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Discharge
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DischargePractice. The act by which a person in confinement, under some legal process, or held on an accusation of some crime or misdemeauor, is set at liberty; the writing containing the order for his being so set at liberty, is also called a discharge.
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Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Process
1) Practice. So denominated because it proceeds or issues forth in order to bring the defendant into court, to answer the charge preferred against him, and signifies the writ or judicial means by which he is brought to answer. 2) Rights. The means or method of accomplishing a thing.
Accusation
Criminal law. A charge made to a competent officer against one who has committed a crime or misdemeanor, so that he may be brought to justice and punishment.
Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
Liberty
Freedom from restraint. The power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, except from the laws of nature. Liberty is divided into civil, natural, personal, and political.
Writing
The act of forming by the hand letters or characters of a particular kind on paper or other suitable substance, and artfully putting them together so as to co nvey ideas. It differs from printing, which is the formation of words on paper or other proper substance by means of a stamp. Sometimes by writing ii understood printing, and sometimes printing and writing mixed.
Order
An instruction rightfully given by someone superior in hyerarchy. Also, a social state of civil coexistance without widespread public violence.
Discharge
Practice. The act by which a person in confinement, under some legal process, or held on an accusation of some crime or misdemeauor, is set at liberty; the writing containing the order for his being so set at liberty, is also called a discharge.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Discharged
Released, or liberated from custody.
Disciplinary hearing
In the US penitentiary jargon, a hearing held in the jail to determine if a Rule Violation Report is substantiated and, if so, what discipline the inmate will receive.
Disciplinary Hearing Officer
In the US penitentiary jargon, the person who is responsible for conducting misconduct hearings and decides if discipline is deserved.
Disciplinary Isolation
In the US penitentiary jargon, a restrictive status of confinement to which an inmate receiving major discipline can be committed.ÿ Inmates in this status are housed separately and are denied the use all personal items except bedding, clothing, legal papers, personal correspondence, hygiene items, and religious reading material.ÿ Inmates shall be placed in disciplinary custody status for no longer than ten days per hearing.
Disciplinary lockdown
In the US penitentiary jargon, a restrictive status of confinement to which an inmate receiving major discipline can be committed.ÿ Inmates in this status are restricted to their living area and lose all revocable privileges, retaining the rights to professional visits, showers, and legal phone calls.ÿ Inmates shall be placed in disciplinary custody status for no longer than 72 hours per hearing.
Disciplinary procedure
An employer should draw up a disciplinary procedure preferably with union or employee involvement. It is normally a condition of the employment contract that it is subject to the disciplinary procedure in force from time to time. Such a procedure will assist the employer in arguing that he has acted fairly as well as setting down good practice for both employer and employee in disciplinary matters.
Disclaim
To refuse a gift made in a will.
Disclaimer
1) Chancery pleading. The renunciation of the defendant to all claims to the subject of the demand made by the plaintiff's bill. 2) Estates. The act of a party by which be refuses to accept of an estate which has been conveyed to him.
Discontinuance
1) Estates. An alienation made or suffered by the tenant in tail, or other tenant seised in autre droit, by which the issue in, tail, or heir or successor, or those in reversion or remainder, are driven to their action, and cannot enter. 2) Practice. This takes place when a plaintiff leaves a chasm in the proceedings of his cause, as by not continuing the process regularly from day to day, and time to time, as he ought.
Discount
Practice. A set off, or defalcation in an action.
Discounting
The procedure used to convert periodic income and reversions into present value: based on the assumption that benefits received in the future are worth less than the same benefits received now.
Discovert
Not covert, unmarried. The term is applied to a woman unmarried, or widow; one not within the bonds of matrimony.
Discovery
1) International law. The act of finding an unknown country. 2) Practice, pleading. The act of disclosing or revealing by a defendant, in his answer to a bill filed against him in a court of equity. 3) Rights. The patent laws of the United States use this word as synonymous with invention or improvement of July 4, 1836.
Discrepancy
A difference between one thing and another, between one writing and another; a variance.
Discretion
Criminal law. The ability to know and distinguish between good and evil; between what is lawful and what is unlawful.
Discretion of the court
An area of choice available to a judge to make decisions after reviewing reasonable evidence.
Discretionary trust
A trust in which the settlor has given the trustee full discretion to decide which (and when) members of a group of beneficiaries is to receive either the income or the capital of the trust.
Discretionary trusts
Those which cannot be duly administered without the application of a certain degree of prudence and judgment; as when a fund is given to trustees to be distributed in certain charities to be selected by the trustees.
