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Most Popular Legal Definitions
affirmative action
The process of a business or governmental agency
in which it gives special rights of hiring or advancement to ethnic
minorities
attractive nuisance doctrine
legal doctrine which makes a person negligent for leaving a piece of equipment
or other condition on property which would be both attractive and dangerous to
curious children; these have included tractors, unguarded swimming pools, open
pits, and abandoned refrigerators
attorney in fact
someone specifically named by another through a written "power of attorney" to
act for that person in the conduct of the appointer's business
misdemeanor
A crime of lesser seriousness than a felony where the punishment might be a fine
or prison for less than one year.
bargain
a mutual agreement or contract between two
parties which is voluntary and involves the exchange of consideration
advisory opinion
an opinion stated by a judge or a court upon the request of a legislative body
or government agency; an advisory opinion has no force of law but is given as a
matter of courtesy
obiter dictum
Latin, an observation by a judge on a matter not specifically before the
court.
unilateral contract
An agreement to pay in exchange for performance,
if the potential performer chooses to act.
cause of action
The basis of a lawsuit founded on legal grounds and alleged facts which, if
proved, would constitute all the "elements" required by statute.
appeal
1) to ask a higher court to reverse the decision
of a trial court after final judgment or other legal ruling 2) the name for the
process of appealing, as in "he has filed an appeal"