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The department, section, administrative team, etc., that process admissions for an institution, hospital, etc.; the place where such a department is located.
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(law) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
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A special sign established in 1961 for certifying foreign documents.
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A civil servant entrusted with checking the veracity of data and criteria used by a taxpayer to complete a tax return.
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one who is appointed to act or speak in place of another; an agent
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Obsolete form of auditor. [One who audits bookkeeping accounts.]
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A report on an individual's personal history such as legal and criminal.
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A quantity of agenda items to be voted on.
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An enumeration of the main parts of a subject.
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(historical, law) An official agreement concerning the exchange of prisoners.
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(law) A separate part of a contract, a will or another legal document.
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A vote for a given candidate despite distaste for him or her.
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One who codesigns; a designer who works with another.
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(law) An addition or supplement that explains, modifies, or revokes a will or part of one.
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The act of committing (e.g. a crime or error).
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(law) To refer or entrust a piece of legislation to a committee (or others) to be considered and reported.
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The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.
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(historical) A prison attached to a city court; a counter.
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One of several joint signatories to a document.
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Alternative form of consigner [The party that consigns.]
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(transitive) To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
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One who constitutes or appoints.
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A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
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A joint petitioner; one who petitions with another.
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(transitive or intransitive) To obtain or secure a copyright for some literary or other artistic work.
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(copyright law) The unauthorized use of copyrighted material in a manner that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works that build upon it.
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Any of several people who sign a document together (especially a treaty)
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(law) A second signature added to a document to affirm the validity of the signature of the first person.
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One who makes a countersignature.
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One who countersigns a document.
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Alternative spelling of cy pres [(law) In the law governing charitable trusts, the doctrine that a court may direct the funds of the trust to a best alternative, to be chosen when the original beneficiary is no longer a choice.]
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(law) In copyright law, a work that is a variation of an original work sufficiently similar to contain protected elements of the original work, but sufficiently different to qualify for copyright protection independent of the original work.
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(law) A secret clause inserted into a testament and known by the testator alone, with a condition that no will made thereafter will be valid unless the same clause is inserted word for word (to guard against later wills extorted by violence, etc).
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(UK) Used after a role title to indicate that the person has been selected but has yet to take up the role.
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(international law) A part of a document that communicates the decisions taken by some organization or nation on a particular issue.
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(law) Abbreviation of examiner. [A person who investigates someone or something.]
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Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.
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(law) Abbreviation of executor. [A person who carries out some task.]
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A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
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A stipulation in a contract that the adoption of the overall contractual package requires adoption of all of the individual treaties or contracts within it.
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(law enforcement) A process by which a witness confirms the identity of a criminal suspect, by viewing the suspect together with other people who were not involved in the crime.
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A vote with no legal implication; a vote to test the prevalent mood in a given body of members
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(law, countable) A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment.
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One who initials a document.
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the value of intellectual property
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(US) Any of several agreements, comparable to treaties, between states of the United States
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One who issues, emits, or publishes.
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A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
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(India) diplomacy: the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of states.
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(international law) The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: an amendment to the international treaty on climate change, assigning mandatory targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to signatory nations.
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A legal document outlining one or more agreements between two or more parties before the actual agreements are finalized
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Alternative spelling of license laundering [(Wikimedia jargon, copyright law) The replacement of the license of a copyrighted creative work with a different license, for which the copyright holder has not given their permission.]
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Enrollment in a college or university.
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Obsolete form of amendment. [An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.]
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Abbreviation of memorandum of understanding. [(law) A document that outlines the legal and factual premises believed by the parties to have been agreed to between them.]
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Someone who proposes a motion at a meeting.
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A person or organisation in whose name a security is registered though true ownership is held by another party, called nominator, especially for the purpose of concealing the identity of the nominator.
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(transitive) To be witness of the authenticity of a document and its accompanying signatures in one's capacity as notary public.
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To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
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The policy of promoting something.
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(international law, now rare) An official record of a diplomatic meeting or negotiation; later specifically, a draft document setting out agreements to be signed into force by a subsequent formal treaty.
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An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person.
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One who undertakes a quest; a seeker.
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(law) A formal, preliminary statement in a deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded, prior to a positive allegation.
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A substitute or analogue.
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(law) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.
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(law, US) In several states, an official charged with the responsibility for making new statutes technically consistent with the existing body of law.
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(finance, neologism) An automated investment manager.
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(business) Someone who signs documents without reviewing them
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(law) A collective bargaining agreement that is not part of the underlying or primary collective bargaining agreement used by the parties to the contract.
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(transitive) To sign (legislation) as a mark of official approval.
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Alternative form of signatory [One who signs or has signed something.]
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A signatory: someone who signs something.
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One who signs or has signed something.
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One who signs something.
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Alternative form of signatory [One who signs or has signed something.]
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(law) Used in case citations to designate a case that has a different name before one court than it did before a previous court.
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(transitive) To delegate (a task already delegated to oneself) to somebody else.
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(Canada, US) Alternative form of subpoena [(transitive) To summon with a subpoena.]
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(business, commerce) Someone not directly involved in a transaction; an entity beyond the seller (first party) and customer (second party).
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(uncountable) The addressing or consideration of a subject; discussion, treatment.
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The making of legal treaties.
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(computing, cryptography) A trusted process or application in certain types of secure system.
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