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Suboffices
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SubofficesOffices found in some Districts that serve a portion of the District’s jurisdiction. A Suboffice, headed by an Officer-in-Charge, provides many services and enforcement functions. Their locations are determined, in part, to increase convenience to INS’ customers.
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Portion
That part of a parent's estate, or the estate of one standing in loco parentis, which is given to a child.
Jurisdiction
Practice. A power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate, to take cognizance of, and decide causes according to law, and to carry his sentence into execution. The tract of land or district within which a judge or magistrate has jurisdiction, is called his territory, and his power in relation to his territory is called his territorial jurisdiction.
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Suborn
The act of Bribery.
Subornation of perjury
Criminal lawThe procuring another to commit legal perjury, who in consequence of the persuasion takes the oath to which be has been incited.
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Subjection
The obligation of one or more persons to act at the discretion, or according to the judgment and will of others.
Subject-matter
The cause, the object, the thing in dispute.
Sublease
A lease by a tenant to another tenant of a part of the premises held by him; an underlease.
Submission
1) A yielding to authority. A citizen is bound to submit to the laws; a child to his parents; a servant to his master. A victor may enforce, the submission of his enemy. 2) Contracts. An agreement by which persons who have a law-suit or difference with one another, name arbitrators to decide the matter, and bind themselves reciprocally to perform what shall be arbitrated.
Subnotations
Civil law. The answers of the prince to questions which had been put to him respecting some obscure or doubtful point of law.
Suboffices
Suborn
The act of Bribery.
Subornation of perjury
Criminal lawThe procuring another to commit legal perjury, who in consequence of the persuasion takes the oath to which be has been incited.
Subpoena
1) Practice, evidence. A process to cause a witness to appear and give testimony, commanding him to lay aside all pretences and excuses, and appear before a court or magistrate therein named, at a time therein mentioned, to testify for the party named, under a penalty therein mentioned. This is usually called a subpoena ad testificandum. 2) Chancery practice. A mandatory writ or process, directed to and requiring one or more persons to appear at a time to come, and answer the matters charged against him or them; the writ of subpoena was originally a process in the courts of common law, to enforce the attendance of a witness to give evidence; but this writ was used in the court of chancery for the game purpose as a citation in the courts of civil and canon law, to compel the appearance of a defendant, and to oblige him to answer upon oath the allegations of the plaintiff.
Subpoena duces tecum
Practice. A writ or process of the same kind as the subpoena ad testificandum, including a clause requiring the witness to bring with him and produce to the court, books, papers, &c., in his hands, tending to elucidate the matter in issue.
Subrejoinder
Pleading. The plaintiff's answer to the defendant's rejoinder. It is governed in every respect by the same rules as the replication.
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Portion
That part of a parent's estate, or the estate of one standing in loco parentis, which is given to a child.
Jurisdiction
Practice. A power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate, to take cognizance of, and decide causes according to law, and to carry his sentence into execution. The tract of land or district within which a judge or magistrate has jurisdiction, is called his territory, and his power in relation to his territory is called his territorial jurisdiction.
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Suborn
The act of Bribery.
Subornation of perjury
Criminal lawThe procuring another to commit legal perjury, who in consequence of the persuasion takes the oath to which be has been incited.
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Subjection
The obligation of one or more persons to act at the discretion, or according to the judgment and will of others.
Subject-matter
The cause, the object, the thing in dispute.
Sublease
A lease by a tenant to another tenant of a part of the premises held by him; an underlease.
Submission
1) A yielding to authority. A citizen is bound to submit to the laws; a child to his parents; a servant to his master. A victor may enforce, the submission of his enemy. 2) Contracts. An agreement by which persons who have a law-suit or difference with one another, name arbitrators to decide the matter, and bind themselves reciprocally to perform what shall be arbitrated.
Subnotations
Civil law. The answers of the prince to questions which had been put to him respecting some obscure or doubtful point of law.
Suboffices
Suborn
The act of Bribery.
Subornation of perjury
Criminal lawThe procuring another to commit legal perjury, who in consequence of the persuasion takes the oath to which be has been incited.
Subpoena
1) Practice, evidence. A process to cause a witness to appear and give testimony, commanding him to lay aside all pretences and excuses, and appear before a court or magistrate therein named, at a time therein mentioned, to testify for the party named, under a penalty therein mentioned. This is usually called a subpoena ad testificandum. 2) Chancery practice. A mandatory writ or process, directed to and requiring one or more persons to appear at a time to come, and answer the matters charged against him or them; the writ of subpoena was originally a process in the courts of common law, to enforce the attendance of a witness to give evidence; but this writ was used in the court of chancery for the game purpose as a citation in the courts of civil and canon law, to compel the appearance of a defendant, and to oblige him to answer upon oath the allegations of the plaintiff.
Subpoena duces tecum
Practice. A writ or process of the same kind as the subpoena ad testificandum, including a clause requiring the witness to bring with him and produce to the court, books, papers, &c., in his hands, tending to elucidate the matter in issue.
Subrejoinder
Pleading. The plaintiff's answer to the defendant's rejoinder. It is governed in every respect by the same rules as the replication.
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