To find a criminal defendant not guilty through a verdict or because the evidence is insufficient, or because the charges have been dropped or dismissed.
- Browse Related Terms: Acquit, acquittal, Arraignment, Conviction, Default, Drug Court, Expungement, Finding, grand jury, jury, Miranda warning, Nolle prosequi, Plea, Plea Agreement or plea bargain, Pre-sentence investigation, Public Defender, Settlement, Verdict
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A release, absolution or discharge of an obligation or liability. In criminal law, the finding of not guilty.
Judgment that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty byeond a reasonable doubt. In other words, a verdict of "not guilty."
Judgment that a criminal defendant has not been proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
The finding of not guilty.
- Browse Related Terms: Acquit, acquittal, Arraignment, Conviction, Default, Drug Court, Expungement, Finding, grand jury, jury, Miranda warning, Nolle prosequi, Plea, Plea Agreement or plea bargain, Pre-sentence investigation, Public Defender, Settlement, Verdict
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A finding that the defendant is not guilty of the charges brought by the government. This finding may be reached by the trial judge in a case tried before a judge alone or by the jury in a case tried before a jury.
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Legislation (a bill or joint resolution, see below) which has passed both chambers of Congress in identical form, been signed into law by the President, or passed over his veto, thus becoming law. Technically, this term also refers to a bill that has been passed by one house and engrossed (prepared as an official copy).
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Case, cause, suit or controversy disputed or contested before a court.
- Browse Related Terms: Action, Calendar, Decision, equitable, federal question, federal question jurisdiction, General Jurisdiction, Hearing, Jurisdiction, Jurisdiction, Personal, Jurisdiction, Subject Matter, Limited Jurisdiction, Referee, Rehearing, Removal, Strict liability, United States Court of Appeals, United States Court of Claims, United States Court of International Trade, United States District Courts, United States Marshals Service
Action refers to any lawsuit or preceding in a court of law.
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An official communication from a patent office, ususally requiring some response by the applicant. MPEP 707.
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Active Data is information residing on the direct access storage media (disc drives or servers) of computer systems, which is readily visible to the operating system and/or application software with which it was created and immediately accessible to users without restoration or reconstruction.
Active data is information residing on the direct access storage media of computer systems, which is readily visible to the operating system and/or application software with which it was created and immediately accessible to users without restoration, modification ,or reconstruction (i.e., word processing and spreadsheet files, programs and files used by the computerâÂÂs operating system).
- Browse Related Terms: Active Data, Backup, Caching, Database Management System (DBMS), ESI Litigation Hold Archival Systems, ESI Unstructured Data Storage Systems, File System Metadata, Near-Line Data Storage
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One may be held liable for patent infringement as a result of actively encouraging another to infringe if such other does infringe, even though the inducer has not made, used, sold, offered for sale, or imported the patented invention.
- Browse Related Terms: active inducement to infringe, claim(s), Colorable Deviation, Comprising, contributory infringement, copying, Direct Infringement, doctrine of equivalence, doctrine of equivalents, equivalents - reverse doctrine of, Infrastructure, Infringed Literally, infringement, Infringement By Equivalents, Infringement Under Doctrine of Equivalents, Literal Infringement, notice (also marking), Product By Process Claim, prosecution history estoppel, search, that which infringes if later, anticipates if earlier
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Active Records are those Records related to current, ongoing or in-process activities and are referred to on a regular basis to respond to day-to-day operational requirements. An active record resides in native application format and is accessible for purposes of business processing with no restrictions on alteration beyond normal business rules. See Inactive Records.
Active records are records related to current, ongoing or in process activities and are referred to on a regular basis to respond to day-to-day operational requirements. An active record resides in native application format and is accessible for purposes of business processing with no restrictions on alteration beyond normal business rules.
