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accelerated discovery.See DISCOVERY. [Blacks Law 8th]

accelerated disclosure.See accelerated discovery under DISCOVERY. [Blacks Law 8th]

accelerated depreciation method.See DEPRECIATION METHOD. [Blacks Law 8th]

Accelerated  Cost  Recovery  System.An  accounting  method  that  is  used  to  calculate  asset depreciation and that allows for the faster recovery of costs by assigning the asset a shorter useful life  than  was  previously  permitted  under  the  Internal  Revenue  Code.  •  This  system  applies  to property put into service from 1981 to 1986. It was replaced…

accede  (ak-seed),  vb.1.  To  consent  or  agree.  2.  To  be  added  (to  something  else)  through accession.  3.  To  adopt.  See  ADOPTION(5).4.  (Of  a  body  politic)  to  accept  unification  with  or annexation into another body politic. — accession,accedence (ak-see-d<<schwa>>nts), n. [Blacks Law 8th]

accedas ad curiam (ak-see-d<<schwa>>s ad kyoor-ee-<<schwa>>m), n.[Law Latin “you are to  go  to  the  court”]  Hist.  An  original  writ  for  removing  a  replevin  action  to  a  royal  court  from either of two feudal courts — a court baron or a hundred court. • It is a recordare facias loquelam for replevin actions. See RECORDARE FACIAS…

a cause de cy (ay kaw-z<<schwa>> d<<schwa>> see), adv.[Law French] For this reason. [Blacks Law 8th]

a  cancellis  curiae  explodi  (ay  kan-sel-is  kyoor-ee-I  ek-sploh-dI).  [Law  Latin]  Hist.  To  be expelled from the bar of the court. [Blacks Law 8th]

a cancellis (ay kan-sel-is), n.[Law Latin] Hist. A chancellor, so called because he performed the duties of office behind a cancelli (“lattice”).[Blacks Law 8th]

a cancellando (ay kan-s<<schwa>>-lan-doh). [Law Latin] From canceling. “It  has  its  name  of  chancery,  cancellaria,  from  the  judge  who  presides  here,  the  lord chancellor  or  cancellarius;  who,  Sir  Edward  Coke  tells  us,  is  so  termed  a  cancellando,  from cancelling  the  king’s  letters  patents  when  granted  contrary  to  law  ….”  3  William  Blackstone, Commentaries on the…