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Fifth amendment
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Fifth amendmentAmong other rights, the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees that a person cannot be compelled to present self-incriminating testimony in a criminal proceeding.
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Constitution
1) Contracts. The constitution of a contract, is the making of the contract as, the written constitution of a debt. 2) Government. The fundamental law of the state, containing the principles upon which the government is founded, and regulating the divisions of the sovereign powers, directing to what persons each of these powers is to be confided, and the, manner it is to be exercised as, the Constitution of the United States.
Guarantees
A guarantor undertakes that he will repay a debt incurred by another person or company to a bank or other creditor and the bank or other creditor can require him to pay the outstanding amount if that person cannot or will not pay their indebtedness. Proprietors and directors of companies are often asked to give personal guarantees for their company's borrowings to provide additional security.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Present
A gift, or wore properly the thing given. It is provided by the constitution of the United States, that "no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, [the United States] shall, without the consent of congress, accept of any present, emolument, or office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state."
Testimony
Evidence. The statement made by a witness under oath or affirmation
Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
Proceeding
In its general acceptation, this word means the form in which actions are to be brought and defended, the manner of intervening in suits, of conducting them, the mode of deciding them, of opposing judgments and of executing.
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Fifteenth
English law. The name of a tax levied by authority of parliament for the use of the king, which consisted of one-fifteenth part of the goods of those who are subject to it.
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Field
A part of a farra separately enclosed; a close. The Digest defines a field to be a piece of land without a house; ager est locus, que sine villa est.
Fieri
Latin. To be done; to be made. Compare Facere.
Fieri facias
A writ of fieri facias commands a sheriff to take and sell enough property from the person who lost the law suit, to pay the debt owed by the judgment.
Fieri feci
Practice. The return which the sheriff, or other proper officer, makes to certain writs, signifying, "I have caused to be made."
Fifteenth
English law. The name of a tax levied by authority of parliament for the use of the king, which consisted of one-fifteenth part of the goods of those who are subject to it.
Fifth amendment
Figures
Numerals. It is considered better to date formal instruments by writing the day and the year in words; and to write in words in the body of a bill, note, or receipt the sum for which it is given.
Filacer
Filacer, filazier or filzer. English law. An officer of the court of common pleas, so called because he files those writs on which he makes out process. FILE, practice. A thread, string, or wire, upon which writs and other exhibits in courts and offices are fastened or filed. for the more safe keeping and ready turning to the same. The papers put together in order, and tied in bundles, are also called a file.
Filazier
"Filazier,filacer or filzer.English law. An officer of the court of common pleas, so called because he files those writs on which he makes out process. FILE, practice. A thread, string, or wire, upon which writs and other exhibits in courts and offices are fastened or filed. for the more safe keeping and ready turning to the same. The papers put together in order, and tied in bundles, are also called a file.
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.
Files control office
An U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Servicesfield office--either a district (including U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Servicesoverseas offices) or a suboffice of that district--where alien case files are maintained and controlled.
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Constitution
1) Contracts. The constitution of a contract, is the making of the contract as, the written constitution of a debt. 2) Government. The fundamental law of the state, containing the principles upon which the government is founded, and regulating the divisions of the sovereign powers, directing to what persons each of these powers is to be confided, and the, manner it is to be exercised as, the Constitution of the United States.
Guarantees
A guarantor undertakes that he will repay a debt incurred by another person or company to a bank or other creditor and the bank or other creditor can require him to pay the outstanding amount if that person cannot or will not pay their indebtedness. Proprietors and directors of companies are often asked to give personal guarantees for their company's borrowings to provide additional security.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Present
A gift, or wore properly the thing given. It is provided by the constitution of the United States, that "no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, [the United States] shall, without the consent of congress, accept of any present, emolument, or office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state."
Testimony
Evidence. The statement made by a witness under oath or affirmation
Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
Proceeding
In its general acceptation, this word means the form in which actions are to be brought and defended, the manner of intervening in suits, of conducting them, the mode of deciding them, of opposing judgments and of executing.
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Fifteenth
English law. The name of a tax levied by authority of parliament for the use of the king, which consisted of one-fifteenth part of the goods of those who are subject to it.
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Field
A part of a farra separately enclosed; a close. The Digest defines a field to be a piece of land without a house; ager est locus, que sine villa est.
Fieri
Latin. To be done; to be made. Compare Facere.
Fieri facias
A writ of fieri facias commands a sheriff to take and sell enough property from the person who lost the law suit, to pay the debt owed by the judgment.
Fieri feci
Practice. The return which the sheriff, or other proper officer, makes to certain writs, signifying, "I have caused to be made."
Fifteenth
English law. The name of a tax levied by authority of parliament for the use of the king, which consisted of one-fifteenth part of the goods of those who are subject to it.
Fifth amendment
Figures
Numerals. It is considered better to date formal instruments by writing the day and the year in words; and to write in words in the body of a bill, note, or receipt the sum for which it is given.
Filacer
Filacer, filazier or filzer. English law. An officer of the court of common pleas, so called because he files those writs on which he makes out process. FILE, practice. A thread, string, or wire, upon which writs and other exhibits in courts and offices are fastened or filed. for the more safe keeping and ready turning to the same. The papers put together in order, and tied in bundles, are also called a file.
Filazier
"Filazier,filacer or filzer.English law. An officer of the court of common pleas, so called because he files those writs on which he makes out process. FILE, practice. A thread, string, or wire, upon which writs and other exhibits in courts and offices are fastened or filed. for the more safe keeping and ready turning to the same. The papers put together in order, and tied in bundles, are also called a file.
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.
Files control office
An U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Servicesfield office--either a district (including U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Servicesoverseas offices) or a suboffice of that district--where alien case files are maintained and controlled.
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