Law Dictionary

L. Fr. Water. Kel-ham.

More than fifty years old. See 65 Am. St. Rep. 306; also 39 L. R. A. 710.

For purposes of this subchapter, the term “aged, blind, or disabled individual” means an individual who— (A) is 65 years of age or older, is blind (as determined under paragraph (2

In this subsection, the term "age-friendly community" means a community that— (A) is taking measurable steps to— (i) include adequate and accessible housing, public space

The Saxon kings usually called a synod, or mixed council, consisting both of ecclesiastill Henry III.’s time. Cowell, ed. 1727; Cunningham, Law Diet. Synod, Mioeh Oe- ^ motes^. MIC

when private individuals or groups are endowed by the State with powers or functions governmental in nature, they become agencies or instrumentalities of the State and subject to i

any department, independent establishment, commission, administration, authority, board or bureau of the United States or any corporation in which the United States has a proprieta

DEED OF. A revocable and voluntary trust for payment of debts. Wharton. AGENFRIDA (Saxon). The true lord or owner of a thing. Spelman.

the term “agency acquisition workforce” means the employees of a Federal agency that have procurement or acquisition responsibilities, including— (A) employees described in section

the whole or a part of an agency rule, order, license, sanction, relief, or the equivalent or denial thereof, or failure to act.

The term “agency administrator” means the head of an agency.

the terms “agency board” or “agency board of contract appeals” mean— (A) the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals established under section 607(a)(1) of this title; (B) the Civ

the terms “agency board” or “agency board of contract appeals” mean— (A) the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals established under section 607(a)(1) of this title; (B) the Civ

The term “agency center” means a center or alternative organizational component of the Food and Drug Administration.

The term “agency CERPO” means the chief environmental review and permitting officer of an agency, as designated by the head of the agency under section 4370m–1(b)(2)(A)(iii)(I) of

Agency concerned.—The term “agency concerned” means a department, agency, wholly owned corporation, or instrumentality of the Federal Government.

The term “agency contract” means an oral or written agreement in which a student athlete authorizes a person to negotiate or solicit on behalf of the student athlete a professional

A revocable and voluntary trust for payment of debts. Wharton.

forge' in § 495 should not be taken to include an agency endorsement. Indorsing a bill of exchange under a false assumption of authority to indorse it per procuration, is not forge

As used in this chapter, the term “Agency for International Development” includes any successor agency primarily responsible for administering part I of the Foreign Assistance Act

The term “agency head” means the head of any Executive agency (as defined in section 105 of title 5 ), other than the Department of Defense. / The term “agency head” means the head

the term "agency information" means information collected or maintained by or on behalf of an agency; 1 / The term “agency information” has the meaning given the term in

In this section, the term "agency information system" means an information system used or operated by an agency or by another entity on behalf of an agency. / the term “a

“agency in the legislative branch” means the Government Accountability Office, the Government Publishing Office, the Library of Congress, the Office of Technology Assessment, the O

A term sometimes applied to the kind of implied agency which enables a wife to procure what is reasonably necessary for her maintenance and support on her husband's credit and at h

The term “agency of original jurisdiction” means the activity which entered the original determination with regard to a claim for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary.

As soon as possible after August 23, 1988, each agency of the Federal Government shall establish guidelines to carry out the policy set forth in section 205b of this title (with pa

the term "agency of the legislative branch" means the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, the Botanic Garden, the Government Accountability Office, the Government Pub

It acts with the government's permission, and, while it may be said to have received a privilege from the government, it is not a privilege to be exercised on behalf of the governm

“Agency of the United States Government” includes any agency, department, board, wholly or partly owned corporation, instrumentality, commission, or establishment of the United Sta

The term “agency or instrumentality of a foreign state” has the meaning given that term in section 1603(b) of title 28 .

