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Most Popular Legal Definitions
jury
A group of citizens randomly selected from the
population and brought together to assist justice by deciding which version
constitutes 'the truth' given different evidence by both parties.
labor
1) to work; to perform a duty or job 2)
exertion; collective group of workers
defeasance
side-contract which contains a condition which,
if realized, could defeat the main contract
home invasion
A break and enter of occupied residential premises with forced confinement,
assault or battery of its occupants.
salvage
1) to save goods. 2) payment to a person or
group which saves cargo from a shipwreck.
murder
intentional homicide (the taking of another person's life), without legal
justification or provocation.
quiet enjoyment
A landlord's obligation to provide the tenant with reasonable privacy and
freedom from any interference with the tenant's exclusive use and enjoyment of
the rented premises.
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
assume
to take over the liability for a debt on a promissory note, which is often done
by the buyer of real property which has a secured debt upon it; "to assume the
debt"
death duties
tax payments due to the state, incurred and
payable as a result of the death of the tax-payer