An assessor’s parcel number is a unique number assigned to parcels of property such as land by the tax assessor of the property jurisdiction, which is used for record-keeping and tax purposes of such property.
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assisted suicide
As noted in the Supreme Court of New Mexico case Morris v. Brandenburg, assisted suicide is the act of actively aiding other people in the taking of their own lives. Physician-assisted suicide, a subset of assisted suicide, involves the...
association
An association is an unincorporated organization of people banded together for a specific purpose. Generally associations are tax exempt under nonprofit 501 exemption, however, if an association has certain features that make it look like a...
asylum
Asylum is a kind of protection granted by a foreign country to individuals, especially those who face persecution in their home countries because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political...
attorney general
The attorney general is the chief law enforcement officer of the federal or a state government. The plural form is attorneys general. The U.S. Attorney General oversees the Department of Justice, represents the United States in litigation,...
author
An author is a person who creates, comes up or gives existence to something. Most people think of an author as an individual who wrote a paper, book, poem, letter or any kind of literary work. If the work was made for hire, the employer or...
autocracy
An autocracy is a political regime where a single individual - an autocrat - holds the power, qualified as personal and absolute power. The autocrat’s power covers all political, economic, social, and military power. In this political regime...
automobile exception
The "automobile exception" is an exception to the general requirement of a warrant for searches and seizures under the Fourth Amendment. Under the exception, a vehicle may be searched without a warrant when evidence or contraband may...
avulsion
Avulsion refers to water quickly submerging land or moving land to another location. In most situations under state property law, land moved by avulsion continues to be the property of the owner of where the land originally was located. For...
aye
“Aye” is an affirmative response that could be used as an exclamation, a noun, or an adverb.
If used as an exclamation, "aye" has the same meaning as “yes,” which expresses assent to something. For example, one could use it as...