Terminology Database
Terms or Phrases
- acceptance
- access
- access privileges
- access privileges code
- access restrictions
- access restrictions code
- access rights
- accessibility
- accession
- accession record
- accessioned records
- accountability
- accrual
- accuracy
- acquire
- acquired records
- acquisition
- act
- action
- active record
- activity
- actors
- address
- addressee
- addressee’s name
- administrative accountability
- administrative context
- administrative control
- admissibility
- affix
- agency
- agent
- aggregate archival unit
- aggregated records
- alteration
- analogue
- analogue component
- analogue data
- analogue document
- analogue encoding
- analogue medium
- analogue object
- analogue record
- analogue system
- annotation
- application
- application profile
- application programming interface
- appraisal
- appraisal decisions
- appraisal strategy
- appreciation
- architecture
- archival aggregation
- archival arrangement
- archival bond
- archival date
- archival description
- archival description system
- archival document
- archival documentation
- archival fonds
- archival framework
- archival methodology
- archival preservation
- archival preservation system
- archival science
- archival unit
- archive
- archives
- archivist
- arranged records
- arrangement
- assessments of authenticity
- attachment
- attestation
- attributes
- audiovisual
- audiovisual record
- audit trail
- aural record
- authentic copy
- authentic record
- authenticate
- authenticated record
- authentication
- authenticity
- authenticity requirement
- author
- authoritative copy
- authoritative record
- authoritative version
- authority
Term | act
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Dictionary Definitions
- n., 1. A statute. 2. n. Something done or performed. 3. v. The process of doing or performing. [Webster’s New World Law Dictionary. c2006]
- n., 1. Something done or performed, esp. voluntarily; a deed. – also termed action. “’[A]ct’ or ‘action’ means a bodily movement whether voluntary or involuntary…” Model Penal Code § 1.13. 2. The process of doing or performing; an occurrence that results from a person’s will being exerted on the external world. [Black’s Law Dictionary, 8th ed. c2004]
- v., 1. To perform; to carry out functions. 2. To carry out a function or fill an office on a temporary basis. n. 1. A statute. 2. An act (a) of commission, or, (b) in certain particular cases, of omission. , (c) by a human being, (d) that is voluntary, and (e) has caused consequences, if consequences are included in the definition of the offence. 3. Includes (a) an Act of Parliament (b) an Act of the legislature of the former Province of Canada, (c) an Act of the legislature of a province, and (d) and Act or ordinance of the legislature of a province, territory or place in force at the time that province, territory or place became a province of Canada. [The Dictionary of Canadian Law, 3rd ed. c2004]
- n., Legislation that has been made law, especially a statute.
- n., The conscious exercise of will by a person aimed to create, maintain, modify or extinguish situations. Syn.: action.
