法律词汇(英).doc

acknowledgment: the act of going before a qualified officer (e.g., Clerk) and declaring the validity of the document. The officer certifies same, whose certification is known as the acknowledgment acquit: the act of freeing a person from the charge of an offense by means of a decision, verdict or other legal process; to discharge action: a civil judicial proceeding whereby one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or prevention of a wrong; requires service of process on adversary party or potentially adversary party actual place of business: Any location that the defendant, through regular solicitation or advertisement, has held out as its place of business (sec. 308.6 CPLR). ad damnum: clause of a pleading alleging amount of loss or injury adjournment: a temporary postponement of the proceedings of a case until a specified future time adjudicate: to hear or try and determine judicially adversary: An opponent. The defendant is the plaintiffs adversary. adversary system: the system of trial practice in the U.S. and some other countries in which each of the opposing, or adversary, parties has full opportunity to present and establish its opposing contentions before the court affiant: one who swears to an affidavit; deponent affidavit: a sworn or affirmed statement made in writing and signed; if sworn, it is notarized affinity: Related by marriage; family relation from ones spouses family. affidavit of service: an affidavit intended to certify the service of a writ, notice, or other document affirm: an act of declaring something to be true under the penalty of perjury by a person who conscientiously declines to take an oath for religious or other pertinent reasons affirmation: A solemn and formal declaration under penalties of perjury that a statement is true, without an oath. affirmed: Upheld, agreed with (e.g.,The Appellate Court affirmed the judgment of the City Court). allegation: the assertion, declaration, or statement of a party