CFR > Title 49 > Subtitle B > Chapter II > Part 232 > Subpart A – General
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- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
- 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.
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- railroad: is a lso intended to mean a person that provides transportation by railroad, whether directly or by contracting out operation of the railroad to another person. See 49 CFR 232.5