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a posteriori ('from the earlier') and ('from the later') are Latin phrases used in philosophy to distinguish types of knowledge, justification, or argument by their reliance on experience. knowledge is independent from any experience. Examples include ...

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ab extra A number of Latin terms are used in legal terminology and legal maxims. This is a partial list of these terms, which are wholly or substantially drawn from Latin, or anglicized Law Latin. __TOC__ Common law Civil law Ecclesiastica ...

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ab initio ( ) is a Latin term meaning "from the beginning" and is derived from the Latin ("from") + , ablative singular of ("beginning"). Etymology , from Latin, literally "from the beginning", from ablative case of "entrance", "beginning", related t ...

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Abandonment (legal) In law, abandonment is the relinquishment, giving up, or renunciation of an Interest (finance), interest, Cause of action, claim, Privilege (legal ethics), privilege, Possession (law), possession, civil proceedings, Appeal (law), appeal, or righ ...

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Abet ABET (pronounced A-bet), formerly known as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc., is a non-governmental accreditation organization for post-secondary programs in engineering, engineering technology, computing, and applied ...

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Abeyance Abeyance (from the Old French ' meaning "gaping") describes a state of temporary dormancy or suspension. In law, it can refer to a situation where the ownership of property, titles, or office is not currently Vesting, vested in any specific perso ...

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Abolitionism in the United States In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the United States, slavery in the country, was active from the Colonial history of the United States, colonial era until the American Civil War, the end of which b ...

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Abolitionism Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the political movement to end slavery and liberate enslaved individuals around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was France in 1315, but it was later used in its colonies. ...

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Abortion Abortion is the early termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. Abortions that occur without intervention are known as miscarriages or "spontaneous abortions", and occur in roughly 30–40% of all pregnan ...

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Abstention doctrine An abstention doctrine is any of several doctrines that a United States court may (or in some cases must) apply to refuse to hear a case if hearing the case would potentially intrude upon the powers of another court. Such doctrines are usually inv ...

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Abstract of title A property abstract is a summary of the legal documents that chronicle transactions associated with a particular parcel of land. Generally included are references to deeds, mortgages, wills, probate records, court litigations, and tax sales� ...

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Abuse of discretion Discretion has the meaning of acting on one's own authority and judgment. In law, discretion as to legal rulings, such as whether evidence is excluded at a trial, may be exercised by a judge. The ability to make decisions which represent a resp ...

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Acceptance Acceptance in psychology is a person's recognition and assent to the finality of a situation without attempting to change or protest it. This plays out at both the individual and societal level as people experience change. Types of acceptanc ...

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Accomplice Aiding and abetting is a legal doctrine related to the guilt of someone who aids or abets (encourages, incites) another person in the commission of a crime (or in another's suicide). It exists in a number of different countries and generally al ...

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Accountability In ethics and governance, accountability is equated with answerability, culpability, liability, and the expectation of account-giving. As in an aspect of governance, it has been central to discussions related to problems in the public secto ...

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Accounting period An accounting period, in bookkeeping, is the period with reference to which management accounts and financial statements are prepared. In management accounting the accounting period varies widely and is determined by management. Monthly accoun ...

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Accounts payable Accounts payable (AP) is money owed by a business to its suppliers shown as a liability on a company's balance sheet. It is distinct from notes payable liabilities, which are debts created by formal legal instrument documents. An accounts payable ...

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Accounts receivable Accounts receivable, abbreviated as AR or A/R, are legally enforceable claims for payment held by a business for goods supplied or services rendered that customers have ordered but not paid for. The accounts receivable process involves customer on ...

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Accrue In accounting and finance, an accrual is an asset or liability that represents revenue or expenses that are receivable or payable but which have not yet been paid. In accrual accounting, the term accrued revenue refers to income that is recogni ...

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Accusation An accusation is a statement by one person asserting that another person or entity has done something improper. The person who makes the accusation is an accuser, while the subject against whom it is made is the accused. Whether a statement is i ...

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Acquis The Community acquis or ''acquis communautaire'' (; ), sometimes called the EU acquis, and often shortened to acquis, is the accumulated legislation, legal acts and court decisions that constitute the body of European Union law that came into ...

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Acquittal In common law jurisdictions, an acquittal means that the criminal prosecution has failed to prove that the accused is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the charge presented. It certifies that the accused is free from the charge of an of ...

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Act of God In legal usage in the English-speaking world, an act of God, act of nature, or damnum fatale ("loss arising from inevitable accident") is an event caused by no direct human action (e.g. Severe weather, severe or extreme weather and other natur ...

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Action Action may refer to: * Action (philosophy), something which is done by a person * Action principles the heart of fundamental physics * Action (narrative), a literary mode * Action fiction, a type of genre fiction * Action game, a genre of video gam ...

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Actual controversy The Supreme Court of the United States has interpreted the Case or Controversy Clause of Article III of the United States Constitution (found in Art. III, Section 2, Clause 1) as embodying two distinct limitations on exercise of judicial review ...

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Actual malice In United States defamation law, actual malice is a legal requirement imposed upon public officials or public figures when they file suit for libel (defamatory printed communications). Compared to other individuals who are less well known to the ...

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actus reus In criminal law, ''actus reus'' (; : ''actus rei''), Latin for "guilty act", is one of the elements normally required to prove commission of a crime in common law jurisdictions, the other being ("guilty mind"). In the United States, it is some ...

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ad hoc ''Ad hoc'' is a List of Latin phrases, Latin phrase meaning literally for this. In English language, English, it typically signifies a solution designed for a specific purpose, problem, or task rather than a Generalization, generalized solution ...

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ad infinitum ''Ad infinitum'' is a Latin phrase meaning "to infinity" or "forevermore". Description In context, it usually means "continue forever, without limit" and this can be used to describe a non-terminating process, a non-terminating ''repeating'' pro ...

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ad litem ''Ad litem'' (Latin: "for the suit") is a term used in law to refer to the appointment by a court of one party to act in a lawsuit on behalf of another party such as a child or an incapacitated adult, who is deemed incapable of representing him ...

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ad quod damnum or is a Latin phrase meaning "according to the harm" or "appropriate to the harm". It is used in tort law as a measure of damage inflicted, and implying a remedy, if one exists, ought to correspond specifically and only to the damage suffered ...

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ad valorem An ''ad valorem'' tax (Latin for "according to value") is a tax whose amount is based on the value of a transaction or of a property. It is typically imposed at the time of a transaction, as in the case of a sales tax or value-added tax (VAT). A ...

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Addendum An addendum or appendix, in general, is an addition required to be made to a document by its author subsequent to its printing or publication. It comes from the gerundive , plural , "that which is to be added", from (, compare with memorandum, ...

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Adhesion contract A standard form contract (sometimes referred to as a ''contract of adhesion,'' a ''leonine contract'', a ''take-it-or-leave-it contract'', or a '' boilerplate contract'') is a contract between two parties, where the terms and conditions of the co ...

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Adjourn In parliamentary procedure, an adjournment ends a meeting. It could be done using a motion to adjourn. A time for another meeting could be set using the motion to fix the time to which to adjourn. Law In law, to adjourn means to suspend or postp ...

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Adjournment sine die Adjournment ''sine die'' (from Latin 'without a date') is the conclusion of a meeting by a deliberative assembly, such as a legislature or organizational board, without setting a date to reconvene. The assembly can reconvene, either in its pres ...

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Adjournment in contemplation of dismissal In criminal procedure, an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal (ACD or ACOD) allows a court to defer the disposition of a defendant's case, with the potential that the defendant's charge will be dismissed if the defendant does not engage in ad ...

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Adjudication Adjudication is the legal process by which an arbiter or judge reviews evidence and argumentation, including legal reasoning set forth by opposing parties or litigants, to come to a decision which determines rights and obligations between th ...

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Adjusted basis In tax accounting, adjusted basis is the net cost of an asset after adjusting for various tax-related items. Adjusted Basis or Adjusted Tax Basis refers to the original cost or other basis of property, reduced by depreciation deductions and increas ...

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Administration Administration may refer to: Management of organizations * Management, the act of directing people towards accomplishing a goal: the process of dealing with or controlling things or people. ** Administrative assistant, traditionally known as a se ...

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administration order As a legal concept, administration is a procedure under the insolvency laws of a number of common law jurisdictions, similar to bankruptcy in the United States. It functions as a rescue mechanism for insolvent entities and allows them to carry on ...

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Administrative hearing In law, a hearing is the formal examination of a case (civil or criminal) before a judge. It is a proceeding before a court or other decision-making body or officer, such as a government agency or a legislative committee. Description A hearing ...

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Administrative law Administrative law is a division of law governing the activities of government agency, executive branch agencies of government. Administrative law includes executive branch rulemaking (executive branch rules are generally referred to as "regul ...

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Administrative law judge An administrative law judge (ALJ) in the United States is a judge and trier of fact who both presides over trials and adjudicates claims or disputes involving administrative law, thus involving administrative units of the executive branch of go ...

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Administrative Procedure Act (Japan) The , enacted in 1993, governs general functions of government agencies in Japan. Chapters # General Provisions # Dispositions Upon Applications: Requires administrative agencies to implement concrete standards of review and indicate processing ti ...

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Administrative Procedure Act (United States) The Administrative Procedure Act (APA), , is the United States federal law, United States federal statute that governs the way in which administrative agencies of the federal government of the United States may propose and establish regulations ...

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Administrator Administrator or admin may refer to: Job roles Computing and internet * Database administrator, a person who is responsible for the environmental aspects of a database * Forum administrator, one who oversees discussions on an Internet forum * N ...

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Admiralty court Admiralty courts, also known as maritime courts, are courts exercising jurisdiction over all admiralty law, maritime contracts, torts, injuries, and offenses. United Kingdom England and Wales Scotland The Scottish court's earliest records, ...

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Admiralty law Maritime law or admiralty law is a body of law that governs nautical issues and private maritime disputes. Admiralty law consists of both domestic law on maritime activities, and conflict of laws, private international law governing the relations ...

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Admissible evidence Admissible evidence, in a court of law, is any Testimony, testimonial, Documentary evidence, documentary, or tangible evidence (law), evidence that may be introduced to a Trier of fact, factfinder—usually a judge or jury—to establish or to ...

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Admission (law) An admission in the law of evidence is a prior statement by an adverse party which can be admitted into evidence over a hearsay objection. In general, admissions are admissible in criminal and civil cases. At common law, admissions were admiss ...

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Adopt Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents. Legal adoptions permanently transfer all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, from ...

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Adoption Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents. Legal adoptions permanently transfer all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, fro ...

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Adultery Adultery is extramarital sex that is considered objectionable on social, religious, moral, or legal grounds. Although the sexual activities that constitute adultery vary, as well as the social, religious, and legal consequences, the concept ...

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Advance directive An advance healthcare directive, also known as living will, personal directive, advance directive, medical directive or advance decision, is a document in which a person specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longe ...

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Adverse possession Adverse possession in common law, and the related civil law (legal system), civil law concept of usucaption (also ''acquisitive prescription'' or ''prescriptive acquisition''), are legal mechanisms under which a person who does not have title (p ...

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Advisory opinion An advisory opinion of a court or other government authority, such as an election commission, is a decision or opinion of the body but which is non-binding in law and does not have the effect of adjudicating a specific legal case, but which merely ...

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Advocate An advocate is a professional in the field of law. List of country legal systems, Different countries and legal systems use the term with somewhat differing meanings. The broad equivalent in many English law–based jurisdictions could be a ba ...

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Affidavit An ( ; Medieval Latin for "he has declared under oath") is a written statement voluntarily made by an ''affiant'' or ''deposition (law), deponent'' under an oath or affirmation which is administered by a person who is authorized to do so by la ...

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Affirmative action Affirmative action (also sometimes called reservations, alternative access, positive discrimination or positive action in various countries' laws and policies) refers to a set of policies and practices within a government or organization seeking ...

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Affirmative defense An affirmative defense to a civil lawsuit or criminal charge is a fact or set of facts other than those alleged by the plaintiff or prosecutor which, if proven by the defendant, defeats or mitigates the legal consequences of the defendant's ...

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Affix In linguistics, an affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form. The main two categories are Morphological derivation, derivational and inflectional affixes. Derivational affixes, such as ''un-'', ''-ation' ...

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Affreightment Affreightment (from freight) is a legal term relating to shipping. A ''contract of affreightment'' is a contract between a ''ship-owner'' and a charterer, in which the ship-owner agrees to carry goods for the charterer in the ship by water. (d ...

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After-acquired property After-acquired property has multiple meanings in law. Real property In other areas of law The term "after-acquired property" also arises in the context of bankruptcy, secured transactions, and the law of wills. In this context, "after-acquired ...

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Age discrimination Ageism, also called agism in American English, is a type of discrimination based on one's age, generally used to refer to age-based discrimination against elderly people. The term was coined in 1969 by Robert Neil Butler to describe this discrim ...

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Age of consent The age of consent is the age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to Human sexual activity, sexual acts. Consequently, an adult who engages in sexual activity with a person younger than the age of consent is un ...

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Age of majority The age of majority is the threshold of legal adulthood as recognized or declared in law. It is the moment when a person ceases to be considered a minor (law), minor, and assumes legal control over their person, actions, and decisions, thus te ...

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Agency agreement An agency agreement is a legal contract creating a fiduciary relationship whereby the first party ("the principal") agrees that the actions of a second party ("the agent") binds the principal to later agreements made by the agent as if the prin ...

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Agent Agent may refer to: Espionage, investigation, and law *, spies or intelligence officers * Law of agency, laws involving a person authorized to act on behalf of another ** Agent of record, a person with a contractual agreement with an insuran ...

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Aggravated assault In the terminology of law, an assault is the act of causing physical harm or unwanted physical contact to another person, or, in some legal definitions, the threat or attempt to do so. It is both a crime and a tort and, therefore, may result ...

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Alibi An alibi (, from the Latin, '' alibī'', meaning "somewhere else") is a statement by a person under suspicion in a crime that they were in a different place when the offence was committed. During a police investigation, all suspects are usually a ...

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Alimony Alimony, also called aliment (Scotland), maintenance (England, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Canada, New Zealand), spousal support (U.S., Canada) and spouse maintenance (Australia), is a legal obligation on a person to provide ...

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Allegation In law, an allegation is a claim of an unproven fact by a party in a pleading, charge, or defense. Until they can be proved, allegations remain merely assertions. Types of allegations Marital allegations There are also marital allegations: m ...

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Allocation questionnaire An allocation questionnaire is a form used in English language, English legal practice. After a claim is made, if a defence is filed each party is required to complete and return an allocation questionnaire to the court so that the judge may prope ...

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Allocatur In law, ''allocatur'' (from med. Lat. ''allocatur'', "it is allowed") refers to the allowance of a writ or other pleading.Henry Campbell Black, ''Black's Law Dictionary (Second Edition)'' (1910), p. 60. It may also designate a certificate given by ...

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Alluvion Alluvion, is a Roman law method of acquisition of heritable property (land). The typical cause is sediment (alluvium) deposited by a river. This sediment, legally termed ''the accessory, accreses'' (i.e., merges with) a piece of land, the principal ...

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alter ego An alter ego (Latin for "other I") means an alternate Self (psychology), self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original Personality psychology, personality. Finding one's alter ego will require finding one's other ...

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Alternative dispute resolution Alternative dispute resolution (ADR), or external dispute resolution (EDR), typically denotes a wide range of dispute resolution processes and techniques that parties can use to settle disputes with the help of a third party. They are used for ...

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Alternative pleading Alternative pleading (or pleading in the alternative) is the legal term in the law of the United States for a form of pleading that permits a party in a court action to argue multiple possibilities that may be mutually exclusive by making use of le ...

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Ambiguity Ambiguity is the type of meaning (linguistics), meaning in which a phrase, statement, or resolution is not explicitly defined, making for several interpretations; others describe it as a concept or statement that has no real reference. A com ...

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American Arbitration Association The American Arbitration Association (AAA) is an organization focused in the field of alternative dispute resolution, one of several arbitration organizations that administers arbitration proceedings. Structured as a non-profit, the AAA also admin ...

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American Bar Association The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary association, voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students in the United States; national in scope, it is not specific to any single jurisdiction. Founded in 1878, the ABA's stated acti ...

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American Civil Liberties Union The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American nonprofit civil rights organization founded in 1920. ACLU affiliates are active in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. The budget of the ACLU in 2024 was $383 million. T ...

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American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man The American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, also known as the Bogota Declaration, was the world's first international human rights instrument of a general nature, predating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by less than a y ...

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American Law Institute The American Law Institute (ALI) is a research and advocacy group of judges, lawyers, and legal scholars limited to 3,000 elected members and established in 1923 to promote the clarification and simplification of United States common law and i ...

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amicus curiae An amicus curiae (; ) is an individual or organization that is not a Party (law), party to a legal case, but that is permitted to assist a court by offering information, expertise, or insight that has a bearing on the issues in the case. Wheth ...

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Amnesty Amnesty () is defined as "A pardon extended by the government to a group or class of people, usually for a political offense; the act of a sovereign power officially forgiving certain classes of people who are subject to trial but have not yet be ...

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Amnesty International Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says that it has more than ten million members a ...

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Amortization Amortization or amortisation may refer to: * The process by which loan principal decreases over the life of an amortizing loan * Amortization (accounting), the expensing of acquisition cost minus the residual value of intangible assets in a syst ...

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Ancillary jurisdiction Supplemental jurisdiction, also sometimes known as ancillary jurisdiction or pendent jurisdiction, is the authority of United States federal courts to hear additional claims substantially related to the original claim even though the court would la ...

