Category: F

This person is a jury member who has been designated to be the juries spokesperson.

a statement that is a deceitful and untrue statement that is made for ulterior motives.

a phrase that means a person has been accused.

an abbreviation of free on board where the seller delivers goods at his own risk and expenses.

a term from the 1960’s meaning to cohabit and have a sexual relationship without being married to each other.

This term applies to knowing a person through frequent contact and does not apply an intimacy.

This term is given to a person sets fires deliberately, a pyromaniac and the committer of arson.

This term applies to the net value of a person’s assets and property after his liabilities and debts have been taken away.

These are the name given to the various kinds of suits that are brought to common law.

a trial where the rights of the defendant is safeguarded by an impartial judge and jury deciding the matter.

the term given to the decision that will settle a matter.

a phrase often used in a plaintiff’s case in the opening statement.

These are the additional instructions that are given to the jury by a judge after they have begun deliberating a case.

This term applies to the authority to hear, try and decide a case.

abbreviated to FDIC and is an agency of the US government that insures solvency of banks and their deposits.

the term given to a person who visits a place on a regular basis. He is not a trespasser.

The price of stock that is determined by evaluating the assets of a corporation minus its liabilities.

an agreement to how the assets of an estate will be distributed without the family going to court for a decision.

used to describe a property that borders or adjoins to another property.

This phrase refers to the trial court where a case was tried first.