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What does expungement mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of expunging.
  2. (US) The process by which the record of a criminal conviction is destroyed or sealed.
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That would help to ensure that only people who truly deserved the expungement of their convictions achieved that.
Our trade-mark lawyers, trade-mark agents, and technical consultants work in partnership with clients to litigate and settle expungement actions.
For somebody that's been wrongfully convicted, there should be an automatic expungement on the record, no question about it.
Granted on the grounds of expungement of the trade-mark with which it may have been confusing.
By law, the Registrar may, provided certain conditions are met, order the expungement of the trade-mark from the register if it is not being used in the normal course of business in Canada.
Even in instances where the criminal conviction is expunged, the U. S. is under no obligation to recognize that expungement.

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