Search results for: “european court of human rights”

  • Abandonment

    Adoption Legal Definition of Abandonment Meaning of Abandonment Desertion of a child by a parent or adult primary caregiver with no provisions for continued childcare nor with any apparent intention to return to resume caregiving.Learn more […]

  • Power

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Power Meaning of Power The right , ability, capacity or legal authority to do some act which a person cannot do without the power. Ability of a person to produce change in legal relation by doing or not […]

  • Power

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Power Meaning of Power The right , ability, capacity or legal authority to do some act which a person cannot do without the power. Ability of a person to produce change in legal relation by doing or not […]

  • 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 […]

  • Entrapment

    The act of an agent provocateur, in inducing a person to commit a crime which that person had not contemplated committing, for the purpose of instituting criminal prosecution against him. Where the State merely provides the accused the opportunity to commit the offense it is not entrapment. […]

  • Entrapment

    The act of an agent provocateur, in inducing a person to commit a crime which that person had not contemplated committing, for the purpose of instituting criminal prosecution against him. Where the State merely provides the accused the opportunity to commit the offense it is not entrapment. […]

  • Assets

    Assets

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Assets Meaning of Assets Used and well understood as including all kinds of property . Property of any kind, real or personal , tangible or intangible , legal or equitable, which can be made available for […]

  • 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 […]

  • Fact

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Fact Meaning of Fact A thing done; an action performed or an incident transpiring; an event or circumstance ; an actual occurrence; an actual happening in time, space or an event mental or physical ; that […]

  • Discretionary Area of Judgment

    Discretionary area of judgment in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of discretionary area of judgment.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Policeman Law Enforcement Agency […]