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To enter or record in a journal or diary...
Journal
Journal, a day-book or diary of transactions used by merchants, mariners, tradesmen, etc., in their business.Means (1) A book or record kept usu. daily, as of the proceedings of a legislature or the events of a ship's voyage (2) Accounting. In double entry book-keeping, a book in which original entries are re-corded before being transferred to a ledger (3) A periodical or magazine, esp. one published for a scholarly or professional group. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 844....
Journals of Parliament
Journals of Parliament, minifies of proceedings in Parliament. If purporting to be printed by the printers to the Crown or to either House of Parliament, copies of these are admitted in evidence, by virtue of s. 3 of the (English) Evidence Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 113), without proof that they were so printed....
Journalistic
Pertaining to journals journalism or to journalists contained in or characteristic of the public journals as journalistic literature or enterprise...
causal
causal 1 : of, relating to, or constituting a cause [ negligence] 2 : involving causation or a cause [no relationship between driving without insurance and the accident "National Law Journal"] [a link exists between the deceptive act and the injury "National Law Journal"] 3 : arising from a cause ...
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 instruction or command ;esp : instruction in points of law given by a judge to a jury [conviction…reversed, because of trial court's "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] 3 a : an incurred expense b : the price demanded for something (as admission or use) [a finance ] c : a debit to an account ;esp : a debit resulting from unexpected operating expenses [a against earnings] 4 : a formal allegation of an offense or wrongdoing [based on a that was dismissed "National Law Journal"] see also complaint, indictment, information vt charged charg·ing 1 a : to impose a task or responsibility on [was charged with protecting civil rights] b : to command or instruct with authority ;esp : to give a charge to (a jury) [the jury should have been charged on common-law negligence "National Law J...
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 below of its judgment and directing the lower court to act accordingly b : mandamus 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : an act by which a person gives another person the power to transact for him or her one or several affairs 3 a : an authoritative command : a clear authorization or direction [the of the full faith and credit clause "National Law Journal"] b : the authorization to act given by a constituency to its elected representative vt man·dat·ed man·dat·ing : to make mandatory or required [the Pennsylvania Constitution s a criminal defendant's right to confrontation "National Law Journal"] ...
preempt
preempt 1 a : to acquire (land) by preemption b : to seize upon to the exclusion of others : take for oneself [a senior user of a trademark could not use of the mark in remote geographical markets "Mesa Springs Enterprises v. Cutco Indus., 736 P.2d 1251 (1986)"] 2 a : to replace or supersede (a law) by preemption [such state laws are not ed by the federal Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 "National Law Journal"] b : to preclude or bar (an action) by preemption [federal airline deregulation does not claims under state contract law "National Law Journal"] ...
prejudice
prejudice [Old French, from Latin praejudicium previous judgment, damage, from prae- before + judicium judgment] 1 : injury or detriment to one's legal rights or claims (as from the action of another): as a : substantial impairment of a defendant's ability to defend [the court found no to the defendant by the lengthy delay in bringing charges] b : tendency for a decision on an improper basis (as past conduct) by a trier of fact [whether an ex parte communication to a deliberating jury resulted in any reasonable possibility of to the defendant "National Law Journal"] c : implied waiver of rights and privileges not explicitly retained [District Court erred in attaching to prisoner's complaint for injunctive relief "National Law Journal"] 2 : a final and binding decision (as an adjudication on the merits) that bars further prosecution of the same cause of action or motion [dismisses this case with ] [the dismissal was without ] 3 a : an irrational attitude of hostility directed a...
stipulate
stipulate -lat·ed -lat·ing [Latin stipulatus, past participle of stipulari to exact (as from a prospective debtor) a formal guarantee when making an oral contract] vi 1 : to make an agreement or covenant about something (as damages) 2 : to demand a particular promise in an agreement used with for [may…assume or for obligations of all kinds "Louisiana Civil Code"] 3 : to agree respecting an aspect of legal proceedings used with to [stipulated to a dismissal of the claim with prejudice "National Law Journal"] [pleaded guilty to the charge of battery and stipulated to the underlying facts "Luna v. Meinke, 844 F. Supp. 1284 (1994)"] vt 1 : to specify esp. as a condition or requirement of an agreement [parties may not the invalidity of statutes or ordinances "West v. Bank of Commerce & Trusts, 167 F.2d 664 (1948)"] [the contract stipulated that the lessor was responsible for maintenance] [within a stipulated period of time] 2 : to establish (procedure or evidence...
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