A government-sponsored enterprise or corporation (sometimes called a govern-ment-controlled corporation), such as the Federal National Mortgage Corporation. [Cases: United States 53. C.J.S. United States §§ 83, 88–95.]
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international organization. Int’l law. 1. An intergovernmental association of countries, established by and operated according to multilateral treaty, whose purpose is to pursue the common aims of those countries. • Examples include the World Health Organization, the International Civil Aviation Organization, and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. [Cases: International Law 10.45. C.J.S. International Law
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international control. Int’l law. The supervision over countries and their subdivisions for the purpose of ensuring the conformity of their conduct with international law. “[S]upervision is exercised increasingly not only over the conduct of governmental and intergovernmental institutions, but also over the acts and omissions of individuals to establish their conformity with requirements of public
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nationalize, vb. 1. To bring (an industry) under governmental control or ownership. 2. To give (a person) the status of a citizen; naturalize.
Amnesty International. An international nongovernmental organization founded in the early 1960s to protect human rights throughout the world. • Its mission is to “secure throughout the world the observance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” Amnesty Int’l Statute, art. 1.
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A 1958 federal statute that created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a civilian agency of the federal government whose functions include conducting space research, improving aeronautical travel, building manned and unmanned space vehicles, developing operational space programs, and engaging in other space activities devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all humankind.
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National Credit Union Administration. An independent federal agency that charters, insures, supervises, and examines federal credit unions; administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund and the Community Development Revolving Loan Fund; and manages the Central Liquidity Facility, a separate mixed-ownership government corporation that supplies emergency loans to member credit unions. • The agency was
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International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property. Copyright. A predecessor of the World Intellectual Property Organization. • The bureau was created by combining the Paris Convention’s Secretariat (the International Bureau for the Paris Convention) with the Berne Copyright Convention of 1886. It was supervised by the Swiss government until 1970, when the bureau became
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nongovernmental organization. Int’l law. Any scientific, professional, business, or public-interest organization that is neither affiliated with nor under the direction of a government; an international organization that is not the creation of an agreement among countries, but rather is composed of private individuals or organizations. • Examples of nongovernmental organizations, which are often granted consultative
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Currency approved by a national government and placed in circulation as a medium of ex-change. See LEGAL TENDER. [Cases: United States 34. C.J.S. United States §§ 162–163.]