Legal Dictionary
A–Z

Accredited Representative

Acquired citizenship

Adjourn/Adjournment

Adjournment proceedings

Adjudicate/Adjudication

Adjustment of Status

Adjustment to immigrant status

Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AO)

Administrative offence

Admission Number or I-94 Number

Adopted decision

Adversary proceeding

Advisory guidelines

Affidavit of Support

Agricultural worker

Alien Registration Number

Alienated Parent

Alienating Parent

Alternate juror

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)

Amerasian (Vietnam)

Appearance and defence

Appellant court

Application Support Center

Arranged marriage

Arrival-Departure Record (Form I-94/I-94A)

Article III judge

Assignment of rights

Attack directed against any civilian population

Attorney of record

Au Pair Program

Australian Official Journal of Patents (AOJP)

Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS)

Australian Trade Mark Search

Authorised user

Authorized Provider

Bail application

Bankruptcy administrator

Bankruptcy code

Bankruptcy court

Bankruptcy estate

Bankruptcy judge

Bankruptcy petition

Bankruptcy trustee

Basic application

Beyond reasonable doubt

Board of Immigration Appeals

Bond proceedings

Brydges duty counsel

Burden of proof

Business bankruptcy

Business nonimmigrant

Cap-Gap Extension

Capital offense

Carrier Documentation

Case management

Casual domestic employment

Categories of offence

Cause of action

Certificate of Citizenship

Certificate of Eligibility for Exchange Visitor (J-1) Status (Form DS-2019)

Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant (F-1) Student Status

Certificate of Naturalization

Certificate of translation

Certification mark

Change of residence

Chapter 13 trustee

Chapter 7 trustee

Charge withdrawn/charge dismissed

Charging document

Chief Electoral Officer of Canada

Child abduction

Child of the marriage

Circuit layout rights

Class Action Case

Clerk of the House of Commons

Clerk of the Senate and Clerk of the Parliaments

Co-parenting relationship

Code of Federal Regulations

Collaborative law

Collective mark

Commissioner for oaths

Committee of the Whole

Common law trade mark

Community magistrate

Community service

Compensatory support

Complete specification

Computer software

Concurrent sentence

Conditional resident

Conditional sentence

Confidentiality agreement

Conflict of interest

Consecutive sentence

Consumer bankruptcy

Contact Difficulties

Contact arrangements

Contempt of court

Contingent claim

Continuing Approval

Continuing Denial

Continuous residence

Corollary relief

Court attendant

Court of Appeal

Credit counseling

Cross-examination

Crown (as prosecutor)

Crown attorney/prosecutor

Cuban/Haitian Entrant

Curricular Practical Training

Daily Order of Business

Daily Routine of Business

Dangerous offender applications

Dating violence

Daubert v. Merrill Pharmaceuticals

Debt relief notice

Debt settlement arrangement

Deceptively similar

Decision-making responsibility

Declaration under penalty of perjury

Declaratory judgment

Default judgment

Defensive Asylum Application

Deferred Enforced Departure (DED)

Deferred action

Department of Homeland Security

Department of Justice

Department of Justice: 2001 Consultation Process

Department of Labor

Deportable noncitizen

Deportation or forcible transfer of population

Derivative Citizenship

Designated School Official (DSO)

Directorates and Program Offices

Disabilities, Employees/Individuals with

Disaster Relief

Discharge (a court order)

Dischargeable debt

Disclosure (criminal proceeding)

Disclosure statement

Discovery and e-discovery

Dismissal with prejudice

Dismissal without prejudice

Disposable income

Dispute Resolution (DR)

Divided (or parallel) decision-making responsibility

Divisional application

Domestic homicide

Domestic violence

Domestic worker

Duration of Status (D/S)

Durational factor

EB-5 Immigrant Investor

Electoral district

Emergency care order

Emotional abuse

Employer sanctions

Employment Authorization Document (Form I-766/EAD)

