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1. absent, prep. View full entry 1888
...In the absence of, without....
2. adhesion contract in adhesion, n. View full entry 1927
...= contract of adhesioncontract....
3. adversarial, adj. View full entry 1914
...Law (orig. U.S.). Of, relating to, or designating a trial or legal procedure in which two parties engaged in dispute have the responsibility for finding and presenting evidence. Sometimes...
4. advisory opinion in advisory, adj. and n. View full entry 1829
...a non-binding statement on a point of law given by a court before a case is tried or with regard to a hypothetical issue or situation; cf. sense A. 2....
5. affiant, n. View full entry 1807
...A person who makes an affidavit; (more generally) any person who makes a deposition....
6. age, n. View full entry c1480
...within age: = under-age1. Obs. (U.S.Law in later use)....
7. alienate, v. View full entry 1790
...Law (chiefly U.S.): to induce a person to transfer his or her affection from someone with rights or claims to it (typically a spouse) to another held responsible for...
8. alienation, n. View full entry c1789
...Law (chiefly U.S.). The intentional interference with a marriage by a third party, resulting in the removal of a spouse's conjugal affection and comfort; (also) the removal of a...
9. blue-ribbon jury in blue ribbon, n. and adj. View full entry 1900
...U.S. Law a jury selected for the intellectual and professional abilities of its members in cases of particular complexity or specialization;N. Amer. a jury of experts on a particular subject...
10. blue-ribbon panel in blue ribbon, n. and adj. View full entry 1925
...U.S. Law = blue-ribbon jury(a);N. Amer. a panel of experts on a particular subject....
11. bond, n.1 View full entry
...U.S. Law. = bail-bondbail....
12. ˈbreak point, n. View full entry 1983
...U.S. Law A figure above which a fee for a non-profit-making lawyer would be excessive in relation to his overheads....
13. call, n. View full entry ?a1864
...Amer. Land Law. ‘An object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant, requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land’ (Webster 1864...
14. call, v. View full entry
...Amer. Land Law. To require (objects, courses, distances, etc.) to answer to a description in a survey or grant of land (Webster)....
15. caveat, n. View full entry 1879
...U.S. Patent Law. ‘A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the office before the patent right is taken out, operating as a bar to applications respecting the...
16. citizen's arrest in citizen, n. View full entry 1941
...an arrest carried out without a warrant by a private citizen (allowable in certain cases)....
17. class, n. and adj. View full entry 1964
...U.S. Law. In some states: each of a number of categories of criminal offences typically followed by a letter denoting their level of seriousness, where ‘A’ represents those offences considered to...
18. class action in class, n. and adj. View full entry 1909
...a single legal action brought on behalf of all the members of a group with a common interest or grievance; freq. attrib....
19. class suit in class, n. and adj. View full entry 1894
...= class action....
20. community property in community, n. View full entry 1826
...U.S. Law assets originally belonging to either or both of the partners in a marriage, but considered under state law to be the joint property of both partners by virtue ofproperty...
