Legal Dictionary

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  • Dismissal

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Dismissal Meaning of Dismissal An order or judgment by which the relief sought by the plaintiff or petitioner is denied. A release or discharge from employment. […]

  • Censorship

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Censorship Meaning of Censorship The regulation or curtailment of the freedom of speech and expression in any form in the interest of good morals and the preservation of peace and order . Any examination […]

  • Case Law

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Case Law Meaning of Case Law Law which is found in reported cases as distinguished from the law found in statutes. Sometimes used synonymously with common law . […]

  • Holding Company

    A corporation that owns enough voting stock in another firm to control management and operations by influencing or electing its board of directors….

  • Customs

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Customs Meaning of Customs Duties charged on commodities on their import into or export out of a country. A mode or system of taxation for the raising of money and is a typical form of indirect tax . A […]

  • Guardianship

    Guardianship

    The power of protective authority given by law, and imposed on an individual who is free and in the enjoyment of his rights, over one whose weakness on account of his age or infirmity renders him unable to protect himself. …

  • Euthanasia

    Euthanasia

    See alsoPractice of causing death painlessly to end suffering. This practice is very… (Read more)…

  • Incompatibility

    Incapability of existing or being exercised together. Thus, the relations of landlord and of tenant cannot exist in one man at the same time in reference to the same land. Two offices may be incompatible, either from their nature or by statutory provisions. Const. U. S. art. 6, § 3, […]

  • Homicide

    The intentional killing of a human being. See commonwealth v Biron, 4 U.S. 125, I L.Ed. 769. See murder , manslaughter .

  • Correspondence

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Correspondence Meaning of Correspondence The letters written by one person to another, and the answer thereto. See Letter. Browse You might be interested in these references tools: Browse the […]

  • Library

    Library in the United States Library in Connecticut A library is a library within the meaning of the ordinance whether located in a leased storefront or in a town building. Koepper v. Emanuele, 164 Connecticut (provision) 175, 177, 319 A.2d 411 (1972). Resources Legal English […]

  • Divorce

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Divorce Meaning of Divorce The judicial dissolution of a marriage releasing the parties from the bonds of matrimony . Divorce Alternative Definition The […]

  • Double Jeopardy

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Double Jeopardy Meaning of Double Jeopardy A rule of law that a person shall not be convicted of the same offense more than once. where there has been a final verdict either of acquittal or conviction on […]

  • Domicile

    The permanent home of a person , or that place where a man has his true fixed and permanent home and principal establishment and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning. The relation which the law creates between an individual and a particular […]

  • Assured

    A person for whose benefit a policy of insurance has been issued. Although ordinarily synonymous with insured, it is not necessarily so. The owner and sole beneficiary of the policy may be different from the insured person. The former is properly the person assured.