Accompanying - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: accompanyingaccompanying
accompanying A type of visa in which family members travel with the principal applicant, (in immigrant visa cases, within six months of issuance of an immigrant visa to the principal applicant). Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
assault
assault [Old French assaut, literally, attack, ultimately from Latin assultus, from assilire to leap (on), attack] 1 : the crime or tort of threatening or attempting to inflict immediate offensive physical contact or bodily harm that one has the present ability to inflict and that puts the victim in fear of such harm or contact compare battery 2 : the crime of assault accompanied by battery ;specif : sexual assault in this entry called also assault and battery aggravated assault : a criminal assault accompanied by aggravating factors: as a : a criminal assault that is committed with an intent to cause or that causes serious bodily injury esp. through the use of a dangerous weapon b : a criminal assault accompanied by the intent to commit or the commission of a felony (as rape) compare simple assault in this entry assault with intent : a criminal assault committed with the intent to commit another specified crime [assault with intent to rob] [assault with intent to kill] civ...
Melodrama
Formerly a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes Now a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic In opera a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment while the actor speaks as the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethovens ldquoFideliordquo...
Oath
Oath [fr. ath, Sax.], an appeal to God to witness the truth of a statement. It is called a corporal oath, where a witness, when he swears, places his right hand on the Holy Evangelists.The Christian religion, though it prohibits swearing, excepts oaths required by legal authority (Art. Ch. of Engl. xxxix.). All who believe in a God, the avenger of falsehood, have always been admitted to give evidence, but the old rule was, that all witnesses must take an oath of some kind. Very gradually, however, the legislature has relaxed this rule, and the privilege of affirming (see AFFIRMATION) instead of taking an oath has now been universally granted by the (English) Oaths Act, 1888, by which--Every person upon objection to being sworn, and stating, as the ground of such objection, either that he has no religious belief, or that the taking of an oath is contrary to his religious belief, shall be permitted to make his solemn affirmation instead of taking an oath in all places and for all purpose...
battery
battery [Old French batterie beating, from battre to beat, from Latin battuere] : the crime or tort of intentionally or recklessly causing offensive physical contact or bodily harm (as by striking or by administering a poison or drug) that is not consented to by the victim compare assault aggravated battery : criminal battery that is accompanied by aggravating factors: as a : criminal battery that causes or is intended to cause serious bodily injury esp. through the use of a dangerous weapon b : criminal battery committed on a protected person (as a minor or a police officer) compare simple battery in this entry NOTE: Aggravated battery is usually classified as a felony. sex·u·al battery : intentional and offensive sexual contact and esp. sexual intercourse with a person who has not given or (as in the case of a child) is incapable of giving consent ;broadly : forced or coerced contact with the sexual parts of either the victim or the perpetrator see also rape NOTE:...
Concomitance
The state of accompanying accompaniment...
erysipelas
St Anthonys fire a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused red edematous inflammation of the skin which starting usually from a single point spreads gradually over its surface It is often accompanied by severe constitutional symptoms It is caused by a group A hemolytic streptococcus Streptococcus pyogenes is contagious and formerly often occured epidemically...
Assessory
Assessory, means anything which is joined to another thing as an ornament, or to render it more perfect, or which accompanies it, or is connected with it as an incident, or as subordinate to it, or which belongs to or with it. Adjunct or accompaniment. A thing of subordinate impor-tance, aiding or computing in secondary way or assisting in or contributing to as a subordinate, Black Law Dictionary 5th Edn., p. 13-14....
Labeling
Labeling, means under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, any label or other written, printed, or graphic matter that is on a product or its container, or that accompanies the product. To come within the Act, the labeling does not need to accompany the product. It may be sent before or after delivery of the product, as long as delivery of the product and the written material are part of the same distribution program, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 878....
Leave to defend
Leave to defend. The repealed (English) Bills of Exchange Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict.c.67), commonly called 'Keating's Act,' allowed actions on bills or notes commenced within six months after being due, to be by writ of summons in a form provided by the Act, and, unless the defendant should within twelve days obtain leave to appear and defend the action, allowed the plaintiff to sign judgment on proof of service. This procedure was retained by the (English) Judicature Act, 1875, Ord. II., r. 6, but abolished in 1880 by Ord. II., r. 6 (annulled 1917).By (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. III., r. 6, as amended by (English) R.S.C. 1933, in respect of forfeiture for non-payment of rent, it is provided that in all actions where the plaintiff seeks merely to recover a debt or liquidated demand (see QUANTUM MERUIT) in money, or possession where a tenancy has expired or been determined by notice to quit, or has become liable to forfeiture for non-payment of rent, the writ of summons may, at the option...
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