Law terms starting with E

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  1. exemptions, exempt property Certain property owned by an individual debtor that the Bankruptcy Code or applicable state law permits the debtor to keep from unsecured creditors.
  2. Exhibit A document or other item introduced as evidence during a trial or hearing.
  3. Exonerate Removal of a charge, responsibility or duty.
  4. Expedited Appeals The court will expedite or speed up cases involving child custody, Child Protective Act proceedings, termination of parental rights, adoption, and all…
  5. Experimental Use A public use of the invention that having the primary purpose is of testing of the invention. Experimental use is allowed in the U.S.
  6. expired Trademark registration is no longer active. The registrant failed to renew the trademark registration at the end of the registration period.
  7. Expiry Date The date when a patent has run its full term and the invention is no longer protected by it.
  8. export Data extracted or taken out of one environment or application usually in a prescribed format, and usually for import into another environment or…
  9. express abandonment A patent application may be expressly abandoned by filing a written declaration of abandonment identifying the application in the United States Patent and…
  10. express mail mailing label patent correspondence delivered to the USPTO via the "Express Mail Post Office to Addressee" service of the United States Postal Service (USPS) which is…
  11. Expungement Expungement means sealing the public record of a court action. If your eviction is expunged, then someone searching court files cannot find a record of…
  12. Exsanguination bleeding to death.
  13. Extended Partitions If a computer hard drive has been divided into more than four partitions, extended partitions are created.
  14. Extensible Markup Language (XML) Short for Extensible Markup Language, a specification developed by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortiumthe Web development standards board).
  15. Extension of Time An extension of the "period for reponse" stipulated in an Office action. MPEP 710.02(e).
  16. extension request -- see Request for Extension of Time to File a Statement of Use
  17. Extenuating circumstances Circumstances which render a crime less aggravated, heinous or reprehensible than it would be otherwise.
  18. External Proficiency Test an exam process/instrument prepared by an outside provider and used as a quality assessment sample.
  19. Extradition The surrender of an accused criminal by one state to the jurisdiction of another.
  20. extranet An Internet based access method to a corporate intranet site by limited or total access through a security firewall.
  21. Extrinsic Data Information about the file, such as file signature, author, size, name, path, and creation and modification dates.