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1. Indexing Summary of Indexing A practice employed in some countries of adjusting wages, rents, taxes, et cetera, to reflect changes in general or consumer prices. This device usually reflects a high level of domestic inflation.(Main Author: William J. Miller) Automatic Indexing in Legal [...]...
2. Index Displayed Index in Legal Information Retrieval The following is a basic concept of Displayed Index in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Displayed Index may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Displayed indexes are indexes that [...]...
3. Catalog Catalog in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Catalog in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Catalog may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. A catalog is an index for a particular collection of messages [...]...
4. Posting Generic Posting in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Generic Posting in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Generic Posting may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Generic posting is the use of a [...]...
5. Entity Abstract Entity in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Abstract Entity in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Abstract Entity may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Abstract entities are abstractions [...]...
6. Relationship Paradigmatic Relationship in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Paradigmatic Relationship in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Paradigmatic Relationship may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Also [...]...
7. Specificity Operational Specificity in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Operational Specificity in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Operational Specificity may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Elaine [...]...
8. Entry Entry in Legal Information Retrieval The following is a basic concept of Entry in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Entry may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. In displayed indexes, an entry represents and points to a [...]...
9. Hypertext Hypertext in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Hypertext in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Hypertext may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Hypertext is text displayed in an interactive format so [...]...
10. Cataloging Descriptive Cataloging, Descriptive Indexing in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Descriptive Cataloging, Descriptive Indexing in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Descriptive Cataloging, Descriptive Indexing may be applied to legal texts, [...]...
11. Message Message in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Message in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Message may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Information Retrieval databases are used to find and retrieve [...]...
12. Boolean Boolean Syntax in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Boolean Syntax in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Boolean Syntax may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. See exact match syntax....
13. Ad Hoc Ad Hoc String Syntax in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Ad Hoc String Syntax in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Ad Hoc String Syntax may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Ad hoc (to this) string [...]...
14. Ontologies Ontologies in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Ontologies in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Ontologies may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Ontologies for Information Retrieval attempt (or [...]...
15. Relationships Syntagmatic Relationships in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Syntagmatic Relationships in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Syntagmatic Relationships may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. [...]...
16. Descriptor Descriptor in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Descriptor in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Descriptor may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. The term descriptor is usually reserved for a term [...]...
17. Reference Reference Database in Legal Information Retrieval The following is a basic concept of Reference Database in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Reference Database may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Reference databases are [...]...
18. Chain Chain Syntax in Legal Information Retrieval The following is a basic concept of Chain Syntax in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Chain Syntax may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Chain syntax or chain indexing is a syntax [...]...
19. Vocabulary Vocabulary Control/Vocabulary Management in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Vocabulary Control/Vocabulary Management in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Vocabulary Control/Vocabulary Management may be applied to legal texts, including case [...]...
20. Compound Compound Term in Legal Information Retrieval The following is a basic concept of Compound Term in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Compound Term may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Compound term can refer to a term [...]...
21. Exact Exact Match Syntax in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Exact Match Syntax in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Exact Match Syntax may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Exact match syntax for [...]...
22. Analysis Analysis Base in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Analysis Base in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Analysis Base may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. See indexable matter....
23. Digital Library Digital Library in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Digital Library in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Digital Library may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Digital libraries are full-text [...]...
24. Match Best Match Syntax in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Best Match Syntax in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Best Match Syntax may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Best match syntax refers to a [...]...
25. Concrete Concrete Entity in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Concrete Entity in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Concrete Entity may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Concrete entities are those one can [...]...
26. Term Term of patent in E.U. Patent SystemThe maximum number of years that the monopoly rights conferred by the grant of a patent may last....
27. Literary Literary Warrant in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Literary Warrant in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Literary Warrant may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Literary warrant simply means that [...]...
28. Complex Complex Term in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Complex Term in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Complex Term may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Sometimes complex term is used for a single [...]...
29. Taxonomy Taxonomy in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Taxonomy in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Taxonomy may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. The term taxonomy comes from the Greek for arrangement or [...]...
30. Metadata Metadata in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Metadata in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Metadata may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Metadata is data about data, or more specifically within [...]...
31. Relational Relational Database in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Relational Database in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Relational Database may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. One of the most common [...]...
