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Most Popular Legal Definitions

collusion

secretive agreement between two or more persons, who seem to have conflicting interests, to abuse the law or the legal system, deceive a court or to defraud a third party

parens patriae

Latin, inherent jurisdiction of the courts to make decisions concerning people who are not able to take care of themselves.

nuisance

The unreasonable, unwarranted and/or unlawful use of property, which causes inconvenience or damage to others, either to individuals and/or to the general public.

pedophile

A person afflicted with pedophilia, a sexual perversion in which children are preferred as sexual partners.

code

a system of rules set-forth by an appropriate body or power

double jeopardy

A prohibition against being tried or sentenced twice for the same offense.

prohibition

A legal restriction against the use of something or against certain conduct.

capitalization

1) the act of counting anticipated earnings and expenses as capital assets for accounting purposes 2) The amount of anticipated net earnings which hypothetically can be used for conversion into capital assets.

anti-trust laws

acts adopted by Congress to outlaw or restrict business practices considered to be monopolistic or which restrain interstate commerce; the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 declared illegal "every contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce" between states or foreign countries; the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, amended by the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936, prohibits discrimination among customers through pricing and disallows mergers, acquisitions or takeovers of one firm by another if the effect will "substantially lessen competition"

articles of impeachment

the charges brought to impeach a public official