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  • Avoidance

    A making void, useless, or empty. In Ecclesiastical Law. It exists when a beneiice becomes vacant for want of an incumbent. In Pleading. Repelling or excluding the conclusions or implications arising from the admission of the truth of the allegations of the opposite party. See […]

  • Salvo

    (Lat.) Saving; excepting; without prejudice tg. Salvo me et haeredibus meis, except me and my heirs. Salvo jure cujuslibet, without prejudice to the rights of any one. …

  • Default

    Omission of that which ought to be done; negligence ; the omission or failure t perform a legal duty. In practice, a failui of a party to take any steps required of hii in the progress of the case, such as tlj failure to respond to a pleading .

  • Default

    Omission of that which ought to be done; negligence ; the omission or failure t perform a legal duty. In practice, a failui of a party to take any steps required of hii in the progress of the case, such as tlj failure to respond to a pleading .

  • Breach

    Breach

    The violation of a obligation , ora duty.

  • Breach

    Breach

    The violation of a obligation , ora duty.

  • Flight

    When used in connection with the prosecution of a crime means the defendant absented himself from the community of the crime out of sense of guilt or out of fear of, or to avoid arrest . Rowser v state (Ala- . Cr.App.) 346 So.2d533.

  • Flight

    When used in connection with the prosecution of a crime means the defendant absented himself from the community of the crime out of sense of guilt or out of fear of, or to avoid arrest . Rowser v state (Ala- . Cr.App.) 346 So.2d533.

  • Concealment

    Concealment

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Concealment Meaning of Concealment The intentional withholding of information material to risk which assured in honesty and good faith ought to communicate to insurer. Merchants Indem. Corp. of N. Y. v […]

  • Infraction

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Infraction Meaning of Infraction (Lat. infrango, to break in upon). The breach of a law or agreement; the violation of a compact. In the French law this is the generic expression to designate all actions […]

  • Pretext

    (Lat. praetexium, woven before). The reasons assigned to justify an act, which have only the appearance of truth, and which are without foundation, or which, if true, are not the true reasons for such act. Vattel, liv. 3, c. 3, i 32. An ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color […]

  • Dereliction

    (Lat. derelictio). The gaining of land from the water, in consequence of the sea shrinking back below the usual water mark; the opposite of alluvion (q.v.) 2 Rolle, Abr. 170; Dyer, 326b; 2 Bl. Comm. 262; 1 Steph. Comm. 419. The abandonment of property. 2 Bl. Comm. 9. …

  • Dereliction

    (Lat. derelictio). The gaining of land from the water, in consequence of the sea shrinking back below the usual water mark; the opposite of alluvion (q.v.) 2 Rolle, Abr. 170; Dyer, 326b; 2 Bl. Comm. 262; 1 Steph. Comm. 419. The abandonment of property. 2 Bl. Comm. 9. …

  • Maladministration

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Maladministration Meaning of Maladministration Synonyms of Maladministration noun badjob blunder botchery bungling default dereliction of duty […]

  • Benefit Of Clergy

    Originally, the exemption from the abolition in 1827.