32. Equivalent Equivalent in E.U. Patent SystemA patent entering the Derwent system which relates to the same invention and shares the same priority application as a patent from a different issuing authority already held in Derwent World Patents Index (see also non-convention equivalent)....
33. Datum, Data Datum, Data in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Datum, Data in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Datum, Data may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. A datum (singular of data) may be considered to be [...]...
34. Locator Locator in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Locator in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Locator may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. The locator is the part of an index entry that leads the user [...]...
35. Google Synonym or Semantic Operator and Law ContentsSynonym or Semantic Google Operator and LawTildes Working with With IntitleTilde with Negative OperatorSee Also Synonym or Semantic Google Operator ... Read more...
36. Ontology Ontology in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Ontology in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Ontology may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. In philosophy, ontology refers to the study of existence, [...]...
37. Cross-References Syntactic Cross-References in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Syntactic Cross-References in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Syntactic Cross-References may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. In [...]...
38. Event Concrete Entity and Event Database in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Concrete Entity and Event Database in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Concrete Entity and Event Database may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation [...]...
39. Text Tei (Text Encoding Initiative) in Legal Information Retrieval See text encoding schemas. Text in Legal Information Retrieval The following is a basic concept of Text in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Text may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation [...]...
40. Co-Citation Co-Citation in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Co-Citation in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Co-Citation may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Like bibliographic coupling, co-citation is a form [...]...
41. Format Format in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Format in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Format may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Texts come in many shapes and styles, influenced by the medium on [...]...
42. Recall Recall (politics)Introduction to RecallRecall (politics), method of removing elected officials from office before the end of their terms. In the United States approximately 1,000 cities and 11 states utilize this method to remove officials who have proved unsatisfactory to their co......
43. Database Database in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Database in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Database may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Database is a relatively new word for a collection of data [...]...
44. Warrant A warehouse receipt (read this and related legal terms for further details) containing Trust Receipt ("https://lawin.org/list-of-international-trade-law-terms/">read this and related legal terms for furt......
45. Classification Summary of Classification The process of determining which product category of the tariff schedules applies to a given imported item. There are more than 7,300 categories in the tariff schedules of the UNITED STATES (read this and related legal terms for further details) and, with very few [...]...
46. Information Spanish Translation of provide information [obligation to] This is the legal translation of English to Spanish in relation to provide information [obligation to] and / or a definition of this topic: Información (in Spanish, without translation of the dictionary entry). [...]...
47. Legal Information Retrieval Retrieval is based on automatic searching of documents for those embodying certain subject content. Such a system may involve automatic preprocessing of documents to form indexes or other structures to facilitate retrieval, but may not include any human intervention such as manual indexing of [...]...
48. Semantic Indexing and Legal Law ContentsSemantic Indexing and Legal LawThree Word Phrases of Legal LawTwo Word Phrases of Legal LawSee Also Semantic Indexing and Legal ... Read more...
49. Semantic Indexing and Legal ContentsSemantic Indexing and LegalIntroductionExamplesTwo Word Phrases of LegalThree Word Phrases of LegalSee Also Semantic Indexing and Legal Introduction For an ... Read more...
50. Language Language Language Model Syntax in Legal Information Retrieval The following is a basic concept of Language Model Syntax in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Language Model Syntax may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. [...]...
51. Record Record in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Record in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Record may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. A record (or database record) contains the description of a [...]...
52. Law library Law library or Law Libraries A law library is a type of special library with a collection consisting primarily of materials for Legal Research and study, including case law, federal and state statutes, international legal agreements, treatises, reference works, legal periodicals, and [...]...
53. JURIVOC ContentsJURIVOC: Swiss Legal ThesaurusIntroduction to JURIVOCHistory of electronic legal information and databases in SwitzerlandJurivoc, the legal thesaurusFeatures of JurivocCase and ... Read more...
54. LexFind ContentsLexFindResourcesNotes and ReferencesSee AlsoFurther Reading LexFind LexFind is an enterprise search tool designed for legal information. It is, basically, a ... Read more...
55. Hierarchy Hierarchical Specificity in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Hierarchical Specificity in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Hierarchical Specificity may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. This type [...]...
56. Semantic Indexing and Law Search Semantic Indexing and Law Search read Semantic Indexing and Law Note: see also Semantic Web and Law, Semantic Indexing and ... Read more...
