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An order of the court evidencing debt of one party to another and commanding the court officer to take property in satisfaction of the debt.
- Browse Related Terms: Admonish, Amicus, Amicus curiae, Attorney-at-law, Criminal justice system, Decree, Nulla bona, Self-proving will, Sheriff, Writ of execution
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An order of the court whereby property, money, or credits in the possession of another person may be seized and applied to pay a debtor's debt. It is used as an incident to or auxiliary of a judgment rendered in a principal action.
- Browse Related Terms: Attachment, bankruptcy, claim, creditor, Debtor, Exempt property, Garnishment, Insolvent, replevin, Secured debts, Trustee, Unsecured debts, Voluntary bankruptcy, Writ of garnishment
This is the order, issued by the Court Administrator when ordered by the Court, directed to the Hennepin County Sheriff to compel someone to vacate certain specifically described premises, based upon the plaintiff’s successful eviction action. When executing a writ, the Sheriff personally serves or posts 24-hours notice at the premises. If the person has not vacated within 24 hours, the Sheriff has the authority and duty to move the person out, by force if necessary. The sheriff charges a fee to the party requesting the writ, the landlord.
- Browse Related Terms: Advocate, Habitability, Housing Rules, Lay Advocate, Mailing and Posting, Motion to Quash, Quash, Rules of Housing Court, Short Service, Stay or To Stay, Unlawful Detainer/UD, Writ of Recovery of Premises and Order to Vacate, Writ of Restitution
Now called Writ of Recovery. See entry for Writ of Recovery of Premises and Order to Vacate.
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A description (disclosure) of an invention that is written in a patent application. A requirement that a patent application clearly convey what the inventor(s) considered his/her/their invention to be to a person skilled in the art. MPEP 2163.
- Browse Related Terms: Application, Disclosure, enablement, how to make, inoperativeness, Invention Disclosure, Undue Experimentation, Unreasonable Experimentation, Written Description
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World Trade Organization
-- see MORE INFO about International Intellectual Property protection
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World Wide Web. The WWW is made up of all of the computers on the Internet which use HTML-capable software (Netscape, Explorer, etc.) to exchange data. Data exchange on the WWW is characterized by easy-to-use graphical interfaces, hypertext links, images, and sound. Today the WWW has become synonymous with the Internet, although technically it is really just one component.
- Browse Related Terms: browser, Mosaic, URL (Uniform Resource Locators), World Wide Web, WWW
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What You See Is What You Get Display and software technology which shows on the computer screen exactly what will print. Often requires a large, high-density monitor.
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In the 46 years prior to the Great Fire of 1836, the United States government had issued about 10,000 patents. Most of these could never be revived again, but Congress acted to restore those records that could be reconstructed from private files and reproduce models which were deemed critical. Patents whose records were not restored were cancelled. There were a total of 2,845 patents restored, most of which were eventually given a number beginning with "X". All patents after the date of the establishment of the Patent Office in July 1836 were numbered as a new series (without the X), beginning with a new Patent No. 1 to John Ruggles. A small number of the new series patents had been destroyed in the Great Fire but they were quickly recovered from their owners' records. X files bear numbers that range from X000001 to X011280. X0000001 is the first patent, issued to Samuel Hopkins in 1790.
- Browse Related Terms: classification, classification of goods and services, combination patent, copyrights, CRU, GAU, Group Art Unit, IC, inventor, Office, Patent, patent infringement, RE, SIRA, Technology Center, US, USC, USPS, X patent
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A standard protocol for data communications.
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See Extensible Markup Language.
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eXtensible Markup Language - a subset of SGML, or standard generalized markup language; a structured language that facilitates the standardized representation of format and representation and organization of data in an automated environment, such as the use of a browser on a webpage.
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A Senator who wants a roll call vote on a pending question asks for the "yeas and nays" on the question. The request will be granted if seconded by one-fifth of a quorum, but this action does not bring debate to an end; it only means that whenever debate does end, a roll call vote will occur.
- Browse Related Terms: cloture, parliamentary inquiry, proxy voting, quorum, quorum call, reconsider, roll call vote, table, motion to, voice vote, vote, yeas and nays
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When a Senator who has been recognized to speak "yields" to another, he or she permits the other to speak while the first Senator retains the floor. Technically, a Senator may yield to another only for a question.
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A Senator who has been recognized to speak yields the floor when he or she completes his or her remarks and terminates his or her recognition.
- Browse Related Terms: Appeal, Floor, point of order, recognize, Yield, yield the floor, yield time
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When the Senate has reached a unanimous consent agreement limiting the time for debate and placing it under the control of floor managers, a Senator may be recognized to speak only if a manager yields the Senator a specified amount of time to speak. The Chair then recognizes the Senator receiving the time, not the manager who yields the time, to hold the floor.
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An open standard for compression and decompression used widely for PC download archives. ZIP is used on Windows-based programs such as WinZip and Drag and Zip. The file extension given to ZIP files is .zip.
An open standard for compression and decompression used widely for PC download archives. ZIP is used on Windows-based programs such as WinZip and Drag and Zip. The file extension given to ZIP files is .zip.
- Browse Related Terms: CCITT Group 4, cinepak, Compression Ratio, File Compression, File Format, GIF (Graphic interchange format), Image Processing Card (IPC), JPEG, JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group), LZW (Lempel-Ziv-Welch), MD5, MPEG-1 & -2, TIFF Group IV (compression), ZIP
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A brand-name magnetic storage device that can hold between 100 and 250 megabytes of data.
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An add-on feature of the imaging software that populates document templates by reading certain regions or zones of a document, and then placing the text into a document index.
- Browse Related Terms: AIIM, De-skewing, Electronic Image Management (EIM), End Document Number or End Doc#, EPS (Encapsulated PostScript), Internet Publishing, LFP, lossless compression, OCR Text, Processing Data, Raster Image, Region (of an image), Skewed, Thumbnail, Vector, Vlog (Videoblog), Zone OCR
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Local agencies with jurisdiction to regulate use of properties within their geographic area.
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