Discrimination
Under a range of different kinds of legislation, the law prohibits discrimination against various sectors of the workforce. Conduct is generally discriminatory where it may be considered to disadvantage a person of a particular sex or race, union members or non-members, ex-offenders, or from late 1996, the disabled. It may occur at recruitment, whilst employed or through termination. It is particularly important because in sex or race discrimination cases, the qualifying period of continuous employment for bringing a claim for dismissal does not apply when based upon discrimination and in such cases the limit on the amount an industrial tribunal may award is not applicable.
Discussion
Civil law. A proceeding, on the part of a surety, by which. the property of the principal debtor is made liable before resort can be had to the sureties.
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Directory advertising schemes
Fraudulent invoices claiming that the company is listed in a business directory and requesting payment. There may or may not be such a directory, and the directory may or may not ever be distributed or distributed as widely as claimed. For certain, no one ever ordered or authorized the directory advertisement.
Dirimant impediments
Canon law. Those bars to a marriage, which, if consummated, render it null.
Disaffirmance
The act by which a person who has entered into a voidable contract.
Disbarment
The official seizing of an attorney's license to practice law.
Disbursement
Literally, to take money out of a purse. Figuratively, to pay out money; to expend money; and some times it signifies to advance money.
Discharge
Discharged
Released, or liberated from custody.
Disciplinary procedure
An employer should draw up a disciplinary procedure preferably with union or employee involvement. It is normally a condition of the employment contract that it is subject to the disciplinary procedure in force from time to time. Such a procedure will assist the employer in arguing that he has acted fairly as well as setting down good practice for both employer and employee in disciplinary matters.
Disclaim
To refuse a gift made in a will.
Disclaimer
1) Chancery pleading. The renunciation of the defendant to all claims to the subject of the demand made by the plaintiff's bill. 2) Estates. The act of a party by which be refuses to accept of an estate which has been conveyed to him.
Discontinuance
1) Estates. An alienation made or suffered by the tenant in tail, or other tenant seised in autre droit, by which the issue in, tail, or heir or successor, or those in reversion or remainder, are driven to their action, and cannot enter. 2) Practice. This takes place when a plaintiff leaves a chasm in the proceedings of his cause, as by not continuing the process regularly from day to day, and time to time, as he ought.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Process
1) Practice. So denominated because it proceeds or issues forth in order to bring the defendant into court, to answer the charge preferred against him, and signifies the writ or judicial means by which he is brought to answer. 2) Rights. The means or method of accomplishing a thing.
Accusation
Criminal law. A charge made to a competent officer against one who has committed a crime or misdemeanor, so that he may be brought to justice and punishment.
Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
Liberty
Freedom from restraint. The power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, except from the laws of nature. Liberty is divided into civil, natural, personal, and political.
Writing
The act of forming by the hand letters or characters of a particular kind on paper or other suitable substance, and artfully putting them together so as to co nvey ideas. It differs from printing, which is the formation of words on paper or other proper substance by means of a stamp. Sometimes by writing ii understood printing, and sometimes printing and writing mixed.
Order
An instruction rightfully given by someone superior in hyerarchy. Also, a social state of civil coexistance without widespread public violence.
Discharge
Practice. The act by which a person in confinement, under some legal process, or held on an accusation of some crime or misdemeauor, is set at liberty; the writing containing the order for his being so set at liberty, is also called a discharge.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Discharged
Released, or liberated from custody.
Disciplinary hearing
In the US penitentiary jargon, a hearing held in the jail to determine if a Rule Violation Report is substantiated and, if so, what discipline the inmate will receive.
Disciplinary Hearing Officer
In the US penitentiary jargon, the person who is responsible for conducting misconduct hearings and decides if discipline is deserved.
Disciplinary Isolation
In the US penitentiary jargon, a restrictive status of confinement to which an inmate receiving major discipline can be committed.ÿ Inmates in this status are housed separately and are denied the use all personal items except bedding, clothing, legal papers, personal correspondence, hygiene items, and religious reading material.ÿ Inmates shall be placed in disciplinary custody status for no longer than ten days per hearing.
Disciplinary lockdown
In the US penitentiary jargon, a restrictive status of confinement to which an inmate receiving major discipline can be committed.ÿ Inmates in this status are restricted to their living area and lose all revocable privileges, retaining the rights to professional visits, showers, and legal phone calls.ÿ Inmates shall be placed in disciplinary custody status for no longer than 72 hours per hearing.
