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Most Popular Legal Definitions
unilateral contract
An agreement to pay in exchange for performance,
if the potential performer chooses to act.
quistclose trust
A trust which arises to the benefit of the donor
when property is advanced for a specific purpose and that purpose
fails.
freight
The money paid by a person for the
transportation of goods.
actual notice
Having been informed directly of something or having seen it occur, as
distinguished from constructive notice.
barrister
in the United States, a fancy name for a lawyer or attorney; in Great Britain,
there is a two-tier bar made up of solicitors, who perform all legal tasks
except appearance in court, and barristers, who try cases
genocide
The systematic killing of persons because of their ethnicity.
contract
an agreement between persons which obliges each party to do or not to do a
certain thing
solicitor
A lawyer that restrict his or her practice to
the giving of legal advice and preparation of formal legal documents, and does
not normally litigate.
lex loci
Latin, the law of a place as in where a right was acquired or a liability
incurred.
vicarious liability
Sometimes called "imputed liability," attachment of responsibility to a person
for harm or damages caused by another person in either a negligence lawsuit or
criminal prosecution.