Legal Articles

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 an attorney who is employed exclusively by one corporation or company.

These are the items found in a home that are permanent in nature.

This means to preside over an open court.

document that releases a person from serving in the armed services who conducted himself well.

the term given to the fee charged for rendering a client services.

This term applies to an heir who will inherit an estate resulting from an agreement with the decedent.

This term applies to a person who kills another person while defending himself.

the principle where a husband and a wife can’t reveal any communications that passed between them to a third party.

the term given to house of correction for offenders who are still juveniles.

the term given to a house of correction or a reformatory.

This term is given to a person who mis certain to inherit the estate of a relative.

These are the documents that relate to a patient while they have been in hospital.

This term gives the right of self-government that is granted to a body within a states borders.

The instruction given to a jury that urges it to weight all of the evidence to determine its validity.

a law that will impose a more severe punishment for a crime committed several times by the same person.

a tax that is hidden from the person buying an item.

a defect not immediately apparent and turns up later.

the term used when a person has been disgraced, belittled or made to look foolish.

This term applies to a criminal and wrongful homicide.