, or in imitation of, the foreign attachment under the custom of London. Its origin is to be f

the admiralty rule in this country ... [is] that the division of damages extends to what one of the parties pays to the owners of cargo on board the other. ... The right to the div

Admiralty courts have complete jurisdiction over suits of a maritime nature between foreigners. Nevertheless, 'the question is one of discretion in every case, and the court will n

In admiralty proceedings, a libel in the nature of an information, does not require all the formality and technical precision of an indictment at common law. If the allegations are

In admiralty, the party entitled to relief should always be made libellant; and the practice of instituting a suit in the name of one person for the benefit of another, to whom the

From the 12th and 15th Rich. 2d. the Admiralty has had jurisdiction on all waters out of the body of the county... A road, haven, or even river, not within the body of the county,

That jurisdiction in cases of tort depends upon the locality of the injury. It does not extend to injuries caused by a vessel to persons or property on the land. Where the cause of

The court considers the law as completely settled by the case of the Vengeance. A distinction has been attempted to be drawn between this case and that, but the court can see no di

The jurisdiction of admiralty over such a cause of action depends, not on the place where the injury is inflicted...but on the nature of the seaman's service, his status as a membe

It has been repeatedly decided in the admiralty and common law courts in England, that the former have no jurisdiction in questions of property between a mortgagee and the owner. N

The jurisdiction of courts of admiralty, in matters of contract, depends upon the nature and character of the contract; but in torts, it depends entirely on locality. ... The juris

As the fund is in the custody of the admiralty, the application must necessarily be made to that court by any person setting up an interest in it. This application by petition is f

Uniformity is required only when the essential features of an exclusive federal jurisdiction are involved.

In the trial of all cases of seizure, on land, the Court sits as a Court of common law. In cases of seizure made on waters navigable by vessels of ten tons burthen and upwards, the

An objection to the admissibility of evidence in any cause can only be properly founded on the hypothesis that such testimony violates the law of evidencsin this: that the law proh

it is not essential to the admissibility of a confession that it should appear that the person was warned that what he said would be used against him, but, on the contrary, if the

Pertinent and proper to be considered in reaching a decision. Used with reference to the issues to be decided in any judicial proceeding. ADMISSION (Lat. ad, to, miltere, to send).

the lawful entry of the alien into the United States after inspection and authorization by an immigration officer." §1101(a)(13)(A).

In English ecclesiastical law. The act of the bishop, who, on approval of the clerk presented by the patron, after examination, declares him fit, (or able, habilem,) to serve the c

In European law. An usher. Spelman.

where an answer which is put in issue, admits a fact, and insists upon a distinct fact by way of avoidance, the fact admitted is established, but the fact insisted upon must be pro

an alien who seeks admission to this country may not do so under any claim of right. Admission of aliens to the United States is a privilege granted by the sovereign United States

in pleading.— Where one party means to take advantage of or rely upon some matter alleged by his adversary, and to make it part of his case, he ought to admit such matter in his ow

in evidence, are the declarations which a party, by himself or those who act under his authority, makes of the existence of certain facts. These admissions are generally evidence o

tn practice. It frequently occurs in practice, that in order to save expense as to mere formal proofs, the attorneys on each side consent to admit, reciprocally, certain facts in t

Admissions of crime, like admissions against proprietary interests, carry their own indicia of credibility sufficient at least to support a finding of probable cause to search. Tha

We think that an accused's admissions of essential facts or elements of the crime, subsequent to the crime, are of the same character as confessions and that corroboration should b

Where the inconsistent statement was made prior to the crime this danger [of errors in convictions based upon untrue confessions alone] does not exist. They contain none of the inh

The order of a competent court or magistrate that a person accused of crime be discharged from actual custody upon the taking of bail. Comp. Laws Nev. 1900, § 4460; Ann. Codes & St

The circumstance of his having been stricken off the roll of counsellors of the district court of the northern district of New York, by the order of the judge of that court for a c

To allow, receive or take; to suffer one to enter; to give possession; to license. Gregory v. United States, 17 Blatchf. 325, 10 Fed. Can. 1195. See Admission.

In English law. The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. It is of three kinds, namely, upon a voluntary grant by the lord, upon a surrender by the former tenant, and upon

with respect to " an alien, " the lawful entry of " the alien " into the United States" (emphasis added)); § 1101(a)(33) ("The term 'residence' means the place of general abode; th

The term “admitted insurer” means, with respect to a State, an insurer licensed to engage in the business of insurance in such State.

A writ of execution upon a right of presentation to a benefice being recovered in quare impedit, addressed to the bishop or his metropolitan, requiring him to admit and institute t

DE CLERICO CAPTO PER STATU- TUM MERCATORIUM DELIBERAN- BO. Writ for delivering aelerk arrested on ustatute merchant. A writ for the deliyery of a clerk out of prison, who had been

A writ associating certain persons to justices of assize.

I. In the civil law. To admit; to receive; to accept; to allow; to acknowledge; to commit, as an of Eensa

See Accession; Confusion, Of goods.

The mingling of goods by accession or confusion.

A reprimand from a judge to a person accused, on being discharged, warning him of the consequences of his conduct, and intimating to him that, should he be guilty of the same fault

The third warning given to one standing mute, before the infliction of the peine forte et dure. 4 Bl. Comm. 325.

Accustomed to bite. A term applied to ferocious animals.

The reduction of property of lands or tenements to mortmain, in the feudal customs.

This abbreviation will be judicially presumed to mean "administrator." Moseley v. Mastin, 37 Ala. 216, 22L

The son of a great-great-grandson.

The daughter of a great-great-granddaughter.

The daughter of a greatgreat-granddaughter. Calvinus, Lex. ADN0TATI0 (Lat notare). A subscription or signing. In the civil law, casual homicide was excused by the indulgence of the

Annulled; cancelled; made void. ADNIHILARE (Law Lat. from ad, to, and nihil, nothing). In old English law. To reduce to nothing; to treat as nothing; to hold as or for nought; to a

To annul.

I. In old English law. A fine imposed for adultery or fornication. In the civil law. Adultery; the corrupting of the wife of another.

I. I To annul, v. Adnihilare.

To the nuisance. Formal words in the assize of nuisance. 3 Bl. Comm. 221. AD OFFICIUM JUSTI CIARIORUM SPECtat, unicuique coram eis placitanti justltiam exhibere. It is the duty of

In the Civil law. The subscription of a name or signature to an instrument. Co.d. 4, 19, 5, 7. A rescript of the prince or emperor, signed with his own hand, or sign-manual. Coke 1