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Child

A son or a daughter a male or female descendant in the first degree the immediate progeny of human parents in law legitimate offspring Used also of animals and plants

implied acquittal

implied acquittal : an acquittal of a more serious offense (as first-degree murder) that is considered to result from a verdict which convicts the defendant of a lesser included offense

that renders a person unable to form the specific intent necessary for the commission of a crime (as first-degree murder) but that does not amount to insanity called also diminished responsibility partial insanity compare insanity, irresistible impulse

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assault

a position of trust see also rape NOTE: Sexual assault in its most serious forms (often classified as first degree sexual assault) involves nonconsensual sexual penetration. In its less serious forms it may be the equivalent of statutory

Conchoid

A curve of the fourth degree first made use of by the Greek geometer Nicomedes who invented it for the purpose of trisecting an angle

Quater cousin

A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred … A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred

Allied by kindred connected by blood or alliance particularly by consanguinity as persons related in the first or second degree

pure speech

idea compare commercial speech, symbolic speech NOTE: Pure speech is accorded the highest degree of protection under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Maximum

greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case or the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to decrease the highest point or degree opposed to minimum

Scotch rite

the Ancient and Accepted Scotch Rite also the system itself which confers thirty three degrees of which the first three are nearly identical with those of the York rite … systems called in full the Ancient and Accepted Scotch Rite also the system itself which confers thirty three degrees of which the first three are nearly identical with those of the York rite

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