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Animal rights Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all Animal consciousness, sentient animals have Moral patienthood, moral worth independent of their Utilitarianism, utility to humans, and that their most basic interests—such as ...

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Animal rights by country or territory Animal rights vary greatly among countries and territories. Such laws range from the legal recognition of non-human animal sentience to the absolute lack of any anti-cruelty laws, with no regard for animal welfare. Overview As of November ...

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Animal law Animal law is a combination of statutory and case law in which the naturelegal, social or biologicalof nonhuman animals is an important factor. Animal law encompasses companion animals, wildlife, animals used in entertainment and animals raised ...

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Animal trial In legal history, an animal trial is a trial of a non-human animal. These trials were conducted in both secular and ecclesiastic courts. Records of such trials show that they took place in Europe from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century. ...

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Animal Welfare Act of 1966 The Animal Welfare Act (Laboratory Animal Welfare Act of 1966, ) was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 24, 1966. It is the main federal law in the United States that regulates the treatment of animals in research and exhibi ...

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annual general meeting An annual general meeting (AGM, also known as the annual meeting) is a meeting of the general membership of an organization. These organizations include membership associations and companies with shareholders. These meetings may be required ...

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Annulment Annulment is a legal procedure within secular and religious legal systems for declaring a marriage null and void. Unlike divorce, it is usually retroactive, meaning that an annulled marriage is considered to be invalid from the beginning alm ...

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Anomie In sociology, anomie or anomy () is a social condition defined by an uprooting or breakdown of any moral values, standards or guidance for individuals to follow. Anomie is believed to possibly evolve from conflict of belief systems and causes b ...

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Answer (law) In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem. In the common ...

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Antecedent (law) Antecedents are the life history and previous convictions of a defendant in a criminal case. They are colloquially known as "previous convictions" (or simply "previous") in the United Kingdom and "prior convictions" in the United States and Austral ...

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Antidisestablishmentarianism Antidisestablishmentarianism (, ) is a position that advocates that a state church (the "established church") should continue to receive government patronage, rather than be disestablished (i.e., be separated from the state). In 19th centur ...

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Antinomianism Antinomianism ( [] 'against' and [] 'law') is any view which rejects laws or Legalism (theology), legalism and argues against moral, religious or social norms (), or is at least considered to do so. The term has both religious and secular meaning ...

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Antitrust Competition law is the field of law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies. Competition law is implemented through public and private enforcement. It is also known as antitrust l ...

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Apartheid Apartheid ( , especially South African English: , ; , ) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an ...

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Apparent authority In law, apparent authority (also called "ostensible authority") relates to the doctrines of the law of agency. It is relevant particularly in corporate law and constitutional law. Apparent authority refers to a situation where a reasonable third pa ...

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Appeal In law, an appeal is the process in which Legal case, cases are reviewed by a higher authority, where parties request a formal change to an official decision. Appeals function both as a process for error correction as well as a process of cla ...

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Appellant In law, an appeal is the process in which cases are reviewed by a higher authority, where parties request a formal change to an official decision. Appeals function both as a process for error correction as well as a process of clarifying and ...

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Appellate court An appellate court, commonly called a court of appeal(s), appeal court, court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear a case upon appeal from a trial court or other lower tribunal. Appel ...

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Appellate review In law, an appeal is the process in which cases are reviewed by a higher authority, where parties request a formal change to an official decision. Appeals function both as a process for error correction as well as a process of clarifying an ...

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Appraiser An appraiser (from Latin ''appretiare'', "to value") is a person that develops an opinion of the market value or other value of a product, most notably real estate. The current definition of "appraiser" according to the Uniform Standards of Profes ...

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Apprenticeship Apprenticeship is a system for training a potential new practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study. Apprenticeships may also enable practitioners to gain a license to practice in a regulat ...

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Appurtenant An appurtenance is something subordinate to or belonging to another larger, principal entity, that is, an adjunct, satellite, or accessory that generally accompanies something else.Arbitrary Arbitrariness is the quality of being "determined by chance, whim, or impulse, and not by necessity, reason, or principle". It is also used to refer to a choice made without any specific criterion or restraint. Arbitrary decisions are not necess ...

Arbitration Arbitration is a formal method of dispute resolution involving a third party neutral who makes a binding decision. The third party neutral (the 'arbitrator', 'arbiter' or 'arbitral tribunal') renders the decision in the form of an 'arbitrati ...

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Arbitration award An arbitration award (or arbitral award) is a final determination on the jurisdiction, merits, costs or other aspect of a dispute by an arbitration tribunal in an arbitration, and is analogous to a judgment in a court of law. It is referred to as ...

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Arm's length The arm's length principle (ALP) is the condition or the fact that the parties of a transaction are independent and on an equal footing. Such a transaction is known as an "arm's-length transaction". It is used specifically in contract law to ar ...

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Arraignment Arraignment is a formal reading of a criminal charging document in the presence of the defendant, to inform them of the criminal charges against them. In response to arraignment, in some jurisdictions, the accused is expected to enter a plea; i ...

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Arrears In finance, arrears (or arrearage) is a legal term for the part of a debt that is overdue after missing one or more required payments. The amount of the arrears is the amount accrued from the date on which the first missed payment was due. The t ...

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Arrest An arrest is the act of apprehending and taking a person into custody (legal protection or control), usually because the person has been suspected of or observed committing a crime. After being taken into custody, the person can be question ...

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Arrest warrant An arrest warrant is a warrant issued by a judge or magistrate on behalf of the state which authorizes the arrest and detention of an individual or the search and seizure of an individual's property. Canada Arrest warrants are issued by a jud ...

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Arson Arson is the act of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property. Although the act of arson typically involves buildings, the term can also refer to the intentional burning of other things, such as motor vehicles, watercr ...

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Article I and Article III tribunals Federal tribunals in the United States are those tribunals established by the federal government of the United States for the purpose of resolving disputes involving or arising under federal laws, including questions about the constitutionality ...

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Articles of Association In corporate governance, a company's articles of association (AoA, called articles of incorporation in some jurisdictions) is a document that, along with the memorandum of association (where applicable), forms the company's constitution. The ...

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Articles of impeachment An article of impeachment is a documented statement which specifies the charges to be tried in an impeachment trial as a basis for removing an officeholder. Articles of impeachment are an aspect of impeachment processes of many governments that ut ...

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Articles of Incorporation Article often refers to: * Article (grammar), a grammatical element used to indicate definiteness or indefiniteness * Article (publishing), a piece of nonfictional prose that is an independent part of a publication Article(s) may also refer to: ...

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Articles of War The Articles of War are a set of regulations drawn up to govern the conduct of a country's military and naval forces. The first known usage of the phrase is in Robert Monro's 1637 work ''His expedition with the worthy Scot's regiment called Mac-k ...

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As is "As is" is a phrase used to indicate the existing condition of something without any modifications or improvements. The term is employed in legal, business, and consumer settings to establish that an item or property is being sold or provided in i ...

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Asharite Ash'arism (; ) is a school of theology in Sunni Islam named after Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari, a Shāfiʿī jurist, reformer (''mujaddid''), and scholastic theologian, in the 9th–10th century. It established an orthodox guideline, based on ...

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Assault In the terminology of law, an assault is the act of causing physical harm or consent, unwanted physical contact to another person, or, in some legal definitions, the threat or attempt to do so. It is both a crime and a tort and, therefore, may ...

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Asset In financial accounting, an asset is any resource owned or controlled by a business or an economic entity. It is anything (tangible or intangible) that can be used to produce positive economic value. Assets represent value of ownership that can b ...

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Assignment (law) Assignment is a legal term used in the context of the laws of contract and of property. In both instances, assignment is the process whereby a person, the ''assignor'', transfers rights or benefits to another, the ''assignee''.For the assignment ...

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Assignee Assignment is a legal term used in the context of the laws of contract and of property. In both instances, assignment is the process whereby a person, the ''assignor'', transfers rights or benefits to another, the ''assignee''.For the assignment ...

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Assize Court The assizes (), or courts of assize, were periodic courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the quarter sessions they were abolished by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced by a single permanent Crown Court. The assizes ...

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Associate justice An associate justice or associate judge (or simply associate) is a judicial panel member who is not the chief justice in some jurisdictions. The title "Associate Justice" is used for members of the Supreme Court of the United States and some ...

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Asylum and Immigration Tribunal The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) was a tribunal constituted in the United Kingdom with jurisdiction to hear appeals from many immigration and asylum decisions. It was created on 4 April 2005, replacing the former Immigration Appellate A ...

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Asylum seeker An asylum seeker is a person who leaves their country of residence, enters another country, and makes in that other country a formal application for the right of asylum according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 14. A per ...

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Attachment of earnings Attachment of earnings is a legal process in civil litigation by which a defendant's wages or other earnings are taken to pay for a debt. This collections process is used in the common law system, especially Britain and the United States, but in ...

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Attempt An attempt to commit a crime occurs if a criminal has an intent to commit a crime and takes a substantial step toward completing the crime, but for reasons not intended by the criminal, the final resulting crime does not occur.''Criminal Law - ...

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Attestation clause In the statutory law of wills and trusts, an attestation clause is a clause that is typically appended to a will, often just below the place of the testator's signature. It is often of the form ''signed, sealed, published, and declared'', a leg ...

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Attorney at law Attorney at law or attorney-at-law, usually abbreviated in everyday speech to attorney, is the preferred term for a practising lawyer in certain jurisdictions, including South Africa (for certain lawyers), Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and the Unit ...

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Attorney general In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general (: attorneys general) or attorney-general (AG or Atty.-Gen) is the main legal advisor to the government. In some jurisdictions, attorneys general also have executive responsibility for law enf ...

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Attorney's fee Attorney's fee is a chiefly United States term for compensation for legal services performed by an Lawyer, attorney (lawyer or law firm) for a client, in or out of court. Fees may be an hourly, flat-rate or contingent fee. Recent studies suggest ...

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Attorney–client privilege Attorney–client privilege or lawyer–client privilege is the common law doctrine of legal professional privilege in the United States. Attorney–client privilege is " client's right to refuse to disclose and to prevent any other person fro ...

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Audit An audit is an "independent examination of financial information of any entity, whether profit oriented or not, irrespective of its size or legal form when such an examination is conducted with a view to express an opinion thereon." Auditing al ...

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Auditor An auditor is a person or a firm appointed by a company to execute an audit.Practical Auditing, Kul Narsingh Shrestha, 2012, Nabin Prakashan, Nepal To act as an auditor, a person should be certified by the regulatory authority of accounting an ...

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Australian Constitution The Constitution of Australia (also known as the Commonwealth Constitution) is the fundamental law that governs the political structure of Australia. It is a written constitution, which establishes the country as a Federation of Australia, ...

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Authoritarianism Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political ''status quo'', and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and ...

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Authority Authority is commonly understood as the legitimate power of a person or group of other people. In a civil state, ''authority'' may be practiced by legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government,''The New Fontana Dictionary of M ...

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Automatic stay In United States bankruptcy law, an automatic stay is an automatic injunction that halts actions by creditors, with certain exceptions, to collect debts from a debtor who has declared bankruptcy. Under section 362 of the United States Bankrup ...

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Ayatollah Ayatollah (, ; ; ) is an Title of honor, honorific title for high-ranking Twelver Shia clergy. It came into widespread usage in the 20th century. Originally used as a title bestowed by popular/clerical acclaim for a small number of the most di ...

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Babylonian law Babylonian law is a subset of cuneiform law that has received particular study due to the large amount of archaeological material that has been found for it. So-called "contracts" exist in the thousands, including a great variety of deeds, co ...

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Bachelor of Civil Law Bachelor of Civil Law (abbreviated BCL or B.C.L.; ) is the name of various degrees in law conferred by English-language universities. The BCL originated as a postgraduate degree in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge; at Oxford, the BCL contin ...

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Bachelor of Laws A Bachelor of Laws (; LLB) is an undergraduate law degree offered in most common law countries as the primary law degree and serves as the first professional qualification for legal practitioners. This degree requires the study of core legal subje ...

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Back-to-back life sentences In judicial practice, back-to-back life sentences, also called consecutive life sentences, are two or more consecutive life sentences given to a convicted felon. This practice is used to ensure the felon will never be released from prison. This ...

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Bad faith Bad faith (Latin: ''mala fides'') is a sustained form of deception which consists of entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings while acting as if influenced by another."of two hearts ... a sustained form of deception which c ...

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Bail Bail is a set of pre-trial restrictions that are imposed on a suspect to ensure that they will not hamper the judicial process. Court bail may be offered to secure the conditional release of a defendant with the promise to appear in court when ...

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Bail bond Bail is a set of pre-trial restrictions that are imposed on a suspect to ensure that they will not hamper the judicial process. Court bail may be offered to secure the conditional release of a defendant with the promise to appear in court when r ...

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Bail bondsman A bail bondsman, bail bond agent or bond dealer is any person, agency or corporation that will act as a surety and pledge money or property as bail for the appearance of a defendant in court. Bail bond agents are almost exclusively found in the ...

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Bailee Bailment is a legal relationship in common law, where the owner of personal property ("chattel") transfers physical possession of that property to another, who holds the property for a certain purpose, but retains ownership. The owner who sur ...

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Bailiff A bailiff is a manager, overseer or custodian – a legal officer to whom some degree of authority or jurisdiction is given. There are different kinds, and their offices and scope of duties vary. Another official sometimes referred to as a '' ...

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Bailment Bailment is a legal relationship in common law, where the owner of personal property ("chattel") transfers physical possession of that property to another, who holds the property for a certain purpose, but retains ownership. The owner who sur ...

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Bailor Bailment is a legal relationship in common law, where the owner of personal property ("chattel") transfers physical possession of that property to another, who holds the property for a certain purpose, but retains ownership. The owner who sur ...

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Bait and switch Bait-and-switch is a form of fraud used in retail sales but also employed in other contexts. First, the merchant "baits" the customer by advertising a product or service at a low price; then when the customer goes to purchase the item, they disco ...

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Balance sheet In financial accounting, a balance sheet (also known as statement of financial position or statement of financial condition) is a summary of the financial balances of an individual or organization, whether it be a sole proprietorship, a business ...

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Bank A bank is a financial institution that accepts Deposit account, deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital m ...

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Bankrupt Bankruptcy is a legal process through which people or other entities who cannot repay debts to creditors may seek relief from some or all of their debts. In most jurisdictions, bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the de ...

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Bankruptcy Bankruptcy is a legal process through which people or other entities who cannot repay debts to creditors may seek relief from some or all of their debts. In most jurisdictions, bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the deb ...

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Bankruptcy proceedings Bankruptcy is a legal process through which people or other entities who cannot repay debts to creditors may seek relief from some or all of their debts. In most jurisdictions, bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the deb ...

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Bankruptcy remote A bankruptcy remote company is a company within a corporate group whose bankruptcy has as little economic impact as possible on other entities within the group. A bankruptcy remote company is often a single-purpose entity, and frequently deploye ...

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Bar association A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence.

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Bar examination A bar examination is an examination administered by the bar association of a jurisdiction that a lawyer must pass in order to be admitted to the bar of that jurisdiction. Australia Administering bar exams is the responsibility of the bar associat ...

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Barratry (common law) Barratry ( , from Old French ("deceit, trickery")) is a legal term that, at common law, described a criminal offense committed by people who are overly officious in instigating or encouraging prosecution of groundless litigation, or who bring re ...

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Barrister A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdiction (area), jurisdictions. Barristers mostly specialise in courtroom advocacy and litigation. Their tasks include arguing cases in courts and tribunals, drafting legal pleadings, jurisprud ...

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Belief A belief is a subjective Attitude (psychology), attitude that something is truth, true or a State of affairs (philosophy), state of affairs is the case. A subjective attitude is a mental state of having some Life stance, stance, take, or opinion ...

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Bench memorandum A bench memorandum (pl. ''bench memoranda'') (also known as a ''bench memo'') is a short and neutral memorandum that summarizes the facts, issues, and arguments of a court case. Bench memos are used by the judge as a reference during preparation f ...

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Bench trial A bench trial is a trial by judge, as opposed to a jury. The term applies most appropriately to any administrative hearing in relation to a summary offense to distinguish the type of trial. Many legal systems ( Roman, Islamic) use bench trials ...

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Beneficial interest A beneficial interest is the right that a person has arising from a contract to which they are not a party, or a trust. For example, if A makes a contract with B that A will pay C a certain sum of money, B has the legal interest in the contract, an ...

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Beneficial use "Beneficial use" is a legal term describing a person's right to enjoy the benefits of specific property, especially a view or access to light, air, or water, even though title to that property is held by another person. It is also referred to as ...

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Beneficiary A beneficiary in the broadest sense is a natural person or other legal entity who receives money or other benefits from a benefactor. For example, the beneficiary of a life insurance policy is the person who receives the payment of the amount of ...

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Beneficiary (trust) In trust law, a beneficiary (also known by the Law French terms and trust), is the person or persons who are entitled to the benefit of any trust arrangement. A beneficiary will normally be a natural person, but it is perfectly possible to have ...

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Bequeath A devise is the act of giving real property by will, traditionally referring to real property. A bequest is the act of giving property by will, usually referring to personal property. Today, the two words are often used interchangeably due to thei ...

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Bequest A devise is the act of giving real property by will, traditionally referring to real property. A bequest is the act of giving property by will, usually referring to personal property. Today, the two words are often used interchangeably due to thei ...

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Best evidence rule The best evidence rule is a legal principle that holds an original of a document as superior evidence. The rule specifies that secondary evidence, such as a copy or facsimile, will be not admissible if an original document exists and can be obtain ...

