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Capacity to Contract
Capacity to contract in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of capacity to contract.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Police Officer Law Enforcement Agency Further Reading […]
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Judicial Proceedings
A procfeeding which takes place in or under the authority of a court of justice, or which relates in any way to the administration of justice, or which legally ascertains any right or liability. 197111.228. …
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Infancy
Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Infancy (You may find infancy at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). late 14c., “condition of babyhood,” also “childhood, youth,” from Anglo-French enfaunce and directly from Latin infantia “early […]
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Adoption
The act by which a person takes the child of another into his family, and treats him as his own. A juridical act creating between two persons certain relations, purely civil, or paternity and filiation. 6 Demolombe Code Nap. ÃÂÃÂÃÂç 1. As used in the law the word has a strict significance […]
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Paternal
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Paternal Meaning of Paternal That which belongs to or relates to the father . Paternal Alternative Definition That which belongs to the father or comes […]
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Criminal
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Criminal Meaning of Criminal A person indicted for a crime and found guilty. An act is criminal when the quality of such act is such that it is prohibited under appropriate penal provisions by authority […]
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Popular Definitions A-Z
Popular Legal Definitions A-Z Welcome to the Legal Dictionary Browse thousands of legal terms and phrases selected by the Lawi Project editors and suggest new words for the largest law dictionary of the world. Dictionary Popular Legal Terms: A absolute divorce absolute estate accessory contract act actual damages actual fraud adjective law administrative law administrative…
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Adoptive
adjectiveadoptivus appointive choosing discretional elective preferential selective Associated Concepts: adoptive father adoptive mother adoptive parent foster care inheritance by adopti…
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Since
A preposition denoting during, within the time after, ever after, at a time after, from and after the time, occurrence, or existence of’. Keller v Keller, 121 Kan. 520, 247 F. 433.