Flashcards: Documents

A document is a written, drawn, presented or recorded representation of thoughts.

Microforms are any forms, either films or paper, containing microreproductions of documents for transmission, storage, reading, and printing.

A report or account is any informational work (usually of writing, speech, television, or film) made with the specific intention of relaying information or recounting certain events in a widely presentable form.

A political party platform or platform is a formal set of principal goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate, in order to appeal to the general public, for the ultimate purpose of garnering the general public's support and votes about complicated topics or issues.

A waybill (UIC) is a document issued by a carrier giving details and instructions relating to the shipment of a consignment of goods.

The Generalplan Ost (German pronunciation: [ɡenəˈʁaːlˌplaːn ˈɔst]; English: General Plan East), abbreviated GPO, was the Nazi German government's plan for the colonization of Central and Eastern Europe.

A gloss (from Latin: glossa, from Greek: γλῶσσα glóssa "language") is a brief notation, especially a marginal one or an interlinear one, of the meaning of a word or wording in a text.

The Venice Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites is a set of guidelines, drawn up in 1964 by a group of conservation professionals in Venice, that provides an international framework for the conservation and restoration of historic buildings.

A biometric passport, also known as an e-passport, ePassport or a digital passport, is a combined paper and electronic passport that contains biometric information that can be used to authenticate the identity of travelers.

In international law, legalization is the process of authenticating or certifying a legal document so a foreign country's legal system will recognize it as with full legal effect.

The Monumenta Germaniae Historica (frequently abbreviated MGH in bibliographies and lists of sources) is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published primary sources, both chronicle and archival, for the study of German history (broadly conceived) from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500.

Sick leave (or paid sick days or sick pay) is time off from work that workers can use to stay home to address their health and safety needs without losing pay.

The Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents, the Apostille Convention, or the Apostille Treaty is an international treaty drafted by the Hague Conference on Private International Law.

Papal regesta are the copies, generally entered in special registry volumes, of the papal letters and official documents that are kept in the papal archives.

A holograph is a document written entirely in the handwriting of the person whose signature it bears.

In the United Kingdom (and particularly in England and Wales) the term county record office usually refers to a local authority repository, also called a County Archives.

In the European Union, the United Kingdom, Commonwealth, Hong Kong and the United States, a green paper is a tentative government report and consultation document of policy proposals for debate and discussion.

The Pipe rolls, sometimes called the Great rolls, or the Great Rolls of the Pipe, are a collection of financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, or Treasury, and its successors.

Microprinting is the production of recognizable patterns or characters on a printed medium at a scale which requires magnification to be read.

Administrative guidance is non-binding advice given by an administrative agency to the public regarding how best to comply with a particular law or regulation.