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Best Interests of the Child Best interests or best interests of the child is a child rights principle, which derives from Article 3 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which says that "in all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private ...

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Beyond a reasonable doubt Beyond (a) reasonable doubt is a legal standard of proof required to validate a criminal conviction in most adversarial legal systems. It is a higher standard of proof than the standard of balance of probabilities (US English: preponderance of t ...

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Bias Bias is a disproportionate weight ''in favor of'' or ''against'' an idea or thing, usually in a way that is inaccurate, closed-minded, prejudicial, or unfair. Biases can be innate or learned. People may develop biases for or against an individ ...

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Bifurcation Bifurcation or bifurcated may refer to: Science and technology * Bifurcation theory, the study of sudden changes in dynamical systems ** Bifurcation, of an incompressible flow, modeled by squeeze mapping the fluid flow * River bifurcation, the for ...

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Bigamy In a culture where only monogamous relationships are legally recognized, bigamy is the act of entering into a marriage with one person while still legally married to another. A legal or de facto separation of the couple does not alter their mar ...

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Bilateral contract A contract is an agreement that specifies certain legally enforceable rights and obligations pertaining to two or more parties. A contract typically involves consent to transfer of goods, services, money, or promise to transfer any of those at ...

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Bill of attainder A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder, writ of attainder, or bill of pains and penalties) is an act of a legislature declaring a person, or a group of people, guilty of some crime, and providing for a punishment, often without a ...

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Bill of exchange A negotiable instrument is a document guaranteeing the payment of a specific amount of money, either on demand, or at a set time, whose payer is usually named on the document. More specifically, it is a document contemplated by or consisting of a ...

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Bill of lading A bill of lading () (sometimes abbreviated as B/L or BOL) is a document issued by a common carrier, carrier (or their Law of agency, agent) to acknowledge receipt of cargo for shipment. Although the term is historically related only to Contract of ...

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Bill of particulars In common law jurisdictions, a bill of particulars is a detailed, formal, written statement of charges or claims by a plaintiff or the prosecutor given upon the defendant's formal request to the court for more detailed information. A bill of parti ...

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Bill of rights A bill of rights, sometimes called a declaration of rights or a charter of rights, is a list of the most important rights to the citizens of a country. The purpose is to protect those rights against infringement from public officials and pri ...

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Bill of sale A bill of sale is a document that transfers ownership of goods from one person to another. It is used in situations where the former owner transfers possession of the goods to a new owner. Bills of sale may be used in a wide variety of transaction ...

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Bind over In the law of England and Wales and some other common law jurisdictions, binding over is an exercise of certain powers by the criminal courts used to deal with low-level public order issues. Both magistrates' courts and the Crown Court may issue ...

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Binding arbitration Arbitration is a formal method of dispute resolution involving a third party neutral who makes a binding decision. The third party neutral (the 'arbitrator', 'arbiter' or 'arbitral tribunal') renders the decision in the form of an 'arbitrati ...

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Bioethics Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, me ...

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Black's Law Dictionary ''Black's Law Dictionary'' is the most frequently used legal dictionary in the United States. Henry Campbell Black (1860–1927) was the author of the first two editions of the dictionary. History The first edition was published in 1891 by Wes ...

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Blackmail Blackmail is a criminal act of coercion using a threat. As a criminal offense, blackmail is defined in various ways in common law jurisdictions. In the United States, blackmail is generally defined as a crime of information, involving a thr ...

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Blank endorsement Blank endorsement of a financial instrument, such as a cheque, is only a signature, not indicating the payee. The effect of this is that it is payable only to the bearer – legally, it transforms an order instrument ("pay to the ''order of'' (t ...

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Blood libel Blood libel or ritual murder libel (also blood accusation) is an antisemitic canardTurvey, Brent E. ''Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis'', Academic Press, 2008, p. 3. "Blood libel: An accusation of ritual mu ...

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Blue law Blue laws (also known as Sunday laws, Sunday trade laws, and Sunday closing laws) are laws restricting or banning certain activities on specified days, usually Sundays in the western world. The laws were adopted originally for Religion, religio ...

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Blue laws Blue laws (also known as Sunday laws, Sunday trade laws, and Sunday closing laws) are laws restricting or banning certain activities on specified days, usually Sundays in the western world. The laws were adopted originally for religious reasons ...

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Bluebook ''The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation'' is a style guide that prescribes the most widely used legal citation system in the United States. It is taught and used at a majority of Law school in the United States, law schools in the United S ...

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Board of directors A board of directors is a governing body that supervises the activities of a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government agency. The powers, duties, and responsibilities of a board of directors are determined by government regulatio ...

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bona fide In human interactions, good faith () is a sincere intention to be fair, open, and honest, regardless of the outcome of the interaction. Some Latin phrases have lost their literal meaning over centuries, but that is not the case with , which is ...

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Bona fide purchaser A ''bona fide'' purchaser (BFP)referred to more completely as a ''bona fide'' purchaser for value without notice is a term used predominantly in common law jurisdictions in the law of real property and personal property to refer to an innocent ...

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bona vacantia Unowned property includes tangible, physical things that are capable of being reduced to being property owned by a person but are not owned by anyone. ' (Latin for "ownerless goods") is a legal concept associated with the unowned property, which e ...

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Booby trap A booby trap is a device or setup that is intended to kill, harm or surprise a human or an animal. It is triggered by the presence or actions of the victim and sometimes has some form of bait designed to lure the victim towards it. The trap may b ...

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Book value In accounting, book value (or carrying value) is the value of an asset according to its balance sheet account balance. For assets, the value is based on the original cost of the asset less any depreciation, amortization or impairment costs made ...

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Bootleg recording A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority. Making and distributing such recordings is known as ''bootlegging''. Recordings may be copied and traded ...

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Border control Border control comprises measures taken by governments to monitor and regulate the movement of people, animals, and goods across land, air, and maritime borders. While border control is typically associated with international borders, it als ...

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Bottomry A bottomry, or bottomage, is an arrangement in which the master of a ship borrows money upon the ''bottom'' or keel of it, so as to forfeit the ship itself to the creditor, if the money with interest is not paid at the time appointed at the ship's ...

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Boycott A boycott is an act of nonviolent resistance, nonviolent, voluntary abstention from a product, person, organisation, or country as an expression of protest. It is usually for Morality, moral, society, social, politics, political, or Environmenta ...

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Breach of contract Breach of contract is a legal cause of action and a type of civil wrong, in which a binding agreement or bargained-for exchange is not honored by one or more of the parties to the contract by non-performance or interference with the other part ...

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Breach of the peace Breach of the peace or disturbing the peace is a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries and in a public order sense in the United Kingdom. It is a form of disorderly conduct. Public order England, Wales and Norther ...

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Breaking and entering Burglary, also called breaking and entering (B&E) or housebreaking, is a property crime involving the illegal entry into a building or other area without permission, typically with the intention of committing a further criminal offence. Usually ...

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Bribery Bribery is the corrupt solicitation, payment, or Offer and acceptance, acceptance of a private favor (a bribe) in exchange for official action. The purpose of a bribe is to influence the actions of the recipient, a person in charge of an official ...

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Bride price Bride price, bride-dowry, bride-wealth, bride service or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the woman or the family of the woman he will be married to or is just about to marry. Bride dowry ...

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British constitution The constitution of the United Kingdom comprises the written and unwritten arrangements that establish the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a political body. Unlike in most countries, no official attempt has been made to c ...

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British nationality law The primary law governing nationality in the United Kingdom is the British Nationality Act 1981, which came into force on 1 January 1983. Regulations apply to the British Islands, which include the UK itself (England, Wales, Scotland, and Nor ...

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Broker A broker is a person or entity that arranges transactions between a buyer and a seller. This may be done for a commission when the deal is executed. A broker who also acts as a seller or as a buyer becomes a principal party to the deal. Neither ...

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Burgage Burgage is a medieval land term used in Great Britain and Ireland, well established by the 13th century. A burgage was a town ("borough" or "burgh") rental property (to use modern terms), owned by a king or lord. The property ("burgage tenement ...

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Burglary Burglary, also called breaking and entering (B&E) or housebreaking, is a property crime involving the illegal entry into a building or other area without permission, typically with the intention of committing a further criminal offence. Usually ...

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Business Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or Trade, buying and selling Product (business), products (such as goods and Service (economics), services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for ...

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Business ethics Business ethics (also known as corporate ethics) is a form of applied ethics or professional ethics, that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that can arise in a business environment. It applies to all aspects of business c ...

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Bylaw A by-law (bye-law, by(e)law, by(e) law), is a set of rules or law established by an organization or community so as to regulate itself, as allowed or provided for by some higher authority. The higher authority, generally a legislature or some other ...

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Bylaws A by-law (bye-law, by(e)law, by(e) law), is a set of rules or law established by an organization or community so as to regulate itself, as allowed or provided for by some higher authority. The higher authority, generally a legislature or some other ...

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Cadastral map A cadastre or cadaster ( ) is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes and bounds, metes-and-bounds of a country.Jo Henssen, ''Basic Principles of the Main Cadastral Systems in the World,'/ref> Often it is represente ...

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Caliphate A caliphate ( ) is an institution or public office under the leadership of an Islamic steward with Khalifa, the title of caliph (; , ), a person considered a political–religious successor to the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a leader of ...

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Call to the bar The call to the bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received "call t ...

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Calumny Defamation is a communication that injures a third party's reputation and causes a legally redressable injury. The precise legal definition of defamation varies from country to country. It is not necessarily restricted to making assertions ...

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Campaign finance reform in the United States Campaign finance reform in the United States has been a contentious political issue since the early days of the Union. The most recent major federal law affecting campaign finance was the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) of 2002, also kno ...

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Canadian Bill of Rights The ''Canadian Bill of Rights'' () is a federal statute and bill of rights enacted by the Parliament of Canada on August 10, 1960. It provides Canadians with certain rights at Canadian federal law in relation to other federal statutes. It was ...

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Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms The ''Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms'' (), often simply referred to as the ''Charter'' in Canada, is a bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada, forming the first part of the '' Constitution Act, 1982''. The ''Char ...

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Caning Caning is a form of corporal punishment consisting of a number of hits (known as "strokes" or "cuts") with a single Stick-fighting, cane usually made of rattan, generally applied to the offender's bare or clothed buttocks (see spanking) or han ...

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Canon Canon or Canons may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Canon (fiction), the material accepted as officially written by an author or an ascribed author * Literary canon, an accepted body of works considered as high culture ** Western canon, th ...

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Canon law Canon law (from , , a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical jurisdiction, ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its membe ...

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capital Capital and its variations may refer to: Common uses * Capital city, a municipality of primary status ** Capital region, a metropolitan region containing the capital ** List of national capitals * Capital letter, an upper-case letter Econom ...

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Capital account In macroeconomics and international finance, the capital account, also known as the capital and financial account, records the net flow of Foreign direct investment, investment into an economy. It is one of the two primary components of the balan ...

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Capital assets A capital asset is defined as property of any kind held by an assessee. It need not be connected to the assesse’s business or profession. The term encompasses all kinds of property, movable or immovable, tangible or intangible, fixed or circula ...

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Capital expenditure Capital expenditure or capital expense (abbreviated capex, CAPEX, or CapEx) is the money an organization or corporate entity spends to buy, maintain, or improve its fixed assets, such as buildings, vehicles, equipment, or land. It is considered ...

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Capital gain Capital gain is an economic concept defined as the profit earned on the sale of an asset which has increased in value over the holding period. An asset may include tangible property, a car, a business, or intangible property such as shares. ...

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Capital gain tax Capital and its variations may refer to: Common uses * Capital city, a municipality of primary status ** Capital region, a metropolitan region containing the capital ** List of national capitals * Capital letter, an upper-case letter Econom ...

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Capital gains Capital gain is an economic concept defined as the profit earned on the sale of an asset which has increased in value over the holding period. An asset may include tangible property, a car, a business, or intangible property such as shares. A ca ...

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Capital investment Investment is traditionally defined as the "commitment of resources into something expected to gain value over time". If an investment involves money, then it can be defined as a "commitment of money to receive more money later". From a broade ...

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Capital offense Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence (law), sentence ordering that an offender b ...

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Capital punishment Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence (law), sentence ordering that an offender b ...

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Capital punishment in the United States In the United States, capital punishment (also known as the death penalty) is a legal penalty in 27 states (of which two, Oregon and Wyoming, do not currently have any inmates sentenced to death), throughout the country at the federal leve ...

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Capital stock In economics, capital goods or capital are "those durable produced goods that are in turn used as productive inputs for further production" of goods and services. A typical example is the machinery used in a factory. At the macroeconomic level, ...

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Carjacking Carjacking is a robbery in which a motor vehicle is taken over.Michael Cherbonneau, "Carjacking," in ''Encyclopedia of Social Problems'', Vol. 1 (SAGE, 2008: ed. Vincent N. Parrillo), pp. 110-11. In contrast to car theft, carjacking is usually i ...

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Cartel A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collaborate with each other as well as agreeing not to compete with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market. A cartel is an organization formed by producers ...

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Case Case or CASE may refer to: Instances * Instantiation (disambiguation), a realization of a concept, theme, or design * Special case, an instance that differs in a certain way from others of the type Containers * Case (goods), a package of relate ...

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Case law Case law, also used interchangeably with common law, is a law that is based on precedents, that is the judicial decisions from previous cases, rather than law based on constitutions, statutes, or regulations. Case law uses the detailed facts of ...

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Case of first impression Precedent is a judicial decision that serves as an authority for courts when deciding subsequent identical or similar cases. Fundamental to common law legal systems, precedent operates under the principle of ''stare decisis'' ("to stand by thin ...

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Case-based reasoning Case-based reasoning (CBR), broadly construed, is the process of solving new problems based on the solutions of similar past problems. In everyday life, an auto mechanic who fixes an engine by recalling another car that exhibited similar sympto ...

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Cashier's check A cashier's check (or cashier's cheque, cashier's order, official check; in Canada, the term ''bank draft'' is used, not to be confused with Banker%27s draft as used in the United States) is a check guaranteed by a bank, drawn on the bank's own f ...

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Casualty insurance Casualty insurance is a defined term which broadly encompasses insurance not directly concerned with life insurance, health insurance, or property insurance. Casualty insurance is mainly liability coverage of an individual or organization for n ...

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Casuistry Casuistry ( ) is a process of reasoning that seeks to resolve moral problems by extracting or extending abstract rules from a particular case, and reapplying those rules to new instances. This method occurs in applied ethics and jurisprudence. ...

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Catechism A catechism (; from , "to teach orally") is a summary or exposition of Catholic theology, doctrine and serves as a learning introduction to the Sacraments traditionally used in catechesis, or Christian religious teaching of children and adult co ...

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Categorical Imperative The categorical imperative () is the central philosophical concept in the deontological Kantian ethics, moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Introduced in Kant's 1785 ''Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals'', it is a way of evaluating motivati ...

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cause Causality is an influence by which one event, process, state, or object (''a'' ''cause'') contributes to the production of another event, process, state, or object (an ''effect'') where the cause is at least partly responsible for the effect, ...

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Cause of action A cause of action or right of action, in law, is a set of facts sufficient to justify suing to obtain money or property, or to justify the enforcement of a legal right against another party. The term also refers to the legal theory upon which a ...

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caveat emptor ''Caveat emptor'' (; from ''caveat'', "may he/she beware", a subjunctive form of ''cavēre'', "to beware" + ''ēmptor'', "buyer") is Latin for "Let the buyer beware". It has become a proverb in English. Generally, ''caveat emptor'' is the contra ...

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Cease and desist order A cease and desist letter is a document sent by one party, often a business, to warn another party that they believe the other party is committing an unlawful act, such as copyright infringement, and that they will take legal action if the other ...

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Censorship Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient". Censorship can be conducted by governmen ...

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Certificate of deposit A certificate of deposit (CD) is a time deposit sold by banks, thrift institutions, and credit unions in the United States. CDs typically differ from savings accounts because the CD has a specific, fixed term before money can be withdrawn wit ...

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Certificate of incorporation A certificate of incorporation is a legal document/license relating to the formation of a company or corporation. It is a license to form a corporation issued by the state government or, in some jurisdictions, by a non-governmental entity/corporati ...

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Certified check A certified check (or certified cheque) is a form of check for which the bank verifies that sufficient funds exist in the payer's account to cover the check, and so certifies, at the time it is written. Those funds are then set aside in the bank' ...

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certiorari In law, ''certiorari'' is a court process to seek judicial review of a decision of a lower court or government agency. ''Certiorari'' comes from the name of a prerogative writ in England, issued by a superior court to direct that the recor ...

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Writ of Certiorari In law, ''certiorari'' is a court process to seek judicial review of a decision of a lower court or government agency. ''Certiorari'' comes from the name of a prerogative writ in England, issued by a superior court to direct that the record of ...

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ceteris paribus ' (also spelled ') (Classical ) is a Latin phrase, meaning "other things equal"; some other English translations of the phrase are "all other things being equal", "other things held constant", "all else unchanged", and "all else being equal". ...

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Chain of title A chain of title is the sequence of historical transfers of title to a property. It is a valuable tool to identify and document past owners of a property and serves as a property's historical ownership timeline. The "chain" runs from the present ...

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Chairman The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by members of the gro ...

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Challenge for cause Strike for cause (also referred to as challenge for cause or removal for cause) is a method of eliminating potential members from a jury panel in the United States. During the jury selection process, after ''voir dire (; often ; from an Anglo- ...

