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Cancellation of removal
Cancellation of removalA discretionary benefit adjusting an alien’s status from that of deportable alien to one lawfully admitted for permanent residence. Application for cancellation of removal is made during the course of a hearing before an immigration judge RELATED TERMS-------------------------------------- Benefit This word is used in the same sense as gain and profits. Status The condition of persons. It also means estate, because it signifies the condition or circumstances in which the owner stands with regard to his property. Alien Any person not a citizen or national of the United States. Residence The place of one's domicil. There is a difference between a man's residence and his domicil. He may have his domicil in Philadelphia, and still he may have a residence in New York; for although a man can have but one domicil, he may have several residences. A residence is generally tran-sient in its nature, it becomes a domicil when it is taken up animo manendi. Application The primary step in all divorce proceedings and court order. (the standard forms are available from the court office. Cancellation Termination clause A unilateral or mutual decision to not complete an exchange or perform an obligation under a contract. May trigger penalty provisions; often contains a notice requirement. Removal The expulsion of an alien from the United States. This expulsion may be based on grounds of inadmissibility or deportability. Course The direction in which a line runs in surveying. Hearing "1) Chwncery practice. The term, hearing is given to the trial of a chancery suit. 2) Criminal law. The examination of a prisoner charged with a crime or misdemeanor, and of the witnesses for the accuser. Immigration The removing into one place from another. Judge An elected or appointed public official with authority to hear and decide cases in a court of law. SIMILAR TERMS-------------------------------------- Cancellaria curia The name formerly given to the court of chancery. Cancellation Termination clause A unilateral or mutual decision to not complete an exchange or perform an obligation under a contract. May trigger penalty provisions; often contains a notice requirement. PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS-------------------------------------- Campartum A part or portion of a larger field or ground, which would otherwise be in gross or common. Canadian maritime law The Supreme Court of Canada, in The Buenos Aires Maru (ITO -International Terminal Operators ), defined "Canadian maritime law" as having two major components: 1) the admiralty law of England received into Canada in 1934 as subsequently developed by Canadian statutes and jurisprudence; and 2) that body of law which would have been administered by the former Exchequer Court of Canada (now the Federal Court of Canada) on its admiralty side, if that Court had had an "unlimited jurisdiction in relation to admiralty and maritime matters". Canal A trench dug for leading water in a particular direction, and confin- ing it. Cancellaria curia The name formerly given to the court of chancery. Cancellation Termination clause A unilateral or mutual decision to not complete an exchange or perform an obligation under a contract. May trigger penalty provisions; often contains a notice requirement. Cancellation of removal Candidate One who offers himself or is offered by others for an office. Canon Ecclesiastical law. This word is taken from the Greek, and signifies a rule or law. In ecelesiastical law, it is also used to designate an order of religious persons. Canon law The canon law is a body of Roman ecclesiastical law, relative to such matters as that church either has or pretends to have the proper jurisdiction over: Canonist One well versed in canon or ecclesiastical law. Canons of descent or canons of inheritance The rules which regulate the descent of inheritances; the rules according to which estates are transmitted from ancestor to heir. We thank you for using the Juridical Dictionary to search for Cancellation of removal. If you have a better definition for Cancellation of removal than the one presented here, please let us know by making use of the suggest a term option. This definition of Cancellation of removal may be disputed by other professionals. Our attempt is to provide easy definitions on Cancellation of removal and any other medical topic for the public at large.
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