#investigation

• Discovery — The act of finding out or discovering and its result; discovery, detection, or the mathematical process of solving an unknown. In administrative or legal contexts, it defines the process of obtaining official information or establishing facts through systematic investigation.
• Alibi — A defense mechanism in criminal law whereby a suspect or accused proves that at the time the offense was committed they were in a different place than the crime scene, making their participation impossible. Broadly, it describes any justification or excuse used to demonstrate innocence.
• Amprentology — A specialized branch of forensics that deals with the scientific study, classification, collection, and comparison of macroscopic and microscopic traces left by papillary ridges, feet, teeth, or other anatomical areas of the human body, as well as by various objects; this field unites dactyloscopy, poroscopy, and podoscopy into an integrated methodological framework for personal identification.
• To analyze — To examine a whole, a phenomenon, or an object by decomposing it into its component elements to determine its structure, properties, or laws of development. In a broad sense, it means to scrutinize closely, to study in depth, to critically evaluate a situation or behavior, or to perform qualitative and quantitative laboratory determinations on substances or biological samples.
• Investigation — The act of systematically investigating a problem, an offense, or a situation of public interest, and its result; a set of investigations, hearings, and evidence gathering carried out by a judicial authority, an administrative commission, or by journalists to establish factual truth and identify responsible parties.
• Questioning — The act of investigating a person or a situation; the dynamic and procedural process through which suspects, witnesses, or individuals involved in a case are subjected to interrogations and legal verifications to establish their involvement in an unlawful act.
• Under investigation — Subject to a criminal, administrative, or journalistic investigation; a physical or legal person undergoing official investigations or hearings by law enforcement agencies or an investigative committee to establish the degree of guilt or involvement in an unlawful act.
• Antitrust — Opposing trusts, monopolies, cartels, or anti-competitive commercial practices; the assembly of laws, regulations, and state policies designed to protect free market competition, prevent mergers that limit trade, and punish the abuse of dominant position by large corporations.
• Arteriopiezography — A clinical medical investigation method, rarely used today or replaced by digital technologies, consisting of the simultaneous or successive graphic recording of arterial pressure and pulse waves using a device called a piezograph (a sensor sensitive to mechanical pressure). This technique provided valuable data regarding the elastic properties of arterial walls, left ventricular ejection dynamics, and the central hemodynamic profile of patients with hypertensive pathologies.
• Self-slandering — The act of slandering oneself and its result; the dynamic process through which a person formulates and spreads false or derogatory accusations against themselves. The term emphasizes the ongoing activity of self-discrediting.
• Take self-notice — To officially and autonomously take investigative or research measures regarding an act, irregularity, or offense, out of one's own initiative, without waiting for an external complaint, denunciation, or formal referral. This legal or administrative action is typically triggered following the direct observation of facts by the competent institution or as a result of information published in the media.
• Ex officio notice — The act of taking self-notice and its result; the procedural or administrative act whereby a competent authority observes ex officio the existence of a criminal, civil, or administrative act and initiates an official action without a prior complaint filed by an injured party. It is an essential legal instrument for protecting the public interest and combating institutional corruption or crime.