Legal Dictionary

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  • Equal Protection of the Law

    The guaranty of equal protection of the laws, used in the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, means that no person or class of persons shall be denied the same protection of the laws, which is enjoyed by other persons or other classes in the same […]

  • Investment

    Investment

    Legal Definition of Investment Meaning of Investment The use of money for the purpose of making more money, to gain income, increase capital, or both. Synonyms of Investment noun […]

  • Merger

    Merger

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Merger Meaning of Merger In relation to corporations, the term denotes the amalgamation of two corporations to form a new one. The absorption of one corporation by another, which retains its name and […]

  • Goodwill

    The advantage or benefit which is acquired by a business, beyond the mere value of the capital, stock, funds or property employed therein, in consequence of the general public patronage and encouragement which it receives from constant or habitual customers. See Metropolitan Nat. Bank v St. […]

  • Gift

    A voluntary transfer of any thing made without consideration or expectation of consideration. The essential components of a valid completed gift of personal property are: competency of the donor to give the gift; voluntary intent on the part of the donor to make a gift; delivery […]

  • Purchase

    In general sense, the term denotes the act of acquiring anything sold. To buy. In relation to realty , the term means acquisition of land in any lawful manner other than by descent or the mere act of law, and includes acquisition by conveyance , gift or devise . The term words […]

  • Remote Sensing

    Remote Sensing in the National Security Context A definition and brief description of Remote Sensing in relation to national security is as follows:The acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon by a device located a considerable distance from the object or phenomenon.

  • Remote Sensing

    Remote Sensing in the National Security Context A definition and brief description of Remote Sensing in relation to national security is as follows:The acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon by a device located a considerable distance from the object or phenomenon.

  • Domicile

    The permanent home of a person , or that place where a man has his true fixed and permanent home and principal establishment and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning. The relation which the law creates between an individual and a particular […]

  • Peculiar

    While the word sometimes has an offensive meaning, its natural and usual meaning is particular or special. St. Louis M.& S.E.R. Co. v Continental Brick Co., 96 S. W. 1011, 198 Mo. 698.

  • Receipt

    A written acknowledgment that a certain sum of money or goods stated thereon has been received. Also, in accounting practice, the term denotes moneys that are received as opposed to the expenditures. As a matter of economic concept, it defers from income since a receipt includes capital and […]

  • Taking

    An element of larceny (g. v.) …

  • Taking

    An element of larceny (g. v.) …

  • Distress

    The taking, without legal process , of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrongdoer into the hands of a party aggrieved , as a pledge for the redressing and injury , the performance of a duty, or the satisfaction of a demand . The term also signifies the property […]

  • Ganancial

    Community property , in Spanish law, of the husband and wife divisible equally on dissolution of the marriage.