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  • Common Good

    See Also Governance Citizenship Civic Capacity Cooperation Democratic Theory Neighborhood Association Further Reading Aristotle. (1979). The politics. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Classics. Honohan, I. (2002). Civic republicanism. London: Routledge. Madison, J. (1961). No. 57: Madison. In […]

  • Index

    Legal Definition of Index Meaning of Index A statistical yardstick expressed in terms of percentages of a base year or years. For instance, the NYSE Composite Index of all NYSE common stocks is based on 1965 as 50. An index is not an average. […]

  • Libel

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Libel Meaning of Libel defamation in a permanent form, as distinguished from slander which is defamation by spoken words. A defamatory statement , which, when published, tends to expose the complainant, […]

  • Etymology

    Etimology, the Origins of Words and Phrases Etymology is the study of word origins. This law dictionary provides the etymological meaning and usage of more tha 1.000 legal terms, becoming a practical instrument for law students and professors that wish to know the origin, the symbolic and real meaning of legal english terminology. Resources Further…

  • Libertarianism

    ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Dictionaries.Freedom; Friedman, Milton; Hayek, Friedrich August; Mises, Ludwig Edler von; Philosophy, Political Independent Parties. Anarchism; Independent Parties; Natural Law…

  • Territories

    System of organized government long existing within the United States by which certain regions of the country have been erected into civil governments. See New York ex rel. Kopel v Bingham, 211 U.S. 468, 29 S. Ct. 190, 53 L.Ed. 286. Also, an area of land acquired by the United States by […]

  • Common Land

    Common Land

    A more extended term for what Is sometimes more shortly called simply common; land, i. e. in which there is right of common (see Common), land which there is right to use in common, for pasturing, etc. The term is also used rather pop’ularly and loosely than legally to mean land owned […]

  • Federalist Papers

    ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Dictionaries.Marbury v. Madison; John Marshall; Constitution of the United States; Federalist Papers. United States Constitution ; andvol. 9:The Call for Amendments.Further Readin…

  • Hornbook

    nounabstract on the law analysis analyzation annotated text capitulation capsule commentary compendium condensation desk book digest of the law discourse on the law dissection</l…