instrument. 1. A written legal document that defines rights, duties, entitlements, or liabilities, such as a contract, will, promissory note, or share certificate. “An ‘instrument’ seems to embrace contracts, deeds, statutes, wills, Orders in Council, orders, warrants, schemes, letters patent, rules, regulations, bye-laws, whether in writing or in print, or partly in both; in fact, […]
actual violence 实际暴力 即对身体施以的暴力，这是区别殴击〔battery〕与企图伤害〔assault〕的要件。它不同于尚在进行中的暴力〔inchoate violence〕。
solicitation, n. 1. The act or an instance of requesting or seeking to obtain something; a request or petition (a solicitation for volunteers to handle at least one pro bono case per year). 2. The criminal offense of urging, advising, commanding, or otherwise inciting another to commit a crime ( convicted of solicitation of murder).
jus futurum (j[schwa]s fyoo-t[y]oor-[schwa]m), n. [Latin “future right”] Civil law. A right that has not fully vested; an inchoate or expectant right.
anticipatory offense 不完整罪 指以进一步犯罪为目的的犯罪，包括犯罪未遂〔attempt〕、犯罪共谋〔conspiracy〕、犯罪教唆〔solicitation〕，这些行为本身就是犯罪。 (=inchoate offense)
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A lien on property seized by prejudgment attachment. • Such a lien is initially inchoate but becomes final and perfected upon entry of a judgment for the attaching creditor and relates back to the date when the lien first arose. — Also termed lien of attachment. See ATTACHMENT. [Cases: Attachment 177; Federal Civil Procedure 589.
choate (koh-it or -ayt), adj. 1. Complete in and of itself. 2. Having ripened or become perfected. Cf. INCHOATE. — choateness, n.