"A vice president (in British English: vice-president for governments and director for businesses) is an officer in government or business who is below a president (managing director) in rank. The name comes from the Latin vice meaning ""in place of"". In some countries, the vice president is called the deputy president. In everyday speech, the abbreviation VP can be used." (Wikipedia)
In Britain, a Justice of the Peace is a person who is not a lawyer but who can act as a judge in a local criminal law court. The abbreviation JP is also used. In some states in the United States, a Justice of the Peace is an official who can carry out some legal tasks, such as settling minor cases in court or performing marriages. (COBUILD Advanced English Dictionary)
The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Russian: Совет Экономической Взаимопомощи, Sovet Ekonomicheskoy Vzaimopomoshchi, СЭВ, SEV; English abbreviation COMECON, CMEA, or CAME) was an economic organization from 1949 to 1991 under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc along with a number of communist states elsewhere in the world. (Wikipedia)
[December 2000] "A Neutral Citation Standard for Case Law." Edited by Daniel Poulin and Martin Felsky, Canadian Citation Committee. Goal: "The neutral citation aims to permit the permanent identification of a judicial decision independently of its mode of publication, be it paper or electronic. It has no descriptive elements pertaining to the hierarchical level or to the internal structure of the institutions concerned." For related discussion, see Wikipedia notes on Neutral Citation in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Example definition: Medium-Neutral Citation (case citation), e.g., via Macquarie University Library: "give the abbreviation for the court and not a named law report; use court assigned case numbers rather than a volume and page number; use paragraph numbers rather than page numbers..." ( use court assigned case numbers rather than a volume and page number)
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