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agency
(mass) | agency
- agentúra |
agency
(encz) | agency,agentura n: |
agency
(encz) | agency,jednatelství n: |
agency
(encz) | agency,kancelář Zdeněk Brož |
agency
(encz) | agency,orgán Zdeněk Brož |
agency
(encz) | agency,úřad n: joe@hw.cz |
agency
(encz) | agency,zastoupení n: Zdeněk Brož |
agency
(gcide) | agency \a"gen*cy\ ([=a]"jen*s[y^]), n.; pl. Agencies
([=a]"jen*s[i^]z). [agentia, fr. L. agens, agentis: cf. F.
agence. See Agent.]
1. The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of
being in action; action; instrumentality.
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The superintendence and agency of Providence in the
natural world. --Woodward.
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2. The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a
principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with
the concerns of another.
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3. The place of business of an agent.
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4. An organization or business that provides some service,
primarily for other organizations; as, an advertising
agency.
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5. An administrative division of a government; as, a state
welfare agency; a motor vehicle agency; the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA); the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA).
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Syn: Action; operation; efficiency; management.
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agency
(wn) | agency
n 1: an administrative unit of government; "the Central
Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of
Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority" [syn:
agency, federal agency, government agency, bureau,
office, authority]
2: a business that serves other businesses
3: the state of being in action or exerting power; "the agency
of providence"; "she has free agency"
4: the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate
or agent [syn: representation, delegacy, agency]
5: how a result is obtained or an end is achieved; "a means of
control"; "an example is the best agency of instruction";
"the true way to success" [syn: means, agency, way] |
AGENCY
(bouvier) | AGENCY, contracts. An agreement, express, or implied, by which one of the
parties, called the principal, confides to the other, denominated the agent,
the management of some business; to be transacted in his name, or on his
account, and by which the agent assumes to do the business and to render an
account of it. As a general rule, whatever a man do by himself, except in
virtue of a delegated authority, he may do by an agent. Combee's Case, 9 Co.
75. Hence the maxim qui facit per alium facit per se.
2. When the agency express, it is created either by deed, or in writing
not by deed, or verbally without writing. 3 Chit. Com. Law 104; 9 Ves. 250;
11 Mass. Rep. 27; Ib. 97, 288; 1 Binn. R. 450. When the agency is not
express, it may be inferred from the relation of the parties and the nature
of the employment, without any proof of any express appointment. 1 Wash. R.
19; 16 East, R. 400; 5 Day's R. 556.
3. The agency must be antecedently given, or subsequently adopted; and
in the latter case there must be an act of recognition, or an acquiescence
in the act of the agent, from which a recognition may be fairly implied. 9
Cranch, 153, 161; 26 Wend. 193, 226; 6 Man. & Gr. 236, 242; 1 Hare & Wall.
Sel. Dec. 420; 2 Kent, Com. 478; Paley on Agency; Livermore on Agency.
4. An agency may be dissolved in two ways - 1, by the act of the
principal or the agent; 2, by operation of law.
5.-1. The agency may be dissolved by the act of one of the parties.
1st. As a general rule, it may be laid down that the principal has a right
to revoke the powers which he has given; but this is subject to some
exception, of which the following are examples. When the principal has
expressly stipulated that the authority shall be irrevocable, and the agent
has an interest in its execution; it is to be observed, however, that
although there may be an express agreement not to revoke, yet if the agent
has no interest in its execution, and there is no consideration for the
agreement, it will be considered a nude pact, and the authority may be
revoked. But when an authority or power is coupled with an interest, or when
it is given for a valuable consideration, or when it is a part of a
security, then, unless there is an express stipulation that it shall be
revocable, it cannot be revoked, whether it be expressed on the face of the
instrument giving the authority, that it be so, or not. Story on Ag. 477;
Smith on Merc. L. 71; 2 Liv. on Ag. 308; Paley on Ag. by Lloyd, 184; 3 Chit.
Com. f. 223; 2 Mason's R. 244; Id. 342; 8 Wheat. R. 170; 1 Pet. R. 1; 2
Kent, Com. 643, 3d edit.; Story on Bailm. Sec. 209; 2 Esp. R. 665; 3 Barnw.
& Cressw. 842; 10 Barnw. & Cressw. 731; 2 Story, Eq. Jur. Sec. 1041, 1042,
1043
6.-2. The agency may be determined by the renunciation of the agent.
If the renunciation be made after it has been partly executed, the agent by
renouncing it, becomes liable for the damages which may thereby be sustained
by his principal. Story on Ag. Sec. 478; Story on Bailm. Sec. 436; Jones on
Bailm. 101; 4 John r. 84.
