where a person has received a sentence of attainder that results from a conviction of committing high treason.
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ATTEMPT
In criminal law . An effort or endeavor to accomplish a crime, amounting to more than mere preparation or planning for it, and which, if not prevented, would have resulted […]
ATTEMPT TO EVADE TAXES
the unlawful and illegal effort to avoid paying taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.
ATTEMPTED ASSAULT
the term used when an attempt to cause harm to a person has been carried out.
ATTEMPTED CRIME
This term applies to the preparations and planning used in an effort to commit a crime. It says it is a crime to attempt to commit crime.
ATTEMPTED MURDER
the term used when a person has planned to kill another person and was unsuccessful.
ATTEMPTED ROBBERY
the term used to describe the preparations and planning in an attempt to commit a robbery that failed.
ATTENDANCE MANAGEMENT
When a positive approach is used to reduce absence at work. Reward and punishment is used to get the desired result.
ATTENDANT
One who owes a duty or service to another, or in some sort depends upon him. Termes de la Ley . One who follows and waits upon another.
ATTENDANT TERMS
In English law . Terms, (usually mortgages,) for a long period of years, which are created or kept outstanding for the purpose of attending or waiting upon and protecting the […]
ATTENDED BY A PHYSICIAN
an insurance application and refers to a serious illness or condition that needed the services of a doctor.
ATTENDING PHYSICIAN’S STATEMENT
A physician’s report about an insurance companies client. It helps decide if they will be approved.
ATTENTAT
Lat. He attempts. In the civil and canon law. Anything wrongfully innovated or attempted in a suit by an inferior judge, (or judge a quo,) pending an appeal. 1 Addams, […]
ATTENTION LINE
The line stating the intended party for a document. It is denoted sometimes with ATTN.
ATTENUATION
The amount of energy lost as it travels. It is proportate to the distance it has to travel usually.
ATTERMINARE
In old English law . To put off to a succeeding term; to prolong the time of payment of a debt. St Westm. 2, c. 4; Cowell; Blount.
ATTERMINING
In old English law . A puttiug off; the granting of a time or term, as for the payment of a debt Cowell.
ATTERMOIEMENT
In canon law. A making terms; a composition , as with creditors. 7 Low. Can. 272, 306.
ATTEST
To witness the execution of a written instrument , at the request of him who makes it, and subscribe the same as a witness. White v. Magarahan, 87 Ga. 217, […]
ATTESTATION
The act of witnessing an instrument in writing, at the request of the party making the same, and subscribing it as a witness. See ATTEST. Execution and attestation are clearly […]
ATTESTATION CLANSE
That clause wherein the witnesses certify that the instrument has been executed before them, and the manner of the execution of the same.
ATTESTATION CLAUSE
The requirement of an insurance officer to sign the contract for it to be official.
ATTESTATION OF A WILL
This term applies to witnessing the signing of a will.
ATTESTING WITNESS
One who signs his name to an instrument , at the request of the party or parties, for the purpose of proving and identifying it. Skinner v. Bible Soc., 92 […]
ATTESTING WITNESS
the person who signs his name on a document tat the maker or maker’s request and certifies its identity and existence.