Law Dictionary Definitions

Full Faith and Credit for Child-Support Orders Act.A 1994 federal statute designed to facilitate interstate child-support collection. • Under the Act, the state first issuing a child-support order maintains continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the order as long as the child or one or both of the litigants continue to reside there, unless all the…

Full Faith and Credit Clause.U.S. Const. art. IV, § 1, which requires states to give effect to the acts, public records, and judicial decisions of other states. [Cases: Judgment 815, 828.4; States 5(2).C.J.S. Judgments §§ 969–979, 998, 1002–1003, 1007, 1009, 1011, 1014.][Blacks Law 8th]

full-faith-and-credit bond.See general-obligation bond under BOND (3).[Blacks Law 8th]

Full Faith and Credit Act.A federal statute requiring federal courts to give a state court’s judgment the same preclusive effect as the judgment would have under state law. 28 USCA § 1738. See Migra v. Warren City School Dist. Bd. of Educ., 465 U.S. 75, 81, 104 S.Ct. 892, 896 (1984).[Blacks Law 8th]

full faith and credit.The recognition, acceptance, and enforcement of the laws, orders, and judgments of another jurisdiction; specif., the recognition by one state of another state’s legal decisions. [Cases: Judgment 815, 828.4; States 5(2). C.J.S. Judgments §§ 969–979, 998, 1002–1003, 1007, 1009, 1011, 1014.][Blacks Law 8th]

full disclosure.See DISCLOSURE(1).[Blacks Law 8th]

full defense.See DEFENSE(1).[Blacks Law 8th]

full-crew law.A law that regulates the number of railroad employees required to operate a train, or airline employees required to operate an airplane. [Cases: Railroads 230. C.J.S. Railroads §§ 767–778.][Blacks Law 8th]

full coverage.See COVERAGE.[Blacks Law 8th]

full-covenant-and-warranty deed.See warranty deed under DEED.[Blacks Law 8th]