Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
Reasonable progress towards making a conditional water right absolute by putting unappropriated water to a beneficial use. Must be proved in a water court proceeding through an application initiated every six-years after entry of the conditional decree or most recent diligence decree. Acts demonstrating diligence include engineering, permitting, financing, and construction of water facilities needed to complete water diversion and delivery to the place of use.
Action taken towards the perfection of a conditional water right.
We all rely on people keeping their promises. To deliver food, build houses, and pay for goods and services. Sometimes, people do not keep their promises. If that happens the courts may order someone to pay what they are due. In Scotland, there are a number of ways that people can be made to pay after a court order has been made. The most common forms of court enforcement, or diligence, are arrestment , earnings arrestment and attachment. There are other less common ways to enforce court orders. They include inhibition and adjudication, and your lawyer or adviser can tell you more about them if needed.
The legal procedures by which orders of the civil courts are enforced. In the case of debt, the procedures are available to a creditor awarded a decree for payment of a sum of money. They are used against the debtor’s assets by attaching and selling them in order to satisfy the debt. Different forms of diligence apply to different types of property.
The activity required of an inventor and his attorney that must have started just prior to the entry into the field of another "inventor" and continue until the invention is reduced to practice, either by building and testing it or filing an enabling patent application. Diligence towards the building and testing of an invention typically includes such activities as: ordering parts, fabrication of a prototype or working model, testing of a prototype under the expected conditions of normal use of the invention, etc. Diligence towards the filing of a patent application typically involves preparation of an invention disclosure, hiring a patent agent or patent attorney, with the patent agent or attorney taking up preparation of the patent application in chronological order. Diligence must be able to be proven and during an interference proceeding, corroborated by a person who is not an inventor.