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amendment 音标拼音: [əm'ɛndmənt]
n. 订正,修正,改正,修正案 订正,修正,改正,修正案 amendment修正 amendment n 1: the act of amending or correcting 2: a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document ( a bill or constitution etc.) Amendment \ A* mend" ment\, n. [ F. amendement, LL. amendamentum.] 1. An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices. [ 1913 Webster] 2. In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Law) Correction of an error in a writ or process. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Improvement; reformation; emendation. [ 1913 Webster] 85 Moby Thesaurus words for " amendment": Great Leap Forward, addendum, addition, advance, advancement, alteration, amelioration, ascent, attachment, bettering, betterment, bill, boost, calendar, change, change of allegiance, change of heart, change of mind, clause, companion bills amendment, correction, dragnet clause, editing, emendation, enacting clause, enhancement, enrichment, escalator clause, eugenics, euthenics, furtherance, headway, hold- up bill, improvement, joker, lift, melioration, mend, mending, motion, new birth, omnibus bill, paragraph, pickup, preferment, privileged question, progress, progression, promotion, proviso, question, rebirth, recension, reclamation, recovery, recrudescence, rectification, redaction, redemption, reform, reformation, regeneration, renascence, renewal, repair, rescript, rescription, restoration, revampment, revisal, revise, revised edition, revision, revival, rewrite, rewriting, rider, rise, saving clause, upbeat, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobilityAMENDMENT, legislation. An alteration or change of something proposed in abill. 2. Either house of the legislature has a right to make amendments; but, when so made, they must be sanctioned by the other house before they canbecome a law. The senate has no power to originate any money bills, ( q. v,) but may propose and make amendments to such as have passed the House ofrepresentatives. Vide Congress; Senate. 3. The constitution of the United States, art. 5, and the constitutionsof some of the states, provide for their amendment. The provisions containedin tho constitution of the United States, are as follows: " Congress, whenever two- thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall proposeamendments to this constitution, or, on the application of the legislaturesof two- thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposingamendments, which, in either case, shall be valid, to all intents andpurposes, as part of this constitution, when ratified by the legislatures ofthree- fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three- fourthsthereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed byCongress: Provided, that no amendment which may be made prior to the yearone thousand eight hundred and eight, shall, in any manner, affect the firstand fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that nostate, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in theSenate."
AMENDMENT, practice. The correction, by allowance of the court, of an errorcommitted in the progress of a cause. 2. Amendments at common law, independently of any statutory provisionon the subject, are in all cases in the discretion of the court, for thefurtherance of justice they may be made while the proceedings are in paper, that is, until judgment is signed, and during the term in which it issigned; for until the end of the term the proceedings are considered infieri, and consequently subject to the control of the court; 2 Burr. 756; 3Bl. Com. 407; 1 Salk. 47; 2 Salk. 666 ; 8 Salk. 31; Co. Litt. 260; and evenafter judgment is signed, and up to the latest period of the action, amendment is, in most cases, allowable at the discretion of the court undercertain statutes passed for allowing amendments of the record; and in latertimes the judges have been much more liberal than formerly, in the exerciseof this discretion. 3 McLean, 379; 1 Branch, 437; 9 Ala. 647. They may, however, be made after the term, although formerly the rule was otherwise; Co. Litt. 260, a; 3 Bl. Com. 407; and even after error brought, where therehas been a verdict in a civil or criminal case. 2 Serg. & R. 432, 3. Aremittitur damna may be allowed after error; 2 Dall. 184; 1 Yeates, 186; Addis, 115, 116; and this, although error be brought on the ground of theexcess of damages remitted. 2 Serg. & R. 221. But the application must bemade for the remittitur in the court below, as the court of error must takethe record as they find it. 1 Serg. & R. 49. So, the death of the defendantmay be suggested after errer coram nobis. 1 Bin. 486; I Johns. Cases, 29; Caines' Cases, 61. So by agreement of attorneys, the record may be amendedafter error. 1 Bin. 75; 2 Binn. 169. 3. Amendments are, however, always limited by due consideration of therights of the opposite party; and, when by the amendment he would beprejudiced or exposed to unreasonable delay, it is not allowed. Vide Bac. AbCom. Dig. h. t.; Viner' s. Ab. h. t.; 2 Arch. Pr. 200; Grah. Pt. 524; Steph. Pl. 97; 2 Sell. Pr. 453; 3 Bl. Com. 406; Bouv. Inst. Index, h. t.
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