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Most Popular Legal Definitions
euthanasia
The putting to death, by painless method, of a
terminally-ill or severely debilitated person through the omission or commission
of an act
tacit law
a law that is implied or derived from the people
brief
1) written legal argument, usually in a format prescribed by the courts, stating
the legal reasons for the suit based on statutes, regulations, case precedents,
legal texts, and reasoning applied to facts in the particular situation 2) to
summarize a precedent, case, or lay out in writing a legal argument; attentive
law students "brief" each case in their casebooks, which means extracting the
rule of law, the reasoning (rationale), the essential facts, and the outcome. 3)
to give a summary of important information to another person
joint tenancy
When two or more people are equal owners of a property
conscientious objector
an individual following religious or moral law that disallow them from entering
armed services
embargo
port, city or territory and may be enforced by
military threat of destroying any vehicle that attempts to break it or by trade
penalties
innocent passage
A term of international maritime law referring to a ship's right to enter and
pass through a coastal state's territorial water as long as it is not
prejudicial to the peace and order of the coastal state.
lawyer
A person who has been trained in the law and
that has been certified to give legal advice or to represent others in
litigation.
appraise
to professionally evaluate the value of property
socialism
A form or system of government which states the
equal sharing of land and equal return of the product of the land and industry
to all citizens.