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Champerty Champerty and maintenance are doctrines in common law jurisdictions that aim to preclude frivolous litigation: *Maintenance is the intermeddling of a disinterested party to encourage a lawsuit. It is: "A taking in hand, a bearing up or upholding ...

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Chancellor Chancellor () is a title of various official positions in the governments of many countries. The original chancellors were the of Roman courts of justice—ushers, who sat at the (lattice work screens) of a basilica (court hall), which separa ...

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Chancery Chancery may refer to: Offices and administration * Court of Chancery, the chief court of equity in England and Wales until 1873 ** Equity (law), also called chancery, the body of jurisprudence originating in the Court of Chancery ** Courts of e ...

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Chancery division The High Court of Justice in London, known properly as His Majesty's High Court of Justice in England, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, are the Senior Courts of England and Wales. Its name is abbreviated as EWHC (England ...

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Change of venue A change of venue is the legal term for moving a trial (law), trial to a new location. In high-profile matters, a change of venue may occur to move a jury trial away from a location where a fair and impartial jury may not be possible due to wides ...

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Character witness Character evidence is a term used in the law of evidence to describe any testimony or document submitted for the purpose of proving that a person acted in a particular way on a particular occasion based on the character or disposition of that per ...

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Charge Charge or charged may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Charge, Zero Emissions/Maximum Speed'', a 2011 documentary Music * ''Charge'' (David Ford album) * ''Charge'' (Machel Montano album) * '' Charge!!'', an album by The Aqu ...

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Charging order A charging order, in English law, is an order obtained from a court or judge by a judgment creditor, by which the property of the judgment debtor in any stocks or funds or shares in a limited liability company or land stands charged with the pa ...

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Charitable organization A charitable organization or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, Religion, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good). The legal definitio ...

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Charter A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified. It is implicit that the granter retains superiority (or sovereignty), and that the ...

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Chattel mortgage Chattel mortgage, sometimes abbreviated ''CM'', is the legal term for a type of loan contract used in some states with legal systems derived from English law. Under a typical chattel mortgage, the purchaser borrows funds for the purchase of mov ...

Checks and balances The separation of powers principle functionally differentiates several types of state power (usually law-making, adjudication, and execution) and requires these operations of government to be conceptually and institutionally distinguishabl ...

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Cheque A cheque (or check in American English) is a document that orders a bank, building society, or credit union, to pay a specific amount of money from a person's account to the person in whose name the cheque has been issued. The person writing ...

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Chief Justice of Canada The chief justice of Canada () is the presiding judge of the nine-member Supreme Court of Canada, the highest judicial body in Canada. As such, the chief justice is the highest-ranking judge of the Canadian court system. The '' Supreme Court Ac ...

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Chief Justice of the United States The chief justice of the United States is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and is the highest-ranking officer of the U.S. federal judiciary. Appointments Clause, Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution g ...

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Child A child () is a human being between the stages of childbirth, birth and puberty, or between the Development of the human body, developmental period of infancy and puberty. The term may also refer to an unborn human being. In English-speaking ...

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Child abandonment A child () is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. The term may also refer to an unborn human being. In English-speaking countries, the legal definition of ''chi ...

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Child abuse Child abuse (also called child endangerment or child maltreatment) is physical abuse, physical, child sexual abuse, sexual, emotional and/or psychological abuse, psychological maltreatment or Child neglect, neglect of a child, especially by a p ...

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Child custody Child custody is a legal term regarding '' guardianship'' which is used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent or guardian and a child in that person's care. Child custody consists of ''legal custody'', which is the ri ...

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Child neglect Child neglect is an act of caregivers (e.g., parents) that results in depriving a child of their basic needs, such as the failure to provide adequate supervision, health care, clothing, or housing, as well as other physical, emotional, social, ...

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Child pornography Child pornography (also abbreviated as CP, also called child porn or kiddie porn, and child sexual abuse material, known by the acronym CSAM (underscoring that children can not be deemed willing participants under law)), is Eroticism, erotic ma ...

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Child sexual abuse Child sexual abuse (CSA), also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation. Forms of child sexual abuse include engaging in Human sexual activity, sexual activit ...

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Child support Child support (or child maintenance) is an ongoing, periodic payment made by a parent for the financial benefit of a child (state or parent, caregiver, guardian) following the end of a marriage or other similar relationship. Child maintenance is ...

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Chinese law Chinese law is one of the oldest legal traditions in the world. The core of modern Chinese law is based on Germanic-style civil law, socialist law, and traditional Chinese approaches. For most of the history of China, its legal system has ...

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Circuit courts Circuit courts are court systems in several common law jurisdictions. It may refer to: * Courts that literally sit 'on circuit', i.e., judges move around a region or country to different towns or cities where they will hear cases; * Courts that s ...

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Circumcision Circumcision is a procedure that removes the foreskin from the human penis. In the most common form of the operation, the foreskin is extended with forceps, then a circumcision device may be placed, after which the foreskin is excised. T ...

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Circumstantial evidence Circumstantial evidence is evidence that relies on an inference to connect it to a conclusion of fact, such as a fingerprint at the scene of a crime. By contrast, direct evidence supports the truth of an assertion directly, i.e., without need ...

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Citation A citation is a reference to a source. More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work for the purpose o ...

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Cite To cite is to quote or mention a source. CITE or Cite may refer to: * Cite (cycling team), Italy * Cite (magazine), ''Cite'' (magazine), an American architecture quarterly * CITE-FM, a Canadian radio station * Center for Innovation Testing and Ev ...

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Citizen Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state. Though citizenship is often conflated with nationality in today's English-speaking world, international law does not usually use the term ''citizenship'' to refer to nationality ...

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Citizen's dividend Citizen's dividend is a proposed policy based upon the Georgist principle that the natural world is the Commons, common property of all people. It is proposed that all citizens receive regular payments (dividends) from revenue raised by leasin ...

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Citizenship Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state. Though citizenship is often conflated with nationality in today's English-speaking world, international law does not usually use the term ''citizenship'' to refer to nationalit ...

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Civil action A lawsuit is a proceeding by one or more parties (the plaintiff or claimant) against one or more parties (the defendant) in a civil court of law. The archaic term "suit in law" is found in only a small number of laws still in effect today. T ...

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Civil calendar The civil calendar is the calendar, or possibly one of several calendars, used within a country for civil, official, or administrative purposes. The civil calendar is almost always used for general purposes by people and private organizations. Th ...

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Civil code A civil code is a codification of private law relating to property law, property, family law, family, and law of obligations, obligations. A jurisdiction that has a civil code generally also has a code of civil procedure. In some jurisdiction ...

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Civil Code of Quebec The ''Civil Code of Quebec'' (CCQ; , ) is the civil code in force in the Canadian province of Quebec, which came into effect on January 1, 1994. It replaced the '' Civil Code of Lower Canada'' () enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Provin ...

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Civil commitment Involuntary commitment, civil commitment, or involuntary hospitalization/hospitalisation, or informally in Britain sectioning, being sectioned, commitment, or being committed, is a legal process through which an individual who is deemed by a qual ...

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Civil death Civil may refer to: * Civility, orderly behavior and politeness *Civic virtue Civic virtue refers to the set of habits, Value (ethics), values, and Attitude (psychology), attitudes that promote the general welfare and the effective functioning ...

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Civil disobedience Civil disobedience is the active and professed refusal of a citizenship, citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders, or commands of a government (or any other authority). By some definitions, civil disobedience has to be nonviolent to be cal ...

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Civil disorder Civil disorder, also known as civil disturbance, civil unrest, civil strife, or turmoil, are situations when law enforcement and security forces struggle to Public order policing, maintain public order or tranquility. Causes Any number of thin ...

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Civil law notary Civil-law notaries, or Latin notaries, are lawyers of contentious jurisdiction, noncontentious private law, private civil law (legal system), civil law who draft, take, and record legal instruments for private parties, provide legal advice and gi ...

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Civil liability In law, liable means "responsible or answerable in law; legally obligated". Legal liability concerns both civil law and criminal law and can arise from various areas of law, such as contracts, torts, taxes, or fines given by government agencie ...

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Civil liberties Civil liberties are guarantees and freedoms that governments commit not to abridge, either by constitution, legislation, or judicial interpretation, without due process. Though the scope of the term differs between countries, civil liberties of ...

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Civil penalties A civil penalty or civil fine is a financial penalty imposed by a government agency as restitution for wrongdoing. The wrongdoing is typically defined by a Codification (law), codification of legislation, regulations, and decrees. The civil fine ...

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Civil procedure Civil procedure is the body of law that sets out the rules and regulations along with some standards that courts follow when adjudicating civil lawsuits (as opposed to procedures in criminal law matters). These rules govern how a lawsuit or ca ...

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Civil rights Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' political freedom, freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's entitlement to participate in the civil and ...

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Civil union A civil union (also known as a civil partnership) is a legally recognized arrangement similar to marriage, primarily created to provide legal recognition for same-sex couples. Civil unions grant some or all of the rights of marriage, with ch ...

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Claim form A summons (also known in England and Wales as a claim form or plaint note, and in the Australian state of New South Wales as a court attendance notice (CAN)) is a legal document issued by a court (a ''judicial summons'') or by an administrative ag ...

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Claim in bankruptcy A Proof of claim in bankruptcy, in United States bankruptcy law, is a document filed with the Court so as to register a claim against the assets of the bankruptcy estate. The claim sets out the amount that is owed to the creditor as of the date o ...

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Claimant A plaintiff ( Π in legal shorthand) is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an ''action'') before a court. By doing so, the plaintiff seeks a legal remedy. If this search is successful, the court will issue judgment in favor of the ...

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Class Class, Classes, or The Class may refer to: Common uses not otherwise categorized * Class (biology), a taxonomic rank * Class (knowledge representation), a collection of individuals or objects * Class (philosophy), an analytical concept used d ...

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Class action A class action is a form of lawsuit. Class Action may also refer to: * ''Class Action'' (film), 1991, starring Gene Hackman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio * Class Action (band), a garage house band * "Class Action" (''Teenage Robot''), a 2002 e ...

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Class action suit A class action A class action is a form of lawsuit. Class Action may also refer to: * ''Class Action'' (film), 1991, starring Gene Hackman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio * Class Action (band), a garage house band * "Class Action" (''Teenage R ...

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Clear and convincing evidence In a legal dispute, one party has the burden of proof to show that they are correct, while the other party has no such burden and is presumed to be correct. The burden of proof requires a party to produce evidence to establish the truth of facts ...

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Clear and present danger ''Clear and Present Danger'' is a political thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and published on August 17, 1989. A sequel to '' The Cardinal of the Kremlin'' (1988), main character Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence i ...

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Clear title Clear title is the phrase used to state that the owner of real property owns it free and clear of encumbrances. In a more limited sense, it is used to state that, although the owner does not own clear title, it is nevertheless within the power of ...

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Clerk A clerk is a white-collar worker who conducts record keeping as well as general office tasks, or a worker who performs similar sales-related tasks in a retail environment. The responsibilities of clerical workers commonly include Records managem ...

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Close corporation Close may refer to: Music * ''Close'' (Kim Wilde album), 1988 * ''Close'' (Marvin Sapp album), 2017 * ''Close'' (Sean Bonniwell album), 1969 * "Close" (Sub Focus song), 2014 * "Close" (Nick Jonas song), 2016 * "Close" (Rae Sremmurd song), 201 ...

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Closed shop A pre-entry closed shop (or simply closed shop) is a form of union security agreement under which the employer agrees to hire union members only, and employees must remain members of the union at all times to remain employed. This is different fr ...

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Closing argument A closing argument, summation, or summing up is the concluding statement of each party's counsel reiterating the important arguments for the trier of fact, often the jury, in a court case. A closing argument occurs after the presentation of evi ...

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Cloud on title In United States property law, a cloud on title or title defect is any irregularity in the chain of title of property (usually real property) that would give a reasonable person pause before accepting a conveyance of title. According to Investoped ...

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Code In communications and information processing, code is a system of rules to convert information—such as a letter, word, sound, image, or gesture—into another form, sometimes shortened or secret, for communication through a communicati ...

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Code of Hammurabi The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed during 1755–1750 BC. It is the longest, best-organized, and best-preserved legal text from the ancient Near East. It is written in the Old Babylonian dialect of Akkadian language, Akkadi ...

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Codex The codex (: codices ) was the historical ancestor format of the modern book. Technically, the vast majority of modern books use the codex format of a stack of pages bound at one edge, along the side of the text. But the term ''codex'' is now r ...

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Coercion Coercion involves compelling a party to act in an involuntary manner through the use of threats, including threats to use force against that party. It involves a set of forceful actions which violate the free will of an individual in order to i ...

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Cohabitation Cohabitation is an arrangement where people who are not legally married live together as a couple. They are often involved in a Romance (love), romantic or Sexual intercourse, sexually intimate relationship on a long-term or permanent basis. ...

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Cohabitation agreement A cohabitation agreement is a form of legal agreement reached between a couple who have chosen to live together (whether they are heterosexual or homosexual). In some ways, such a couple may be treated like a married couple, such as when applyi ...

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Coinsurance In insurance, co-insurance or coinsurance is the splitting or spreading of risk among multiple parties. In the United States In the U.S. insurance market, co-insurance is the joint assumption of risk between the insurer and the insured. In titl ...

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Collateral descendant A lineal or direct descendant, in legal usage, is a blood relative in a person's direct line of descent – the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. In a legal procedure sense, lineal descent refers to the acquisition of estate b ...

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Collateral estoppel Collateral estoppel (CE), known in modern terminology as issue preclusion, is a common law estoppel doctrine that prevents a person from relitigating an issue. One summary is that, "once a court has decided an issue of fact or law necessary to its ...

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Collective agreement A collective agreement, collective labour agreement (CLA) or collective bargaining agreement (CBA) is a written contract negotiated through collective bargaining for employees by one or more trade unions with the management of a company (or with a ...

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Collective bargaining agreement A collective agreement, collective labour agreement (CLA) or collective bargaining agreement (CBA) is a written contract negotiated through collective bargaining for employees by one or more trade unions with the management of a company (or with an ...

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Collective rights Individual rights, also known as natural rights, are rights held by individuals by virtue of being human. Some theists believe individual rights are bestowed by God. An individual right is a moral claim to freedom of action. Group rights, also k ...

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Collective trade marks A collective trademark, collective trade mark, or collective mark is a trademark owned by an organization (such as an association), used by its members to identify themselves with a level of quality or accuracy, geographical origin, or other charac ...

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Collusion Collusion is a deceitful agreement or secret cooperation between two or more parties to limit open competition by deceiving, misleading or defrauding others of their legal right. Collusion is not always considered illegal. It can be used to att ...

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Color of law In the United States Code, the term color of law describes and defines an action that has either a "mere semblance of legal right", or the "pretense of right", or the "appearance of right", which adjusts and ''colors'' the law to the circumstan ...

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Comity In law, comity is "a principle or practice among political entities such as countries, states, or courts of different jurisdictions, whereby legislative, executive, and judicial acts are mutually recognized." It is an informal and non-mandatory c ...

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Commentaries on the Laws of England The ''Commentaries on the Laws of England'' (commonly, but informally known as ''Blackstone's Commentaries'') are an influential 18th-century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarend ...

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Commercial law Commercial law (or business law), which is also known by other names such as mercantile law or trade law depending on jurisdiction; is the body of law that applies to the rights, relations, and conduct of Legal person, persons and organizations ...

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Commingling In law, commingling is a breach of trust in which a fiduciary mixes funds held in care for a client with their own funds, making it difficult to determine which funds belong to the fiduciary and which belong to the client. This raises particular ...

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Commodity status of animals The commodity status of animals is the legal status as property of most non-human animals, particularly farmed animals, working animals and animals in sport, and their use as objects of trade.Rosemary-Claire Collard, Jessica Dempsey"Life for Sale ...

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Common area A common area is, in real estate or real property law, the "area which is available for use by more than one person..." The common areas are those that are available for common use by all tenants, (or) groups of tenants and their invitees.

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Common carrier A common carrier in common law countries (corresponding to a public carrier in some civil law (legal system), civil law systems,Encyclopædia Britannica CD 2000 "Civil-law public carrier" from "carriage of goods" usually called simply a ''carrier ...

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Common law Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law primarily developed through judicial decisions rather than statutes. Although common law may incorporate certain statutes, it is largely based on prece ...

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Common purpose The doctrine of common purpose, common design, joint enterprise, joint criminal enterprise or parasitic accessory liability is a common law legal doctrine that imputes criminal liability to the participants in a criminal enterprise for all reas ...

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Common stock Common stock is a form of corporate equity ownership, a type of security. The terms voting share and ordinary share are also used frequently outside of the United States. They are known as equity shares or ordinary shares in the UK and other C ...

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Common-law marriage Common-law marriage, also known as non-ceremonial marriage, marriage, informal marriage, de facto marriage, more uxorio or marriage by habit and repute, is a marriage that results from the parties' agreement to consider themselves married, follo ...

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Commons The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable Earth. These resources are held in common even when owned privately or publicly. Commons ...

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Community property Community property (United States) also called community of property (South Africa) is a marital property regime whereby property acquired during a marriage is considered to be owned by both spouses and subject to division between them in the e ...

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Company A company, abbreviated as co., is a Legal personality, legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether Natural person, natural, Juridical person, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members ...

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Company seal A company seal (sometimes referred to as the corporate seal or common seal) is an official seal used by a company. Company seals were predominantly used by companies in common law jurisdictions, although in modern times, most countries have done ...

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Comparative law Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between the law and legal systems of different countries. More specifically, it involves the study of the different legal systems (or "families") in existence around the world, includ ...

