Search results for: “access to the courts”

  • Presumption

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Presumption Meaning of Presumption Presumptions are either of fact or of law. Presumptions of fact are inferences which a court is at liberty , but not compelled, to draw from the facts proven before it. […]

  • Statute

    Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Statute (You may find statute at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). late 13c., from Old French statut, estatut “(royal) promulgation, (legal) statute,” from Late Latin statutum “a law, decree,” noun […]

  • Secondary

    Secondary

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Secondary Meaning of Secondary A subordinate or of a subsequent class or kind. Used in contradistinction to primary . Secondary Alternative Definition In […]

  • Secondary

    Secondary

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Secondary Meaning of Secondary A subordinate or of a subsequent class or kind. Used in contradistinction to primary . Secondary Alternative Definition In […]

  • Punishment

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Punishment Meaning of Punishment The penalty for transgressing the law. Punishment Alternative Definition In criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted […]

  • Antitrust Laws

    Antitrust Laws

    See also Legislation that forbids monopolistic trade practices and prohibits conspiracies and trusts that… (Read more)…

  • Detention

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Detention Meaning of Detention The act of keeping back or withholding, either accidentally or by design, a person or thing. Detention Alternative Definition […]

  • Hustings

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Hustings Meaning of Hustings In English law. The name of a court held before the lord mayor and aldermen of London. It is the principal and supreme court of the city. See 2 Inst. 327 ; St. Armand, Hist. […]

  • Right

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Right Meaning of Right In its legal sense, the term denotes the liberty or privilege conferred or protected by law of doing or abstaining from doing an act or the power or privilege enforced by law of […]

  • Criminal

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Criminal Meaning of Criminal A person indicted for a crime and found guilty. An act is criminal when the quality of such act is such that it is prohibited under appropriate penal provisions by authority […]

  • Open Court

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Open Court Meaning of Open Court A court or place which the public knows is a court and to which they resort and have free access . Open Court Alternative […]

  • Conditional Fee Agreement

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

  • Child Protection in Divorce

    English Legal System: Child Protection in DivorceIn the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Child Protection in Divorce : The legal rules designed to safeguard the position of children of divorcees. In the past courts would routinely make […]

  • Child Custody

    Translate Child Custody from English to SpanishTranslation of Child Custody, with examples. More about free online translation into Spanish of Tutela and other legal terms is available here.Tutela Patria potesta…

  • Civil Procedure Rules

    Civil Procedure Rules in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of Civil Procedure Rules. This legal term is related to the United Kingom and/or the English Legal System.ResourcesSee […]