a Latin phrase for the place where a crime was committed.

Amount of control an entity believes it exerts over current and anticipated circumstances , as well as expected responses as behavior toward these circumstances.

This term, as used in the legislation of congress, is applicable to tiny zone or belt of mineralized rock lying within boundaries clearly separating it from the neighboring rock. It […]

The pilot conducts the ship up the river or into port; but the loadsman is he that undertakes to bring a ship through the haven, after being brought thither by […]

The hire of a pilot for conducting a vessel from one place to another. Cowell.

A local rest-stop providing basic amenities along with inexpensive overnight accommodation .

One who occupies hired apartments in another’s house; a tenant of part of another’s house. A tenant, with the right of exclusive possession of a part of a house, the […]

total of rent and a reasonable expense for utilities and provided appliances, furniture, and amenities.

a term that means to make a complaint.

Habitation in another’s house; apartments in another’s house, furnished or unfurnished, occupied for habitation ; the occupier being termed a “lodger.”

In old French and Canadian law. A line payable by a roturier on every change of ownership of his land; a mutation or alienation tine. Steph. Leet 351.

Record of activities, events, and/or occurrences, systematically, daily or hourly.

Made while logging activities in a log book, this is the specific calendar date and/or time that the entry was posted.

Program-controlled computer file specifically for the posting of a program’s events. Serves as an audit trail , diagnostic tool or security measure. User access or data manipulation are typical items […]

A ship’s journal. It contains a minute account of the ship’s course, with a short history of every occurrence during the voyage. 1 Marsh. Ins. 312. The part of the […]

Statistical estimation technique for straight-line, linear relationships between two or more variables. A dependent variable is influenced by one or more independent variables in this case. The data values, converted […]

A mischievous legislative practice, of embracing in one bill several distinct matters, uone of which, perhaps, could singly obtaiu the assent of the legis- lature, aud then procuring its passage […]

Inverse of an exponential. Raising the base to a power to give another number. Base 10 logarithm is known as common logarithm.

Measure of unit increase or decrease that is actually a tenfold increase or decrease in the quantity measured. For example, a pH reading of 5 pH indicates 10 times the […]

An unlawful game mentioned iu St 33 Hen. VIII. c. 9.

In a log book, the systematic daily or hourly recording of activities, events, and/or occurrences.

A small house, lodge, or cottage. Mon. Angl. torn. 1, p. 400.

The science of reasoning, or of the operations of the understanding which are subservient to the estimation of evidence. The term includes both the process itself of proceeding from known […]

Basic digital-logic element used to build electronic circuits. Five basic gate types named in Boolean notation are: OR gate, AND gate, NOT gate, NOR (NOT OR) gate, and NAND (NOT […]

Applying Management by Objectives (MBO) methodology to design, be it program or project, monitoring, and evaluation. MBO consists of four steps: (1) establishing objectives, (2) establishing causal linkages among activities, […]