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Definition of F.i.s.c.
1. Noun. A secret federal court created in 1978 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justice or United States intelligence agencies.
Group relationships: Federal Judiciary
Generic synonyms: Court, Judicature, Tribunal
Lexicographical Neighbors of F.i.s.c.
Literary usage of F.i.s.c.
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies in Roman Law, with Comparative Views of the Laws of France, England by Thomas Mackenzie Mackenzie (1865)
"To the fisc belonged not only all the ordinary and extraordinary revenues of the
... In disputes between the subject and the fisc, it was a general rule, ..."
2. The Ancient Régime by Hippolyte Taine (1881)
"Levies of the tithe- owner and of the fisc.—What remains to the proprietor.—II.
State of certain provinces on the outbreak of the Revolution. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In 1841 he published his first essay "Le fisc et la vigne" and, apprised of the
free- trade movement that Cobden was then directing in England, ..."
4. A New Collection of Laws, Charters and Local Ordinances of the Governments by Joseph M. White, Ignacio Jordán de Assó y del Río (1839)
"If the fisc is the plaintiff: if it can lay an action in the royal audience.
Solorzano, book 3, cap. 30. ART. 21. Reasons in favor; also the persons and ..."
5. Inquiry Into the Rise and Growth of the Royal Prerogative in England by John Allen (1849)
"This unappropriated territory was called the land of the fisc or public, and was
left, as in Germany, ..."
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