For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term “agency or instrumentality of the Government of Cuba” means an agency or instrumentality of a foreign state as defined in section 1603(b)

“agency proceeding” means an agency process as defined by paragraphs (5), (7), and (9) of this section; / In this section, the term “agency proceeding” has the meaning given the te

The term “agency-provider model” means, with respect to the provision of home and community-based attendant services and supports for an individual, subject to paragraph (4), a met

The term “agency school board” means a body— (A) the members of which are appointed by all of the school boards of the schools located within an agency, including schools operated

an arrangement under which all employees are required as a condition of employment to pay dues to the union and pay the union's initiation fee, but they need not actually become un

a collective bargaining agreement provision that employees covered by the contract who chose not to join the union were required 'to pay as a condition of employment, an initial se

The term “agency with rural responsibilities” means any executive agency (as defined in section 105 of title 5 ) that implements a Federal law, or administers a program, targeted a

In medical jurisprudence. Impotentia generandi; sexual impotence; incapacity for reproduction, existing in either sex, and whether arising from structural or other causes.

Sax. The true master or owner of a thing. Speiman.

In Saxon law. A guest at an inn, who, having stayed there for three nights, was then accounted one of the family. Cowell.

AGENHINA, or AWNHINE. In Saxon law. A domestic or inmate. One who stayed three nights in an inn was AGENS (Lat. agere, to do; to conduct). A conductor or manager of affairs. Distin

A manager; a plaintiff. Agent. One who is authorized to bind his principal contractually or by representations. See 3 Am. St. Rep. 693; also Ann. Cas. 1913B, 84, and 2 L. R. A. 808

According to the clearest and best established principles of equity, the agent who so acts becomes a trustee for his principal. He cannot hold the land under an entry for himself o

awenhine, awnhine, agenhine, Sax. In the Saxon law. An inmate; one belonging to the family or household; a guest for whom, by reason of the length of his stay (a stay to the third

A phrase indicating the state of a person who is required to do a thing, and is at the same time the person to whom it is done; as, when a man is indebted to another, and he appoin

One whose authority to bind a principal, the latter is by his conduct estopped to deny. See 12 Wall. (U. S.) 681, 20 L. Ed. 436.

In this section, the terms “agent employed to manage the property that has an identity of interest” and “identity of interest agent” mean an entity— (1) that has management respons

Those doing and those consenting are liable to the same punishment.

the terms “agent institution”, “reciprocal deposits”, and “well capitalized” have the meanings given those terms in subsection (i); and / The term “agent institution” means an insu

An agent is liable for all damages caused by his negligence, unless exonerated therefrom, in whole or in part, by a statute or a valid contract binding on the person damaged.

in admiralty proceedings, that the agent of absent owners may libel, either in his own name, as agent, or in the name of his principals, as he thinks best; that the power of attorn

For purposes of this section, the term “agent of a foreign government” means an individual who agrees to operate within the United States subject to the direction or control of a f

"Agent of a foreign power" means— (1) any person other than a United States person, who— (A) acts in the United States as an officer or employee of a foreign power, or as

the term “agent of a foreign principal” is defined as such term is defined under subsection (d) of section 611 of title 22 subject to the provisions of section 613 of title 22. / E

property acquired during marriage with community funds became an acquet of the community and not the sole property of the one in whose name the property was bought, although by the

the term "agent of the Office of the SAA" includes a provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service commissioned or used through the Office of t

when an employee's injury is caused in whole or in part by the fault of others performing, under contract, operational activities of his employer, such others are 'agents' of the e

Whatever an agent does, or says, in reference to the business in which he is at the time employed, and within the scope of his authority, is done or said by the principal; and may

The confessions of an agent are not evidence to bind his principal; nor is his subsequent account of a transaction to his principal, evidence. But his acts, within the scope of his

If Plant, within the scope of his office, had knowledge of a fact which it was his duty to declare, and not to his interest to conceal, then his knowledge is to be treated as that

It is by no means true, as was contended in argument, that the acts of agents derive their validity from professing, on the face of them, to have been done in the exercise of their

No principle is better settled, than that the powers of an agent cease on the death of his principal. If an act of agency be done, subsequent to the decease of the principal, thoug

if an agent discovers a defect in the title of his principal to land, he cannot misuse it to acquire a title for himself; and if he does, that he will be held as a trustee holding

Where the fact of agency has been proved, either expressly or presumptively, the act of the agent, co-extensive with the authority, is the act of the principal, whose mere instrume

Regularly it is true, that when a man doth less than the commandment or authority committed unto him, then, the commandment or authority being not pursued, the act is void. And whe

The general rule that a principal is bound by the knowledge of his agent is based on the principle of law, that it is the agent's duty to communicate to his principal the knowledge

The age below which the law presumes a girl incapable of consenting to the sexual act. See 115 Cal. 132, 46 Pac. 915.

