Legal Dictionary

Category: Synonyms

  • Penalty

    Penalty

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Penalty Meaning of Penalty A punishment . Suffering in person or property as a punishment annexed by law or judicial decision to a violation of law. Also a definite sum named in a contract , not as a […]

  • Proof

    Proof

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Proof Meaning of Proof The result or the effect of evidence ; frequently used as synonymous with competent and legal evidence; testimony . The logically sufficient reason for assenting to the truth of a […]

  • Theft

    Simple larceny unaccompanied with any other atrocious circumstances. The unlawful taking of or exercising unlawful control over movable property of another with intent to deprive him thereof. See Stealing.

  • Defamation

    The publication of a statement which tends to lower a person in the estimation of right thinking members of society generally, or which tends to make them shun or avoid that person. Defamation is either libel or slander . See libel and slander.

  • Frontier

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Frontier Meaning of Frontier Synonyms of Frontier noun ambit border borderland bound boundary boundary line circumjacencies compass confinium […]

  • Vote

    An expression of the choice of an elector. Suffrage.

  • Partnership

    Partnership

    The relation subsisting between two or more persons who have contracted together to share as common owners the profits of a business carried on by all or any of them on behalf of all of them, Shumaker, Partnership, 2. Elements : The essential elements of a partnership are (1) a contract […]

  • Building

    Anything erected by art, and fixed upon or in the soil, composed of different pieces connected together and designed for stand more or less permanently, enclosing a space within its walls, and usually, but not necessarily, covered with a roof.

  • Delivery

    Delivery

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Delivery Meaning of Delivery The act by which the res or substance thereof is placed within the actual or constructive possession or control of another. In the sale of goods , delivery takes place when […]

  • Region

    nounarea circle circuit clime compass confines country county demesne diocese district division domain environs field land latitude limite…

  • Market

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Market Meaning of Market A public place of commercial activity where goods are bought and sold. A public time and appointed place of buying and selling; also purchase and sale. In the stock market, the […]

  • Waste

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Waste Meaning of Waste The destruction, misuse, alteration or neglect of premises by one lawfully in possession thereof, to the prejudice of the estate or interest therein of another. Jowdy v Guerin, 10 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Shareholder

    Shareholder

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Shareholder Meaning of Shareholder One who owns one or more shares of capital stock of a corporation . Also one who has subscribed for a share or shares, and who is entered on the books of the […]

  • Cement

    Gray powdery substance which, when mixed with sand, gravel and water, forms concrete. Dye Trucking Co. v Miller, (Tex. Civ. App.) 397 S. W.2d 507.