Category: Family Law

  • Marriage

    Legal Definition of Marianismo Meaning of Marianismo The Spanish and Latin American ideal of women being modest, restrained, virtuous, and nurturing. Women are expected to be sexually abstinent before marriage and passive in response to their […]

  • Injunction

    Hello Meaning of Injunction in Spanish Description/ translation of injunction into Spanish: orden o mandamiento (por el que el juez intima al acusado a hacer o no hacer algo)[1] Note: for more information on related terms and on the area of law where injunction belongs (criminal […]

  • Apprentice.

    Apprentice.

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Apprentice. Meaning of Apprentice. One who binds himself to serve and learn for a definite time from a master, who on his side covenants to teach his trade or calling. See Clements v. L. & N.W. Ry. […]

  • Bond

    Bond

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Bond Meaning of Bond A contract under seal to pay a sum of money ; a contract under seal acknowledging a debt, present or future. This is a single bond. A double bond is one where there is a condition […]

  • Contract

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Contract Meaning of Contract A deliberate engagement between competent parties upon a legal consideration to do or abstain from doing some act. It is essential to the creation of a contract that the […]

  • Record

    Record Meaning in the U.S. Court System A written account of the proceedings in a case, including all pleadings, evidence, and exhibits submitted in the course of the case.

  • Power of Attorney

    Power of Attorney

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Power Of Attorney Meaning of Power Of Attorney An instrument in writing by which one person , as principal , appoints another as his agent and confers upon him the authority to perform certain specified […]

  • Interest

    Interest

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Interest Meaning of Interest In relation to being objectively concerned in something, by having a right or title to, a claim upon, or a share in. legal concern in a thing; especially right or title to […]

  • Information

    Information

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Information Meaning of Information The accusation of a complainant in written form specifying the charge and particulars. Different from an indictment in that an information is presented by a competent […]

  • Evidence

    Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Evidence (You may find evidence at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). c. 1300, “appearance from which inferences may be drawn,” from Old French evidence, from Late Latin evidentia “proof,” in classical […]

  • Artificial Insemination

    Impregnation of a woman by one of many possible artificial reproductive technologies (ARTs)….

  • Fraud

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Fraud Meaning of Fraud In widest sense, the term denotes an infraction of the rules of fair dealing. while it is impossible to find a definition of fraud to embrace all f.r.s. that it may adopt , for it […]

  • Crime

    English Spanish Translation of Crime DelitoFind other English to Spanish translations from the Pocket Spanish English Legal Dictionary (print and online), the English to Spanish to English dictionaries (like Crime) and the Word reference legal translator. Translate […]

  • Personal Property

    Goods , chattels , effects , bills, bonds, notes, securities , shares, dividends, premiums, bonuses in any bank, company or corporation , any interest there in, and any chose in possession or in action . Goods, chattels, effects, bills, bonds, notes, securities, shares, […]