57. Search Warrant ContentsSearch WarrantSearch Warrant in the United StatesSee AlsoIntroduction to Search WarrantResourcesNotes and References Search Warrant Search Warrant, in criminal law, ... Read more...
58. Search and Seizure The Legal History of Search and Seizure This section provides an overview of Search and Seizure Search and Seizure Explained References See Also Criminal Law (in international or comparative law) Criminal Procedure (in international or comparative law) Resources See Also Criminal Law [...]...
59. Search Engines Favorite search engines are a matter of taste, and most people these days like the favor of Google. So do I. I tend to use Google first and look elsewhere later. In most cases, Google gets me what I need. [Tip: Google search commands are explained on the More Search Help page. See also Google [...]...
60. Search-warrant Affidavit Description of Search-warrant Affidavit Resources See Also Searches Seizures...
61. Translation Analysis and Assessment of Cross-language Question Answering Systems: All About Translation, the Law and other Social Sciences Within the sphere of the Web, the overload of information is more notable than in other contexts. Question answering systems (QAS) are presented as an alternative to [...]...
62. UK Case citators ContentsComprehensive case citators published in the UK In hardcopy (print):Online:See AlsoFurther ReadingConclusionNotesReferences and Further ReadingAbout the Author/s and Reviewer/sMentioned in ... Read more...
63. Legal Ontologies ContentsLegal OntologiesSemantic metadataTools for Lexical OntologiesThesauriOntologiesResourcesNotes and ReferencesSee AlsoFurther Reading Legal Ontologies Note: for more information about legal ontologies, read ... Read more...
64. Lexis’ Case Search Contents Lexis ‘ Case SearchUK and European DigestPractice AreasForms and PrecedentsInternational CasesDid you Know?From the publisher (Lexis Nexis):CaseSearch Coverage of ... Read more...
65. How to search legal journal indexes? ContentsHow to search legal journal indexes?ConclusionNotesSee AlsoReferences and Further ReadingAbout the Author/s and Reviewer/sMentioned in these Entries How to search ... Read more...
66. List of International Law Indexes and Databases ContentsList of International Legal Indexes and DatabasesSee AlsoConclusionNotesReferences and Further ReadingAbout the Author/s and Reviewer/sMentioned in these Entries List of ... Read more...
67. Information Retrieval Cognitive and Psychological Factors in Cross-language Information Retrieval, the Law and other Social Sciences While a lot of research has focused on the effectiveness of system functionality, few studies have examined information needs and social aspects related to cross-language information [...]...
68. Artificial Intelligence and Law ContentsArtificial Intelligence and LawIntroduction to AI and LawInternational Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL)Meta-Legal KnowleadgeResourcesNotes and ReferencesSee AlsoFurther Reading ... Read more...
69. Boolean and Free-text Searching for Legal Research ContentsBoolean and Free-text Searching for Legal Research NotesSee AlsoConclusionReferences and Further ReadingAbout the Author/s and Reviewer/sMentioned in these Entries Boolean ... Read more...
70. Legal Thesaurus A legal Thesaurus is an effective tool for the organization of legal materials. The UNCITRAL Thesaurus on the CISG,[1] provides ... Read more...
71. Indexes to Legal Periodicals ContentsIndexes to Legal PeriodicalsIndexes to Legal Periodicals in the United States Legal Resources Index LegalTracThe Index to Legal PeriodicalsCurrent Law ... Read more...
72. Web of Knowledge Citation Indexing Service ContentsWeb of Knowledge Citation Indexing ServiceLegal Resource ReviewSee AlsoFurther ReadingConclusionNotesReferences and Further ReadingAbout the Author/s and Reviewer/sMentioned in these Entries ... Read more...
73. Catalog of US Government Publications ContentsCatalog of United States Government Publications (CGP)ConclusionNotesSee AlsoReferences and Further ReadingAbout the Author/s and Reviewer/s Catalog of United States Government ... Read more...
74. Conservation of Legislation ContentsConservation of LegislationStoring a complete historical record of the legislationThe Renton ReportResourcesNotes and ReferencesSee AlsoFurther Reading Conservation of Legislation In ... Read more...
75. NormeinRete Hello ContentsNormeinReteIntroduction to NormeinReteFeaturesResourcesNotes and ReferencesSee AlsoFurther Reading NormeinRete Introduction to NormeinRete Normeinrete or “Norme in rete” means “norms, laws ... Read more...