- Browse Related Terms: active records, Archive/Electronic Archive, Batch Processing, COM (Computer Output to Microfilm), Draft Record, Electronic Record, Inactive Record, Lifecycle, Official Record Owner, Record Lifecycle, Record Owner, record series, Record Submitter, Records Retention Schedule, Records Store, retention schedule, Version, Record Version
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The actual amount of FTE officers that the grantee will realize because of the time savings generated from the technology or civilian personnel funded by COPS MORE.
- Browse Related Terms: Actual Level of Redeployment, Allowable Costs, Making Officer Redeployment Effective (MORE), Matching Funds, MORE Retention, Operational, Realized Redeployment, Redeployment, Redeployment Tracking, Redeployment Tracking Plan, Support Resources, Time Savings
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Before the court; to the court.
- Browse Related Terms: Ad curiam, Coram judice, Curia, Ex curia, Foreclosure, In curia, Per curiam, Sentence, Statutory construction, Stay, testify, United States Court of Customs & Patent Appeals, United States Supreme Court
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To the damage.
- Browse Related Terms: Ad damnum, Court costs, Cross-claim, damages, Injunction, Joint and several liability, Punitive damages, Small Claims Court, Third party complaint
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To the end; at the end.
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For this purpose or occasion.
- Browse Related Terms: Ad hoc, Alford plea, Circa, Committitur, Court-appointed attorney, defense table, federal public defender, indictment, information, interview, plea deal (or plea bargain or agreement), prosecute, public defenders, United States Attorney
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To infinity.
- Browse Related Terms: Ad infinitum, Defunct, dependent, Ex adverso, Execute, Infinito, Prima facie, Status quo or status in quo, Toto
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At will.
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For purpose of the suit or action.
- Browse Related Terms: Ad litem, Civil, Civil action, Collateral Estoppel, Condicto, Declaratory judgment, Ex Parte, Ex parte proceeding, Filing Fee, Law Blank, Marshal, Memorandum of law, Notice, Permanent injunction, Quash, Res gestae, Rules, Service of process, Summons, Temporary relief, temporary restraining order
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To the thing at hand.
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To the value.
- Browse Related Terms: A datu, A maximis ad minima, Ab initio, Ad finem, Ad libitum (Abbr. ad lib), Ad rem, Ad valorem, Admortization, Adversus, Agenda, Alibi, Alii, Alter ego, Anno Domini (Abbr. A.D.), Ante, Causa proxima, Cestui, Contra pacem, Coup de grace, Cum, De novo, Eo ipso, Esse, ET, Et alii (Abbr. et al.), Et sequentia (Abbr. et seq.), ex officio, Ex post facto, Gravis, Hoc, Id est (Abbr. i.e.), Idem (Abbr. Id.), In actu, In esse, In extenso, In hoc, In initio, In limine, In medias res, In rem, In toto, Indigent, Infra, Inter alia, Ipse, Ipso facto, Merger, Non, Opere citato (Abbr. op. cit.), Per viam, Post, Post hoc, Pro confesso, Pro nunc, Quantum meruit, Quid pro quo, Res judicata, Sans recours, Secundum, Sequitur (Abbr. seq.), SINE, Sui generis, Supra, Totum, Ubi supra, Ultra, Vel, Vel non, Versus (Abbr. v. or vs.), Waiver, Water rights
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Analog to Digital converter. Converts analog data to a digital format.
- Browse Related Terms: ADC, analog, Check Digit, DAC (Digital to Analog Converter), digitize, DSP (Digital Signal Processor/Processing), FAX, Multimedia, Personal Digital Assistant, Sampling Rate, steganography, telephony
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An addition to the presentence report prepared by the probation officer. The addendum includes any objections to the report raised by the parties and states how the probation officer believes the court should resolve the objections.
- Browse Related Terms: Addendum, Presentence investigation and report, Probation, Probation officer, Restitution, Revocation of probation or supervised release, Sentencing hearing, Supervised release
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Something added; appendix or supplement.
- Browse Related Terms: Addendum (Pl. addenda), Advance sheets, Bound supplement, Digests, Encyclopedia, Key number system, Legal texts, Liber, Paper bound supplement, Pocket part, Replacement volumes, Treatise