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Most Popular Legal Definitions
able-bodied
Having a strong, healthy body. In law, it is often used to describe a person who
is capable of earning a living and, therefore, able to pay alimony or child
support.
domicile
The permanent residence of a person; a place to
which, even if he or she were temporary absent, they intend to return.
intestate
To die without a will.
visitation
a right granted to an individual not recognized
as the sole-custodian of a child
barrister
in the United States, a fancy name for a lawyer or attorney; in Great Britain,
there is a two-tier bar made up of solicitors, who perform all legal tasks
except appearance in court, and barristers, who try cases
pro se
Latin, on one's own behalf; indicates that an
individual represents themselves in a court of law
writ
An official court document, signed by a judge or bearing an official court seal,
which commands the person to whom it is addressed to do something
specific.
assumption
act of taking over the liability for a debt as part of a payment for property
which secures that debt
consideration
Some right, interest, profit, or benefit accruing to the one party of a
contract, or some forbearance, detriment, loss or responsibility given, suffered
or undertaken by the other.
estoppel
A rule of law that when person A, by act or words, gives person B reason to
believe a certain set of facts upon which person B takes action, person A cannot
later, to his benefit, deny those facts or say that his earlier act was improper