Tag: Legal Definition
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Joint Venture
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Joint Venture Meaning of Joint Venture An association of two or more persons to carry out a single business enterprise for profit for which purpose they combine their property and services. See […]
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Foundation
The establishment of a charity; that upon which a charity is founded and by which it is supported. This word, in the English law, is taken in two senses, fundatio ineipiens, and fundaiAo perficiens. As to its political capacity, an act of Incorporation is metaphorically called its […]
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Writ of Execution
A judicial writ addressed to the sheriff of the county or district and requiring him to enforce a judgment of the court issuing the writ. It may be a writ of fieri facias, of sequestration or of attachment.
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Additur
See also The power of a judge to increase the amount of an inadequate… (Read more)…
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Sovereign Immunity
A principal of jurisprudence whereby the state cannot be sued unless it has given its consent or has otherwise waived its immunity. This doctrine is of judicial origin founded on the ancient principal that the King can do no wrong; it is no longer in much favor with the courts. See Lansing v […]
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Directed Verdict
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Directed Verdict Meaning of Directed Verdict A verdict which a jury returns as directed by the court . See Deere v Southern Pac. Co., (C.C.A. Or.) 123 F.2d 438. […]
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Redirect Examination
Follow cross-examination, and is conducted by the party who first examined the witness….
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Subpoena Duces Tecum
A subpoena which commands a witness to produce certain documents….
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Action In Rem
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Action in rem Meaning of Action in rem See “Actio in Rem.” Action In Rem Legal Definition Action “against the thing” as compared to personal actions (in personam). […]
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En Banc
Adverb all together as a unit as a whole collectively en bloc en masse entirely in a body in a mass in sum in toto one and all …
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Intervention
(Lat. intervenio, to come between or among). In Civil Law. The act by which a third party becomes a party in a suit pending between other persons. The intervention is made either to be joined to the plaintiff, and to claim the same thing he does, or some other thing connected with it; or […]
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Expungement
A court order allowing the destruction or sealing of records of minors or adults, after the passage of a specified period of time or when the person reaches a specified age and has not committed another offense….
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Et Seq
(Lat. et sequentia, and following). Ordinarily used with a reference to the first of several consecutive pages or chapters desired to be cited, as page 246 et seq. …
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Et Seq
(Lat. et sequentia, and following). Ordinarily used with a reference to the first of several consecutive pages or chapters desired to be cited, as page 246 et seq. …
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Of Counsel
A term applied to the counsel employed by a party in a cause, or whose name appears upon the papers. Derived probably from the Latin a consiliis (q. V.) and expressed by the Law Latin de consilio (Law French de counsel). Dyer, 34b, 38. The modern phrase of counsel for a party […]