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Comparative negligence Comparative negligence, called non-absolute contributory negligence outside the United States, is a partial legal defense that reduces the amount of damages that a plaintiff can recover in a negligence-based claim, based upon the degree to which ...

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Compensatory damages At common law, damages are a remedy in the form of a monetary award to be paid to a claimant as compensation for loss or injury. To warrant the award, the claimant must show that a breach of duty has caused foreseeable loss. To be recognized at ...

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Competence Broad concept article: *Competence (polyseme), capacity or ability to perform effectively Competence or competency may also refer to: *Competence (human resources), ability of a person to do a job properly **Competence-based management, performa ...

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Complaint In legal terminology, a complaint is any formal legal document that sets out the facts and legal reasons (see: cause of action) that the filing party or parties (the plaintiff(s)) believes are sufficient to support a claim against the party ...

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Compound interest Compound interest is interest accumulated from a principal sum and previously accumulated interest. It is the result of reinvesting or retaining interest that would otherwise be paid out, or of the accumulation of debts from a borrower. Compo ...

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Compounding a felony Compounding a felony was an offence under the common law of England and was classified as a misdemeanour. It consisted of a prosecutor or victim of an offence accepting anything of value under an agreement not to prosecute, or to hamper the prose ...

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Compounding treason Compounding treason is an offence under the common law of England. It is committed by anyone who agrees for consideration to abstain from prosecuting the offender who has committed treason. It is still an offence in England and Wales, and in North ...

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Compromise To compromise is to make a deal between different parties where each party gives up part of their demand. In arguments, compromise means finding agreement through communication, through a mutual acceptance of terms—often involving variations fr ...

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Concealed weapon Concealed may refer to: * ''Concealed'' (album), a 2004 album by Augury * '' The Concealed'', a 2012 album by John Zorn * Concealed (film), a 2017 Australian thriller film See also

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Conciliation Conciliation is an alternative dispute resolution process whereby the parties to a dispute rely on a neutral third-party known as the conciliator, to assist them in solving their dispute. The conciliator, who may meet with the parties both sep ...

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Conclusion of fact In law, a question of law, also known as a point of law, is a question that must be answered by a judge and can not be answered by a jury. Such a question is distinct from a question of fact, which must be answered by reference to facts and eviden ...

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Conclusion of law In law, a question of law, also known as a point of law, is a question that must be answered by a judge and can not be answered by a jury. Such a question is distinct from a question of fact, which must be answered by reference to facts and eviden ...

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Concubinage Concubinage is an interpersonal relationship, interpersonal and Intimate relationship, sexual relationship between two people in which the couple does not want to, or cannot, enter into a full marriage. Concubinage and marriage are often regarde ...

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Concurrent sentence In criminal law, a sentence is the punishment for a crime ordered by a trial court after conviction in a criminal procedure, normally at the conclusion of a trial. A sentence may consist of imprisonment, a fine, or other sanctions. Sentences for ...

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Condition precedent A condition precedent is an event or state of affairs that is required before something else will occur. In contract law, a condition precedent is an event which must occur, unless its non-occurrence is excused, before performance under a contract b ...

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Condition subsequent In philosophical and legal contexts, a condition subsequent is a defined event which terminates a proposition or a contractual obligation. In contrast to a condition precedent, a condition subsequent brings the event (or obligation) to an end, rath ...

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Condominium A condominium (or condo for short) is an ownership regime in which a building (or group of buildings) is divided into multiple units that are either each separately owned, or owned in common with exclusive rights of occupation by individual own ...

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Confession (law) In the law of criminal evidence, a confession is a statement by a suspect in crime which is adverse to that person. Some secondary authorities, such as Black's Law Dictionary, define a confession in more narrow terms, ''e.g.'' as "a statement ad ...

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Confidential information Confidentiality involves a set of rules or a promise sometimes executed through non-disclosure agreement, confidentiality agreements that limits the access to or places restrictions on the distribution of certain types of information. Legal con ...

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Confidentiality Confidentiality involves a set of rules or a promise sometimes executed through confidentiality agreements that limits the access to or places restrictions on the distribution of certain types of information. Legal confidentiality By law, la ...

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Conflict of interest A conflict of interest (COI) is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple wikt:interest#Noun, interests, financial or otherwise, and serving one interest could involve working against another. Typically, this relates t ...

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Conflict of laws Conflict of laws (also called private international law) is the set of rules or laws a jurisdiction applies to a Legal case, case, Transactional law, transaction, or other occurrence that has connections to more than one jurisdiction."Conflict o ...

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Confucianism Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy, Religious Confucianism, religion, theory of government, or way of li ...

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Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) is a department of the Roman Curia in charge of the religious discipline of the Catholic Church. The Dicastery is the oldest among the departments of the Roman Curia. Its seat is the Palace of t ...

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Conscientious objector A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of conscience or religion. The term has also been extended to objecting to working for the military–indu ...

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Conscription Conscription, also known as the draft in the United States and Israel, is the practice in which the compulsory enlistment in a national service, mainly a military service, is enforced by law. Conscription dates back to antiquity and it conti ...

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Consensus decision-making Consensus decision-making is a group decision-making process in which participants work together to develop proposals for actions that achieve a broad acceptance. #Origin and meaning of term, Consensus is reached when everyone in the group '' ...

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Consent Consent occurs when one person voluntarily agrees to the proposal or desires of another. It is a term of common speech, with specific definitions used in such fields as the law, medicine, research, and sexual consent. Consent as understood i ...

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Consent decree A consent decree is an agreement or settlement that resolves a dispute between two parties without admission of guilt (in a criminal case) or liability (in a civil case). Most often it is such a type of settlement in the United States. The ...

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Consequential damages Consequential damages, otherwise known as special damages, are damages that can be proven to have occurred because of the failure of one party to meet a contractual obligation, a breach of contract. From a legal standpoint, an enforceable contra ...

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Consequentialism In moral philosophy, consequentialism is a class of normative, teleological ethical theories that holds that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for judgement about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct. Thus, from a ...

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Conservative Judaism Conservative Judaism, also known as Masorti Judaism, is a Jewish religious movements, Jewish religious movement that regards the authority of Jewish law and tradition as emanating primarily from the assent of the people through the generations ...

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Consideration Consideration is a concept of English law, English common law and is a necessity for simple contracts but not for special contracts (contracts by deed). The concept has been adopted by other common law jurisdictions. It is commonly referred to a ...

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Consignee A consignee is a person or entity to which goods are consigned. In a contract of carriage, the consignee is the entity who is financially responsible (the buyer) for the receipt of a shipment. If a sender dispatches an item to a receiver via ...

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Consignment Consignment is a process whereby a person gives permission to another party to take care of their property while retaining full ownership of the property until the item is sold to the final buyer. It is generally done during auctions, shipping, ...

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Consortium A consortium () is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations, or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a ...

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Conspiracy A conspiracy, also known as a plot, ploy, or scheme, is a secret plan or agreement between people (called conspirers or conspirators) for an unlawful or harmful purpose, such as murder, treason, or corruption, especially with a political motivat ...

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Constable A constable is a person holding a particular office, most commonly in law enforcement. The office of constable can vary significantly in different jurisdictions. ''Constable'' is commonly the rank of an officer within a police service. Other peo ...

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Constitution A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed. When these pri ...

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Constitution of France The current Constitution of France was adopted on 4 October 1958. It is typically called the Constitution of the Fifth Republic , and it replaced the Constitution of the Fourth Republic of 1946 with the exception of the preamble per a 1971 d ...

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Constitution of Spain The Spanish Constitution () is the Constitution, supreme law of the Spain, Kingdom of Spain. It was enacted after its approval in 1978 in a 1978 Spanish constitutional referendum, constitutional referendum; it represents the culmination of the ...

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Constitutional amendment A constitutional amendment (or constitutional alteration) is a modification of the constitution of a polity, organization or other type of entity. Amendments are often interwoven into the relevant sections of an existing constitution, directly alt ...

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Constitutional Convention (United States) The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787. While the convention was initially intended to revise the league of states and devise the first system of federal government under the Articles of Conf ...

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Constitutional law Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as the basic rights of citizens and, in ...

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Constitutional monarchy Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in making decisions. ...

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Constitutional rights A constitutional right can be a prerogative or a duty, a power or a restraint of power, recognized and established by a sovereign state or union of states. Constitutional rights may be expressly stipulated in a national constitution, or they may ...

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Construction Construction are processes involved in delivering buildings, infrastructure, industrial facilities, and associated activities through to the end of their life. It typically starts with planning, financing, and design that continues until the a ...

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Constructive dismissal In employment law, constructive dismissal occurs when an employee resigns due to the employer creating a hostile work environment. This often serves as a tactic for employers to avoid payment of statutory severance pay and benefits. In essence, ...

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Constructive eviction Constructive eviction is a circumstance where a tenant's use of the property is so significantly impeded by actions under the landlord's authority that the tenant has no alternative but to vacate the premises. The doctrine applies when a landlord ...

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Constructive fraud Constructive fraud is a legal fiction describing a situation where a person or entity gained an unfair advantage over another by deceitful or unfair methods. Intent does not need to be shown as in the case of actual fraud. Some unfair methods may ...

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Constructive notice Constructive notice is the legal fictionThe phrase "legal fiction" should not be construed to mean that the concept of constructive notice is legally invalid. that signifies that a person or entity should have known, as a reasonable person would ha ...

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Constructive trust In trust law, a constructive trust is an equitable remedy imposed by a court to benefit a party that has been wrongfully deprived of its rights due to either a person obtaining or holding a legal property right which they should not possess ...

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Consultancy A consultant (from "to deliberate") is a professional (also known as ''expert'', ''specialist'', see variations of meaning below) who provides advice or services in an area of specialization (generally to medium or large-size corporations). Con ...

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Consultant A consultant (from "to deliberate") is a professional (also known as ''expert'', ''specialist'', see variations of meaning below) who provides advice or services in an area of specialization (generally to medium or large-size corporations). Cons ...

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Consumer protection Consumer protection is the practice of safeguarding buyers of goods and services, and the public, against unfair practices in the marketplace. Consumer protection measures are often established by law. Such laws are intended to prevent business ...

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Contempt of court Contempt of court, often referred to simply as "contempt", is the crime of being disobedient to or disrespectful toward a court of law and its officers in the form of behavior that opposes or defies the authority, justice, and dignity of the co ...

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Contingent fee A contingent fee (also known as a contingency fee in the United States or a conditional fee in England and Wales) is any fee for services provided where the fee is payable only if there is a favourable result. Although such a fee may be used in ma ...

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Contingent interest A contingent interest is an interest which is uncertain, either as to the person who will enjoy it in possession or as to the event on which it will arise. 57 Am J1st Wills § 1217. A future interest In property law and real estate, a future i ...

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Continuance In American procedural law, a continuance is the postponement of a hearing, trial, or other scheduled court proceeding at the request of either or both parties in the dispute, or by the judge ''sua sponte''. In response to delays in bringing cases ...

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Contraband Contraband (from Medieval French ''contrebande'' "smuggling") is any item that, relating to its nature, is illegal to be possessed or sold. It comprises goods that by their nature are considered too dangerous or offensive in the eyes of the leg ...

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Contract A contract is an agreement that specifies certain legally enforceable rights and obligations pertaining to two or more parties. A contract typically involves consent to transfer of goods, services, money, or promise to transfer any of thos ...

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Contract of adhesion A standard form contract (sometimes referred to as a ''contract of adhesion,'' a ''leonine contract'', a ''take-it-or-leave-it contract'', or a '' boilerplate contract'') is a contract between two parties, where the terms and conditions of the co ...

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Contract of sale In contract law, a contract of sale, sales contract, sales order, or contract for sale is a legal contract for the purchase of assets (goods or property) by a buyer (or purchaser) from a seller (or vendor) for an agreed upon value in money (or ...

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Contract theory From a legal point of view, a contract is an institutional arrangement for the way in which resources flow, which defines the various relationships between the parties to a transaction or limits the rights and obligations of the parties. From an ...

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Contributory negligence In some common law jurisdictions, contributory negligence is a defense to a tort claim based on negligence. If it is available, the defense completely bars plaintiffs from any recovery if they contribute to their own injury through their own neg ...

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Controlled substance A controlled substance is generally a drug or chemical whose manufacture, possession and use is regulated by a government, such as illicitly used drugs or prescription medications that are designated by law. Some treaties, notably the Sing ...

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Controversy Controversy (, ) is a state of prolonged public dispute or debate, usually concerning a matter of conflicting opinion or point of view. The word was coined from the Latin '' controversia'', as a composite of ''controversus'' – "turned in an op ...

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Conversion Conversion or convert may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * ''The Convert'', a 2023 film produced by Jump Film & Television and Brouhaha Entertainment * "Conversion" (''Doctor Who'' audio), an episode of the audio drama ''Cyberman'' * ...

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Conveyancing In law, conveyancing is the transfer of legal title of real property from one person to another, or the granting of an encumbrance such as a mortgage or a lien. A typical conveyancing transaction has two major phases: the exchange of contract ...

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Convict A convict is "a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court" or "a person serving a sentence in prison". Convicts are often also known as "prisoners" or "inmates" or by the slang term "con", while a common label for former convicts ...

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Conviction In law, a conviction is the determination by a court of law that a defendant is Guilty (law), guilty of a crime. A conviction may follow a guilty plea that is accepted by the court, a jury trial in which a verdict of guilty is delivered, or a ...

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Cooperative A cooperative (also known as co-operative, coöperative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomy, autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned a ...

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Cooperative housing A housing cooperative, or housing co-op, is a legal entity which owns real estate consisting of one or more residential buildings. The entity is usually a cooperative or a corporation and constitutes a form of housing tenure. Typically hou ...

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Copyhold Copyhold was a form of customary land ownership common from the Late Middle Ages into modern times in England. The name for this type of land tenure is derived from the act of giving a copy of the relevant title deed that is recorded in the ...

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Copyleft Copyleft is the legal technique of granting certain freedoms over copies of copyrighted works with the requirement that the same rights be preserved in derivative works. In this sense, ''freedoms'' refers to the use of the work for any purpose, ...

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Copyright A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, ...

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Copyright infringement Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of Copyright#Scope, works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the c ...

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Copyright law of the European Union Copyright law within the European Union is largely harmonized, although differences between member states exist. The body of law was implemented in the EU through a number of directives, which the member states need to enact into their nation ...

– Copyright misuse – ''coram nobis'' – ''coram non judice'' – Coroner – Corporate governance – Corporate haven – Corporate opportunity – juristic person, Corporate personhood – Corporate state – Corporation – Corporations law – ''corpus delicti'' – ''corpus juris'' – ''corpus juris civilis'' – ''corpus juris secundum'' – Correlative rights doctrine – Corroborate – Corroborating evidence – Corroboration – Cost bill – Cotenancy – Cotenant – Council Tax – Counsel – Lawyer, Counsellor – Count – Counter offer – Counterclaim – Counterfeit – County court – Coup d'état – Supreme court, Cour de cassation – Course of employment – Court – Court calendar – Court costs – Court docket – Court of appeal – Court of Appeal of England and Wales – Court of Appeal (France) – Court of Appeals – Court of customs and patent appeals – Court of equity – Court of last resort – Court of law – Court of protection – Court of record – Court of Session – Court order – Court trial – Court-martial – Courtesy – Courtroom – Courts of England and Wales – Courts of the United Kingdom – Covenant (law) – Covenant not to compete – Covenant that runs with the land – Restrictive covenant, Covenants, conditions and restrictions – Creature of statute – Credibility – Credible witness – Creditor – Creditor's claim – Creditor's rights – Crime – Crime against humanity – Crime against nature – Crime against peace – Crime of passion – Criminal – Criminal attorney – Criminal calendar – Criminal conversion – Criminal justice – Criminal law – Criminal negligence – Criminal procedure – Critical legal studies – Cross examination – Cross-complaint – Cross-examination – Crown copyright – Crown corporation – Crown Court – Crown entity – Crown land – Cruel and unusual punishment – Cruelty – Cruelty to animals – ''cui bono'' – ''cuius regio, eius religio'' – Culpability – Cumis counsel – Sentence (law), Cumulative sentence (disambiguation) – Cumulative voting – Curfew – Customary estate – Custom (law), Customary law – Customs – ''custos morum'' – Cut a check – Cy pres doctrine – Cyber law – Cybersquatting

