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  • Guilt

    Guilt

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Guilt Meaning of Guilt In criminal law. That which renders criminal and liable to punishment. That disposition to violate the law which has manifested itself by some act already done. The opposite of […]

  • Guilt

    Guilt

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Guilt Meaning of Guilt In criminal law. That which renders criminal and liable to punishment. That disposition to violate the law which has manifested itself by some act already done. The opposite of […]

  • Conspiracy

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Conspiracy Meaning of Conspiracy An agreement between two or more persons to do an act that is unlawful or a lawful act by unlawful means . An inchoate offense and the agreement need not be shown to […]

  • Conspiracy

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Conspiracy Meaning of Conspiracy An agreement between two or more persons to do an act that is unlawful or a lawful act by unlawful means . An inchoate offense and the agreement need not be shown to […]

  • Obscenity

    In criminal law. Such indecency as is calculated to promote the violation of the law and the general corruption of morals. It may consist in written or spoken words, conduct, pictures, or effigies. It need not be couched in obscene or vulgar terms if the idea conveyed tends to produce […]

  • Accountability

    Rendición de cuentas…

  • Delict

    Delict

    In civil law. The act by which one person, by fraud or malignity, causes some damage or tort to some other. In its most enlarged sense, this term includes all kinds of crimes and misdemeanors, and even the injury which has been caused by another, either voluntary or accidentally, without […]

  • Ley

    Law.

  • Ad valorem tax

    Meaning of Ad Valorem Tax in the United States Tax SystemU.S. and other Developed Countries International Tax MeaningIt is a tax on goods or property imposesd in some countries, like the United States, and expressed as a percentage of the sales price or assessed value of the item.<…

  • Ad valorem tax

    Meaning of Ad Valorem Tax in the United States Tax SystemU.S. and other Developed Countries International Tax MeaningIt is a tax on goods or property imposesd in some countries, like the United States, and expressed as a percentage of the sales price or assessed value of the item.<…

  • Grossome

    Grossome

    See Gressume. …

  • Vice

    A defect, a fault. Also, one who is nest to a superior office as in the term vice- president, vice-chancellor.

  • Corroborate

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Corroborate Meaning of Corroborate In evidence. To sustain by the introduction of other evidence to the same mact Corroborative evidence is “such evidence as tends in some degree of its own strength, […]

  • Chicanery

    English Spanish Translation of Chicanery EngañoFind other English to Spanish translations from the Pocket Spanish English Legal Dictionary (print and online), the English to Spanish to English dictionaries (like Chicanery) and the Word reference legal […]

  • Descent

    In real property law, the taking of real estate by inheritance , that is, as heir of the former owner . The passing of title in realty from a person dying intestate to someone related to him by consanguinity . In Re Copeland’s estate , 179 A.2d 475, 123 Vt. 32. Takes […]