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GAO

GAO General Accounting Office see also the Important Agencies section … GAO General Accounting Office see also the Important Agencies section

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agent

exclusive agent : an agent acting under an exclusive agency general agent : an agent acting under a general agency legislative agent : an agent (as for an interest group) that lobbies a legislature esp. professionally managing agent … stock and other securities and keeping records of the owners universal agent : an agent acting under a general agency b : a representative of a corporation designated to accept service of process on behalf of the corporation

Fee

charge for labour or services esp. professional services; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 629. A 'fee' is generally defined to be a charge for a special service rendered to individuals by some governmental agency. The distinction

Universal agent

rerum the complete disposer of all the rights and property of the principal. The law will not from general expressions, however broad, infer the existence of any such universal agency; but it will rather construe them as

Paranoid schizophrenia

noxious gases are blown into his room, and people are plotting against him to ruin him. Disturbances of general sensation given rise to hallucinations, which are attributed to the effects of hypnotism, electricity wireless telegraphy or atomic … definite, to lead the patient to believe that he is persecuted by some unknown person or some superhuman agency. He believes that his food is being poisoned. Some noxious gases are blown into his room, and people

rule

law 3 : all or part of a statement (as a regulation) by an administrative agency that has general or particular applicability and future effect and that is designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy

Tax and fee-distinction

brings out the essential characteristics of a tax as dis-tinguished from other forms of imposition which, in a general sense, are included within it. The essence of taxation is compulsion, that is to say, it is imposed … fee is generally defined to be a charge for a special service rendered to individuals by some govern-mental agency. But the traditional view that there must be actual quid pro quo has undergone a sea change with

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