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District Attorney, D.A. – Doing business as, D.B.A. – D.U.I. – D.W.I. – Damages – Damnation – Dangerous weapon – Information privacy, Data protection – Date rape – Daubert standard – Day in court – ''de bonis asportatis'' – ''de bonis non administratis'' – ''de facto'' – De facto corporation – ''de futuro'' – ''de integro'' – ''de jure'' – De jure corporation – ''de lege ferenda'' – ''de lege lata'' – ''de minimis'' – ''trial de novo, de novo'' – Political deadlock, Deadlock – Deadlock provision – Deadly weapon –Inheritance tax, Death tax – Death penalty – Death row – Inheritance tax, Death duty – Debenture – Debt – Debt bondage – Debtor – Debtor in possession – Decapitation – Deceased – Deceit – Deception – Decide! – Judgment (law), Decision – Decisory oath - Declarant – Declaration of Arbroath – Declaration of independence – Declaration of mailing – Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand – Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen – Declaration of trust – Declaration of war – Declaration of war by the United States – Declaratory judgment – Declaratory relief – Declared death in absentia, Declared death ''in absentia'' – Decree – Decree absolute – Decree nisi – Decriminalization – Dedication (ritual), Dedication – Deductive reasoning, Deduction – Deed – Deed poll – ''defalcation'' – Defamation – Default (law) – Default judgment – Default rule – Defeasance – Defective title – Defendant – Defense (legal), Defense – Defense attorney – – Defense of infancy – Deficiency judgment – Defined benefit plan – Defined contribution plan – Deforce – Defraud – Degree of kinship – Deliberate – Deliberation – Deliberative body – Delict – Demand – Demand note – Demesne – Demise – Democracy – Demonstrative evidence – Demurrer – Denial – Deobandi – Deontology – Department for Constitutional Affairs – Dependent (law), Dependent – Deportation – Deposition (law), Deposition – Depreciate – Depreciation – Depreciation reserve – Derivative action – Derivative work – Derivatives law - Descent and distribution – Desert – Desertion – Destructibility of contingent remainders – Detailed Assessment – Devi – Devil's Advocate – Devisee – Devolution – Devolve – Devolved government – ''dicta'' – ''dictum'' – Digital signature – Diligence – Diminished capacity – Diminished responsibility – Diminished responsibility in English law – Diminution in value – Diplomatic immunity – Diplomatic recognition – Direct and proximate cause – Direct evidence – Direct examination – Directed verdict – Directors register – Disability – Disbarment, Disbar – Disbarment – Discharge in bankruptcy – Disciplinary procedure – Disclaimer – Discovery (law), Discovery – Discovery of documents – Discretion – Discretionary trust – Discrimination – Disembowelment – Disfigure – Dishonor – Disinheritance – Disjunctive allegations – Motion (legal), Dismissal – Dismissal with prejudice – Dismissal without prejudice – Disobbedienti – Disorderly conduct – Disorderly house – – Disposing mind and memory – Disposition – Dispossess – Dispute resolution – Dissent – Dissenting opinion – Dissolution (law) – Dissolution of corporation – Dissolution of the Monasteries – Distinguish – Distribution (economics), Distribute – Distribution of property – Distributive justice – District attorney – District court – Diversity of citizenship – Divestiture – Divestment – Dividend – Dividend tax – Divine Right of Kings – Division of property – Divisional court (disambiguation) – Divorce – DNA – Document – Documentary evidence – Doctrine of exoneration of liens – ''doli incapax'' – Domestic partner – Domestic partners – Domestic relations – Domestic violence – Dominant estate – Dominant tenement – ''Donatio mortis causa'' – Donation – Donative intent – Donee – Doom book – Double jeopardy – Double taxation – Dower – Dowry – Draft document – Drainage law – Dram shop rule – Payor, Drawer – Drawing and quartering – Dreyfus affair – Driver's license – Driving under the influence – Driving while intoxicated – Droit du seigneur – Drop dead date – Illegal drug trade, Drug – Dual state (model) – Dubitante – ''duces tecum'' – Due and owing – Due care – Due diligence – Due process – Due process of law – Due, owing and unpaid – Duress – Duress in English law – Duty – Duty of care – Duty of care in English law – Duty to warn – Dying declaration

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Early Muslim philosophy – Earned income tax credit – Earnest payment – Easement – Ecclesia (sociology of religion), Ecclesia – Ecclesiastical court – Ecumenical council – Edict – Edict of Fontainebleau – Edict of Milan – Edict of Nantes – Edict of Worms – ''Presumption of innocence, ei incumbit probatio qui'' – Either/Or (disambiguation), Either – Ejectment – ''ejusdem generis'' – Elder law – Election of remedies – Election under the will – Elective share – Electoral reform – Electric chair – Abolitionism, Emancipation – Emancipation Proclamation – Embezzlement – Embezzler – Emblements – Emergency – Eminent domain – Remuneration, Emolument – Employee – Employer – Employers' liability – Employment – Employment contract – Employment law – En banc – Enabling clause – Inclosure, Enclosure – Encumbrance – End user license agreement – Financial endowment, Endowment – Enfeoff – Enfeoffment – Enforcement – English Bill of Rights – English law – Enjoin – Enjoyment – Enrolled Bill doctrine – Entail – Enter a judgment – Entertainment law – Legal entity, Entity – Entrapment – Entry of judgment – Environmental Impact Report – Environmental impact statement – Environmental law – Ephebophilia – Equal Access Act – Equal opportunity – Equal Protection Clause – Equitable distribution – Equitable estoppel – Equitable lien – Equitable remedy – Equity (law) – Equity of redemption – Doctrine of equivalents, Equivalent – ''erga omnes'' – ''erratum'' – Error – Escalator clause – Escape clause – Escheat – Escrow – Escrow account – Escrow agent – Escrow instructions – Espionage – Esquire – Essential facilities doctrine – Establishment clause – Estate (law), Estate – Estate by entirety – Estate in land – Estate tax, Inheritance tax – ''estoppel'' – ''et al.'' – ''et cetera'' – ''et seq'' – Eternity clause Ethical calculus – Ethical code – Ethics – Ethics in religion – Ethnic cleansing – EU Directive 2010/63/EU – European Convention on Human Rights – European Court of Human Rights – European Court of Justice – European Patent Convention – European Patent Organisation – European Union directive – European Union directive, Directive (EU) – European Union Law – European Union regulation – European Union regulation, Regulation (EU) – Euthanasia – Evasion of tax – Evasion (law), Evasion of the law – Eviction – Evidence (law), Evidence – ''ex aequo et bono'' – ''ex cathedra'' – ''ex delicto'' – ''ex facie'' – ''ex gratia'' – ''ex officio'' – ''ex parte'' – ''ex post facto'' – Ex post facto law – ''ex rel'' – Direct examination, Examination – Exception in deed – Excessive bail – Excise – Exclusionary rule – Excommunication – Exculpatory – Excusable neglect – Excuse – Execution – Execution (legal), Execution – Execution warrant – Executioner – Executive (government), Executive – Executive clemency – Executive privilege – Executor – Executory contract – Executory interest – ''executrix'' – Exegesis – Exemplary damages – tax exemption, Exempt – Exempt employees – Exempt property – tax exemption, Exemption – Exhibit (Legal), Exhibit – Exigent Circumstances, exigent circumstances – Exile – Expectancy (law), Expectancy – Expense – Expert determination – Expert testimony – Expert witness – Express contract – Express warranty – Extension (semantics), Extension – Extenuating circumstances – Extinguishment – Extortion – Extradition – Extrajudicial – Extraordinary General Meeting – Extraordinary resolution – Extreme cruelty – Extrinsic fraud

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FOB (shipping) – Lie#Fabrication, Fabricate – Contract, Fabula – Face – Facere – Facies – Facile – Fact – Facto – Factory – Factum – Court of Faculties, Faculties, Court of – Faculty (instrument) – Faculty (university), Faculty of a college – – Faculty of Advocates – Faggot voter – Fail – Failure – Failure of consideration – Failure of issue – Faint action – Fair – Fair Play Men – Fair pleader – Faith – Faithless servant – Falang – Falda – Faldstool – Falesia – Bookland (law), Falk-land – False action – False imprisonment – False pretenses – False swearing – Deception, Falsehood – Falsify – Falsing – Falsum – Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus – Family (biology), Familia – Family – Famosus – Famosus libelus – Fanatics – Fakir – Farm – Farmer – Faro (card game), Faro – Farrier – Fasti – Father – Father-in-law – Fathom – Fatuity – Fatuus – Faubourg – Fautor – Fealty – Fear – Feciales – Federal government – Fee – Fee-simple – Fenian – Feodal – Feodal system – Vassal, Feodary – Feodum – Feoffee – Feoffment – Feoh – Feria – Feriae – Ferling – Ferry – Ferryman – Feu (land tenure) – Feud – Fisheries management, Fishing law – Flag – Flag of the United States – Flagrante delicto – Fleta – Flight – Floating capital – Floor – Florin (Italian coin), Florin – Flotsam – Fluctus – Face amount – Face value – Fact – Factum – Faculty of law – Failure of consideration – Failure of issue – Fair comment – Fair dealing – Fair market value – Fair trade laws – Fair use – Fairness Doctrine – False arrest – False Claims Law – False imprisonment – False pretenses – Family – Family law – Family court – Family law – Family patrimony – Family purpose doctrine – Fatwa – Fault auto insurance system – Federal Communications Commission – Federal Constitutional Court, Federal Constitutional Court (Germany) – United States federal courts – Federal judge – Federal jurisdiction (United States) – Federal law – Federal question – Federal tort claims act – Federalism – Fee – Fee simple – Fee tail – Felicific calculus – Felony – Felonious – Felony – Felony murder rule – Feme covert – Feoff – Feoffee – Feoffment – Fertile octogenarian – Feud – Feudal land tenure – Feudal system – Feudalism – Fictitious defendants – ''fiduciary'' – Fiduciary duty – Fiduciary relationship – Fief – Fieri – ''fieri facias'' – Fighting words – Filing (legal), File – Final judgment – Finder of fact – Findings of fact – Fine (penalty), Fine – Fiqh – Firm offer – First degree murder – First impression (law), First impression – First to file and first to invent – Fixture (property law), Fixture – Fixture (property law), Fixtures – Flight – Floating charge – Floating easement – FOB (shipping), FOB – Fostering – Foujdar – Four corners – Fourierism – Fox's Libel Act – Frais – Franc – Francia – Francus – Frank-marriage – Franking privilege – Fraternity – Fratricide – Fraud – Fraus – Fraxinetum – Free-bench – Free and clear – Free socage – Free warren – Freedman – Political freedom, Freedom – Freedom of speech – Freedom of the press – Free on board – Freight – Common carrier, Freighter – Frenchman – Frequency, Frequent – Fresca – Fresh pursuit – Fretum Britannicum – Friend of the court – Friendly societies – Friendly suit – Frigidity – Frith – Frontage – Frontier – Fructus industriales – Fructus naturales – Fruges – Fruit – Folkways (sociology), Folkways – For value received – Forbearance – Force majeure – Forced heirship – Forced sale – Forcible entry – Foreclosure – Foreclosure sale – Foreign corporation – Forensic – Forensic medicine – Forensic testimony – Forensics – Foreseeability – Foreseeable risk – Asset forfeiture, Forfeit – Forger – Forgery – Formal contract – Fornication – ''forum conveniens'' – ''forum non conveniens'' – Forum shopping – Foster child – Four Cardinal Virtues – Four corners of an instrument – Franc-tireur – exclusive Franchise – Franchise tax – Franchising – Fraud – Fraud in the inducement – Fraudulent conveyance – Fraudulent trading – Free and clear – Free economic zone – Free on board – Free port – Free software license – Free speech – Free will – Freedom of assembly – Freedom of association – Freedom of expression – Freedom of Information Act (United States), Freedom of Information Act – Freedom of religion – Freedom of speech – Freedom of speech by country – Freedom of the press – Freedom of thought – Freehold (English law), Freehold – French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools – Fresh pursuit – Friendly suit – Frisking – Frivolous lawsuit – Fructus naturales – Fruit of the poisonous tree – Frustration of purpose – Fugitive from justice – Full faith and credit – Accountancy, Fully paid – ''functus officio'' – Fundamental justice – Fundamentalism – Fungible things – Future interest – Futuwa – Fyrd

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Gag order – Gallows – Game law – Gaps and gores – Garnishment, Garnish – Garnishee – Garnishment – Gas chamber – Gasoline tax – Gemara – Gender bias – General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade – General appearance – General assignment – General Counsel – General damages – General denial – General meeting – General order – General partnership – General plan – General strike – General Synod – Generation skipping – Geneva Conventions – Genocide – German town law – Gibbet – Gift – Gift in contemplation of death – Gift tax – Glasnost – Go bail – Going concern – Good cause – Good faith – Good governance – Good samaritan rule – Good title – Good (economics), Goods – Goseibai Shikimoku – Government – Government-granted monopoly – Governmental immunity – Grace period – Grand Inquisitor – Grand jury – Grand larceny – Grand theft – Grandfather clause – Grandfathered in – Grandparent visitation – Grant (money), Grant – Grant deed – Grantor-grantee index – Gratuitous – ''gravamen'' – Great Ape Project – United States Permanent Resident Card, Green card – Gross income – Gross negligence – Grounds for divorce – Group boycott – Group litigation order – Guanxi – Guarantee – Guarantees – Guarantor – Guaranty – Legal guardian, Guardian – Guardian ad litem, Guardian ''ad litem'' – Guest statute – Guild – Guillotine – Guilt (law), Guilt – Guilty plea, Guilty

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Habeas corpus – Habeas corpus ad deliberandum et recipiendum – Habeas corpus ad faciendum et recipiendum – Habeas corpus ad prosequendum – Habeas corpus ad respondendum – Habeas corpus ad satisfaciendum – Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum – Habeas corpus ad testificandum – Habeas corpus cum causa – Habitant – Habitation (see Dwelling) – Habitual Criminals Act – Hable – Hacienda – Habitable – – Habitual criminal – Hadith – Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907), Hague Convention – Hague-Visby Rules – Halaal – Halakha, Halakha (Jewish law) – Halakha, Jewish law (Halakha) – Blood quantum laws, Half blood – Halsbury's Laws of England – Hanafi – Hanbali – Hanging – Haraam, Haram – Harass – Harassment – Harm reduction – Harmless error – Hate speech – Head of Household (Tax), Head of household – Headnote – Headright – Heads of loss - Health care proxy – Hearing (law), Hearing – Hearsay – Hearsay rule – Heat of passion – Heir – Heir apparent – Beneficiary, Heiress – Heirs – Heirs of the body – Hell or high water clause – Hereditament – Herem (censure) – Herem (priestly gift) – Herem (war or property) – Heresy – Hidden asset – High court judge – High Court of Australia – Royal High Court of Bhutan – High Court of Justice (England and Wales) – Court of High Commission (ecclesiastical court in England) – High Court of Fiji – High Court (Hong Kong) – High Courts of India, several courts – High Court (Ireland) – High Court (Isle of Man) – High Court of Malaya – High Court of New Zealand – High Court of Cassation and Justice (Romania) – High Court of Justiciary (Scotland) – High Court of Sabah and Sarawak – High Court of Singapore – High Court of South Africa – Highway – Highwayman – Hima (environmental protection), Hima – Himalaya clause – Hit and run (vehicular), Hit and run – Hobby loss – Hold harmless – Holder in due course – Holding (law), Holding – Holding company – Holdover tenancy – Holographic will – Home Rule – Home Secretary – Homestead Act – Homestead exemption – Homestead principle – Hometowned – Homicide – Hong Kong trademark law – Hornbook law – Hostile environment sexual harassment – Hostile possession – Hostile witness – Car chase, Hot pursuit – Hotch-pot – House counsel – House of Lords – Household – Housing tenure – Human rights – Human Rights Committee – Human rights issues in the United States – Humanism – Hung jury – Hunting Act 2004 – Hypothecate

I

Idea-expression divide – ''idem'' – ''ignorantia juris non excusat'' – Ijma – Ijtihad – Illegal combatant – Illegal drug trade – Illegal immigrant – Illegitimacy – Illusory promise – Ilm ar-Rijal – Imam – Immediately (law), Immediately – Immigrant visa – Immigration – Immigration Appellate Authority – Immunity from prosecution, Immunity – Impanel – Impaneling – Impeach – Impeachment – Impleader – Implied Bill of Rights – Implied consent – Implied contract – Implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing – Implied terms – Implied warranty – Implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose – Implied warranty of habitability – Implied warranty of merchantability – Importation right – Impossibility of performance – Impotence – Imputation (law), Imputation – ''in camera'' – In chambers – ''in curia'' – ''in delicto'' – ''in esse'' – In fee simple – ''in flagrante delicto'' – ''in forma pauperis'' – ''in haec verba'' – In kind – In lieu – ''in limine'' – ''in loco parentis'' – ''in pari delicto'' – ''in personam'' – in propria persona, in pro per – ''in prope persona'' – ''in propria persona'' – ''in re'' – ''in rem'' – ''in situ'' – ''in terrorem'' – ''in terrorem clause'' – ''in toto'' – Incapacity – Incest – Inchoate offense – Incidental beneficiary – Income – Income tax – Incompetent evidence – Incontrovertible evidence – Incorporation (business) – Incorporate by reference – Incorporation (business) – Incorporeal – Incriminate – Incumbrance – Indecent exposure – Indefeasible – Indefeasible estate – Indemnify – Indemnity – Indenture – Indentured servant – Independent contractor – Indeterminacy debate in legal theory – Indeterminate sentence – Indictable offence – Indictable offense – Indictment – Indigent – Indispensable party – Individual capital – Individual rights – Indorse – Industrial design rights – Industrial tribunal – Infancy – Infant – Infanticide Act – Inference – Information – Information and belief – Informed consent – Infraction – Infractions – Infraction, Infringement – Ingress, egress, and regress, Ingress – Inheritance, Inherit – Inheritance – Inheritance tax – Injunction – Injunctive relief – Injury – Inkan – Innocence – Innocent – Inns of Court – ''innuendo'' – Inquest – Inquisition – Inquisitor – Inquisitorial system – Insanity – Insanity defense – Insider trading – Insolvency – Insolvent – Inspection of documents – Installment contract – Education, Instruction – Instructional capital – Insufficient evidence – Insurance – Insured – Insurer – Intangible property – Integrated criminal justice information system – Integration clause, Integration – Intellectual capital – Intellectual property – Intellectual rights – Intendant of New France – intent (law), Intent – ''inter alia'' – ''inter se'' – ''inter vivos'' – Inter vivos trust – Interest – Interference proceeding – Interim order – Interlineation – ''interlocutory'' – International Business Companies Act – Interlocutory decree – Interlocutory order – Intermediate sanctions – Internal affairs doctrine – International Business Companies Act – International constitutional law – International Court of Justice – International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – International criminal law, International crime – International Criminal Court – International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda – International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia – International environmental law – International human rights instruments – International human rights law – International law – International relations – International trade – International trade law – Internment – Interpleader – Interrogation – Interrogatories – Interstate commerce – Intertemporal Law – Intervention (law), Intervene – Intervening cause – Intervention (law), Intervention – Intestacy – Intestate – Intestate succession – Substance intoxication, Intoxication – ''intra fauces terra'' – ''intra vires'' – Intrinsic fraud – Inure – Invasion of privacy – Inventor – Inventor's notebook – Inverse condemnation – Invest – Investiture – Investment – Invitation to treat – Invitee – Involuntary commitment – ''ipse dixit'' – ''ipsissima verba'' – ''ipso facto'' – Irreconcilable differences – Irrelevant – Irreparable damage or injury – Irresistible impulse – Islamic Law, Islamic Law (Sharia) – Sharia, Sharia (Islamic law) – Islamic philosophy – Isnad – Issue (legal), Issue – Issue preclusion – Issued shares

