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Most Popular Legal Definitions
disrate
A term of maritime law where an officer or other seaman is either demoted in
rank or deprived of a promotion.
capitalization
1) the act of counting anticipated earnings and expenses as capital assets for
accounting purposes 2) The amount of anticipated net earnings which
hypothetically can be used for conversion into capital assets.
evidence
1) something which provides proof or disproves a claim or otherwise believed
statement 2)to make clear or evident, to show by proof
voyeurism
The secret viewing of another person in a place
where the person would have a reasonable expectation of privacy, for the purpose
of the viewer's sexual arousal.
incorporeal hereditament
An intangible right which is attached to
property and which is inheritable.
criminal law
body of law that deals with conduct considered so harmful to society as a whole
that it is prohibited by statute, prosecuted and punished by the government
with prejudice
A statement or order that is conclusive between
the parties as to the dispute between them.
letters rogatory
A request of a judge in one jurisdiction to a court of another, to examine a
specific witness.
non compos menti
Latin, Not of sound mind.
cestui que use
An old fashioned term for a person who benefits from assets held in a trust for
the beneficiary's use. The term "beneficiary" is now used instead.