7.-2 The agency is revoked by operation of law in the following
cases: 1st. When the agency terminates by the expiration of the period,
during which it was to exist, and to have effect; as, if an agency be
created to endure a year, or till the happening of a contingency, it becomes
extinct at the end or on the happening of the contingency.
8.-2. When a change of condition, or of state, produces an incapacity
in either party; as, if the principal, being a woman, marry, this would be a
revocation, because the power of creating an agent is founded on the right
of the principal to do the business himself, and a married woman has no such
power. For the same reason, when the principal becomes insane, the agency is
ipso facto revoked. 8 Wheat. R. 174, 201 to 204; Story on Ag. Sec. 481;
Story on Bailm. Sec. 206. 2 Liv. on Ag. 307. The incapacity of the agent
also amounts to a revocation in law, as in case of insanity, and the like,
which renders an agent altogether incompetent, but the rule does not
reciprocally apply in its full extent. For instance, an infant or a married
woman may in some cases be agents, although they cannot act for themselves.
Co. Litt. 52a.
9.-3. The death of either principal or agent revokes the agency,
unless in cases where the agent has an interest in the thing actually vested
in the agent. 8 Wheat. R. 174; Story on Ag. Sec. 486 to 499; 2 Greenl. R.
14, 18; but see 4 W. & S. 282; 1 Hare & Wall. Sel. Dec. 415.
10.-4. The agency is revoked in law, by the extinction of the
subject-matter of the agency, or of the principal's power over it, or by the
complete execution of the trust. Story on Bailm. Sec. 207, Vide generally, 1
Hare & Wall. Sel. Dec. 384, 422; Pal. on Ag.; Story on Ag.; Liv. on Ag.; 2
Bouv. Inst. n. 1269-1382.
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(encz) | ad agency,reklamní agentura n: "ad" jako "advertisement" tata |
agency growth
(encz) | agency growth,růst agentury [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
causal agency
(encz) | causal agency, n: |
central intelligence agency
(encz) | Central Intelligence Agency,zpravodajská služba USA Jiří Šmoldas |
child welfare agency
(encz) | child welfare agency, n: |
cia (central intelligence agency)
(encz) | CIA (Central Intelligence Agency),zpravodajská služba USA [zkr.] Jiří
Šmoldas |
commercial agency
(encz) | commercial agency, n: |
credit agency
(encz) | credit agency, |
credit rating agency
(encz) | credit rating agency, |
currency issuing agency
(encz) | currency issuing agency, |
decentralized agency
(encz) | decentralized agency, |
departmental agency
(encz) | departmental agency, |
depository and fiscal agency
(encz) | depository and fiscal agency, |
detective agency
(encz) | detective agency, n: |
employment agency
(encz) | employment agency,úřad práce Zdeněk Brož |
environmental protection agency
(encz) | Environmental Protection Agency,Environmental Protection Agency
EPA [eko.] RNDr. Pavel PiskačEnvironmental Protection Agency,EPA Environmental Protection
Agency [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
estate agency
(encz) | estate agency,realitní kancelář |
executive agency
(encz) | executive agency, n: |
federal agency
(encz) | federal agency, n: |
fiscal agency
(encz) | fiscal agency, |
free agency
(encz) | free agency, n: |
government agency
(encz) | government agency, n: |
independent agency
(encz) | independent agency, n: |
intelligence agency
(encz) | intelligence agency, n: |
interagency support
(encz) | interagency support, n: |
international atomic energy agency
(encz) | International Atomic Energy Agency,IAEA International Atomic Energy
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IAEA [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
international energy agency
(encz) | International Energy Agency, |
international energy agency (iea).
(encz) | International Energy Agency (IEA).,mezinárodní agentura pro
energii [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
international intelligence agency
(encz) | international intelligence agency, n: |
international law enforcement agency
(encz) | international law enforcement agency, n: |
law enforcement agency
(encz) | law enforcement agency, n: |
mercantile agency
(encz) | mercantile agency, n: |
national security agency
(encz) | National Security Agency,národní bezpečnostní agentura [zkr.]