The term “age of housing” means the number of existing housing units constructed in 1939 or earlier based on data compiled by the United States Bureau of the Census and referable t

The term “age or developmentally-appropriate” means— (i) activities or items that are generally accepted as suitable for children of the same chronological age or level of maturity

A statement made in a real action, to which an infant is a party, of the fact of infancy, and a request that the proceedings may be stayed until the infant becomes of age. It is no

A field.

I. I, In old English law. An

A dam; a dike; a bank.

An assault attended by circumstances of aggravation, as the use of a weapon, or disparity of age or sex between the assailant and person assaulted. AGGRAVATION (Lat. ad, to, and gr

among many other offenses, "a drug trafficking crime (as defined in [ 18 U. S. C. §924 (c)])." §1101(a)(43)(B).

— "(A) murder, rape, or sexual abuse of a minor; "(B) illicit trafficking in a controlled substance (as defined in section 802 of title 21), including a drug trafficking crime (as

the use of a weapon or the infliction of harm in the course of committing, attempting, or fleeing after one of a series of "theft offenses" defined by statute, including receiving

The term “aggravating” means, with respect to a health condition, a health condition that existed on September 11, 2001, and that, as a result of exposure to airborne toxins, any o

That which enhances the gravity of a criminal or tortious act; allegations in a declaration which tend to enhance damages. See 19 Vt. 107.

sum total," see Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 64 (9th ed. 1983), and its use therefore might suggest that Congress had in mind the outcome of adding up the interim payments.

the term “aggregate amount of covered transactions” means the amount of the covered transactions about to be engaged in added to the current amount of all outstanding covered trans

As used in subparagraph (A), the term “aggregate approved amount” means, for a hospital cost reporting period, the product of— (i) the hospital’s approved FTE resident amount (dete

See CORPORATION.

The term “aggregate customer information” means collective data that relates to a group or category of services or customers, from which individual customer identities and characte

That appellee's own contribution to the demand for wheat may be trivial by itself is not enough to remove him from the scope of federal regulation where, as here, his contribution,

The term "aggregate foreign cash position" means, with respect to any United States shareholder, the greater of— (i) the aggregate of such United States shareholder's pro

The term "aggregate foreign E&P deficit" means, with respect to any United States shareholder, the lesser of— (I) the aggregate of such shareholder's pro rata shares

For purposes of paragraph (1), the term “aggregate gross assets” means the amount of cash and the aggregate adjusted bases of other property held by the corporation.

The 'aggregate income', to which paragraph 2 of Section 51[b] refers, is clearly the aggregate net income as it is the aggregate income on which 'the tax shall be computed'.

The term “aggregate lifetime limit” means, with respect to benefits under a group health plan, a dollar limitation on the total amount that may be paid with respect to such benefit

The term “aggregate payments for all discharges” means, for a hospital for an applicable period, the sum of the base operating DRG payment amounts for all discharges for all condit

The term “aggregate payments for excess readmissions” means, for a hospital for an applicable period, the sum, for applicable conditions (as defined in paragraph (5)(A)), of the pr

the sum total of the interim payments made pursuant to § 1395g.

The term “aggregate reported amount” means the aggregate amount of dividends reported by the company under clause (i) as capital gain dividends for the taxable year (including capi

The term "aggregate unused E&P deficit" means, with respect to any affiliated group, the lesser of— (I) the sum of the excesses described in subparagraph (C), determi

A meeting of minds. See "Agreement."

The mere aggregation of a number of old parts or elements which, in the aggregation, perform or produce no new or different function or operation than that theretofore performed or

The term “aggregation group” means— (I) each plan of the employer in which a key employee is a participant, and (II) each other plan of the employer which enables any plan describe

The term “aggregator” means any person that, in the ordinary course of its operations, makes telephones available to the public or to transient users of its premises, for interstat