Employment Court

Enforced disappearance of persons

Environment Court

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

Exchange visitor

Exclusionary rule

Exculpatory evidence

Executive Action

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Executory contracts

Exemptions, exempt property

Expanded duty counsel

F-1 Nonimmigrant Student

Face sheet filing

Family dispute resolution process

Family justice services and programs

Family net disposable income

Family violence

Federal Child Support Guidelines

Federal Child Support Tables

Federal public defender

Federal public defender organization

Federal question jurisdiction

Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting (FGM/C)

Female genital mutilation/cutting

Files Control Office

Forced marriage

Forced pregnancy

Foreign National

Foreign State of Chargeability

Foreign Student

Foreign government official

Foreign information media representative

Fraudulent transfer

Freedom of Information Act

Frye v. United States

Geographic area of chargeability

Geographical indication (GI)

Government Business

Government Orders

Government benefits and refundable credits

Governor General

Gross income difference

Grossed-up amount of child support

Guardian (of a child)

Guidelines income

Habeas corpus (writ of)

Hemispheric ceilings

High-conflict Manager

Home confinement

House of Commons

Human Trafficking

Humanitarian Parole

Image-based abuse

Immediate Relative

Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER)

Immigration Act of 1990

Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986

Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA),Public Law 99-603, 100 Stat. 3359 (enacted November 6, 1986)

Immigration Scams

Immigration and Nationality Act

Immigration judge

In forma pauperis

Inadmissibility

Inculpatory evidence

Indictable offence

Individual net disposable income (INDI)

Infringement notice

Initial Approval

Innovation patent

Innovative step

Insider (of corporate debtor)

Insider (of individual debtor)

Interest groups

Interim barring order

Interim care order

Interim release

Interim support

Interrogatories

Intimate partner homicide

Intimate partner violence

Joint administration

Joint committee

Joint decision-making responsibility

Judge-alone trial

Judicial Conference of the United States

Judicial conference

Judicial review

Judicial separation

Jury instructions

Justice of the peace (JPs)

Kumho Tire v. Carmichael

L-1A Nonimmigrant Classification

Labor certification

Law lines/legal call centre

Lawful Permanent Resident

Leader of the Government in the House of Commons

Leader of the Government in the Senate

Leader of the Official Opposition

Leader of the Opposition in the Senate

Leave (of the court)

Legal Complexity

Legal Risk Management (LRM)

Legalization dependents

Legalized aliens

Legislative process

Length of the marriage

Letter of demand

Library of Parliament

Liquidated claim

Liquidated debt

Lump sum spousal support

Magistrate judge

Mailing Address

Majority of parenting time

Mandatory minimum sentences

Manner of manufacture

McKenzie friend

Member of Parliament

Members' Statements

Mental health treatment

Modified Contact

Motion in Limine

Motion to lift the automatic stay

Māori Land Court

National of the United States

Natural justice

Naturalization Certificate

Net disposable income

Nice classification system

Nolo contendere

Non-Residential Parent

Non-compensatory support

Non-exclusive licence

Nondischargeable debt

Nonexempt assets

Nonpreference category

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Notice of motion

Notice of opposition

Notional table amount of child support

Numerical limit, exempt from

Nursing Relief Act of 1989

Objection to dischargeability

Objection to exemptions

Opposition period

PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty)

Panama Canal Act Immigrants

Panel Physician

Parenting Coordinator

Parenting arrangements

Parenting coach

Parenting coordination/Parenting coordinator

Parenting order

Parliamentarian

Parliamentary procedure

Parole in place

Partner violence

Party in interest

Passing off (in relation to trade marks)

Patent application

Patent of addition

Pattern or Practice

Per country limit

Peremptory challenge

Permanent Resident Alien

Permanent Resident Card (Form I-551)

Permanent resident

Personal insolvency arrangement

Petit jury (or trial jury)

Petition preparer

Physical Address

Physical violence

Plant breeder's rights (PBR)