J

Juris Doctor (J.D.) – Ja'fari jurisprudence, Jafari – Jane Doe (pseudonym), Jane Doe – Jaywalking – Jeopardy (legal topic), Jeopardy – Jewish principles of faith – Jewish Theological Seminary of America – Jim Crow laws – John Doe – Joinder – Joinder of issue – Joint – Joint adventure – Joint and several – Joint and several liability – Joint custody – Joint liability – Joint property – Joint tenancy – Joint tortfeasors – Joint venture – Jointure – Jones Law (Philippines), Jones act – Journeyman – Joyride (crime), Joyride – Judge – Judge advocate – Judge Advocate General (United Kingdom), Judge Advocate General – Judgment – Judgment by default – Judgment debtor – Judgment in Berlin – Judgment non obstante veredicto – Judgment notwithstanding the verdict – Judgment notwithstanding verdict – Judicial – Judicial Committee of the Privy Council – Judicial discretion – Judicial economy – Judicial foreclosure – Judicial functions of the House of Lords – Judicial independence – Judicial interference – Judicial notice – Judicial review – Jump bail – Junior barrister – ''jurat'' – Jurisdiction – Jurisdictional amount – Jurisprudence – Jurist – Juror – Jury – Jury box – Jury charge – Jury fees – Jury instructions – Jury nullification – Jury of one's peers – Jury panel – Jury selection – Jury stress – Jury tampering – Jury trial – ''jus ad bellum'' – ''Jus Ad Bellum, jus ad bellum'' – ''jus civile'' – ''jus cogens'' – ''jus commune'' – ''jus gentium'' – ''jus inter gentes'' – ''jus naturale'' – ''jus primae noctis'' – ''jus sanguines'' – ''jus sanguinis'' – ''jus soli'' – Just cause (employment law), Just cause – Just compensation – Just war – Justice – Justice of the Peace – Justiciable – Justifiable homicide – Justification (jurisprudence), Justification – juvenile (law), Juvenile – Juvenile court – Juvenile delinquent

K

Kangaroo court – Karaite Judaism, Karaites – Karma – Kashrut, Kosher law – Kellogg-Briand Pact – Kidnapping – King's Bench (disambiguation), King's Bench – Kinshasa Declaration on Great Apes – Know-how – Kollel

L

Labor and materials – Labor law – trade union, labor union – Laches (equity), Laches – ''lacuna (law), lacunae'' – Land use – Land value tax – Landlady – Landlocked – Landlord – Landlord and tenant – Landlord and Tenant Act – Landlord's lien – Lapse (law), Lapse – Larceny – Last antecedent rule – Last clear chance – Last will and testament – Latent defect – Law – Law and economics – Law and literature – Law and motion calendar – Law basic topics – Law book – Law dictionary – Law French – Law lords – Law of admiralty – Law of Canada – Law of costs – Law of Ireland (disambiguation), Law of Ireland – Law library – Law of obligations – Law of the case – Law of the land – Law of the Russian Federation – Admiralty law, Law of the Sea – Law of the Soviet Union – Law of the United Kingdom – Law of the United States – Law of treaties – Law school – Law society, Law Society – Laws of war – Lawsuit – Lawyer – Lay a foundation – Lay assessor – Laïcité – Leading question – Leading the witness – Lease – Lease and release – Leasehold – Legal – Legal abuse – Legal action – Legal advertising – Legal age – Legal aid – Legal Aid Society – Legal code – Legal consequences of marriage and civil partnership in the United Kingdom – Legal custody – Legal debate – Legal person, Legal entity – Juristic person, Artificial person – Legal fiction – Legal formalism – Legal history – Legal instrument – Legal Latin – Legal lexicography – Legal personal representative – Legal positivism – Legal pluralism – Legal realism – Legal separation – Legal status – Legal status of animals in Canada – Legal technicality – Legal tender – Legal translation – Legalese – Legalism (Western philosophy) – Legalism (Chinese philosophy) – Legalism (theology) – Legalization – Legatee – Legislation – Legislature – Legitimacy (family law) – Legitimacy (political science) – ''legitime'' – Lemon law – Lessee – Lesser crime – Lesser included offenses – Lesser-included offense – Renting, Let – Lethal injection – Letter of credit – Letter of marque – Letter of wishes – Letter (message), Letters – Letters of administration – Letters patent – Letters testamentary – Leverage (finance), Leverage – Leviticus – ''lex lata'' – ''lex scripta'' – Liable – Libel – Libel per se – Libertarian theories of law – Liberty – Licence – License – Licensee – Lie detector test – Lien – Lienor – Life – Life estate – Life without possibility of parole – Limitation of actions – Limitations clause, Limitations clause, Constitution of Canada – Limited company – Limited jurisdiction – Limited liability – Limited liability company – Limited partner – Limited partnership – Line of succession – Lineal descendant – Police lineup, Lineup – Liquidate – Liquidated damages – Liquidation – Liquidator (law) – ''lis pendens'' – List of Roman laws – Listed building – Literary property – Litigant – Litigation – Litigious – Liturgy – Livery – Livery of seizin – ''living trust'' – Living will – LL.B. – LL.M. – Loanshark – Lockout (industry), Lockout – ''locus delicti'' – ''locus in quo'' – Loiter (law) – Long cause – Long vacation – Long-arm statute – Lord Chancellor – Lord Chancellor's Department – Lord Chief Justice – Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales – Lord Justice General – Lord Justice of appeal – Lord Keeper of the Great Seal – Lord President of the Council – Lord Steward – Loss of consortium – Loss of use – Lost volume seller – Civil law (common law), Lower court – Lübeck law

M

M'Naghten Rules – Madhhab – Madrassa – Magdeburg rights – Magdeburg rights, Magdeburg law – Magistrate – Magna Carta – Mail box rule – Maim – Alimony, Maintenance – Child support, Maintenance – Champerty, Maintenance – Majority – Mala fides – ''male fide'' – Malfeasance – Malice aforethought – Malicious prosecution – Maliki – Malpractice – ''malum in se'' – ''malum prohibitum'' – ''mandamus'' – Mandamus, Writ of mandamus – Mandate (criminal law) – Mandate (international law) – Mandate of Heaven – Mandatory joinder – Mandatory sentence – Mann act – Manorialism – Manslaughter – Manslaughter in English law – Manumission – Manusmriti – ''mare clausum'' – ''International waters, mare liberum'' – Marital deduction – Marital life estate – Marital rights – Maritime law – Marked for identification – Market value – Marketable title – Marriage – Marriageable age – Marshal – Martial law – Mask work – Masoretes – Masoretic Text – Conservative Judaism, Masorti – Massachusetts trust – Master (judiciary), Master – Master and Servant Act, Master and servant – Master of Laws – Master of the Rolls – Master of the Rolls in Ireland – Materiality (law), Materiality – Material witness – Matrimonial regime – Matter – Maturity (finance), Maturity – Legal maxim, Maxims – Maxims of equity – Maxims of law – May – Mayhem (crime), Mayhem – Mechanic's lien – Mechanics lien – Mediation – Mediation, Mediator – Medical directive – Medical ethics – Medieval Inquisition – Meet and confer – Meeting of the minds – Meforshim – Megan's Law – Memorandum – Memorandum of Association – ''mens rea'' – Mental cruelty – Mental health law – Mental suffering – Mercantile law – Merchantable – Merger – Mesne – ''mesne assignment'' – Mesne profits – Messuage – Metes and bounds – Military alliance – Military dictatorship – Military law – Military tribunal – Militia – Mining claim – Ministerial act – minor (law), minor – Minutes – Miranda warning – Mirror wills – Misappropriation – Mischief – Misdemeanor – Misfeasance – Mishnah Berurah – Mishnah – Mishpat Ivri, Hebrew law (Mishpat Ivri) – Mishpat Ivri, Mishpat Ivri (Hebrew law) – Misjoinder – Misnomer – Misprision of a felony – Misprision of treason – Misrepresentation – Mistake of law – Mistrial (law), Mistrial – Mitigating circumstances – Mitigating factors – Mitzvah – Mock trial – Modern Islamic philosophy – ''modus operandi'' – Moiety title – Monarch – Money laundering – Monism and dualism in international law – Monopoly – Monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force – Month-to-month – Monument – Moot court – Moot point – Mootness (law), Mootness – Mopery – Moral absolutism – Moral certainty – Moral code – Moral core – Moral relativism – Moral rights (copyright law), Moral rights – Moral turpitude – Moral universalism – Morality – Moratorium (law), Moratorium – Mores – Morganatic marriage – Mortgage law – Mortgagee – Mortgagor – motion (legal), Motion – Motion for a summary judgment – Motion for more definite statement – Motion for directed verdict – Motion for dismissal – Motion for summary judgment – ''motion in limine'' – Motion to dismiss – Motion to strike (court of law), Motion to Strike – Motion to suppress – Motion to suppress evidence – Motive (law), Motive – Motor vehicle exception--Motor vehicle theft – Movant – Mujtahid – Mullah – Multiple citizenship – Multiplicity of suits – Municipal – Muniment of title – Murder – Murder in English law – Muslim dietary laws – Mutation – ''mutatis mutandis'' – Mutiny – Mutual wills

N

N.O.V. – Name change – Named plaintiffs – Napoleonic code – Narcotic – National Insurance contributions – National Labor Relations Board – National trade union center – Nationality – Natural law – Natural person – Natural resource law – ''ne exeat'' – Necessary party – Negative pledge – Negative pregnant – Negligence – Negligence per se, Negligence ''per se'' – Negligent – Negotiable instrument – Negotiation – ''nemo dat quod non habet'' – ''nemo judex in sua causa'' – Neutral country – Next friend – Next of kin – Night and Fog prisoner – ''nihil dicit'' – ''nisi prius'' – Nolo contendere, No contest – No fault divorce – No fault insurance – No-par stock – Noble Eightfold Path – ''nolle prosequi'' – ''nolo contendere'' – Nominal damages – Nominal party – Nominal value – Nominee – ''non compos mentis'' – ''non constat'' – ''non est factum'' – ''non liquet'' – ''non obstante verdicto'' – Non-binding arbitration – Non-conforming use – Non-contestability clause – Non-disclosure agreement – Non-executive director – Non-feasance – Non-profit corporation – Non-profit organization – Non-suit – Nonimmigrant visa – Nonviolence – Not guilty plea, Not guilty – Not guilty by reason of insanity – Not-for-profit corporation – ''nota bene'' – Notary public – Notice – Notice of appeal – Notice of default – Notice to quit – Notorious possession – Section Thirty-three of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Notwithstanding clause (Canadian Constitution) – Novation – Nuisance – ''nulla bona'' – ''nulla poena sine lege'' – Nullity (conflict) – ''nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali'' – ''nunc pro tunc'' – Nuremberg Code – Nuremberg Trials

O

Recognizance, O.R. – Order to show cause, O.S.C. – Oath – ''obiter dicta'' is plural; see the singular ''obiter dictum'' – Object (philosophy), Object – Objectivist philosophy – Obligation – Obligations of confidentiality – Obligee – Obligor – Obscene – Obscenity – Obstruction of justice – Occupancy – Occupant – Occupational disease – Occupational hazard – Federal preemption, Occupy the field – Of counsel – Criminal, Offender – Offer of proof – Offeree – Offeror – Officer of the court – Officers of a corporation – Official – Official misconduct – Official receiver – Official Solicitor – Officious intermeddler – Offshore corporation – Ombudsman – Omission (criminal law), Omission – Omnibus clause – Commanding precedent, On all fours – ''Legal burden of proof, onus probandi'' – Open adoption – Open court – Open-source license – Opening statement – Operation of law – ''opinio juris sive necessitatis'' – Opinion – Oppression remedy – Oral argument – Oral contract – Deposition (law), Oral examination – Oral law – Court order, Order – Order in Council – Order to show cause – Ordinary (officer) – Ordinary course of business – Ordinary resolution – Ordinary shares – Organized crime – Original jurisdiction – Original sin – Originating application – Orphan – Ostensible agent – Ostensible authority – Out of court – Out-of-pocket expenses – Outlaw – Output contract – Over-the-counter drug – Overcharge – Overt act – Owe – Own – Own recognizance – Owner – Owner-occupier – Ownership

P

''pacta sunt servanda'' – Pain and suffering – Palimony – Panderer – ''par delictum'' – Paralegal – Paramount title – Paraphilia – Pardon – ''parens patriae'' – Parent – Parent company – Pari delicto – Pari passu – Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property – Parish – Parliament – Parliamentary procedure – Parliamentary supremacy – Parliamentary system – Parody – Parol – Parol evidence rule – Parole – Parquet – Partial breach – Partial verdict – Particulars – Partition (law), Partition – Partner (business rank), Partner – Partnership – Party (law), Party – Party of the first part – Party of the second part – Party wall – Passenger – Passing off (legal term), Passing off – Patent – Patent ambiguity – Patent Cooperation Treaty – Patent infringement – Patent pending – Patentability – Patently unreasonable – Paternity (law), Paternity – Paternity suit – Patient – Patrimony of affectation – Patronage – Pay as you earn (paye) – Payable – Payee – Payor – Peace bond – Peaceable possession – Peculation – Pecuniary – Pedophilia – Voyeurism, Peeping tom – Peer group – Peerage – Peer review – Penal code – Penal colony – Penal law – Penal notice – Penal transportation – Penalty phase – Penance – Pendent jurisdiction – ''pendente lite'' – Pension plan – Pension scheme – People's Republic of China's trademark law – ''per capita'' – ''per curiam'' – ''per diem'' – ''per minas'' – ''per pro'' – ''per quod'' – ''per stirpes'' – Peremptory challenge – Peremptory challenges – Peremptory norm – Peremptory writ of mandate – Perfection (law), Perfect – Perfection (law) – Perform – Performance – Perjurer – Perjury – Permanent Court of Arbitration – Permanent injunction – Permissive license – Permissive society – Perpetuity – Person – Person having ordinary skill in the art – ''persona non grata'' – Personal effects – Personal jurisdiction – Personal property – Personal recognizance – Personal representative – Service of process, Personal service – Personality rights – Personalty – Perversion – Petit jury – Petition – Petition for probate – Petition to make special – Petitioner – Petty larceny – Petty offenses – Philosophy of law – Physical custody – Physician-patient privilege – Picketing (protest), Picketing – Pierce the corporate veil – Piercing the corporate veil – Petty theft, Pilferage – Pillory – Pimp – Piracy – Plagiarism – Plain error – Plain view doctrine – Plaint note – Plaint number – Plaintiff – Public limited company, Plc – Plea – Plea bargain – Plea in abatement – Plead – Pleading – Pleadings – Plenary authority – Police – Police brutality – Police oppression – Police powers (United States constitutional law) – Police state – Political corruption, Corruption – Political prisoner – Political question – Political science – Poll tax, Poll tax (disambiguation) – Polyandry – Polygamy – Polygamy, Bigamy – Polygraph – Pornography – Port of entry – Positive law – Possession (law), Possession – Possession of stolen goods – Possession proceedings – Possessory – Possessory interest – Possibility of a reverter – ''post mortem'' – Postdated check – Cannabis (drug), Pot – Pour over will – Poverty law – power (sociology), Power – Power of appointment – Power of arrest – Power of attorney – Practice of law, Practice – Practice Direction – Practice of law – Praemunire – ''praetor peregrinus'' – Pre-emption rights – Precedent – Preemption of state and local laws in the United States – Preemptive right – Preference – Preferential creditor – Preferred dividend – Preferred stock – Pregnant denial – Preliminary hearing – Preliminary injunction – Premeditation – Premises – Prenuptial agreement – Preponderance of the evidence – Prerogative writ – Prescription drug – Prescriptive easement – President of the family division – Presiding judge – Presumption – Presumption of innocence – Pretermitted heir – Pretrial discovery – Price fixing – ''prima facie'' – Prima facie case – Prima impressionis – Prime suspect – ''primogeniture'' – Prior restraint – Prison – Prisoner of war – Privacy – Private bill – Private carrier – Private company – Private Express Statutes – Private international law – Private law – Private nuisance – Intimate part, Private parts – Private property – Private road – Privateer – Privilege (evidence) – Privilege (legal ethics) – Privilege against self incrimination – Privileged communication – Privity – Privy Council – Privy Council of Sweden – ''pro bono'' – ''pro bono publico'' – ''pro forma'' – ''pro hac vice'' – ''pro per'' – ''pro se'' – ''pro tanto'' – ''pro tem'' – ''pro tempore'' – Probable cause – Probate – Probation – Probative – Probative value – Procedendo – Procedural defense – Procedural justice – Procedural law – Procedural law, Procedure – Proceeding – legal process, Process – Process server – Proctor – Product liability – Professional corporation – Professional negligence – Proffer – Prohibition – Prohibition (writ), Writ of prohibition – Promise – Promissory estoppel – Promissory note – Property – Property damage – Property law – Property tax – ''propria persona'' – Ownership, Proprietary rights – Proprietor – Prosecute – Prosecution – Prosecutor – Prostitute – Prostitution – Protective custody – Restraining order, Protective order – Protest – Protocol (treaty), Protocol – Provisional remedy – Proximate cause – Prudent man rule – Public – Public administrator – Public-benefit nonprofit corporation, Public benefit corporation – Public company – Public company, Public corporation (disambiguation) – Public defender – Public domain – Public figure – Public limited company – Public nuisance – Public-order crime, Public order – Public property – Public record – Public trust doctrine – Public trustee – Public use – Public utility – Publication – Publici juris – Publish – Puffery – Puisne judge – Punitive damages – Putative father – Putative father registry

