National Labor Relations Act

Glossary

• adduce to bring forward in evidence
• affirmations solemn declarations before a magistrate or judge, made without swearing an oath
• aforesaid said or mentioned previously
• amendatory serving to modify or correct
• appropriations monies authorized to be spent from the public treasury
• certification official license
• certiorari a legal writ that allows a superior court to review the record of a case in an inferior court
• conciliation the bringing together of opposed individuals or groups
• construed understood
• contempt willful disobedience or disrespect for the rules or orders of a court
• contumacy stubborn resistance to authority
• diminution reduction
• disputants people engaged in arguing a legal case or contract
• docketed listed for consideration by a court
• forfeiture loss as the result of being taken away by a legal ruling
• grievances official complaints of wrongdoing at work, usually brought by workers or unions against management
• hereinabove at a previous point in a document
• jurisdiction the region or area of authority of a court or other official body
• malfeasance wrongdoing
• mediation the process of reaching an agreement between opposed individuals or groups
• pleadings written statements setting out the cause of action or defense of a legal case
• praying requesting
• proximate near
• pursuant in accordance with
• quorum the minimum number required to be present to transact business or carry out an activity legally
• receivers people appointed by a court to administer the affairs of a bankrupt company or person
• rescind to repeal
• severally separately
• subpena (subpoena) a legal writ to summon a person or evidence before a court
• therein in that place or circumstance
• thereupon in consequence of
• transacts carries on negotiation to a settlement
• trustees people appointed to administer the affairs of a company