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Prefect

A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command charge department etc as the prefect of the aqueducts the prefect of a camp of a fleet of the city guard of provisions the pretorian prefect...

HQ

Headquarters the place from which a commander performs the functions of command

Disobey

Not to obey to neglect or refuse to obey a superior or his commands the laws etc to transgress the commands of one in authority to violate as an order as refractory children disobey their parents...

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subpoena

subpoena also sub·pe·na [sə-pē-nə] n [Latin sub poena under penalty] : a writ commanding a designated person upon whom it has been served to appear (as in court or before a congressional committee) under a penalty...

rule

rule 1 a : a prescribed guide for conduct or action b : a regulating principle or precept 2 a : an order or directive issued by a court in a particular proceeding esp. upon petition...

praecipe

praecipe also pre·ci·pe [pre-sə-pē, prē-] n [Medieval Latin precipe, legal writ commanding a person to do something or show cause why he or she should not, from Latin praecipe, imperative of praecipere to give rules or...

mandate

mandate [Latin mandatum, from neuter of mandatus, past participle of mandare to entrust, enjoin, probably irregularly from manus hand + -dere to put] 1 a : a formal communication from a reviewing court notifying the court...

charge

charge 1 a : something required : obligation b : personal management or supervision [put the child in his ] c : a person or thing placed under the care of another 2 : an authoritative...

Capitulation

Capitulation [fr. Capitulo, Lat., to treat upon terms; fr. Capitulum, a little head or division], the treaty which determines the conditions under which a besieged place is surrendered to the commanding officer of the besieging army;...

Catechise

Catechise. Ministers of the Church of England, by Canon 59, headed 'Ministers to catechise every Sunday,' are directed 'upon every Sunday and holy-day, before Evening Prayer' 'for half an hour or more' to 'examine and instruct...

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Prefect

A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command charge department etc as the prefect of the aqueducts the prefect of a camp of a fleet of the city guard of provisions the pretorian prefect...

HQ

Headquarters the place from which a commander performs the functions of command

Disobey

Not to obey to neglect or refuse to obey a superior or his commands the laws etc to transgress the commands of one in authority to violate as an order as refractory children disobey their parents...

Keep your definitions linked to case research

subpoena

subpoena also sub·pe·na [sə-pē-nə] n [Latin sub poena under penalty] : a writ commanding a designated person upon whom it has been served to appear (as in court or before a congressional committee) under a penalty...

rule

rule 1 a : a prescribed guide for conduct or action b : a regulating principle or precept 2 a : an order or directive issued by a court in a particular proceeding esp. upon petition...

praecipe

praecipe also pre·ci·pe [pre-sə-pē, prē-] n [Medieval Latin precipe, legal writ commanding a person to do something or show cause why he or she should not, from Latin praecipe, imperative of praecipere to give rules or...

mandate

mandate [Latin mandatum, from neuter of mandatus, past participle of mandare to entrust, enjoin, probably irregularly from manus hand + -dere to put] 1 a : a formal communication from a reviewing court notifying the court...

charge

charge 1 a : something required : obligation b : personal management or supervision [put the child in his ] c : a person or thing placed under the care of another 2 : an authoritative...

Capitulation

Capitulation [fr. Capitulo, Lat., to treat upon terms; fr. Capitulum, a little head or division], the treaty which determines the conditions under which a besieged place is surrendered to the commanding officer of the besieging army;...

Catechise

Catechise. Ministers of the Church of England, by Canon 59, headed 'Ministers to catechise every Sunday,' are directed 'upon every Sunday and holy-day, before Evening Prayer' 'for half an hour or more' to 'examine and instruct...

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