departure
departure n. (1)出发；偏离 (2)诉答变更 在普通法上的诉答程序中，当事人提出起诉理由或答辩理由后，在以后的诉答文书中又提出不同的根据或主张，即不再继续支持自己先前的理由。为了防止拖延诉讼，法律一般禁止当事人作此种变更。但美国《联邦民事诉讼规则》〔Federal Rules of Civil Procedure〕对于诉答变更未作规定，而是对诉答文书的修改采取了较为自由的原则。
DEPARTURE
departure
departure, n. 1. A deviation or divergence from a standard rule, regulation, measurement, or course of conduct (an impermissible departure from sentencing guidelines). downward departure. In the federal sentencing guidelines, a court’s imposition of a sentence more lenient than the standard guidelines propose, as when the court concludes that a criminal’s history is less serious