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head on

characterized by direct opposition as a head on confrontation

verdict

be submitted to a jury for its resolution [the order of the court granting a motion for a directed verdict is effective without any assent of the jury "Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 50(a)"] see also

electric current

movement of charge per unit time and is counted in units of amperes As a formal definition the direction of movement of electric current is considered as the same as the direction of movement of positive charge

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Accumulation

grantor, settlor or testator; (4) During the minority of any person who, under the limitations of the instrument, directing such accumulations, would for the time being, if of full age, be entitled to the income directed to

Costs

entitled to costs on a county court scale only, the taxing master shall have the same power of directing on what county court scale and under what column in the scale costs are to be allowed, and

writ

name of the sovereign or of a court or judicial officer commanding the person to whom it is directed to perform or refrain from performing a specified act NOTE: The writ was a vital official instrument in

Regulate

govern; to govern by rule; to govern by, or subject to, certain rules or restrictions, to govern or direct according to rule; to control, govern, or direct by rule or regulations, Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. 76, p.

Trust

himself likewise being aided and protected in the proper performance of his trust when he seeks the Court's direction as to its management. Every kind of property in which a legal interest may be given, whatever may

Process

cited into a Court, because it is the beginning or principal part thereof, by which the rest is directed, Britt. 138. At Common Law the three superior courts at Westminster, in personal actions, differed greatly, before the

judgment

verdict : a judgment that may be granted upon a motion by a defendant whose motion for a directed verdict was denied and that sets aside the jury's verdict in favor of a judgment in accordance with

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