76. Top 250 law keywords in Google by search ContentsTop 250 law keywords in Google by searchConclusionNotesSee AlsoReferences and Further ReadingAbout the Author/s and Reviewer/sMentioned in these Entries Top ... Read more...
77. A-Z List of Law Search Suggestions A-Z List of Law Search Suggestions law + a law and order svu law and order law abiding citizen law ... Read more...
78. Patent Search Search Report in E.U. Patent SystemA list of published items (both patent and non-patent literature), issued by the patent examiners checking the novelty of the patent application, which are relevant to the subject of the invention....
79. Visit and Search Embracing mainstream international law, this section on visit and search explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here. Resources Further Reading The entry "visit and search" in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law [...]...
80. Border Search Resources See Also Border...
81. Freezing Injunctions and Search Orders Freezing Injunctions and Search Orders in Private International Law This section contain conflict of laws information and cross references related to freezing injunctions and search orders on some major countries and additional jurisdictions. It covers key issues involved when citizens face [...]...
82. Foreign Country Search Engine listing ContentsForeign country Search Engine listingArgentinaAustralia & New ZealandBelgiumBrazilCanadaChileColumbiaCosta RicaCzech RepublicDenmarkEcuadorEl SalvadorFinlandFranceGermanyGuatemalaHondurasHungaryIndiaIsraelItalyJapanKenyaKoreaMexicoNetherlandsNorthern EuropeNorwayPanamaParaguayPeruPolandPortugalSouth AfricaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUnited KingdomUruguayVenezuelaConclusionNotesSee AlsoReferences and Further ReadingAbout the Author/s ... Read more...
83. Right of Search Introduction to Right of SearchRight of Search, in wartime, the right of a belligerent warship to stop neutral merchant vessels on the high seas in order to ascertain the nature of the cargo and the ownership of the vessel and thus determine its liability to capture. A belligerent in time o......
84. Advanced Lawi search ContentsAdvanced Lawi Search Lex Mercatoria and Model Law SearchSearching TransLexSearch filtersPicture 2:Picture 3: ConclusionNotesSee AlsoReferences and Further ReadingAbout the Author/s ... Read more...
85. Semantic Latent Semantic Indexing in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Latent Semantic Indexing in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Latent Semantic Indexing may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Latent [...]...
86. Semantic Indexing and Law Dictionary ContentsSemantic Indexing and Law DictionaryOverviewTwo Word PhrasesThree Word PhrasesSee Also Semantic Indexing and Law Dictionary Overview For an explanation about ... Read more...
87. Semantic Web and Law ContentsSemantic Web and LawSpecific nature of legal informationLegal Semantic WebLegal Queries and the Semantic WebLegal DoctrineSemantic Web and Law in ... Read more...
88. Heading Co-Extensive Headings in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Co-Extensive Headings in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Co-Extensive Headings may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. See [...]...
89. Schema Text Encoding Schema in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Text Encoding Schema in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Text Encoding Schema may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Many schemas have been [...]...
90. Scope Subject Scope in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Subject Scope in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Subject Scope may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. The subject scope of an Information [...]...
91. Standards Standards in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Standards in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Standards may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Standards are codes of practice on which participants in [...]...
92. Statement Statement/Heading Specificity in Legal Information Retrieval The following is a basic concept of Statement/Heading Specificity in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Statement/Heading Specificity may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly [...]...
93. Statistic Statistical Specificity in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Statistical Specificity in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Statistical Specificity may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. See [...]...
94. Stemming Stemming in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Stemming in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Stemming may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Stemming refers to procedures for automatically removing [...]...
95. Structure Syndetic Structure in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Syndetic Structure in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Syndetic Structure may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Syndetic structure consists [...]...
96. Subject Subject Domain in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Subject Domain in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Subject Domain may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. The subject domain of an Information [...]...
97. Subject Heading Subject Heading Syntax in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Subject Heading Syntax in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Subject Heading Syntax may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Subject headings [...]...
98. Subject Indexing Subject Cataloging, Subject Indexing in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Subject Cataloging, Subject Indexing in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Subject Cataloging, Subject Indexing may be applied to legal texts, including case law, [...]...
99. Surrogation Surrogate/Surrogation in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Surrogate/Surrogation in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Surrogate/Surrogation may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. A surrogate is a [...]...
