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Most Popular Legal Definitions
trespass
Unlawful interference with another's person,
property, or rights.
accommodation
1) a favor done without compensation, such as a signature guaranteeing payment
of a debt, sometimes called an accommodation endorsement 2) compromising with an
for the sake of resolution
administer
1) To conduct the duties of a job or position 2) To manage the affairs of the
estate of a person who has died under supervision of the local court 3) To give
an oath, as in "administer the oath"
Yellow Dog Contract
A name given in American labor law to contract of employment by which the
employee promises not to join a union or agrees to forfeit employment if he/she
joins a union during the period of employment.
spousal support
Payments to an ex-spouse which are temporary or indefinite, designed to pool and
share the income of both spouses for that period of time necessary for the
lower-income spouse to become economically self-sufficient.
proof in solemn form
The pronouncement by a court that a will is
formally approved and not subject to later contest, with the exception of fraud
or a later will.
entrapment
The inducement, by law enforcement officers or
their agents, of another person to commit a crime for the purposes of bringing
charges for the commission of that artificially provoked crime
abstention doctrine
When the Supreme Court refuses to exercise its federal constitutional
jurisdiction or declines to consider a question of state law arising from a case
being appealed from a state court.
abortion
The termination of pregnancy by various means. It was ruled in Roe v. Wade
(1973) that a woman had the right to choose abortion to end a pregnancy through
the first trimester.
burden of proof
the requirement that the plaintiff (the party bringing a civil lawsuit) show by
a "preponderance of evidence" or "weight of evidence" that all the facts
necessary to win a judgment are presented and are probably true; in a criminal
trial the burden of proof required of the prosecutor is to prove the guilt of
the accused "beyond a reasonable doubt," a much more difficult task