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  • Blackmail

    Synonymous with extortion. The extortion of money from a person by threats of accusation or exposure or opposition in the public prints; hush money; bribe to keep silence; obtaining value from a person as a condition of refraining from making an accusation against him, or disclosing some […]

  • Trespass

    A transgression of law. It is a general term encompassing within itself any unlawful act against the person of another or his property accompanied with violence , either actual or implied . Violence will be implied where the injury or damage is of a direct and immediate […]

  • Attorney

    Attorney

    Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Attorney (You may find attorney at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). early 14c. (mid-13c. in Anglo-Latin), “one appointed by another to act in his place,” from Old French atorné “(one) […]

  • Misprision

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Misprision Meaning of Misprision In criminal law. A term used to signify every considerable misdemeanor which has not a certain name given to it by law. 3 Inst. 36. The concealment of a crime. Misprision […]

  • Counsel

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Counsel Meaning of Counsel A person authorized by law to practice law. Also, advice , encouragement. Counsel Alternative Definition The counsellors who […]

  • Counsel

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Counsel Meaning of Counsel A person authorized by law to practice law. Also, advice , encouragement. Counsel Alternative Definition The counsellors who […]

  • Negligence

    Negligence

    Negligence is the omitting to d: something that a reasonable man would do or the doing of something which a reasonable man would not do so under the existing circumstances. See Watson Bro. Transp. Co. v Jacobsen, 97 N. W.2d 52. 168 Neb. 862; Also Baltimore & P.R. Co. Jones, 95 U.S. 439,24 […]

  • Negligence

    Negligence

    Negligence is the omitting to d: something that a reasonable man would do or the doing of something which a reasonable man would not do so under the existing circumstances. See Watson Bro. Transp. Co. v Jacobsen, 97 N. W.2d 52. 168 Neb. 862; Also Baltimore & P.R. Co. Jones, 95 U.S. 439,24 […]

  • Accident

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Accident Meaning of Accident Accident Alternative Definition (Lat. aecidere, ad, to, and cadere, to fall). An event which, under the circumstances, is unusual and […]

  • Character

    A generalized description of one’s disposition in respect to a general trait such as honesty, temperance or carefulness. Frase v Henry, (C.A.8) 444 F.2d 1228. As used in reference to impeachment of a witness by attack on his credibility the term is limited to truth and […]

  • Employment Tribunal

    Employment tribunal in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of employment tribunal.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Policeman Law Enforcement Agency Further Reading employment […]

  • Wilful

    That which is intentional or deliberate. That which is done knowingly, voluntarily. The word must be read in the context in which it appears as it may mean one thing in civil prosecutions and another in criminal prosecutions. Wilson v. U.S., (C.A.9.) 250 F. 2d 312. Generally, the term refers […]