Hit and Run
When a motorist involved in an accident flees the scene.
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When a motorist involved in an accident flees the scene.
A law that prohibits a person employed in an executive government position from engaging in campaigns to elect candidates for public office.
This term is given to a person who mis certain to inherit the estate of a relative.
the proof of one witness or one document that is not enough to decide a case.
the term given to the fee charged for rendering a client services.
This term applies to a person who is attracted to people of the same sex.
These are some of the questions asked of witnesses in trials that are based on assumed facts or a theory.
a law that will impose a more severe punishment for a crime committed several times by the same person.
the name given to a house for people moving back in to society from a jail or other institution.
This term applies to siblings that have the same mother but a different father or the same father but have a different mother.
a rule used in maritime terms when the cargo of a ship is only subject to tax in its home port.
the oath that is taken by medical school graduates.
a person who is trained in handwriting analysis to determine if the writing is from the person it supposed to be from.
a common phrase found in wills that means all of the property of the person who has made the will.
a mental illness where a person has the irrational desire to kill someone.
This term is applied to cases where a fair decision can only be reached by a liberal interpretation of the laws.
These are the laws that govern and relate to condominiums.
the name given to the federal agency that deals with housing.
the name given to the person who has been left money or property by another person in a will.
a word that means a thing is usual and customary and is repeated. It also applies to bah habits such as drunkenness.
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