In legal terminology, a complaint is any formal legal document that sets out the facts and legal reasons ( see: cause of action ) that the filing party or parties ( the plaintiff ( s )) believes are sufficient to support a claim against the party or parties against whom the claim is brought ( the defendant ( s )) that entitles the plaintiff ( s ) to a remedy ( either money damages or injunctive relief )

Donald Knuth notes that Hans Peter Luhn of IBM appears to have been the first to use the concept, in a memo dated January 1953, and that Robert Morris used the term in a survey paper in CACM which elevated the term from technical jargon to formal terminology.

Tegmark writes that " abstract mathematics is so general that any Theory Of Everything ( TOE ) that is definable in purely formal terms ( independent of vague human terminology ) is also a mathematical structure.

In formal terms, the connection is a persulfide, in analogy to its congener, peroxide ( R-O-O-R ), but this terminology is obscure and is no longer used ( except in reference to R-S-S-H or H-S-S-H compounds ).

In legal terminology, a competence vested in ' the King ' thus very often means the government, as opposed to formal laws which require a ( sometimes qualified ) parliamentary majority.

As these devices became more important and the term became widely understood, the word was adopted as formal terminology.

Egyptologist Dominic Montserrat discusses the terminology used to describe these texts, describing them as formal poems or royal eulogies.

** Informal usage or custom, as in Popular names, terminology or Nomenclature, as opposed to formal or scientific names, terminology, or nomenclature.

Strictly, no formal definition can be provided which applies to every programming language, since each of them has its own concepts, semantics and terminology ; the term may not even be applicable or, to the contrary, applied with a very specific meaning in the context of a given language.

As the terminology reflects, this is significantly more technical than the intuitive geometric picture, similar to how a formal definition of intersection number requires sophisticated algebra.

The official name of the " Division I " tournament is the National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Championship, which reflects the NCAA's formal terminology for championship events that are open to schools from multiple divisions.

Newton gives no proof and is not explicit about the nature of the series ; most likely he verified instances treating the series as ( again in modern terminology ) formal power series.

At the end of his life Becker re-emphasized the distinction between intuition of the formal and Platonic realm as opposed to the concrete existential realm, moved to the terminology, at least, of divination.

Also, his most famous work, Prolegomena to a Theory of Language, is mostly concerned with the formal definition of a terminology for the analysis of any level of a system of signs, and as such there exists an exclusively Hjelmslevian terminology for that.

The term " Virgin Islands Creole " is formal terminology used by scholars and academics, and is rarely used in everyday speech.

This terminology is written in a formal language called GRAIL ( GALEN Concept Representation Language ) and also distributed in OWL.

Corporations should pay added taxes, to be used for educational purposes ( not necessarily of the formal type ).

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

When he had given the call a few moments thought, he went into the kitchen to ask Mrs. Yamata to prepare tea and sushi for the visitors, using the formal English china and the silver tea service which had been donated to the mission, then he went outside to inspect the grounds.

The Commission shall certify to the Secretary of State, upon his request, copies of the formal submissions of claims filed pursuant to subsection ( B ) of Section 4 of this Act for transmission to the foreign government concerned.

As seen in the B. family, there must be an attempt to help the client develop conscious awareness of the problem, especially in the absence of a formal request for assistance.

A second major point of this essay is to examine the formal arrangements for the elections.

Thus the Congress marks a formal recognition of the political system that was central to world politics for a century.

On the one hand, the major European nations had to maintain vis-a-vis each other an emphasis upon sovereignty, independence, formal equality -- thus insuring for themselves individually an optimal freedom of action to maintain the `` flexibility of alignment '' that the system required and to avoid anything approaching a repetition of the disastrous Napoleonic experience.

Most manufacturers were now disposed to heed a proposal for the formal interchange of patents.

Fall foliage and flowers will decorate Los Angeles Country Club for the annual formal party Saturday evening.

Whereas Bultmann's `` center '' position is structurally inconsistent and is therefore indefensible on formal grounds alone, the general position of the `` right '', as represented, say, by Karl Barth, involves the rejection or at least qualification of the demand for demythologization and so is invalidated on the material grounds we have just considered.

His interest in the formal study of religion waned when he was sixteen and he substituted for it an interest in Asian affairs.

Besides the power analysis, there are less formal methods for selecting the number of experimental units.

A trial de novo is usually available for review of informal proceedings conducted by some minor judicial tribunals in proceedings that do not provide all the procedural attributes of a formal judicial trial.

That notion is central for explaining how formal systems come into being starting from a small set of axioms and rules.

( A formal proof for all finite sets would use the principle of mathematical induction to prove " for every natural number k, every family of k nonempty sets has a choice function.

Standardized screening tools such as Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale, Beck Anxiety Inventory, Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale and HAM-A ( Hamilton Anxiety Scale ) can be used to detect anxiety symptoms and suggest the need for a formal diagnostic assessment of anxiety disorder.

Thus, an axiom is an elementary basis for a formal logic system that together with the rules of inference define a deductive system.

The formal study of architecture in academic institutions played a pivotal role in the development of the profession as a whole, serving as a focal point for advances in architectural technology and theory.

A similar French influence is seen in classroom ASL in francophone West Africa, where ASL was introduced along with formal education for the deaf by the deaf American missionary Andrew Foster.

On the other hand, some historians have speculated that Charlemagne opposed formal marriages for his daughters out of concern for political rivalries from their potential husbands ; none of Charlemagne's daughters were married, despite political offers of arranged marriages.

" After a vigorous debate, a formal vote for impeachment was held in the House of Representatives on December 5, 1867, and failed, 57 – 108.

This can be done on a formal basis by establishing a separate fund into which funds are deposited on a periodic basis, or by simply forgoing the purchase of available insurance and paying out-of-pocket.

* More formal and complex written statements of ownership that permit the easier assumption of shared risk and ownership in companies, and insurance against risk ;

Other ways of dealing with the risk and expense associated with all of the new trade activity include insurance and joint stock companies which were created as formal institutions.

Actuarial science became a formal mathematical discipline in the late 17th century with the increased demand for long-term insurance coverages such as Burial, Life insurance, and Annuities.

Examples given in Akerlof's paper include the market for used cars, the death of formal credit markets in developing countries, and the difficulties that the elderly encounter in buying health insurance.

Prior to the 1980s, most Latin American countries focused on social insurance policies involving formal sector workers, assuming that the informal sector would disappear with economic development.

Real estate brokers ( and their agents ) typically do not provide title service such as title search or title insurance, do not conduct surveys or formal appraisals of the property such as those required by lenders, and do not act as lawyers for the parties, although they may " coordinate " these activities with the appropriate specialists.

Practitioners of inner healing techniques such as TPM frequently do not have formal training in psychology or counseling, although Fernando Garzon suggests that this in many cases may be beneficial, saying: "... it may serve people who might not get help otherwise, cannot afford professional therapy, do not wish to use insurance, or have access to counseling limited by managed care.

Because of its specificity and lack of confusion with other conditions, mental handicap is still the term most widely used and recommended for use in professional medical settings, such as formal scientific research and health insurance paperwork.

That organization went on to expand its benefits package through the establishment of a formal life insurance package via the " Locomotive Engineers ' Mutual Life Insurance Association " in 1867.

Mexico ’ s Banking Act of 1897 established the legal possibility of failure of a credit institution, but set up some mechanisms in the banking law itself to prevent bank failures -- but the law itself did not create a formal insurance scheme.