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Most Popular Legal Definitions
tax
A governmental assessment (charge) upon property value, transactions, licenses
granting a right and/or income.
abscond
1) To leave a jurisdiction to avoid being served with legal papers or being
arrested. 2) A surprise departure with funds or goods that have been stolen.
bench warrant
a warrant issued by a judge, often to command someone to appear before the
judge, with a setting of an amount of bail to be posted, generally; a bench
warrant is used in lesser matters to encourage the party appear in court.
answer
filed by a defendant to respond to a complaint in a lawsuit filed and served
upon that defendant
law of nature
The uncertain and elastic concept of regulation
of conduct based on morality, conscience or God.
interloper
A person, who with legal right to do so, runs a
business or who wrongfully interferes or intercepts another's business.
seriatim
Latin for "one after another."
trustee
a person a entity who holds the assets of a
trustee for the benefit of the beneficiaries and manages the trust and its
assets under the terms of the trust stated in the declaration of trust which
created it.
defense
the establishment of a case or position in opposition to allegations or
attacks
commodum ex injuria sua nemo habere debet
Latin, "A wrongdoer should not be enabled by law to take any advantage from his
actions."