expungement of record

expungement of record definition - legal
n. The eradication of a criminal conviction from official records after a specified period of time or upon the happening of a specific event.

v

the process of removing criminal records from official rolls. 

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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