Terminology Database

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• n., 1. A court’s complete and official record of a case. 2. A lawyer’s complete record of a case. 3. A portion or section of a lawyer’s case record. 4. A case.
• v., 1. To deliver a legal document to the court clerk or record custodian for placement into the official record. 2. To commence a lawsuit. 3. To record or deposit something in an organized retention system or container for preservation future reference. 4. To acknowledge and deposit (a report, communication, or other documents) for information reference only without necessarily taking any substantive action. [Black’s Law Dictionary, 8th ed. c2004]
• n., All the information about a consumer recorded or retained by a credit reporting agency regardless of how the information is stored. [The Dictionary of Canadian Law, 3rd ed. c2004]
• n., The aggregation of all the records that participate in the same affair or relate to the same event, person, place, project, or other subject. Syn.: dossier. See also: fonds; item; series.
• v., To leave with the appropriate office for keeping.[The Dictionary of Canadian Law, 3rd ed. c2004]
• v., To set aside a made or received document among the records that participate in the same action/affair or relate to the same person or subject, so that they may be retrieved for action or reference.