Affirmative
121affirmative action programs — Employment programs required by federal statutes and regulations designed to remedy discriminatory practices in hiring minority group members; i.e. positive steps designed to eliminate existing and continuing discrimination, to remedy lingering… …
122affirmative authorization — A positive declaration of authority rather than authorization by implication. A boom in a river authorized and constructed in the manner required by statute is within the exception of a Federal act prohibiting obstructions in navigable streams… …
123affirmative charge — An instruction to the jury which removes an issue from consideration by the jury …
124affirmative defense — A defense which amounts to something more than a mere denial of the plaintiff s allegations; a defense which sets up new matter not embraced within the ordinary scope of a denial of the material averments of the complaint. Among such defenses are …
125affirmative plea — In equity: a plea which alleges new matter of defense, proceeding on the theory that, admitting the case stated in the bill to be true, the matter pleaded by the plea affords a sufficient reason why the plaintiff should be denied relief. 27 Am… …
126affirmative proof — Such evidence of the truth of the matters asserted as tends to establish them, and this regardless of the character of the evidence offered. Jenkins v Hawkeye Commercial Men s Asso. 147 Iowa, 113, 124 NW 199 …
127affirmative proof of loss — Evidence in such form as is usual and customary in such cases, or as is recognized by law, and such as is calculated to convince or persuade the mind of the truth of the facts alleged; clearly, something more than the unverified declaration of… …
128affirmative relief — Relief granted to a defendant In an action upon his demand therefor and proof of his right thereto …
