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Most Popular Legal Definitions
case system
The method of studying law generally used in American law schools, in which
students read, outline, discuss and hear lectures about the cases. Each case
presented stands for a particular rule of law in the subject matter covered and
is contained in "casebooks" on particular topics.
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"
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
zebra crossing
Striped white or yellow lines on asphalt streets that indicate a pedestrian
crossing or a pedestrian right-of-way.
visitation
a right granted to an individual not recognized
as the sole-custodian of a child
criminal libel
a criminal offense; deliberate publication of defamatory lies which the
publisher knows to be false
money
An item accepted by all as payment for debts or for goods or services.
due process
Procedural legal safeguards of which every
citizen has an absolute right when a state or court purports to take a decision
that could affect any right of that citizen
conspiracy
an agreement between two or more persons to commit a criminal act
account stated
statement between a creditor--or the person to whom money is owned--and the
debtor that a particular amount is owed to the seller as of a certain date