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Most Popular Legal Definitions
collective bargaining
trade agreement negotiation between an employer and a person's representative to
govern hiring, work, pay and dispute resolution
refugee
A person who is outside his state of origin or
of residence who cannot return without exposure to human-rights related
persecution.
mistrial
A partial or complete trial which is found to be null and void and of no effect
because of some irregularity.
apparent authority
appearance of being the agent of another
(employer or principal) with the power to act for the principal; since under the
law of agency the employer (the principal) is liable for the acts of his
employee (agent), if a person who is not an agent appears to an outsider (a
customer) to have been given authority by the principal, then the principal is
stuck for the acts of anyone he allows to appear to have authority
bench
1) general term for all judges, as in "the bench," or for the particular judge
or panel of judges, as in an order coming from the "bench." 2) the large,
usually long and wide desk raised above the level of the rest of the courtroom,
at which the judge or panel of judges sit
defamatory libel
deliberate publication of defamatory lies which
the publisher knows to be false
prison
a place in which individuals are confined,
maintaining limited rights in comparison to free individuals
curtesy
widower's right to an interest in his deceased wife's real property
tacit law
a law that is implied or derived from the people
implied trust
A trust that is imposed by law onto certain
situations by presuming the intention of the participants to create a trust,
simply because of the facts at hand.