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ANONYMOUS – no name known or acknowledged:
unsigned letter, note, etc.

ANONYMOUS INFORMANT – those who gives
information through telephone with the hope that
the informant cannot be identified.

ANSWER – in Sec. 1 Rule 19, Rules of Court, includes
the affirmative and/or special defenses and
counterclaim contained therein.

ANTAGONIST – a substance that blocks the effects
of another drug by binding with the receptor site
for that drug in the brain; for example, naltrexone
is an antagonist for opioids.

ANTE - before.

ANTE LITEM MOTAM – before the institution of the
action or commencement of litigation.

ANTE MORTEM – before death.

ANTECEDENT CIRCUMTANCES - facts existing
before the commission of the crime such as hatred,
bad moral character of the offender, previous plan,
conspiracy, etc.

ANTHRAX – an acute infectious disease with three
forms (cutaneous, intestinal, and inhalation),
which differ in means of transmission, symptoms,
and lethality; also, a biological agent.

ANTHROPOMETRY – a system of criminal
identification developed by Alphonse Bertillon
which was based on 11 measurements of the

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