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Most Popular Legal Definitions
employee
A person who has agreed by contract to perform
specified services for another, the employer, in exchange for money
conflict of interests
situation where someone has personal interests
in a matter that requires total objectivity or separation, or two competing
interests
child custody
court's determination of which parent, relative, or other adult should have
physical and/or legal control and responsibility for a minor (child) under 18
challenge for cause
A request that a prospective juror be dismissed because there is a specific and
forceful reason to believe the person cannot be fair, unbiased or capable of
serving as a juror.
corporation
a legal entity, created under the authority of a statute, which permits a group
of people, as shareholders, to apply to the government for an independent
organization to be created, which then pursues set objectives, and is empowered
with legal rights usually only reserved for individuals, such as to sue and be
sued, own property, hire employees or loan and borrow money
prosecute
To bring judicial proceedings against a person and to administer them until the
conclusion of the court proceedings.
squatter
an individual that lives on the land of another or that is publicly owned
without consent or legal authority
advancement
gift made by a person to one of his or her children or heirs in anticipation of
a gift from the still-living parent's potential estate as an advance on one's
inheritance; one should obtain proof that the advanced sum was against the
projected inheritance
acceleration clause
most often found in promissory notes for installment payments of real property,
it requires that the property be sold and the resulting amount of the note be
due immediately
presumption of innocence
Synonymous with the phrase "innocent until proven guilty." It is a legal
presumption that the defendant in a criminal case is innocent until the
prosecutor proves their guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.