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Most Popular Legal Definitions
kin
A blood or marriage relative; 'next of kin' refers to the closest relative
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
embargo
port, city or territory and may be enforced by
military threat of destroying any vehicle that attempts to break it or by trade
penalties
acceleration
1) In a contract or a promissory note, when the payment of debt is moved up to
the present time due to some event like non-payment of an installment or sale of
the property which secures the debt.
onus
Latin, the burden. It is usually used in the
context of evidence.
criminal code
a statute which purports or attempts to set out all prohibited or criminal
offences, and their various punishments
life tenant
The beneficiary of a life estate.
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.
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.
accusation
legally charging someone with a crime; either by indictment, Grand Jury, or the
filing of charges by a district attorney