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Corpus You have the body; a writ used to bring someone before the court.
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A writ (court order) that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. Someone imprisoned in state court proceedings can file a petition in federal court for a "writ of habeas corpus," seeking to have the federal court review whether the state has violated his or her rights under the U.S. Constitution. Federal prisoners can file habeas petitions as well. A writ of habeas corpus may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony or to be prosecuted.
The name of a writ having for its object to bring a person before a court.
A writ that is often used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. A prisoner wanting to argue that there is not sufficient cause to be imprisoned would file a writ of habeas corpus. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
A writ or order used to bring an individual before a court.
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Clause in a deed which defines the extent of ownership in the thing granted; begins with the words "To have and to hold."
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This stands for the affirmative defense, in an eviction action, where the tenant basically agrees that rent has not been paid and states the rent money is being withheld because the landlord is not keeping the premises in good repair or up to code.
- 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
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Someone who breaks into computer systems in order to steal, change or destroy information.
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Transmission systems which can send and receive, but not at the same time.
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See Dithering.
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The primary storage unit on PCs, consisting of one or more magnetic media platters on which digital data can be written and erased magnetically.
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A magnetic disk on which data can be stored.
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The primary storage unit on PCs, consisting of one or more magnetic media platters on which digital data can be written and erased magnetically.
The primary storage unit on PCs, consisting of one or more magnetic media platters on which digital data can be written and erased magnetically.
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The primary computer storage medium in desktop and laptop computers.
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An error committed during a trial that was corrected or was not serious enough to affect the outcome of a trial and therefore was not sufficiently harmful (prejudicial) to be reversed on appeal.
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The proposed harmonizing of patent laws in different countries to produce essentially one, worldwide patent law.
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The process of retrieving or collecting electronic data from storage media or devices; an EDiscovery vendor harvests electronic data from computer hard drives, file servers, CDs, and backup tapes for processing and load to storage media or a database management system.
The process of retrieving electronic data from various computers and other storage media, including computer hard drives, file servers, CD/DVDs, and backup tapes and devices.
- Browse Related Terms: Backup Tape Recycling, Bit Stream Backup, DAT, DAT (Digital Audio Tape), Data Extraction, DLT (Digital Linear Tape), ESI (Electronically Stored Information), harvesting, Jaz Drive, LTO (Linear Tape-Open), Magnetic/Optical Storage Media, Media, Media Conversion, memory, On-site Extraction, Onsite Extraction, SDLT (Super DLT)
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an algorithm that creates a value to verify duplicate electronic documents. A hash value serves as a digital thumbprint.
An algorithm that creates a value to verify duplicate electronic documents. A hash mark serves as a digital thumbprint.
A mathematical algorithm that represents a unique value for a given set of data, similar to a digital fingerprint. Common hash algorithms include MD5 and SHA.
- Browse Related Terms: certificate, Comb, Comma Separated Value (CSV), Data Verification, Decryption, Digital Fingerprint, EOF (End of File), Field Separator, File Level Binary Comparison, Hash, Hash Coding, Metadata Comparison, Pattern Recognition
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To create a digital fingerprint that represents the binary content of a file unique to every electronically-generated document; assists in subsequently ensuring that data has not been modified. See also Data Verification and Digital Fingerprint and File Level Binary Comparison.
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A function used to create a hash value from binary input. The hash is substantially smaller than the text itself, and is generated by the hash function in such a way that it is extremely unlikely that some other input will produce the same hash value.
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(used when defining the scope of a claim)
A transitional phrase that is synonymous with (means the same thing as) "including," "containing" or "characterized by;" is inclusive or open-ended and does not exclude additional, unrecited elements or method steps.
-- see MPEP 2111.03 for more
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A 5.25 HD Floppy Disc holds 1.2 MB and a 3.5 holds 1.4 MB.
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Each platter on a hard drive contains a head for each side of the platter. The heads are devices which ride very closely to the surface of the platter and allow information to be read from and written to the platter.
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