Tag: Legal Definition
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Due Process
The guarantee of due process requires that no person be deprived of life, liberty, or property without a fair and adequate process. In criminal proceedings this guarantee includes the fundamental aspects of a fair trial, including the right to adequate notice in advance of the trial, the right […]
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Preliminary Injunction
Sometimes called an ad interim injunction. One issued ,at the commencement of a suit, to restrain the commission of some act pending the suit. …
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Preliminary Injunction
Sometimes called an ad interim injunction. One issued ,at the commencement of a suit, to restrain the commission of some act pending the suit. …
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Unlawful Detainer
Holding real estate without the consent of the owner….
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Accord
To agree and concur. An agreement to accept, in extinction of an obligation, something different from or less than that to which the person agreeing to accept is entitled. Carpenter v Pacific States Savings and Loan Co., 64 P.2d 1102,19 Cal.App.2d 263.
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With Prejudice
A dismissal with prejudice bars another action for the same cause….
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Court Of Record
A judicial, organized tribunal having attributes and exercising functions independently of the person of the magistrate designated generally to hold it, and proceeding according to the course of the common law. A court where the acts and proceedings are enrolled in parchment for a […]
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Summary Judgment
Summary Judgment…
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Direct Examination
The examination in chief of a witness by the party calling him.
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Cross-claim
Litigation between parties who are on the same side of an action.
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Cross-claim
Litigation between parties who are on the same side of an action.
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Et Al
Abbreviation of et alius, or alium, and another. Et als., abbreviation of et alios, and others. Abbreviations used in entitling causes where there are two or more parties. …
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Et Al
Abbreviation of et alius, or alium, and another. Et als., abbreviation of et alios, and others. Abbreviations used in entitling causes where there are two or more parties. …
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Nunc Pro Tunc
(Lat. now for then). A phrase used to express that a thing is done at one time as if or with the same effect as if performed at another. …
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Attorney of Record
Attorney who name appears in the permanent files of a case….