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Most Popular Legal Definitions
franchise
1) to grant freedoms or rights to an individual
or party 2) a business relationship in which a primary owner grants license or
permits other businesses to utilize space or trademarks
estate law
A term used by the law to describe that part of
the law which regulates wills, probate and other subjects related to the
distribution of a deceased person's estate
rape
The act of having non-consensual sex with a woman.
complaint
an issue or formal statement brought against another individual or party
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
fiat
A shortly-worded court order.
concubinage
Civil law term for an unmarried couple living nonetheless as husband and wife
or, where same-sex relationships are recognized by law, such similar
cohabitation relationships.
case law
Reported decisions of appeals courts and other courts which make new
interpretations of the law and, therefore, can be cited as precedents. These
interpretations are distinguished from "statutory law," which is the statutes
and codes (laws) enacted by legislative bodies.
civil liability
The potential responsibility for payment of damages or other court-mandated
conditions in a lawsuit, as opposed to criminal liability, which means open to
punishment in accordance to criminal law.
vacate
1) For a judge to set aside or annul an order or judgment which he/she finds was
improper. 2) to move out of real estate and cease occupancy.