Federal Protective Service. A law-enforcement agency in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security responsible for protecting ambassadors, diplomatic staffs, and embassy property. • It was transferred from the General Services Administration in 2003.
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nonacquiescence (non-ak-wee-es-[schwa]nts).Administrative law. An agency’s policy of declining to be bound by lower-court precedent that is contrary to the agency’s interpretation of its organic statute, but only until the Supreme Court has ruled on the issue. “Too much nonacquiescence, however, would interfere with the courts‘ ability to prevent an agency from violating its statutory mandate.
Federal Technology Service. A unit in the General Services Administration responsible for providing communications services worldwide to other federal departments and agencies. — Abbr. FTS.
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slip law 〈美〉单行本法 法律的第一次正式公布是从国会转到行政事务管理局〔General Services Administration〕和联邦登记处办公室，这时称为「单行本法」，它是从已经总统签字的归档的法案〔enrolled bill〕上复印下来的，采用活页小册子的形式。在联邦登记处办公室对每一单行法要分配给一个公法编号，这些编号按顺序排列，在每届国会开始时编号也即重新开始。将单行本法按时间顺序编排装订成册出版即为《制定法大全》〔Statutes at Large〕。行政事务管理局负责该编排工作并做索引。联邦登记处办公室按国会会期分卷发行《制定法大全》，当某一卷被存放于图书馆中时，其中收录的单行本法即不再予以保存。
clear residue. The income deriving from funds used to pay a decedent’s debts, administration expenses, and general legacies. — Also termed true residue.
criminal law. The body of law defining offenses against the community at large, regulating how suspects are investigated, charged, and tried, and establishing punishments for convicted offenders. — Also termed penal law. “The criminal law represents the pathology of civilization.” Morris R. Cohen, Reason and Law 70 (1961). “Often the term ‘criminal law’ is used
town meeting. 1. A legal meeting of a town’s qualified voters for the administration of local government or the enactment of legislation. • Town meetings of this type are common in some New England states. [Cases: Towns 17. C.J.S. Towns § 58.] 2. More generally, any assembly of a town’s citizens for the purpose of
county. The largest territorial division for local government within a state, generally considered to be a political subdivision and a quasi-corporation. • Every county exists as a result of a sovereign act of legislation, either constitutional or statutory, separating it from the rest of the state as an integral part of its territory and establishing
jail delivery. 1. An escape by several prisoners from a jail. 2. Archaic. A clearing procedure by which all prisoners at a given jail are tried for the offenses that they are accused of having committed. general jail delivery. Collectively, acquittals in high numbers as a result of either lax or reckless administration of the
pro re nata (proh ree nay-t[schwa]). [Latin “in the light of what has arisen”] Hist. By reason of emergency; arising from exigent circumstances. • The phrase appeared, for example, in reference to a meeting called to address an emergency. “So far as may be, the state leaves the rule of right to be declared and