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Most Popular Legal Definitions
statutes
The written laws approved by legislatures, parliaments or elected or appointed
houses of assembly. Also known as legislation.
privity of contract
A doctrine of contract law that prevents any person from seeking the enforcement
of a contract, or suing on its terms, unless they are a party to that
contract.
bail
1) money or bond put up to secure the release of a person who has been charged
with a crime 2) to post money or bond to secure an accused defendant's release
joint and several liability
liability of more than one person for which each
person is required to pay back the entire amount of a debt or damages.
open adoption
a type of adoption; becoming legal parent to an individual where information
about and, at times, access from the biological parents is permitted
stay of execution
an order that temporarily holds the execution of a court judgment; either
administered for a set time period or until further consideration by the
court
patent
An exclusive privilege granted to an inventor to
make, use or sell an invention for a set number of years.
resisting arrest
the knowing and physical resistance to a lawful arrest
criminal libel
a criminal offense; deliberate publication of defamatory lies which the
publisher knows to be false
domitae naturae
Latin, animals which are of a nature easily
tamed and may be readily domesticated such as cats, dogs, farm animals and some
birds.