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  • Privity Or Knowledge

    Privity or knowledge in Maritime Law Note: There is more information on maritime/admiralty law here.See “actual fault or privity”,see this legal maritime term in this international legal dictionary.

  • Privity Or Knowledge

    Privity or knowledge in Maritime Law Note: There is more information on maritime/admiralty law here.See “actual fault or privity”,see this legal maritime term in this international legal dictionary.

  • Sociology of Knowledge

    Definition of Sociology of Knowledge The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Sociology of Knowledge: The study of the social bases of what is known, believed or valued both by individuals and society. The essential idea is that knowledge itself, how it is […]

  • Know-nothing

    Grammar This term is a noun. Etimology of Know-nothing (You may find know-nothing at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms). 1827, “ignoramus,” from know (verb) + nothing. As a U.S. nativist political party, active 1853-56, the name refers to the secret […]

  • Local Knowledge

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

  • Acknowledgment of Service

    English Legal System: Acknowledgment of ServiceIn the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Acknowledgment of Service : A response by a defendant to a claim. A defendant who intends to contest proceedings brought against him by a claimant must […]

  • Guilty Knowledge

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

  • Best Of His Knowledge And Belief

    Knowledge and belief….

  • Also known as

    See alias….

  • Adoption by acknowledgment

    Not really adoption at all in the sense of adoption of child, but a method for the legitimation of a natural child under statutes that provide that if a father acknowledges that a child born out of wedlock is his, it becomes his legitimate child….

  • Acknowledged before or to me

    Language which almost always appears in the certificate of acknowledgment of the person or persons in whose presence a formal acknowledgment is made, testifying that the acknowledging party’s act was made in the physical presence of the person certifying it….

  • Acknowledgment Act

    One of the Uniform Laws. It deals with the requisite formalities for effecting an acknowledgment, and has been enacted by about a third of the states….

  • Acknowledgment of child born out of wedlock

    See acknowledgment of paternity….

  • Acknowledgment of paternity

    An acknowledgment, but one carrying less [of] an implication of any need for a formal, intentional, deliberate act. A child may be acknowledged as one’s own with all the formality of a sworn affidavit or an admission in open court, but more casual verbal statements, or even conduct toward […]

  • Acknowledgment of will

    Under some statutory schemes, a testator must acknowledge under oath that the will and his signature thereon are genuine. It is also quite customary to say to the testator in the presence of the attesting witnesses something like Do you acknowledge this to be your last will and testamen…