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  • Competition Policy

    Competition policy in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, competition policy is: approaches of governments to the promotion and protection of competition. The entries on trade policy are here. It consists of competition laws and policies achieving similar aims. Since the 1980s the term […]

  • Habeas Corpus

    Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Habeas Corpus (You may find habeas corpus at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). writ requiring a person to be brought before a court, mid-15c., Latin, literally “(you should) have the person,” in phrase habeas […]

  • Rehabilitation

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Rehabilitation Meaning of Rehabilitation The restoration to a former state , capacity , privilege . To make a person capable of becoming a useful member of society again. The restoration of an […]

  • Rehabilitation

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Rehabilitation Meaning of Rehabilitation The restoration to a former state , capacity , privilege . To make a person capable of becoming a useful member of society again. The restoration of an […]

  • Preliminary Hearing

    Translate Preliminary Hearing from English to Spanish Translation of Preliminary Hearing , with examples. More about free online translation into Spanish of Audiencia preliminar and other legal terms is available here. Audiencia preliminar Legal English Translation Browse You might be […]

  • 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 […]

  • New Deal

    Definition of New Deal The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of New Deal: When Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president of the United States in 1932 he said: ‘I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.’ The new deal […]

  • New Deal

    Definition of New Deal The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of New Deal: When Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president of the United States in 1932 he said: ‘I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.’ The new deal […]

  • Commit

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Commit Meaning of Commit To do a wrongful act; to send a person to prison by virtue of lawful authority for a crime committed by that person. The term also denotes the act of judicial pronouncement of […]

  • Social Security

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Social Security Meaning of Social Security A general term applied to the whole area of federal and state legislations providing for assistance to people on account of their disability , old age, survivor’s […]