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Harassment
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HarassmentUnsolicited words or conduct which tend to annoy, alarm or abuse another person. An excellent alternate definition can be found in Canadian human rights legislation as: "a course of vexatious comment or conduct that is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome." Name-calling ("stupid", "retard" or "dummy") is a common form of harassment. (See also sexual harassment.)
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Conduct
Law of nations. This term is used in the phrase safe conduct, to signify the security given, by authority of the government, under the great seal, to a stranger, for his quietly coming into and passing out of the territories over which it has jurisdiction.
Abuse
Every thing which is contrary to good order established by usage.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Definition
An enumeration of the particular acts included by or under a name: as, the definition of a crime.
Legislation
Written and approved laws. Also known as "statutes" or "acts." In constitutional law, one would talk of the "power to legislate" or the "legislative arm of government" referring to the power of political bodies (eg: house of assembly, Congress, Parliament) to write the laws of the land.
Course
The direction in which a line runs in surveying.
Common
marriage law. a marriage in which no formal ceremony took place and no license exists.
Harassment
Unsolicited words or conduct which tend to annoy, alarm or abuse another person. An excellent alternate definition can be found in Canadian human rights legislation as: "a course of vexatious comment or conduct that is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome." Name-calling ("stupid", "retard" or "dummy") is a common form of harassment. (See also sexual harassment.)
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Harassment in the workplace
Harassment occurring in the workplace.
Harassment law
Laws defending people against various forms of harassment.
Harassment lawsuit
A lawsuit filed on the grounds that the plaintiff has been allegedly harassed.
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Handsale
Contracts. Anciently, among all the northern nations, shaking of hands was held necessary to bind a bargain; a custom still retained in verbal contracts; a sale thus made was called handsale, venditio per mutuam manum complexionem. In process of time the same word was used to signify the price or earnest which was given immediately after the shaking of hands, or instead thereof. In some parts of the country it is usual to speak of hand money as the part of the consideration paid or to be paid at the execution of a contract of sale.
Handwriting
Evidence. Almost every person's handwriting has something whereby it may be distinguished from the writing of others, and this difference is sometimes intended by the term.
Hanging
Punishment. Death by the halter, or the suspending of a criminal, condemned to suffer death, by the neck, until life is extinct. A mode of capital punishment.
Hangman
The name usually given to a man employed by the sheriff to put a man to death, according to law, in pursuance of a judgment of a competent court, and lawful warrant. The same as executioner.
Hap
An old word which signifies to catch; as, "to hap the rent," to hap the deed poll."
Harassment
Harbor
A place where ships may ride with safety; any navigable water protected by the surrounding country; a haven.It is public property.
Hard labor
Punishment. In those states where the penitentiary system has been adopted, convicts who are to be imprisoned, as part of their punishment, are sentenced to perform hard labor. This labor is not greater than many freemen perform voluntarily, and the quantity required to be performed is not at all unreasonable. In the penitentiaries of Pennsylvania it consists in being employed in weaving, shoemaking, and such like employments.
Hardship
The inability of a parent to support his or her children because of a financial strain.
Harmless error
An error committed during a trial that was corrected or was not serious enough to affect the outcome of a trial and therefore was not sufficiently harmful (prejudicial) to be reversed on appeal.
Hart
stag or male deer of the forest five years old complete.
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Conduct
Law of nations. This term is used in the phrase safe conduct, to signify the security given, by authority of the government, under the great seal, to a stranger, for his quietly coming into and passing out of the territories over which it has jurisdiction.
Abuse
Every thing which is contrary to good order established by usage.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Definition
An enumeration of the particular acts included by or under a name: as, the definition of a crime.
Legislation
Written and approved laws. Also known as "statutes" or "acts." In constitutional law, one would talk of the "power to legislate" or the "legislative arm of government" referring to the power of political bodies (eg: house of assembly, Congress, Parliament) to write the laws of the land.
Course
The direction in which a line runs in surveying.
Common
marriage law. a marriage in which no formal ceremony took place and no license exists.
Harassment
Unsolicited words or conduct which tend to annoy, alarm or abuse another person. An excellent alternate definition can be found in Canadian human rights legislation as: "a course of vexatious comment or conduct that is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome." Name-calling ("stupid", "retard" or "dummy") is a common form of harassment. (See also sexual harassment.)
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Harassment in the workplace
Harassment occurring in the workplace.
Harassment law
Laws defending people against various forms of harassment.
Harassment lawsuit
A lawsuit filed on the grounds that the plaintiff has been allegedly harassed.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Handsale
Contracts. Anciently, among all the northern nations, shaking of hands was held necessary to bind a bargain; a custom still retained in verbal contracts; a sale thus made was called handsale, venditio per mutuam manum complexionem. In process of time the same word was used to signify the price or earnest which was given immediately after the shaking of hands, or instead thereof. In some parts of the country it is usual to speak of hand money as the part of the consideration paid or to be paid at the execution of a contract of sale.
Handwriting
Evidence. Almost every person's handwriting has something whereby it may be distinguished from the writing of others, and this difference is sometimes intended by the term.
Hanging
Punishment. Death by the halter, or the suspending of a criminal, condemned to suffer death, by the neck, until life is extinct. A mode of capital punishment.
Hangman
The name usually given to a man employed by the sheriff to put a man to death, according to law, in pursuance of a judgment of a competent court, and lawful warrant. The same as executioner.
Hap
An old word which signifies to catch; as, "to hap the rent," to hap the deed poll."
Harassment
Harbor
A place where ships may ride with safety; any navigable water protected by the surrounding country; a haven.It is public property.
Hard labor
Punishment. In those states where the penitentiary system has been adopted, convicts who are to be imprisoned, as part of their punishment, are sentenced to perform hard labor. This labor is not greater than many freemen perform voluntarily, and the quantity required to be performed is not at all unreasonable. In the penitentiaries of Pennsylvania it consists in being employed in weaving, shoemaking, and such like employments.
Hardship
The inability of a parent to support his or her children because of a financial strain.
Harmless error
An error committed during a trial that was corrected or was not serious enough to affect the outcome of a trial and therefore was not sufficiently harmful (prejudicial) to be reversed on appeal.
Hart
stag or male deer of the forest five years old complete.
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