Plenary summons

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Postpetition transfer

Pre-sentence report

Prebankruptcy planning

Precedent decision

Preference System (Immigration Act of 1990)

Preferential debt payment

Presentence report

Pretrial conference

Pretrial services

Previous partner

Prima facie evidence

Principal Designated School Official (PDSO)

Principal noncitizen

Prior support obligation

Privileged (document or information)

Pro Bono Program

Probation officer

Processing Times

Property division

Property of the estate

Prosecutorial discretion

Protection order

Provincial/territorial family law

Provisional application

Provisional waiver

Psychological abuse

Qualified Representative

Qualified person

Question Period

Re-entry Permit

Reaffirmation agreement

Reasonable doubt

Recognized Organization

Record of proceedings

Referral Date Confirmation

Refugee Travel Document

Refugee approvals

Refugee-parolee

Registrar's list

Reject (as compared to denial)

Rejected Parent

Request for Evidence (RFE)

Reserved decision

Residential Parent

Responsible Officer (RO) or Alternate Responsible Officer (ARO)

Responsible government

Restorative justice

Returning resident

Revenue summons

Right Honourable

Routine proceedings

Secured creditor

Security for costs

Self-represented litigant

Senators' Statements

Sentencing guidelines

Sergeant-at-Arms

Service (of documents)

Service centers

Service of process

Setting down for trial

Settlement (of a claim)

Sexual harassment

Sexual violence

Shared parenting time

Small business case

Socioeconomic disadvantage

Sole decision-making responsibility

Speaker of the House of Commons

Speaker of the Senate

Special Immigrant Juveniles (SIJ) Status

Special Joint Parliamentary Committee on Child Custody and Access

Special Situations

Special Student Relief

Special agricultural workers

Special committee

Special exemption order

Special immigrants

Special naturalization provisions

Special or extraordinary expenses

Special summons

Specialist homelessness service

Specialty occupation

Specific performance

Speech from the Throne

Split parenting time

Standard for Expert Social Science Testimony

Standard of proof

Standard patent

Standing committee

Statement of claim

Statement of financial affairs

Statement of intention

Statute of limitations

Stay of proceedings

Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS)

Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) ID number

Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP)

Subject to the numerical limit

Subpoena duces tecum

Substantiations: ‘

Summary judgment

Summary service/brief service

Summary summons

Supervised Contact

Supervision order

Supreme Court of Canada

T Nonimmigrant Status (T Visa)

Table amount of child support

Temporary protected status (TPS)

Temporary resident

Temporary restraining order

Temporary worker

Tentative Nonconfirmation (TNC)

The crime of apartheid

Transit noncitizen

Transit without visa

Travel Documents

U Nonimmigrant Status (U Visa)

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Territories

USCIS Immigrant Fee

USCIS Online Account Number

Unauthorized practice of immigration law (UPIL)

Undersecured claim

Unit of service

United States - Canada Free-Trade Agreement

Unlawful detainer action

Unliquidated claim

Unrepresented accused (self-represented)

Unscheduled debt

Unsecured claim

Usher of the Black Rod

Vexatious proceeding

Victimisation rate

Views (or Voice) of the Child Report

Visa Retrogression

Visa Waiver Program

Voluntary departure

Voluntary request for examination

Voluntary transfer

Vulnerable groups

Wage garnishment

Waitangi Tribunal

Warrant to arrest

Warrant to seize

Willful misrepresentation

With child support

Without child support

Witness (in court)

Writ of certiorari

Stay Connected

Join thousands of people who receive monthly site updates.

Committed to Public Service

We will always provide free access to the current law. In addition, we provide special support for non-profit, educational, and government users. Through social entrepreneurship, we’re lowering the cost of legal services and increasing citizen access.

Navigate

California:	Codes
Colorado:	C.R.S.
Nevada:	NRS
New York:	Laws
Oregon:	OAR, ORS
Texas:	Statutes
World:	Rome Statute, International Dictionary

Location: