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Most Popular Legal Definitions
admission
1. statement made by a party to a lawsuit or a criminal defendant that certain
facts are true. 2. accepting the truth of an argument not previously proven 3.
the granting of permission as in to enter or act in a certain function 4.
agreement to a statement made by another
freight
The money paid by a person for the
transportation of goods.
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.
sodomy
Synonymous with buggery and referring to
unnatural sex acts, including copulation, either between two persons of the same
sex or between a person and an animal.
rape
The act of having non-consensual sex with a woman.
precedent
A case which establishes legal principles to a certain set of facts.
opening statement
A lawyer's initial remarks at trial. Generally, it is directed at the judge or
jury to set out the theory behind their case.
churning
The unethical and usually illegal practice of excessive buying and selling of
shares for a stock for a customer by a stockbroker or sales agent for the
purpose of obtaining high sales commissions.
calumny
intentional and generally malicious false
accusation of a crime or other offense designed to damage one's reputation
in pari delicto
Latin for 'both parties are at fault.'