Congress

Definition - Noun
[Latin congressus meeting, encounter, from congredi to approach, meet]
1  : a formal meeting of delegates
2 a  : the supreme legislative body of a nation and esp. a republic
b  cap : the legislative branch of the United States government
specif
: the U.S. House of Representatives
3  cap
a  : the U.S. legislature as it is composed for an enumerated two-year period <the 101st Congress>
b  : a single session of the U.S. legislature
see also house of representatives senate Article I of the Constitution in the back matter



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promissory estoppel

an estoppel that prevents a promisor from denying the existence of a promise when the promisee reasonably and foreseeably relies on the promise and to his or her loss acts or fails to act and suffers an injustice that can only be avoided by enforcement of the promise


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