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Expungement
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ExpungementThe process by which the record of criminal conviction is destroyed or sealed.
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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.
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.
Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
Conviction
The formal decision of a criminal trial which finds the accused guilty. It is the finding of a judge or jury, on behalf of the state, that a person has, beyond reasonable doubt, committed the crime for which he, or she, has been accused. It is the ultimate goal of the prosecution and the result resisted by the defense. Once convicted, an accused may then be sentenced.
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Expunge
To 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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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
To 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.
Expungement
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.
Exterritoriality
This term is used by French jurists to signify the immunity of certain persons, who, although in the state, are not amenable to its laws; foreign sovereigns, ambassadors, ministers plenipotentiary, and ministers from a foreign power, are of this class.
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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.
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.
Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
Conviction
The formal decision of a criminal trial which finds the accused guilty. It is the finding of a judge or jury, on behalf of the state, that a person has, beyond reasonable doubt, committed the crime for which he, or she, has been accused. It is the ultimate goal of the prosecution and the result resisted by the defense. Once convicted, an accused may then be sentenced.
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Expunge
To 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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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
To 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.
Expungement
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.
Exterritoriality
This term is used by French jurists to signify the immunity of certain persons, who, although in the state, are not amenable to its laws; foreign sovereigns, ambassadors, ministers plenipotentiary, and ministers from a foreign power, are of this class.
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