100. Syntax Ad Hoc Syntax in Legal Information RetrievalThe following is a basic concept of Ad Hoc Syntax in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Ad Hoc Syntax may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. Ad hoc (to this) syntax refers to syntax [...]...
101. Secondary Source Secondary source in Law LibrariesThe follow definition of Secondary source is of use in law library research: Secondary sources are those records generated by an event but written by non-participants or witnesses of the event. Secondary sources are based on or derived from primary sources but [...]...
102. Serial Serial in Law LibrariesThe follow definition of Serial is of use in law library research: Any publication issued in successive parts, appearing at intervals, (usually regular ones), and, as a rule, intended to be continued indefinitely. Examples would include newspapers, periodicals, annuals, [...]...
103. Convention Relative to the Preservation of Fauna and Flora 3 Contents Convention Relative to the Preservation of Fauna and Flora ConclusionNotesSee AlsoReferences and Further ReadingAbout the Author/s and Reviewer/s Convention ... Read more...
104. Sexuality Law ContentsSexuality LawUnited StatesUnited StatesCrimeMiscellaneousOrientationMultinationalConclusionNotesSee AlsoReferences and Further ReadingAbout the Author/s and Reviewer/sMentioned in these Entries Sexuality Law Resources: United States ... Read more...
105. Thesaurus A Thesaurus is an online database or a book of synonyms and near-synonyms in a written language, usually arranged conceptually, although dictionary arrangement is not uncommon. The first thesaurus of the English language, published in 1852, was compiled by Peter Mark Roget. For an online [...]...
106. Several, Joint, and Solidary obligations Several, Joint, and Solidary obligations When there are multiple obligees and/or obligors, the obligation may be several, joint, or solidary. ... Read more...
107. Stimson’s Law Dictionary ContentsStimson’s Law DictionaryList of Legal Terms defined in the DictionaryResourcesSee AlsoConclusionNotesReferences and Further ReadingAbout the Author/s and Reviewer/s Stimson’s Law ... Read more...
108. Semantic Indexing and Law ContentsSemantic Indexing and LawSemantic IndexingLaw-Related Semantic Word PhrasesTwo Word PhrasesThree Word PhrasesSee Also Semantic Indexing and Law Note: see also ... Read more...
109. Semantic Indexing and Law News ContentsSemantic Indexing and Law NewsTwo Word Phrases related with Law NewsThree Word Phrases related to Law NewsSee Also Semantic Indexing ... Read more...
110. List The measure of a vessel's tilt from the vertical plane, in degrees.......
111. Seavan A term sometimes used in nonmaritime shipping circles to describe a dry-freight ocean container.......
112. Seaworthy A vessel that is properly constructed, equipped, manned, documented, and otherwise outfitted to undertake the voyage contemplated; a vessel may be seaworthy for one purpose or voyage, and not for another.......
113. Section 15 A provision of the Shipping Act of 1916 (46 U.S.C. 814) that permits ocean carriers to enter into agreements to eliminate rate and service competition between them. Approval by the Federal Maritime Commission of a Section 15 agreement extends to the carriers involved immunity from the penalties of t......
114. Section 204 A provision of the Agricultural Act of 1956 authorizing the president to negotiate bilateral agreements to limit exports to the United States of "any agricultural commodity or product manufactured therefrom or textiles or textile products." The president is also empowered to take steps to ......
115. Self-Liquidating Loan Synonymous with Asset Conversion Loan (read this and related legal terms for further details).......
116. Secret Police Introduction to Secret PoliceSecret Police, special police force organized by autocratic or totalitarian regimes in defense against their enemies.Secret police were known in ancient Greece and Rome, in the Muslim caliphates, and in premodern monarchies, and they continue to function......
117. Security Council Introduction to Security Council United Nations Security Council, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN). Under the United Nations Charter, the Security Council is primarily responsible for maintaining international peace and security. Under Chapter VII of the charter, the [...]...
118. Sentencing Probation Criminal Procedure: Sentencing Probation Introduction to Sentencing ProbationJudges often have the option to place a convicted offender on probation. Probation means the offender will remain in the community (rather than be sent to jail) subject to certain conditions prescribed by ......
119. Sexual Offense Introduction to Sexual OffenseSexual Offense, violations of the law involving harassment, discrimination, abuse, or absence of consent in sexual relations." (1)ResourcesNotes and ReferencesInformation about ...
120. Sessional Volumes sessional volume......