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The destruction or abolition of something such as the abolition of slavery.

The person who claims that another person is guilty of an offense that is punishable or of a crime. See plaintiff.

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

This means to declare, maintain and to charge as being true.

This applies to the disposition of property in different ways where one method will take effect only if the other doesn’t. The second disposition method substitutes for the first method.

a decision that is made wrongfully possibly due to whim or for the wrong or unsound reasons.

a robbery where the person carrying out is armed by having a lethal weapon and threatens his victims with bodily harm.

This an abbreviation for also known as or the alias a person is known by.

an order from the Internal revenue Service asking you to produce books and records and to testify.

The action of failing to use ordinary care that will result in mental or physical harm to another person. the opposite of passive negligence.

The person promoting or instigating the performing of a criminal act. See instigation.

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