Category: S

the term used when evidence is excluded from being used in a jury’s considerations.

a term related to the origin of your income. The IRS can ask how a person came into some money he is not expected to have.

a term that is used for approving a bill of exceptions. See bill of exception.

This means to uphold the verdict already delivered.

a boycott against a company that does business with a company in dispute with the union.

a term that is applied to the temporary stoppage in the operation of a regulation or law.

See proceeding, supplementary.

This means to transfer a criminal from a location back to the location the crime was committed in.

the calculation of a future earning of a person who has died and is used by a jury to award damages to the heirs.

the name applied to a pleading beyond the denial of the plaintiff’s charges that can include justification for an action.

a law that applies to everybody that differs from one that applies to one person of a few people.

a mining contract where a person is given a right to mine a pit that is open and was mined at an earlier date.

the name that is given to the procedure where a surgeon cuts into a person’s body to remove a tumour or to fix a defect.

a situation where there are no known claimants or heirs to property left by a deceased person.

a term that is used for the trial of a political offense or a crime.

an agreement where the creditors agree to accept less than the full amount that is due to them as the full payment for their individual claims.

the name of a person who owns a dilapidate building where poor people are forced to live.

a term that describes having taken an oath, verifying something and attesting it to be true.

a law that is passed by the county or a city legislative body that applies to the area if authority.

a right of people to challenge the conduct of another person in a court.