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the recitation of all of the factual details by a party to a law suit that sets forth what actually happened while dealing with the other party.

Using a court decision to deprive by a judgement of the court. To take away by an adverse court decision.

This term describes the taxable period.

Latin for in the year of our Lord and is the number of years after death.

The document that is used to charge a person with a crime.

the second attempt to carry out an execution, a legal performance, after the original one has failed to accomplish the purpose of it.

Any accident that is beyond the scope of being prevented by people. See act of God.

the organisation that is composed of the 2 largest labour unions in the USA, the American Federation of Labour and the Congress of Industrial Organisations.

An example of this is the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Act where federal laws aim at preventing corporations, individuals, combinations of corporations or trusts from gaining and maintaining a monopoly

This when you plead again after the defects in your presentation have been pointed out to you by the opposite party. Id is also known as pleading over or respondeat ouster.

This term applies to the relative position of 2 people in reference to a third person where the relationship to the third person is different for the 2 parties.

Disowning, relinquishing completely and to renounce.

The lessening of value because its ability to render a service has decreased.

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.

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

Any action in law where there are opposing parties.

the organisation whose members are attorneys at law from the various states of the US.

Latin, for from the first act or meaning from the start.

Any property that has been obtained by purchasing it.

The action of repealing a law, an annulment, or cancelling an existing statute or agreement.