full faith and credit bond
full-faith-and-credit bond. See general-obligation bond under BOND (3).
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full faith and credit clause
Full Faith and Credit Clause. U.S. Const. art. IV, § 1, which requires states to give effect to the acts, public records, and judicial decisions of other states. [Cases: Judgment 815, 828.4; States 5(2).C.J.S. Judgments §§ 969–979, 998, 1002–1003, 1007, 1009, 1011, 1014.]
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full faith and credit (clause)
full faith and credit (clause) 〈美〉充分信任和尊重(条款) 联邦制的一个严重后果就是总会存在各类辖区内法律相冲突的可能。美国宪法第四条中的联邦法律效力最高条款〔Supremacy Clause〕对州法与联邦法的冲突予以规范，而该条中的充分信任和尊重条款则调整的是州法之间的冲突。它要求每州对其他各州的公共法律〔public acts〕、案卷和司法程序应给予充分信任和尊重，承认其效力。不过这种充分信任是有条件的，即只能在他州的上述内容依照该州的法律合法成立并且有效时才可以，原来的州不承认的行为，不能要求他州承认，他州所承认的效力不能超过该行为所产生的州的法律所给予的效力。此外，该条款在适用时有例外，其中最主要的例外是一州只适用自己的刑事法律，不适用他州的刑事法律。充分信任和尊重条款旨在保持州与州之间的友好关系，当人们从一州到另一州时该条款即保护其法定权利，也促使法定义务的实现，随着美国人口流动的增加这显得尤其重要。
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full faith and credit act
Full Faith and Credit Act. A federal statute requiring federal courts to give a state court’s judgment the same preclusive effect as the judgment would have under state law. 28 USCA § 1738. See Migra v. Warren City School Dist. Bd. of Educ., 465 U.S. 75, 81, 104 S.Ct. 892, 896 (1984).
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full faith and credit
full faith and credit. The recognition, acceptance, and enforcement of the laws, orders, and judgments of another jurisdiction; specif., the recognition by one state of another state’s legal decisions. [Cases: Judgment 815, 828.4; States 5(2). C.J.S. Judgments §§ 969–979, 998, 1002–1003, 1007, 1009, 1011, 1014.]
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full faith and credit for child–support orders act
Full Faith and Credit for Child-Support Orders Act. A 1994 federal statute designed to facilitate interstate child-support collection. • Under the Act, the state first issuing a child-support order maintains continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the order as long as the child or one or both of the litigants continue to reside there, unless all
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enforcement of foreign judgments act
Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act. A uniform law, adopted by most states, that gives the holder of a foreign judgment essentially the same rights to levy and execute on the judgment as the holder of a domestic judgment. • The Act defines a foreign judgment as any judgment, decree, or order (of a court in
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foreign
foreign, adj. 1. Of or relating to another country (foreign affairs). 2. Of or relating to another jurisdiction (the Arizona court gave full faith and credit to the foreign judgment from Mississippi). — foreigner, n.
common law marriage
A marriage that takes legal effect, without license or ceremony, when two people capable of marrying live together as husband and wife, intend to be married, and hold themselves out to others as a married couple. • The common-law marriage traces its roots to the English ecclesiastical courts, which until 1753 recognized a kind of
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general debt
A governmental body’s debt that is legally payable from general revenues and is backed by the full faith and credit of the governmental body. [Cases: Municipal Corporations 894. C.J.S. Municipal Corporations §§ 1634, 1934.]