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AIR PIRACY

The act of forcibly taking over an aircraft. See hijacking.

ATTACHMENT OF PROPERTY

when the court takes the property and will hold it during the course of the trial. The property is security should the case be decided against the defendant.

AUTHORIZE

This enables a person to act; it gives the authority for a person to carry out an act.

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION

a method of causing pregnancy where semen from an anonymous donor in injected into a woman’s uterus.

ABSOLUTE ACCEPTANCE

The unqualified and the total agreement in accepting a liability or a responsibility.

ACKNOWLEDGED INSTRUMENT

The document that is recognised formally before an authorised official. The person who acknowledges the instrument says that it is authentic and has been executed freely and voluntarily.

ACCESSORY TO A CRIME

Any person connected to a crime before or after it has happened, but was not present when the crime was committed. See aid and abet.

ALIAS SUBPOENA

the second subpoena that is issued after the original subpoena failed to accomplish the purpose of it.

ALIENATION OF AFFECTION

This the wrongful act of one person that interferes with the affection one spouse has for the other. This could be one a husband or wife is deprived of the others affection

ADDED DAMAGES

Damages that are added on to the amount that is actually due or damages that are added as a punishment for the defendant. Added damages is sometimes called smart money.

ANTITRUST AFFIDAVIT

In some states of the US this must be filed every year by the corporations doing b business in that state and attests to the fact that are not part of a

ABATOR

A person who takes a property before the heir has a chance to get the property.

ASPHYXIATION

the term used to state that a person has died due to lack of oxygen or having too much carbon dioxide in their blood.

ADJUNCTION

The act of including one matter in another matter or the accession or the addition of something.

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