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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.'