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Most Popular Legal Definitions

genocide

The systematic killing of persons because of their ethnicity.

respite

an agreement between a debtor and creditor that grants an individual time to satisfy debts due to a momentary inability to pay

collective bargaining

trade agreement negotiation between an employer and a person's representative to govern hiring, work, pay and dispute resolution

appreciation

the increase in value through the natural course of events as distinguished from improvements or additions

legalism

The rigorous and ruthless adherence to the word of the law.

change of circumstances

The principal reason for a court modifying (amending) an existing order for the payment of alimony and/or child support. The change may be an increase or decrease in the income of either the party obligated to pay or the ex-spouse receiving payment, or the health, the employment, or needs of either party.

sanction

To ratify or to approve; punish.

quo warranto

Latin, referring to a special legal procedure taken to stop a person or an organization from doing something for which it may not have the legal authority by demanding to know by what right they exercise the controversial authority.

money

An item accepted by all as payment for debts or for goods or services.

code

a system of rules set-forth by an appropriate body or power