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Most Popular Legal Definitions
moot
A side issues, problem, or question which does not have to be decided to resolve
the main issues.
alternative pleading
legal fiction in which a party to a lawsuit or a defendant charged with a crime
can plead two ways which are inconsistent with each other; examples: a) someone
hurt in an accident can plead that the other party was negligent or ran into him
intentionally b) "not guilty" and "not guilty by reason of insanity" (in which
there is the implied admission that the defendant committed the act)
scienter
Latin for "having knowledge."
privative clause
A section of law that states that all or select decisions of that tribunal are
final and conclusive and not subject to judicial rule.
specific deterrence
Deterrence, as an objective of sentencing, which is fit to a particular
offender.
m'naughten rule
A traditional "right and wrong" test of legal insanity
criminal code
a statute which purports or attempts to set out all prohibited or criminal
offences, and their various punishments
take
To gain or obtain possession, including the
receipt of a legacy from an estate.
alimony
support paid by one ex-spouse to the other as ordered by a court in a divorce;
termed as spousal support in California and some other states
federalism
A system of government which has created, by written agreement, a central and
national government to which it has distributed specified legislative powers,
and called the federal
government, and regional governments to which is distributed other specified legislative powers.
government, and regional governments to which is distributed other specified legislative powers.