The statute requiring the agency to open all of its proceedings and records to the public.
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SUNSHINE LAWS
a term for various state statutes that allow the media and the general public to be present during the deliberations of legislative bodies.
SUNT MINORIS CULPE
Quae ad nmm fj~nem loquuta rant, non debent ad alium detorqneri. 4 Coke, 14. Those words which are spoken to one end ought not to be perverted to another. Quae […]
SUO NOMINE
Lat In his own name.
SUO PERICULO
Lat At his own peril or risk.
SUPEIIEX,
Lat. In Roman law. Household furniture. Dig. 33, 10.
SUPER
Lat. Upon; above; over.
SUPER INSTITUTION
The institution of one in an office to which another has been 8UPERINSTITUTI0N 1124
SUPER LIEN
A statutory lien that is superior or senior to all current and future liens for the same property or asset.
SUPER MAJORITY
A majority of 75% or more of votes needed to approve decisions or changes in an organization .
SUPER-JURARE
Over-swearing. A term anciently used when a criminal endeavored to excuse himself by his own oath or the oath of one or two witnesses, and the crime objected against him […]
SUPERANNUATION SCHEME
The retirement plan in Australia where monthly payments are made to the employee who has retired.
SUPERARE RATIONES
In old Scotch law . To have a balance of account due to one; to have one’s expenses exceed the receipts.
SUPERBILL
The document listing every service that is provided by a doctor.
SUPERCARGO
An agent of the owner of goods shipped as cargo on a vessel, who has charge of the cargo on board, sells the same to the best advantage in the […]
SUPERCOMPUTER
Computer for very fast data processing where the number crunching ability is measured in hundreds of millions of floating point operations or gigaflops.
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
Total or near total lack of resistance to an electronic current flowing through a product.
SUPERDOT
Used at the New York Stock Exchange , it is an electronic order entry and reporting system.
SUPERFCETATION
In medical jurisprudence . The formation of a fcrtus as the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation, but before the birth of the offspring produced by it Webster.
SUPERFICIAL
1. Artificial or fake. 2. Insignificant or unimportant.
SUPERFICIARIES
Lat In the civil law . He who has built upon the soil of another, which he has hired for a number of years or forever, yielding a yearly rent […]
SUPERFICIES
Lat. In the civil law . The alienation by the owner of the surface of the soil of all rights necessary for building on the surface, a yearly rent being […]
SUPERFLUOUS
Extra to an extent of being not necessary.
SUPERFLUOUS LANDS,
in English law , are lands acquired by a railway company under its statutory powers, and not required for the purposes of its undertaking . The company is bound within […]
SUPERINDUCTIO
Lat. In the civil law . A species of obliteration . Dig. 28, 4, 1, 1.