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Your Free Online Legal Dictionary • Featuring Black’s Law Dictionary, 2nd Ed.

Category: Legal System and Process

NO CODE

a term that a family or a person can give to a physician not to keep a person alive by artificial means or to resuscitate if death is near.

EQUITY FOLLOWS THE LAW

a saying that equity attempts to follow the law principles even though there are no laws that govern its decisions.

Who Was Henry Campbell Black?

This dictionary's namesake was a consummate turn-of-the-20th-century professional who left a permanent mark on the American legal landscape. Born in 1860, Henry Campbell Black grew up in New York State's Hudson Valley

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