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Log Rolling
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Log rolling Meaning of Log rolling A name given to a legislative practice of obtaining the passage of several measures by a combination of minorities. The original method was to embody the different […]
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Sergeant
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Sergeant Meaning of Sergeant A judicial officer of the City of London, England. Also, an officer in the Armed Forces of the United States . Related Entries of […]
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Crown Prosecution Service
Crown Prosecution Service in Law Enforcement Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of Crown Prosecution Service. This legal term is related to the United Kingom and/or the English Legal System. […]
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Zoning
Zoning is the act of prescribing the mode in which lands within certain stated divisions of a municipality can be used by their owners or occupants. The legislative division of a community into areas in each of which only certain designated uses of land are permitted so that the community […]
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Beaufort Wind Force Scale
Beaufort Wind Force Scale in Maritime Law Note: There is more information on maritime/admiralty law here.The following is a definition of Beaufort Wind Force Scale, produced by Tetley, in the context of admiralty law: A table describing wind forces in numbers (from 1 to 17), ranging from […]
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Hague Conventions
The agreements signed by the Powers in conference at The Hague as to the rules of international law by which they shall be bound. They are: 1899.(1) Pacific Settlement of International Disputes;(2) Laws and Customs of War on Land ;(3) Adaptation of Principles of Geneva […]
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Cadet
A student under training in the armed forces; a student under training in the Police Force. More specifically, students at the U.S. Military Academy of West Point.
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Desertion
The abandonment of a relation or service in which one owes duties; the quitting wilfully and without right of one’s duties; the withdrawal , unexcused, from the obligations of some condition or status . See Johnson v Strickland, 76 S.E.2d 533, 88 Ga.App. 281. In matrimonial law, […]
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Bushw Hacker
Originally one who cleared away brush or bushes, e.g., to make farming or grazing land. Came primarily to refer to one who fought irregularly or from ambush, especially (during and after the Civil War) to Confederate soldiers who formed up troops of guerrilla forces, or turned into roving bands […]
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Popular Definitions A-Z
Popular Legal Definitions A-Z Welcome to the Legal Dictionary Browse thousands of legal terms and phrases selected by the Lawi Project editors and suggest new words for the largest law dictionary of the world. Dictionary Popular Legal Terms: A absolute divorce absolute estate accessory contract act actual damages actual fraud adjective law administrative law administrative…
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Natural Rights
Those rights which appertain originally and essentially to each person as a human being and which are inherent in his nature as contrasted to civil rights, which are given, defined and circumscribed by such positive laws enacted by civilized communities as are necessary to the maintenance of […]