We have been using the term 'mutation' pretty loosely up to this point in the course...now we need to define it more precisely: mutation-- a change in the genetic material (ie. DNA).
Stay of proceedings. A stay of proceedings is a ruling by the court in civil and criminal procedure, halting further legal process in a trial or other legal proceeding. The court can subsequently lift the stay and resume proceedings based on events taking place after the stay is ordered.
(December 2010). In the law of the United States of America, an objection is a formal protest raised in court during a trial to disallow a witness 's testimony or other evidence which would be in violation of the rules of evidence or other procedural law.