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  • Consent

    The deliberate assent amounting to an active acquiescence . An act of reason, accompanied with deliberation, the mind weighing, as in the balance , the good or evil of either side. To constitute consent, there must be a bargain between two parties . See People v Westek, 109 […]

  • Kin

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Kin Relatives. Primarily, relatives by the tie of consanguinity or blood. But including for the purposes of a statute respecting competency to testify as to aIncluding transaction with one since deceased, otherwise known as a dead man’s […]

  • Stonewall Riot

    Definition of Stonewall Riot The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Stonewall Riot: On a weekend in June 1969 the New York police, continuing a policy of harassment of homosexuals, visited the Stonewall Inn, charging that liquor was being sold without a […]

  • Illegitimacy

    ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Dictionaries.Adoption; Fertility Control; Population; Population Policies. Children’s Rights; Fertility Rates; Inheritance and Property; Law, Children and the. Child Custod…

  • Loss

    Loss

    The term derives its meaning from the context in which it is used. Generally, denotes any deprivation , decrease in value , depreciation , liability actually incurred, the act of losing, or the thing lost, ruin, a bad or uncollectable debt, First Fed. Sav. & Loan Ass’n of Billings v […]