Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 42 > Chapter 157 > Subchapter V > Part A - Individual Responsibility

• Agency: means the Central Intelligence Agency. See 50 USC 3501
• association: when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words "successors and assigns of such company or association" in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed. See 1 USC 5
• Conference: shall mean the Judicial Conference of the United States. See 28 USC 639
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Director: means the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. See 50 USC 3501
• Director: shall mean the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. See 28 USC 639
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
• magistrate judge: shall mean both full-time and part-time United States magistrate judges. See 28 USC 639
• Magistrate judges: Judicial officers who assist U.S. district judges in getting cases ready for trial, who may decide some criminal and civil trials when both parties agree to have the case heard by a magistrate judge instead of a judge.
• officer: includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office. See 1 USC 1
• State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States. See 1 USC 7