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Most Popular Legal Definitions
onus
Latin, the burden. It is usually used in the
context of evidence.
tenth amendment
a part of the Bill of Rights, provides that any power not reserved for the
federal government and not prohibited to be acted upon by the States is left to
the governing body of each state or the people
approach the bench
an attorney's movement from the counsel table to the front of the judge's bench;
an attorney must ask permission before approaching the bench
fourteenth amendment
An amendment to the U.S. Constitution as a part
of the Civil War amendments designed to give full civil and legal rights to
slaves, incorporated the Bill of Rights into state law, created the due process
clause, and is known as the greatest expansion of individual rights since the
Bill of Rights
ad valorem
Latin for "based on value," which generally applies to property taxes based on a
percentage of the county's assessment of the property's value.
federal court
courts under the jurisdiction of US law; separated into district courts, court
of appeals, and the Supreme Court
entrapment
The inducement, by law enforcement officers or
their agents, of another person to commit a crime for the purposes of bringing
charges for the commission of that artificially provoked crime
mistrial
A partial or complete trial which is found to be null and void and of no effect
because of some irregularity.
affiant
person who signs an affidavit and swears to its
truth before a notary public or some person authorized to take oaths, like a
county clerk
cuius est solum ejus est usque ad caelum
Latin, "who owns the land, owns down to the center of the earth and up to the
heavens"