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Most Popular Legal Definitions
lex scripta
Latin, written law; statutes.
public policy
The principle that injury to the public good or
public order constitutes a basis for setting aside acts or
transactions.
crime
an act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law and punished, usually by
fine or imprisonment
misdemeanor
A crime of lesser seriousness than a felony where the punishment might be a fine
or prison for less than one year.
assumption
act of taking over the liability for a debt as part of a payment for property
which secures that debt
pedophile
A person afflicted with pedophilia, a sexual perversion in which children are
preferred as sexual partners.
quo warranto
Latin, referring to a special legal procedure
taken to stop a person or an organization from doing something for which it may
not have the legal authority by demanding to know by what right they exercise
the controversial authority.
variance
1) An exception to a zoning ordinance,
authorized by the appropriate governmental body. 2) a difference between what
the prosecution has charged and what it has proved. 3) a difference between what
is alleged and what is proved in a civil complaint.
overrule
1) providing a decision on a case that is in
opposition to previous decisions 2) reject an opposition in a court proceeding
3) to nullify or make void
conversion
a legal action against a person who found and converted someone else's property
to his own use