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Most Popular Legal Definitions
booby trap
A device set up to be triggered to harm or kill anyone entering the trap, such
as a shotgun which will go off if a room is entered, or dynamite which will
explode if the ignition key on an auto is turned. If a person sets up such a
trap to protect his/her property, he/she will be liable for any injury or death
even to an unwanted intruder such as a burglar. Setting a booby trap to even
protect one's property is a crime.
next of kin
The nearest blood relative of a deceased.
in loco parentis
Latin, a person who thought not the natural
parent, has acted as a parent to a child and may thus be liable to legal
obligations as if they were a natural parent.
merger
in corporate law, the joining together of two corporations.
unclean hands
A legal doctrine which is a defense to a complaint, which states that a party
who is asking for a judgment cannot have the help of the court if he/she has
done anything unethical in relation to the subject of the lawsuit.
democracy
form of government in which the people freely govern themselves; where the
executive (or administrative) and law-making (or legislative) power is given to
persons chosen by the population; the free people
arrest
1) to take or hold a suspected criminal with legal authority, as by a law
enforcement office 2) To delay the enforcement of a judgment by a judge while
errors in the record are corrected
letters rogatory
A request of a judge in one jurisdiction to a court of another, to examine a
specific witness.
testator
The signatory of a valid will.
death
irreversible cessation of circulatory and
respiratory functions and of all functions of the entire brain, including the
brain stem