Q

''quaere'' – ''quantum meruit'' – Quash – Quasi community property – Quasi contract – Quasi corporation – Quasi in rem – Quasi-contract – Quasi-criminal – Quasi-delict – Quasi-judicial – King's Bench (disambiguation), Queen's bench – Queen's Privy Council for Canada – King's Bench Division, Queens bench division – Queen's counsel – Question of fact – Question of law – ''qui tam action'' – ''quid pro quo'' – ''quid pro quo sexual harassment'' – Quiet enjoyment – Quiet title action – Quitclaim deed – Quitrent – ''quo warranto'' – Quorum – Quotient verdict – Qur'an

R

Rabbi – Rabbinic literature – Rabbinical Assembly – Race to the courthouse – Racial discrimination – Racial segregation – Racism – Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, Racketeer influenced corrupt organization (RICO) statute – Racketeering – Radical transparency – Ransom – Rape – Ratification – Ratify – ''ratio decidendi'' – ''ratio scripta'' – Rational basis – ''Ratum sed non consummatum'' – Real estate – Real estate investment trust – Real party in interest – Real property – Realty – Reasonable care – Legal burden of proof, Reasonable doubt – Reasonable person, Reasonable man doctrine – Reasonable time – – Reasonableness – Rebbe – ''rebus sic stantibus'' – Rebuttable presumption – Rebuttal – Recapture – Receipt – Receivership – Recharacterisation – Recidivist – Reciprocal discovery – Recklessness (law), Reckless – Reckless disregard – Reckless driving – Recklessness (law), Recklessness – Recognisance – Reconstructionist Judaism – Reconveyance – Recorder (law), Recorder – Recording acts – Recoupment – Civil recovery, Recover – Civil recovery, Recoverable – Recusal – Rectification (law) – Recuse – Redemption (bonds) – Redemption of shares – Redemption value – Appeal, Redetermination – Redirect examination – Redundancy (law), Redundancy – Reentry – Referee – Referendum – Reform Judaism – Refugee – Refundable tax credit – Registered office – Registered trade mark – Registration statement – Registry of deeds – Regulation – Regulations – Regulatory taking – Rehearing (disambiguation), Rehearing – Reichstag Fire Decree – Reid technique – legal release, Release – Release on one's own recognizance – Relevancy – Relief – Religion and heterosexuality – Religion and homosexuality – Religious law – Remainder – Remainderman – Remand (court procedure) – Remittitur – Renting, Rent – Rent control – Rental value – Reorganization – Repair – Repeal – Repentance – Replevin – Reply brief – Reports – Repossess – Defense (legal), Represent – Defense (legal), Representation – Reprisal – Reputation – Requirements contract – ''res adjudicata'' – ''res gestae'' – ''res ipsa loquitur'' – ''res judicata'' – ''res nulis'' – ''res publica christiana'' – Resale – Rescind – Rescission (contract law), Rescission – Rescue doctrine – Reservation (law), Reservation – Reserved decision – Residency (domicile), Resident – Resident alien – Residuary bequest – Residuary estate – Residuary legatee – Residue (law), Residue – Resistance movement – Resisting arrest – Resolution (law), Resolution – Resolution of disputes – ''respondeat superior'' – Responsa – Moral responsibility, Responsibility – Restatement of the law – Restitution – Restorative justice – Restraining order – Restraint of trade – Restraint on alienation – Restrictive covenant – Result – Resulting trust – Retaining lien – Retention of title clause – Retire – Retraction in academic publishing, Retraction – Retrial – Retributive justice – Service of process, Return of service – Revenue ruling – Reversible error – Reversion (law), Reversion – Review – Revocable living trust – Revocation – Revoke – Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, RICO – Right of audience – Right of eminent domain – Right of survivorship – Right of the first night – Right-of-way (property access), Right-of-way – Right to privacy – Right to silence – Right-to-work laws – Rights – Riot – Riot control agent – Riparian – Riparian rights – Risk – Risk of loss – Ritual – Roadside test – Robbery – Robert's Rules of Order – Rocket docket – Rogatory letters – Roman Forum – Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Roman Inquisition – Roman law – Room (architecture), Room – Royal assent – Royal charter – Royal commission – Royal Courts of Justice – Royal prerogative – Royal warrant (disambiguation), Royal Warrant – Royalties – Law, Rule – Rule against perpetuities – Rule by decree – Rule in Allhusen v Whittell – Rule in Re Atkinson – Rule in Bartlett v Barclays Bank – Rule in Clayton's Case – Rule in Dearle v Hall – Rule in Dumpor's Case – Rule in Howe v Earl of Dartmouth – Rule in Saunders v Vautier – Rule in Shelley's Case – Rule in Wild's Case – Rule of law – Rulemaking – Rules of evidence – Court order, Ruling – Rum-running – Running with the land – Ruse of war

S

Sabotage – Sacred text – Salafi – Sales tax – Samaritan Pentateuch – Same-sex marriage – Sanctions (law), Sanctions – Sanhedrin –Sasine – Satyagraha – Save harmless – Savings and loan – Scapegoat – School of law – Sciens – ''scienter'' – ''scire facias'' – Scope of employment – Scots law – Scrivener – Scutage – ''se defendendo'' – Seal (emblem), Seal – Sealed verdict – Sealing of records – Search and seizure – Search warrant – Second degree murder – Secondary boycott – Secret police – Secret rebate – Secret tribunal – Secret trust – Secretary of State for the Home Department – Secularism – Secured creditor – Secured transaction – Security (finance), Security – Security agreement – Security deposit – Security for costs – Security interest – Security of tenure – Sedition – Seduction – Seigniorage – Seised – Seisin – Seized – Search and seizure, Seizure – Self-dealing – Self-defense (theory), Self-defense – Self-determination – Self-help – Self-incrimination – Seller – Semble – Semicha – Senior lien – Sentence (law) – Separate property – Legal separation, Separation – Separation of church and state – Separation of powers – Separatism – Septuagint – Serf – ''seriatim'' – servant (domestic), Servant – Service of process, Service – Service by fax – Service by mail – Service by publication – Service mark – Service of process – Service (economics), Services – Servient estate – Set-aside – Set-off (law), Set-off – Location (geography), Setting – Settle (law), Settle – Settlement (law), Settlement – Settlement agreement – Settlor – Seven deadly sins – Severable contract – Several liability – Sex offender – Sex offender registries in the United States – Sex tourism – Sex worker – Sex-related court cases – Sexual abuse – Sexual assault – Sexual discrimination – Sexual harassment – Sexual morality – Sexual norm – Shafi'i – Sheikh, Shaikh – Shall – Shame – Share (finance), Share – Share capital – Share certificate – Shareholder – Shareholders agreement – Shareholders' agreement – Shareholders' derivative action – Shareholders' meeting – Sharia law –Sharp practice – Shepardize – Sheriff – Sheriff's sale – Shield laws – Shifting the burden of proof – Shoplifting – Short cause – Shortening time – Show cause order – Shulkhan Arukh – Sick pay – Sidebar (law), Sidebar – Signature, Sign – Signature – Signing bonus – Silk – Bare trust, Simple trusts in Australia – United States trust law#Income tax implications, Simple trust (U.S. trust law) – Simultaneous death act – Sin – Sin-offering – ''sine die'' – ''sine qua non'' – Single life annuity – Situated ethics – Situational ethics – ''situs (law)'' – Slander – Slander of title – Slavery – Slavery at common law – Small claims court – Small claims track – Smuggling – Socage – Social capital – Social control – Social justice – Socialist law – Society for Animal Protective Legislation – Sodomy – Sodomy law – Software license – Software patent – Copyright infringement of software – Sole proprietorship – Solicitation – Solicitor – Solitary confinement – Solvency – Solvent – Sound mind and memory – Sounds in – Southern Poverty Law Center – Sovereign immunity – Sovereignty – Spanish Constitution of 1978 – Spanish Inquisition – Speaking demurrer – Special administrator – Special damages – Special master – Special prosecutor – Special resolution – Special verdict – Specific bequest – Specific devise – Specific finding – Specific legacy – Specific performance – Speculative damages – Speed limit – Speed trap – Speedy trial – Spendthrift clause – Spendthrift trust – Spoliation of evidence – Spontaneous exclamation – Spot zoning – Spousal abuse – Alimony, Spousal support – Springing interest – Squatter – Squatting – Stakeholder (law), Stakeholder – Stamp duty – Standard form contract – Standard of care – Standing (law), Standing – Star Chamber – Star chamber proceedings – ''stare decisis'' – State act (disambiguation), State action – State of domicile – State of Emergency – State religion – State-owned enterprise – Stationhouse bail – Statism – Status conference – Statute – Statute of frauds – Statute of limitations – Statutes of fraud – Statutes of limitations – Statutory Instrument – Statutory law – Statutory offer of settlement – Statutory rape – Stay away order – Stay of execution – Stay of proceedings – Stipendiary magistrate – Stipulation – Stock – Stock certificate – Stock in trade – Stock option – Stockholder – Stockholders' derivative action – Stoning – Stop and frisk – Strata title – Strategic lawsuits against public participation – Straw deed – Straw man – Street – Strict construction – Strict liability – Strike action, Strike – Strike action – Structure – ''sua sponte'' – ''sub judice'' – ''sub modo'' – ''sub nomine'' – ''sub silentio'' – Sub-tenant – Subchapter S corporation – Subcontractor – Sublease – Sublet – Submitted – Subordination (finance), Subordination – Subordination agreement – Subornation of perjury – ''subpoena'' – ''subpoena ad testificum'' – ''subpoena duces tecum'' – Subrogation – Subrogee – Subrogor – Subscribe – Subscribers – Subsidiary company – Substantial performance – Substantive law – Substituted service – Substitution of attorney – Inheritance, Succession – Successive sentences – Suffering – Suffrage – Suggestion of death - ''sui generis'' – Suicide – Suitor – Sum certain – Summary adjudication of issues – Summary assessment – Summary dismissal – Summary judgment – Summary offence – Summation (law), Summation – Summing – Summons – Sunnah – Superior court – ''supersedeas'' – Superseding cause – Suppression of evidence – Supremacy clause – Supreme court – Supreme Court of Canada – Supreme Court of India – Supreme Court of judicature – Supreme Court of New Zealand – Surety – Surplusage – Surrebutal – Surrender (military), Surrender – Surrogate court – Survivorship – Suspended sentence – Sustain – Syndicate – Synod – Synthetic lease

T

Temporary restraining order, T.R.O. – Table A – Tacking (law) – Tainted evidence – Taking the fifth – Tallage – Talmud – Tangible personal property – Tangible property – Taqlid – Targeting civilians – Targum – Tax – Tax avoidance – Tax costs – Tax credit – Tax deduction – Tax evasion – Tax haven – Tax law – Tax sale – Tax treaty – Taxation in the United States – Taxation of costs – Temporary injunction – Temporary insanity – Ten Commandments – Tenancy – Tenancy at sufferance – Tenancy at will – Tenancy by the entirety – Tenancy in common – Tenement – Tentative trust – Tenure – Terms and conditions of employment – Terms and conditions of purchase – Terms and conditions of sale – Terms of disparagement – ''terra nullius'' – Territorial integrity – Terrorism – Test Act – Testacy – Testamentary – Testamentary capacity – Testamentary disposition – Testamentary trust – Testate – Testator – Testatrix – Testify – Testimony – Texas Declaration of Independence – The Crown, Crown – The Old Bailey, Old Bailey – The problem of evil – Theft – Theocracy – Third-party beneficiary – Thirty-day notice – Three strikes law – Three theological virtues – Tide lands – Time is of the essence – Time served – Timeshare – Tipstaff – Tithe – Title – Title abstract – Title insurance – Title report – Title search – Tolling (law), Toll – Toll bridge – Toll road – Tontine – Tools of trade – Torah – Torah study – Torrens title – Tort – Tort claims act – Tortfeasor – Tortious – Torture – Tosafists – Tosefta – Total depravity – Totalitarian democracy – Totalitarianism – Totten doctrine – Totten trust – Tracing (law) – Trade – Fixture (property law), Trade fixture – Trade name – Trade secret – Trade union – Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property rights – Trademark – Trademarks registry – Tragedy of the commons – Transfer agent – Transfer in contemplation of death – Transfer of shares – Transferred intent – Transparency (humanities), Transparency – Treason – Treasure trove – Treasury security – Treasury stock – Treaty – Treaty of Waitangi – Treble damages – Trespass – trial (law), Trial – Trial advocacy – Trial by combat – Trial by ordeal – Trial court – Trial de novo – Trial in absentia, Trial ''in absentia'' – Tribunal – Tribute – Trier of fact – ''trinoda necessitas'' – Triple net lease – Truancy – True bill – Trust law – Trust fund – Trust instrument – Trust (law), Trustee – Trustee in bankruptcy – Settlor, Trustor – Trusts and estates – Truth in Lending Act – Try title – Turn state's evidence – Twelve Tables – Twinkie defense

U

Uberrima fides – UCC-1 – Ulema – Ultimate fact – ''ultra vires'' – Ultrahazardous activity – Unclean hands – Unconscionable – Constitutionality, Unconstitutional – Driving under the influence, Under the influence – Underground Railroad – Underwrite – Underwriter – Underwriting agreement – Undisclosed principal – Undivided interest – Undue influence – Unfair competition – Unfair dismissal – Unfree labour – Unified estate and gift tax – Uniform Code of Military Justice – Uniform Commercial Code – Uniform reciprocal enforcement of support act – Unilateral contract – Uninsured motorist clause – Unissued stock – Unitary state – United Nations Charter – United Nations Convention Against Torture – United States bankruptcy court – United States Bill of Rights – United States Code – United States Constitution – United States constitutional law – United States court of appeals – United States Declaration of Independence – United States Department of Justice – United States district court – United States Federal Income Tax Personal Exemption – United States federal judicial circuit – United States federal judicial district – United States Office of the Independent Counsel – United States Patent and Trademark Office – United States prison population – United States Supreme Court – United States tax reform – United States trademark law, Trademark Law (United States) – Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare – Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Universal jurisdiction – Unjust enrichment – Unjust taking – Crime, Unlawful – Unlawful assembly – Unlawful detainer – ''uno flatu'' – Custom (law), Unofficial law – Unreasonable search and seizure – Unspecified claim – Use tax – Usucaption – Usufruct – Usurious – Usury – ''uti possidetis'' – Utilitarianism – Utility (patent)

V

Vacated judgment – ''Vacatio legis'' – Valid claim – Valuable consideration – Variance (land use), Variance – Vehicular homicide – ''vel non'' – Vendée – Vendor – ''venire'' – Venue (law) – Verdict – Vesting – Vested remainder – Vested right – Vexatious litigation – Vicarious liability – Vice-Chancellor (UK legal system) – ''vice versa'' – ''vide (Latin), vide'' – ''videlicet'' – Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations – Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties – Vigilantism – Violence – Virginia Declaration of Rights – Virtue ethics – Virtue jurisprudence – Visitation right – ''viz.'' – Void (law), Void – Vagueness doctrine – Void marriage – Voidable – Voidable marriage – Voir dire – Volens – Voluntary association – Voluntary bankruptcy – Voting trust – Vulgate

W

Wage execution – Wahhabism – Waive – Waiver – Walking possession – Waqf – War crime – War Crimes Law (Belgium) – War on Drugs – War Powers Resolution – War reparations – Ward (legal) – Ward of court – Ward (law), Wardship – Warrant (legal) – Warrant of committal – Warrant of delivery – Warrant of execution – Warrant of possession – Warranty – Warranty deed – Waste – Watered stock – Weimar constitution – West American Digest System – Wet reckless – Whiplash (medicine) – Whistleblower – White collar crime – Widow – Widow's election – Widower – Will (law), Will – Will contest – Willful violation, Willful – Willfully – Winding up – Window tax – Telephone tapping, Wiretap – Witchhunt – Witness – Witness stand – Witness statement – Words of art – Work stoppage – Workers' compensation – Workers' compensation acts – Workmen's compensation – Great Ape Project#World Declaration on Great Apes, World Declaration on Great Apes – World Intellectual Property Organization – World Trade Organization – Writ – Writ of attachment – Writ of coram nobis – Writ of execution – Writ of mandate – Wrongful death – Wrongful dismissal, Wrongful discharge – Wrongful dismissal – Wrongful dismissal, Wrongful termination – Wrongful trading

X

''Xeer'' – Xenelasia – X-Patent

Y

Yellow Dog contract – Yeshiva – Youthful offender

Z

Zoning

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