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As a verb, to point to; guide; order; command; instruct. To advise; suggest; request. As an adjective, immediate; proximate; by the shortest course; without circuity; operating by an immediate connection or relation, instead of operating through an intermediary; the opposite of indirect. In the usual or regular course or order, as distinguished from that which diverts, interrupts, or opposes. The opposite of cross, contrary, collateral, or remote. Without any intervening medium, agency, or influence; unconditional.

DIRECT. Straight forward; not collateral.
2. The direct line of descents for example, is formed by a series of degrees between persons who descend one from another. Civ. Code of Lo. art. 886.

EVIDENCE, DIRECT. That which applies immediately to the fadum probandum, without any intervening process; as, if A testifies he saw B inflict a mortal wound on C, of which he, instantly died. 1 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 13.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Present study was carried out to estimate the prevalence of laboratory confirmed Hepatitis-C virus infection in house hold and direct contact personals among the population of Lahore metropolitan.

PREVALENCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF HEPATITIS C VIRUS GENOTYPES AMONG HOUSE HOLD AND DIRECT CONTACT PERSONALS OF HCV PATIENTS

Community Click has proved such a success throughout the force by putting the community in direct contact with the officers who serve them.

Click on to get police support

You've got agents and things, but we have not had any direct contact with Cardiff.

Brayford is staying, insists Derby boss Clough

"So we have today asked the BBC investigations unit to make direct contact with all the police forces in receipt of allegations and offer to help them investigate these matters and provide full support to any lines of inquiry they wish to pursue."

BBC pledges to co-operate over Savile allegations

Summary: The BBC has said it will make direct contact with police to provide full support over the "disturbing allegations" made about abuse involving Sir Jimmy Savile.

BBC to provide full support over Savile allegations

The technology is called "direct contact", and its advantage is that it captures all the heat contained in a boiler's combustion gases.

Sofame Technologies (CVE:SDW) (PINK:SFMGF) Energy Efficient Industrial Water Heaters Reduce CO2 Emissions and Company Now Primed For Further Ramp-Up in U.S. Sales

After most of the evidence had been led, the parents withdrew their opposition to adoption, merely seeking direct contact. The sheriff granted the permanence order with authority for adoption, and indicated that she would have dispensed with parental consent on the evidence heard, if the parents had not agreed.

Adoption and permanence order: whether parental consent should be dispensed with and permanence order with authority for adoption granted; contact

International Resource News-February 16, 2012--SPX Heat Transfer Inc receives contract for four advanced direct contact condensers for geothermal power plant(C)1994-2012 ENPublishing - http://www.enpublishing.co.uk

-SPX Heat Transfer Inc receives contract for four advanced direct contact condensers for geothermal power plant

"The virus found in the patient was 90 percent similar to H5N1 viruses previously isolated in ducks in China, which suggested that the man was very likely to have been infected through direct contact with a bird," the Shenzhen Centre for

Bird flu virus 'not transmissable'

Visitors had direct contact with three participants' flocks multiple times per week; for other flocks, visitors had direct contact three times or less per year.

Preliminary investigation of bird and human movements and disease-management practices in noncommercial poultry flocks in southwestern British Columbia

A direct contact food tissue treatment, Inspexx 150 is part of a complete food safety programme and part of a complete line of Ecolab antimicrobial food tissue treatments that help control foodborne pathogens and spoilage microorganisms on food surfaces.

Ecolab introduces Poultry Export Programme with Inspexx 150 for food safety

Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran denied that government officials had direct contact with the US over allegations it plotted to kill the Saudi ambassador on US soil.