Dictionary Search: "Communication"

Communication

1. The expression or exchange of information by speech, writing, or gestures. 2. The information so expressed or exchanged. conditionally privileged communication .A defamatory statement made in good faith by a person with an interest in a subject to someone who also has an interest in the subject, as an employer giving a poor but accurate job review of a former employee to a potential future employer. ( The privilege may be lost on a showing of malice or bad faith.

Excommunication

n. Eccles. law. A sentence of censure pronounced by a spiritual court for an offense falling under ecclesiastical cognizance; expulsion from religious society or community. 0 In England, an excommunicated person was formerly subject to various civil disabilities, such as an inability to be a juror, to be a witness in any court, or to sue to recover lands or money due. These penalties were abolished by the Ecclesiastical Courts Act (1813). St. 53 Geo. 3, ch. 127. - excommunicate, ub.

Federal Communications Commission

The federal agency that regulates interstate and foreign communications by radio, television, telephone, and telegraph, and oversees radio and television broadcasting standards, cabletelevision operations, two-way-radio operators, and satellite communications. - Abbr. FCC. federal court. See COURT.

coded communications

Messages that are encoded or enciphered by some method of transposition or substitution so that they become unintelligible to anyone who does not have the key to the code or cipher.

conditionally privileged communication

See COMMUNICATION.

confidential communication

A communication made within a certain protected relationship - such as husband-wife, attorneyclient, or priest-penitent - and legally protected from forced disclosure.

ex parte communication

A generally prohibited communication between counsel and the court when opposing counsel is not present.

marital-communications privilege

See marital privilege (1) under PRIVILEGE (3). marital deduction See DEDUCTION,

privileged communication