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Expunge
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ExpungeTo physically erase; to white or strike out. To "expunge" something from a court record means to remove every reference to it from the court file.
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Strike
Highlighting in the record of a case, evidence that has been improperly offered and will not be relied upon.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Record
1) Evidence. A written memorial made by a public officer authorized by law to perform that function, and intended to serve as evidence of something written, said, or done. 2) To record. The act of making a record.
Reference
1) Contracts. An agreement to submit to certain arbitrators, matters in dispute between two or more parties, for their decision, and judgment. The persons to whom such matters are referred are sometimes called referees. 2) Mercantile law. A direction or request by a party who asks a credit to the person from whom he expects it, to call on some other person named in order to ascertain the character or mercantile standing of the former. 3) Practice. The act of sending any matter by a court of chancery or one exercising equitable powers, to a master or other officer, in order that he may ascertain facts and report to the court. By reference is also understood that part of an instrument of writing where it points to another for the matters therein contained.
File
To personally deliver a document to a clerk of a court so that the document can be included in the official records of a case.
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Expungement
The process by which the record of criminal conviction is destroyed or sealed.
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Express trust
A trust which is clearly created by the settlor, usually in the form of a document (eg. a will), although they can be oral. They are to be contrasted with trusts which come to being through the operation of the law and which do not result from the clear intent or decision of any settlor to create a trust (eg. constructive trust).
Expression
The term or use of language employed to explain a thing.
Expromission
Civil law. The act by which a creditor accepts a new debtor, who becomes bound instead of the old, the latter being released. It is a species of novation.
Exprommissor
Civil law. By this term is understood the person who alone becomes bound for the debt of another, whether the latter were obligated or not. He differs from a surety, who is bound together with his principal.
Expropriation
Canada: the forced sale of land to a public authority. Synonymous to the USA doctrine of "eminent domain".
Expunge
Expungement
The process by which the record of criminal conviction is destroyed or sealed.
Extension
Common law. This term is applied among merchants to signify an agreement made between a debtor and his creditors, by which the latter, in order to enable the former, embarrassed in his circumstances, to retrieve his standing, agree to wait for a definite length of time after their several claims should become due and payable, before they will demand payment.
Extent in aid
English practice. An exchequer process, formerly much used, and now liable to be abused;
Extent in chief
English practice. An execution issuing out of the exchequer at the suit 'of the crown. It is a mere "fiscal writ.
Extenuation
That which renders a crime or tort less heinous than it would be without it: it is opposed to aggravation.
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Strike
Highlighting in the record of a case, evidence that has been improperly offered and will not be relied upon.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Record
1) Evidence. A written memorial made by a public officer authorized by law to perform that function, and intended to serve as evidence of something written, said, or done. 2) To record. The act of making a record.
Reference
1) Contracts. An agreement to submit to certain arbitrators, matters in dispute between two or more parties, for their decision, and judgment. The persons to whom such matters are referred are sometimes called referees. 2) Mercantile law. A direction or request by a party who asks a credit to the person from whom he expects it, to call on some other person named in order to ascertain the character or mercantile standing of the former. 3) Practice. The act of sending any matter by a court of chancery or one exercising equitable powers, to a master or other officer, in order that he may ascertain facts and report to the court. By reference is also understood that part of an instrument of writing where it points to another for the matters therein contained.
File
To personally deliver a document to a clerk of a court so that the document can be included in the official records of a case.
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Expungement
The process by which the record of criminal conviction is destroyed or sealed.
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Express trust
A trust which is clearly created by the settlor, usually in the form of a document (eg. a will), although they can be oral. They are to be contrasted with trusts which come to being through the operation of the law and which do not result from the clear intent or decision of any settlor to create a trust (eg. constructive trust).
Expression
The term or use of language employed to explain a thing.
Expromission
Civil law. The act by which a creditor accepts a new debtor, who becomes bound instead of the old, the latter being released. It is a species of novation.
Exprommissor
Civil law. By this term is understood the person who alone becomes bound for the debt of another, whether the latter were obligated or not. He differs from a surety, who is bound together with his principal.
Expropriation
Canada: the forced sale of land to a public authority. Synonymous to the USA doctrine of "eminent domain".
Expunge
Expungement
The process by which the record of criminal conviction is destroyed or sealed.
Extension
Common law. This term is applied among merchants to signify an agreement made between a debtor and his creditors, by which the latter, in order to enable the former, embarrassed in his circumstances, to retrieve his standing, agree to wait for a definite length of time after their several claims should become due and payable, before they will demand payment.
Extent in aid
English practice. An exchequer process, formerly much used, and now liable to be abused;
Extent in chief
English practice. An execution issuing out of the exchequer at the suit 'of the crown. It is a mere "fiscal writ.
Extenuation
That which renders a crime or tort less heinous than it would be without it: it is opposed to aggravation.
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