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RICO Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (Act) see also the Important Laws section ...
rico (racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act)
rico (racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act) A federal (or state) law designed to investigate, control and prosecute organized crime, and to combat the infiltration of organized crime into legitimate business. Source: FindLaw ...
substantive
substantive 1 : of or relating to a matter of substance as opposed to form or procedure [a issue] [the instructions to the jury] [was dismissed on procedural and grounds] compare procedural 2 : affecting rights, duties, or causes of actions [a statutory change] [a rule of law] 3 : existing in its own right ;specif : of or relating to a substantive crime [the object of a RICO conspiracy is to violate a RICO provision "United States v. Elliot, 571 F.2d 880 (1978)"] ...
commonwealth
commonwealth 1 : a nation, state, or other political unit: as a : one founded on law and united by compact or tacit agreement by the people for the common good b : one in which supreme authority is vested in the people c : republic 2 : a state of the U.S. used officially of Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia 3 often cap : an association of self-governing autonomous states more or less loosely associated in a common allegiance (as to the British crown) 4 often cap : a political unit having local autonomy but voluntarily united with the U.S. used officially of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands ...
Caballeria
An ancient Spanish land tenure similar to the English knights fee hence in Spain and countries settled by the Spanish a land measure of varying size In Cuba it is about 33 acres in Puerto Rico about 194 acres in the Southwestern United States about 108 acres...
guama
A tropical tree of Central America and the West Indies and Puerto Rico Inga laurina having spikes of white flowers it is used as shade for coffee plantations...
Hague conference
Hague conference. A conference of representatives of different States to consider the question of international peace and kindred subjects. So called because the place of meeting has been The Hague in South Holland (Netherlands). The first Hague Conference was the outcome of a circular letter of the Czar of Russia handed to all the foreign representatives accredited to the Court of St. Petersburg on the 24th August, 1898, and as a result the first Peace Conference met on 18th May, 1899. This conference brought about the creation of a Permanent Court of Arbitration, and each of the Powers signing the Hague Arbitration Convention could appoint four persons, who constituted a panel or general list of arbitrators from which as occasion arises selection can be made. The Hague Arbitration Court has dealt with complicated international disputes. A second Peace Conference met at the Hague on 18th June, 1907. Consult Higgins, Hague Conference.Means the convention on the service Abroad of Judici...
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