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  • Franchise

    Franchise

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Franchise Meaning of Franchise In commercial usage , the term denotes some right , privilege , license or monopoly granted to a person called the franchise holder to enable him to carry on some business […]

  • Alderman

    Alderman

    (equivalent to senator or senior). In English Law. An associate to the chief civil magistrate of a corporate town or city. The word was formerly of very extended signification. Spelman enumerates eleven classes of aldermen. Their duties among the Saxons embraced […]

  • Constable

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Constable Meaning of Constable An officer employed by a government , municipal or county , whose duty it is to serve process for courts of justices of the peace . […]

  • Coroner

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Coroner Meaning of Coroner A local judicial officer empowered to act within his own municipal jurisdiction . A Coroner’s court is a Court of record and the coroner is a judge of that court. His duties […]

  • 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 […]

  • Public

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Public Meaning of Public All the inhabitants of a particular place . The whole body politic; or the aggregate of the citizens of a state , district or municipality . Open to all, open for the use, […]

  • Eminent Domain

    Eminent Domain

    The right of the state to take the property of a citizen for the common good of all citizens. An attribute of sovereignty and inherent therein as a necessary and inseparable part. The power of eminent domain, as its name imports , is paramount to all private rights vested […]

  • Dualism

    Dualism

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

  • Dualism

    Dualism

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

  • Board

    Meals regularly corporation .

  • Territories

    System of organized government long existing within the United States by which certain regions of the country have been erected into civil governments. See New York ex rel. Kopel v Bingham, 211 U.S. 468, 29 S. Ct. 190, 53 L.Ed. 286. Also, an area of land acquired by the United States by […]

  • General Principles of Law

    General principles of law in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of general principles of law.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Police Work Law Enforcement Agency Further […]

  • Extradition Treaty

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

  • Doctrine of Incorporation

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

  • Exhaustion of Local Remedies

    Exhaustion of local remedies in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of exhaustion of local remedies.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Policeman Law Enforcement Agency Further […]