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  • 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 […]

  • Government

    Government

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Government Meaning of Government The governing body of a community , a state , United States , territory, district , municipality , a commonwealth . See 11 U.S.C. §101(21). <div […]

  • Judicial Review

    Judicial Review

    Generally, the phrase denotes the power of Superior Courts to review the decisions and proceedings of inferior courts. However, the phrase has now specifically come to denote that jurisdiction of the superior courts whereby it issues the prerogative writs of Mandamus, Prohibition, Certiorari […]

  • 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 […]

  • Forensic Medicine

    Medical jurisprudence . That science which teaches the application of every branch of medical knowledge to the purpose of the law. Hence, its requirements are, on the one hand, the requirements of the law, and on the other , the whole range of medicine.

  • Process

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Process Meaning of Process The proceedings in any action or prosecution , real or personal , civil or criminal , from the beginning to the end; strictly, the summons by which one is cited into a court , […]

  • Pleading

    A written statement delivered by a party to a cause containing a concise statement of the material facts upon which such party relies. A pleading should not contain the evidence by which the material facts pleaded are to be proved, although no Averment must be omitted which is […]

  • Canon

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Canon Meaning of Canon A dignitary of the English church other than a Dean. A rule of law or a rule of discipline, particularly ecclesiastical . A rule of law contained in deeretum gratiani compiled by […]

  • Waiver

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Waiver Meaning of Waiver An intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right or privilege. Johnson v Zerbst, 304 U.S. 458, 58 S.Ct. 1019, 82 L.Ed. 1461. To constitute a waiver of a legal right […]

  • Waiver

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Waiver Meaning of Waiver An intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right or privilege. Johnson v Zerbst, 304 U.S. 458, 58 S.Ct. 1019, 82 L.Ed. 1461. To constitute a waiver of a legal right […]

  • Capital

    Hello Hello Legal Definition and Related Resources of Capital Meaning of Capital As an adjective, means chief , principal , or of pertaining to the death penalty , punishable with death. As a noun, in commercial parlance, means the fund or the […]

  • Force Majeure

    Force Majeure

    The title of a standard clause in marine contracts exempting the parties for no fulfillment of their obligations as a result of conditions beyond their control, such as earthquakes, floods, or war….

  • Force Majeure

    Force Majeure

    The title of a standard clause in marine contracts exempting the parties for no fulfillment of their obligations as a result of conditions beyond their control, such as earthquakes, floods, or war….

  • Circumstantial Evidence

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Circumstantial Evidence Meaning of Circumstantial Evidence Facts from which the existence of the fact in issue may be logically inferred. That evidence by which, through process of inference , it is […]

  • Renewal

    A change of something old for something new; as, the renewal of a note; the renewal of a lease. See Novation; 1 Bouv. Inst, note 800. …