[voj.] agentura v USA zabývající se odposlechy, komunikacemi, šifrováním
a dešifrováním sheeryjay |
news agency
(encz) | news agency,tisková agentura n: Stanislav Horáčeknews agency,zpravodajská agentura n: |
paying agency
(encz) | paying agency, |
press agency
(encz) | press agency, n: |
regulatory agency
(encz) | regulatory agency, n: |
reporting agency
(encz) | reporting agency, |
saudi arabian monetary agency
(encz) | Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, |
service agency
(encz) | service agency, n: |
specialized agency
(encz) | specialized agency,odborná organizace Zdeněk Brož |
travel agency
(encz) | travel agency,cestovní kancelář |
travel-agency
(encz) | travel-agency,cestovní kancelář Zdeněk Brož |
air force studies and analysis agency
(czen) | Air Force Studies and Analysis Agency,AFSAA[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a
automatický překlad |
air intelligence agency
(czen) | Air Intelligence Agency,AIA[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
defense intelligence agency
(czen) | Defense Intelligence Agency,DIA[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
defense logistics agency
(czen) | Defense Logistics Agency,DLA[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
defense mapping agency
(czen) | Defense Mapping Agency,DMA[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
environmental protection agency epa
(czen) | Environmental Protection Agency EPA,Environmental Protection
Agency[eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
epa environmental protection agency
(czen) | EPA Environmental Protection Agency,Environmental Protection
Agency[eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
iaea international atomic energy agency
(czen) | IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency,International Atomic Energy
Agency[eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
international atomic energy agency iaea
(czen) | International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA,International Atomic Energy
Agency[eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
national security agency
(czen) | National Security Agency,NSA[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
Coagency
(gcide) | Coagency \Co*a"gen*cy\, n.
Agency in common; joint agency or agent. --Coleridge.
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Free agency
(gcide) | Free \Free\ (fr[=e]), a. [Compar. Freer (-[~e]r); superl.
Freest (-[e^]st).] [OE. fre, freo, AS. fre['o], fr[imac];
akin to D. vrij, OS. & OHG. fr[imac], G. frei, Icel.
fr[imac], Sw. & Dan. fri, Goth. freis, and also to Skr. prija
beloved, dear, fr. pr[imac] to love, Goth. frij[=o]n. Cf.
Affray, Belfry, Friday, Friend, Frith inclosure.]
1. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under
restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's
own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's
own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.
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That which has the power, or not the power, to
operate, is that alone which is or is not free.
--Locke.
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2. Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject
only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and
defended by them from encroachments upon natural or
acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.
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3. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control
of parents, guardian, or master.
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4. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest;
liberated; at liberty to go.
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Set an unhappy prisoner free. --Prior.
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5. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable
of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said
of the will.
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Not free, what proof could they have given sincere
Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love.
--Milton.
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6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
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My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. --Dryden.
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7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved;
ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
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He was free only with a few. --Milward.
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8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a
bad sense.
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The critics have been very free in their censures.
--Felton.
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A man may live a free life as to wine or women.
--Shelley.
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9. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish;
as, free with his money.
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10. Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or
troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; --
followed by from, or, rarely, by of.
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Princes declaring themselves free from the
obligations of their treaties. --Bp. Burnet.
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11. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming;
easy.
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12. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping;
spirited; as, a free horse.
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13. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying
certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special
rights; -- followed by of.
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He therefore makes all birds, of every sect,
Free of his farm. --Dryden.
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14. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed
without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed,
engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to
be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school.
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Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free
For me as for you? --Shak.
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15. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous;
spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
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16. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending
individual rights against encroachment by any person or
class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a
government, institutions, etc.
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17. (O. Eng. Law) Certain or honorable; the opposite of
base; as, free service; free socage. --Burrill.
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18. (Law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common;
as, a free fishery; a free warren. --Burrill.
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19. Not united or combined with anything else; separated;
dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free
carbonic acid gas; free cells.
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Free agency, the capacity or power of choosing or acting
freely, or without necessity or constraint upon the will.
Free bench (Eng. Law), a widow's right in the copyhold
lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds.
Free board (Naut.), a vessel's side between water line and
gunwale.
Free bond (Chem.), an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or
bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical.
Free-borough men (O.Eng. Law). See Friborg.
Free chapel (Eccles.), a chapel not subject to the
jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the
king or by a subject specially authorized. [Eng.]
--Bouvier.
Free charge (Elec.), a charge of electricity in the free or
statical condition; free electricity.
Free church.
(a) A church whose sittings are for all and without
charge.
(b) An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of
Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the
government in spiritual matters.
Free city, or Free town, a city or town independent in
its government and franchises, as formerly those of the
Hanseatic league.
Free cost, freedom from charges or expenses. --South.
Free and easy, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of
formalities. [Colloq.] "Sal and her free and easy ways."
--W. Black.
Free goods, goods admitted into a country free of duty.
Free labor, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from
that of slaves.
Free port. (Com.)
(a) A port where goods may be received and shipped free
of custom duty.
(b) A port where goods of all kinds are received from
ships of all nations at equal rates of duty.