Disciplinary procedure
An employer should draw up a disciplinary procedure preferably with union or employee involvement. It is normally a condition of the employment contract that it is subject to the disciplinary procedure in force from time to time. Such a procedure will assist the employer in arguing that he has acted fairly as well as setting down good practice for both employer and employee in disciplinary matters.
Disclaim
To refuse a gift made in a will.
Disclaimer
1) Chancery pleading. The renunciation of the defendant to all claims to the subject of the demand made by the plaintiff's bill. 2) Estates. The act of a party by which be refuses to accept of an estate which has been conveyed to him.
Discontinuance
1) Estates. An alienation made or suffered by the tenant in tail, or other tenant seised in autre droit, by which the issue in, tail, or heir or successor, or those in reversion or remainder, are driven to their action, and cannot enter. 2) Practice. This takes place when a plaintiff leaves a chasm in the proceedings of his cause, as by not continuing the process regularly from day to day, and time to time, as he ought.
Discount
Practice. A set off, or defalcation in an action.
Discounting
The procedure used to convert periodic income and reversions into present value: based on the assumption that benefits received in the future are worth less than the same benefits received now.
Discovert
Not covert, unmarried. The term is applied to a woman unmarried, or widow; one not within the bonds of matrimony.
Discovery
1) International law. The act of finding an unknown country. 2) Practice, pleading. The act of disclosing or revealing by a defendant, in his answer to a bill filed against him in a court of equity. 3) Rights. The patent laws of the United States use this word as synonymous with invention or improvement of July 4, 1836.
Discrepancy
A difference between one thing and another, between one writing and another; a variance.
Discretion
Criminal law. The ability to know and distinguish between good and evil; between what is lawful and what is unlawful.
Discretion of the court
An area of choice available to a judge to make decisions after reviewing reasonable evidence.
Discretionary trust
A trust in which the settlor has given the trustee full discretion to decide which (and when) members of a group of beneficiaries is to receive either the income or the capital of the trust.
Discretionary trusts
Those which cannot be duly administered without the application of a certain degree of prudence and judgment; as when a fund is given to trustees to be distributed in certain charities to be selected by the trustees.
Discrimination
Under a range of different kinds of legislation, the law prohibits discrimination against various sectors of the workforce. Conduct is generally discriminatory where it may be considered to disadvantage a person of a particular sex or race, union members or non-members, ex-offenders, or from late 1996, the disabled. It may occur at recruitment, whilst employed or through termination. It is particularly important because in sex or race discrimination cases, the qualifying period of continuous employment for bringing a claim for dismissal does not apply when based upon discrimination and in such cases the limit on the amount an industrial tribunal may award is not applicable.
Discussion
Civil law. A proceeding, on the part of a surety, by which. the property of the principal debtor is made liable before resort can be had to the sureties.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Directory advertising schemes
Fraudulent invoices claiming that the company is listed in a business directory and requesting payment. There may or may not be such a directory, and the directory may or may not ever be distributed or distributed as widely as claimed. For certain, no one ever ordered or authorized the directory advertisement.
Dirimant impediments
Canon law. Those bars to a marriage, which, if consummated, render it null.
Disaffirmance
The act by which a person who has entered into a voidable contract.
Disbarment
The official seizing of an attorney's license to practice law.
Disbursement
Literally, to take money out of a purse. Figuratively, to pay out money; to expend money; and some times it signifies to advance money.
Discharge
Discharged
Released, or liberated from custody.
Disciplinary procedure
An employer should draw up a disciplinary procedure preferably with union or employee involvement. It is normally a condition of the employment contract that it is subject to the disciplinary procedure in force from time to time. Such a procedure will assist the employer in arguing that he has acted fairly as well as setting down good practice for both employer and employee in disciplinary matters.
Disclaim
To refuse a gift made in a will.
Disclaimer
1) Chancery pleading. The renunciation of the defendant to all claims to the subject of the demand made by the plaintiff's bill. 2) Estates. The act of a party by which be refuses to accept of an estate which has been conveyed to him.
Discontinuance
1) Estates. An alienation made or suffered by the tenant in tail, or other tenant seised in autre droit, by which the issue in, tail, or heir or successor, or those in reversion or remainder, are driven to their action, and cannot enter. 2) Practice. This takes place when a plaintiff leaves a chasm in the proceedings of his cause, as by not continuing the process regularly from day to day, and time to time, as he ought.
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