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  • Adultery

    Adultery

    English Legal System: Adultery In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Adultery : An act of sexual intercourse between a male and female not married to each other, when at least one of them is married to someone else. Intercourse for this […]

  • Cohabitation

    Legal Definition of Cohabitation Meaning of Cohabitation Living together when unmarried. Synonyms of Cohabitation (Living together), noun abiding together act of dwelling together […]

  • Family

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Family Meaning of Family In primary meaning, it is the collective body of persons who live in one house anc under one head or management . secondary meaning is those who are of the same line age, or […]

  • Adoption

    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. § 1. As used in the law the word has a strict significance […]

  • Abdication

    The giving up of office , power or authority , right ; renunciation.

  • Abduction

    The offense of taking away a person such as a child, ward, wife by fraud, persuasion or violence.

  • Common-Law Marriage

    Common-Law Marriage

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Common-law marriage Meaning of Common-law marriage A marriage based upon agreement by which the parties agree per verba de presenti to become husband and wife, followed by sexual consummation. To […]

  • Change of Name

    Change of name in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of change of name.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Police Officer Law Enforcement Agency Further Reading change of name […]

  • Surviving Spouse

    Abandonment The reasons of appeal in the Superior Court alleged that Mrs. Barker, who at the death of the deceased was his wife and who has since married again, had forfeited any right to share in the distribution of the http://lawi.us/estate-law/>estate (more in the U.S…

  • Child Support Maintenance

    English Legal System: Child Support MaintenanceIn the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Child Support Maintenance : The amount that a nonresident parent (i.e. one who does not live with the child concerned) must pay as a contribution to the […]

  • Fatal Accidents

    Fatal accidents in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of fatal accidents.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Police Work Law Enforcement Agency Further Reading fatal accidents […]

  • Ignorance

    Lack of knowledge , denoting a negative condition of the mind. Different from mistake as ignorance implies passiveness, while Ômistake implies action . Ignorance may be the result of laches , while mistake implies diligence . See Fitzgerald v Morgan, 38 S.E.2d 171, 200 Ga. 651.

  • Burgage

    A species of tenure, described by old law ‘writers as but tenure In socage, where the king or other person was lord of an ancient borough, in which the tenements were held by a rent certain. Such boroughs had, and still have, certain peculiar customs connected with the’ tenure, […]