Free public house, in England, a tavern not belonging to a
brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer
or purchase where he chooses. --Simmonds.
Free school.
(a) A school to which pupils are admitted without
discrimination and on an equal footing.
(b) A school supported by general taxation, by
endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for
tuition; a public school.
Free services (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were
not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to
perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum
of money, etc. --Burrill.
Free ships, ships of neutral nations, which in time of war
are free from capture even though carrying enemy's goods.
Free socage (O.Eng. Law), a feudal tenure held by certain
services which, though honorable, were not military.
--Abbott.
Free States, those of the United States before the Civil
War, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never
existed.
Free stuff (Carp.), timber free from knots; clear stuff.
Free thought, that which is thought independently of the
authority of others.
Free trade, commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff
regulations.
Free trader, one who believes in free trade.
To make free with, to take liberties with; to help one's
self to. [Colloq.]
To sail free (Naut.), to sail with the yards not braced in
as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the
wind.
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Interagency
(gcide) | Interagency \In`ter*a"gen*cy\, a.
Of or pertaining to actions, processes, or objects involving
to more than one agency (senses 4 or 5); as, interagency
cooperation.
[PJC]Interagency \In`ter*a"gen*cy\, n.
Intermediate agency.
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Mercantile agency
(gcide) | Mercantile \Mer"can*tile\ (?; 277), a. [F. mercantile, It.
mercantile, fr. L. mercans, -antis, p. pr. of mercari to
traffic. See Merchant.]
Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants;
having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of
commodities; commercial.
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The expedition of the Argonauts was partly mercantile,
partly military. --Arbuthnot.
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Mercantile agency, an agency for procuring information of
the standing and credit of merchants in different parts of
the country, for the use of dealers who sell to them.
Mercantile marine, the persons and vessels employed in
commerce, taken collectively.
Mercantile paper, the notes or acceptances given by
merchants for goods bought, or received on consignment;
drafts on merchants for goods sold or consigned.
--McElrath.
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Syn: Mercantile, Commercial.
Usage: Commercial is the wider term, being sometimes used to
embrace mercantile. In their stricter use, commercial
relates to the shipping, freighting, forwarding, and
other business connected with the commerce of a
country (whether external or internal), that is, the
exchange of commodities; while mercantile applies to
the sale of merchandise and goods when brought to
market. As the two employments are to some extent
intermingled, the two words are often interchanged.
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Special agency
(gcide) | Special \Spe"cial\, a. [L. specialis, fr. species a particular
sort, kind, or quality: cf. F. sp['e]cial. See Species, and
cf. Especial.]
1. Of or pertaining to a species; constituting a species or
sort.
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A special is called by the schools a "species". --I.
Watts.
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2. Particular; peculiar; different from others;
extraordinary; uncommon.
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Our Savior is represented everywhere in Scripture as
the special patron of the poor and the afficted.
--Atterbury.
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To this special evil an improvement of style would
apply a special redress. --De Quincey.
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3. Appropriate; designed for a particular purpose, occasion,
or person; as, a special act of Parliament or of Congress;
a special sermon.
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4. Limited in range; confined to a definite field of action,
investigation, or discussion; as, a special dictionary of
commercial terms; a special branch of study.
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5. Chief in excellence. [Obs.]
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The king hath drawn
The special head of all the land together. --Shak.
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Special administration (Law), an administration limited to
certain specified effects or acts, or one granted during a
particular time or the existence of a special cause, as
during a controversy respecting the probate of a will, or
the right of administration, etc.
Special agency, an agency confined to some particular
matter.
Special bail, Bail above, or Bail to the action (Law),
sureties who undertake that, if the defendant is
convicted, he shall satisfy the plaintiff, or surrender
himself into custody. --Tomlins. --Wharton (Law Dict.).
Special constable. See under Constable. --Bouvier.
Special damage (Law), a damage resulting from the act
complained of, as a natural, but not the necessary,
consequence of it.
Special demurrer (Law), a demurrer for some defect of form
in the opposite party pleading, in which the cause of
demurrer is particularly stated.
Special deposit, a deposit made of a specific thing to be
kept distinct from others.
Special homology. (Biol.) See under Homology.
Special injuction (Law), an injuction granted on special
grounds, arising of the circumstances of the case.
--Daniell.
Special issue (Law), an issue produced upon a special plea.
--Stephen.
Special jury (Law), a jury consisting of persons of some
particular calling, station, or qualification, which is
called upon motion of either party when the cause is
supposed to require it; a struck jury.
Special orders (Mil.), orders which do not concern, and are
not published to, the whole command, such as those
relating to the movement of a particular corps, a detail,
a temporary camp, etc.
