Category: P

where the US Constitution grants its representatives and Senators from being arrested while attending session of houses of parliament.

the term used when a court hands down the decision.

a term that is used for a thing that is assumed to be true.

a term that is a popular expression for an attorney who is sly and crafty in his practicing of the law.

a term that si given to a person who is one of a group who has committed an offense.

this is the term that is applied when a person has completed all of the things needed to appeal a case.

1. The occupation or the profession chosen. 2. To chase a person until they are captured.

a private communication that the law exempts a person from revealing. Such as doctor-patient, client-attorney.

This the dividing of tax liabilities between a seller and the buyer of a property.

a term for a matter of law in a case that will depend on existing statutes and not from a matter of fact.

the term used for the person who has been accused and is on trial.

a proceeding carried out to see if a debtor can pay his creditors.

the name that is given for a suit that involves paying a penalty for a law violation.

a term similar to alimony and support that is paid to a partner in a dissolved unmarried relationship. Applies to partners of opposite or the same sex.

the power or the immunity that is granted to a person that is not granted to other people.

the name that is given to a consideration that is given before a contract is made.

plea of guilt in the hope that a less severe punishment will be given.

the money that is paid to clerk of the court in accordance to an order of the court.

a term that is used when referring to the designation of an impersonal payee when a bearer instrument is created.

a person who claims a property before other people and occupies it and is proceeding according to law to get the title to it.