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Most Popular Legal Definitions
direct tax
A tax demanded from the very persons who it is intended or desired should pay
it.
legal fiction
A ruling on law based on hypothetical facts.
nunc pro tunc
Latin, deemed retroactive.
deem
to accept a document or an event as conclusive of a certain status in the
absence of evidence or facts which would normally be required to prove that
status
moot
A side issues, problem, or question which does not have to be decided to resolve
the main issues.
magistrate
a public civil officer involved with legal determination or under the purview of
one of the three branches of government
emolument
A legal word which refers to all wages, benefits
or other benefit received as compensation for holding some office or
employment
seisin
The legal possession of property. In law, the term refers more specifically to
the possession of land by a freeholder.
long-term offender
A convicted person for whom a court states there is a substantial risk of
re-offending.
trade secret
A process, method, plan, formula or other
information unique to a manufacturer, which gives it an advantage over
competitors.