Special partner, a limited partner; a partner with a
limited or restricted responsibility; -- unknown at common
law.
Special partnership, a limited or particular partnership;
-- a term sometimes applied to a partnership in a
particular business, operation, or adventure.
Special plea in bar (Law), a plea setting forth particular
and new matter, distinguished from the general issue.
--Bouvier.
Special pleader (Law), originally, a counsel who devoted
himself to drawing special counts and pleas; in a wider
sense, a lawyer who draws pleadings.
Special pleading (Law), the allegation of special or new
matter, as distingiushed from a direct denial of matter
previously alleged on the side. --Bouvier. The popular
denomination of the whole science of pleading. --Stephen.
The phrase is sometimes popularly applied to the specious,
but unsound, argumentation of one whose aim is victory,
and not truth. --Burrill.
Special property (Law), a qualified or limited ownership
possession, as in wild animals, things found or bailed.
Special session, an extraordinary session; a session at an
unusual time or for an unusual purpose; as, a special
session of Congress or of a legislature.
Special statute, or Special law, an act of the
legislature which has reference to a particular person,
place, or interest; a private law; -- in distinction
from a general law or public law.
Special verdict (Law), a special finding of the facts of
the case, leaving to the court the application of the law
to them. --Wharton (Law Dict.).
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Syn: Peculiar; appropriate; specific; dictinctive;
particular; exceptional; singular. See Peculiar.
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Subagency
(gcide) | Subagency \Sub*a"gen*cy\, n.
A subordinate agency.
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ad agency
(wn) | ad agency
n 1: an agency that designs advertisement to call public
attention to its clients [syn: advertising agency, {ad
agency}] |
advertising agency
(wn) | advertising agency
n 1: an agency that designs advertisement to call public
attention to its clients [syn: advertising agency, {ad
agency}] |
agency security
(wn) | agency security
n 1: a security issued by United States government agencies or
the Farm Credit System [syn: government security, {agency
security}] |
causal agency
(wn) | causal agency
n 1: any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for
events or results [syn: causal agent, cause, {causal
agency}] |
central intelligence agency
(wn) | Central Intelligence Agency
n 1: an independent agency of the United States government
responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence
and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national
interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence
under the supervision of the President and National
Security Council [syn: Central Intelligence Agency,
CIA] |
child welfare agency
(wn) | child welfare agency
n 1: an administrative unit responsible for social work
concerned with the welfare and vocational training of
children [syn: child welfare agency, {child welfare
service}] |
commercial agency
(wn) | commercial agency
n 1: an organization that provides businesses with credit
ratings of other firms; "Dun & Bradstreet is the largest
mercantile agency in the United States" [syn: {mercantile
agency}, commercial agency] |
defense advanced research projects agency
(wn) | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
n 1: the central research and development organization for the
United States Department of Defense; responsible for
developing new surveillance technologies since 9/11 [syn:
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA] |
defense information systems agency
(wn) | Defense Information Systems Agency
n 1: a combat support agency in the Department of Defense
responsible for developing and operating and supporting
information systems to serve the needs of the President and
the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff
[syn: Defense Information Systems Agency, DISA] |
defense intelligence agency
(wn) | Defense Intelligence Agency
n 1: an intelligence agency of the United States in the
Department of Defense; is responsible for providing
intelligence in support of military planning and operations
and weapons acquisition [syn: {Defense Intelligence
Agency}, DIA] |
defense logistics agency
(wn) | Defense Logistics Agency
n 1: a logistics combat support agency in the Department of
Defense; provides worldwide support for military missions |
detective agency
(wn) | detective agency
n 1: an agency that makes inquiries for its clients |
drug enforcement agency
(wn) | Drug Enforcement Agency
n 1: federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and
regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances;
goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations [syn:
Drug Enforcement Administration, {Drug Enforcement
Agency}, DEA] |
employment agency
(wn) | employment agency
n 1: an agency that finds people to fill particular jobs or
finds jobs for unemployed people [syn: employment agency,
employment office] |
environmental protection agency
(wn) | Environmental Protection Agency
n 1: an independent federal agency established to coordinate
programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the
environment [syn: Environmental Protection Agency, EPA] |
executive agency
(wn) | executive agency
n 1: an agency of the executive branch of government |
federal agency
(wn) | federal agency
n 1: an administrative unit of government; "the Central
Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of
Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority" [syn:
agency, federal agency, government agency, bureau,
office, authority] |
federal aviation agency
(wn) | Federal Aviation Agency
n 1: an agency in the Department of Transportation that is
responsible for the safety of civilian aviation [syn:
Federal Aviation Agency, FAA] |
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