Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 28 > Part III - Court Officers and Employees

• agency: includes any department, independent establishment, commission, administration, authority, board or bureau of the United States or any corporation in which the United States has a proprietary interest, unless the context shows that such term was intended to be used in a more limited sense. See 28 USC 255
• Agency: means the Central Intelligence Agency. See
• Agency: means the Central Intelligence Agency. See 50 USC 3501
• agency: means &mdash. See 28 USC 2074
• appropriate congressional committees: means the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, or, where required by law for certain reporting purposes, the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the Select ¹ Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives. See 50 USC 2204
• armed forces: shall be deemed to include the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, and the Coast Guard. See 50 USC 3529
• association: when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words "successors and assigns of such company or association" in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed. See 1 USC 5
• Commission: means the United States Sentencing Commission. See 28 USC 998
• Conference: shall mean the Judicial Conference of the United States. See 28 USC 639
• congressional intelligence committees: means &mdash. See 50 USC 3003
• Council: shall mean the Judicial Council of the Circuit. See 28 USC 639
• counterintelligence: means information gathered, and activities conducted, to protect against espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, or assassinations conducted by or on behalf of foreign governments or elements thereof, foreign organizations, or foreign persons, or international terrorist activities. See 50 USC 3003
• county: includes a parish, or any other equivalent subdivision of a State or Territory of the United States. See 1 USC 2
• court of the United States: includes the Supreme Court of the United States, courts of appeals, district courts constituted by chapter 5 of this title, including the Court of International Trade and any court created by Act of Congress the judges of which are entitled to hold office during good behavior. See 28 USC 255
• courts: includes the courts of appeals and district courts of the United States, the United States District Court for the District of the Canal Zone, the District Court of Guam, the District Court of the Virgin Islands, the United States Court of Federal Claims, and the Court of International Trade. See 28 USC 610
• courts: include the Supreme Court of the United States and the courts enumerated in section 610 of this title. See 28 USC 963
• covert action: means an activity or activities of the United States Government to influence political, economic, or military conditions abroad, where it is intended that the role of the United States Government will not be apparent or acknowledged publicly, but does not include&mdash. See 50 USC 3093
• department: means one of the executive departments enumerated in section 1 of Title 5, unless the context shows that such term was intended to describe the executive, legislative, or judicial branches of the government. See 28 USC 255
• Department of the Air Force: as used in this chapter shall be construed to mean the Department of the Air Force at the seat of the government and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Department of the Air Force. See 50 USC 3004
• Department of the Army: as used in this chapter shall be construed to mean the Department of the Army at the seat of the government and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Department of the Army. See 50 USC 3004
• Department of the Navy: as used in this chapter shall be construed to mean the Department of the Navy at the seat of the government. See 50 USC 3004
• Director: shall mean the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. See 28 USC 639
• Director: means the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. See
• Director: shall be deemed to mean the Director of the Selective Service System. See 50 USC 3529
• Director: means the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. See 50 USC 3501
• enemy: means any country, government, group, or person that has been engaged in hostilities, whether or not lawfully authorized, with the United States. See 50 USC 2204
• foreign government: as used in this title except in sections 112, 878, 970, 1116, and 1201, includes any government, faction, or body of insurgents within a country with which the United States is at peace, irrespective of recognition by the United States. See
• foreign intelligence: means information relating to the capabilities, intentions, or activities of foreign governments or elements thereof, foreign organizations, or foreign persons, or international terrorist activities. See 50 USC 3003
• Full-time magistrate judge: shall mean a full-time United States magistrate judge. See 28 USC 639
• Government agency: means any executive department, commission, council, independent establishment, corporation wholly or partly owned by the United States which is an instrumentality of the United States, board, bureau, division, service, office, officer, authority, administration, or other establishment, in the executive branch of the Government. See 50 USC 3501
• guidelines: means the guidelines promulgated by the Commission pursuant to section 994(a) of this title. See 28 USC 998
• individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
• intelligence: includes foreign intelligence and counterintelligence. See 50 USC 2202
• intelligence: includes foreign intelligence and counterintelligence. See 50 USC 3003
• intelligence community: includes the following:

  (A) The Office of the Director of National Intelligence. See 50 USC 3003

• judicial district: means the districts enumerated in Chapter 5 of this title. See 28 USC 255
• magistrate judge: shall mean both full-time and part-time United States magistrate judges. See 28 USC 639
• National Intelligence Program: refers to all programs, projects, and activities of the intelligence community, as well as any other programs of the intelligence community designated jointly by the Director of National Intelligence and the head of a United States department or agency or by the President. See 50 USC 3003
• oath: includes affirmation, and "sworn" includes affirmed. See 1 USC 1
• officer: includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office. See 1 USC 1
• Part-time magistrate judge: shall mean a part-time United States magistrate judge. See 28 USC 639
• person: means &mdash. See 50 USC 2204
• rules and regulations: means rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission pursuant to section 995 of this title. See 28 USC 998
• spoils of war: means enemy movable property lawfully captured, seized, confiscated, or found which has become United States property in accordance with the laws of war. See 50 USC 2204
• State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States. See 1 USC 7
• United States: when used in a geographical sense, shall be deemed to mean the several States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. See 50 USC 3529
• United States: as used in this title in a territorial sense, includes all places and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, except the Canal Zone. See 16 USC 7143a
• vehicle: includes every description of carriage or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on land. See 1 USC 4
• vessel: includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water. See 1 USC 3
• writing: includes printing and typewriting and reproductions of visual symbols by photographing, multigraphing, mimeographing, manifolding, or otherwise. See 1 USC 1