Category: S

a term for the formal delivery, to the plaintiff or his attorney of the answer to the charges.

a term used in prisons when a person is placed away from other inmates. It is usually done for bad behaviour.

This si a term that describes using a firearm such as a gun, rifle, revolver and a person is hit by a bullet.

a term for the statute that forbids monopoly, price fixing and the restraint of trade.

This term applies to the separating into individual trials in a case where the defendant wants to turn state’s evidence or wants to be separated from the other defendants.

1. An assault that was not aggravated or provoked. 2. An assault that gave rise to no bodily harm.

the name that is given to a corporation that has been set up by a parent company with new stock offered to people with shares in the parent company.

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

the term that is applied to a particle of evidence that may be insignificant.

a search that is conducted without legal authority and violates a person’s constitutional rights.

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

an organisation with the main function of social contact between members and is not related to making money. These clubs are exempt from federal income taxes.

a term that is used for the improper behaviour that is of major proportions and that is carried out intentionally.

a term that means to get the third degree and submitting a person to a sweatbox.

the name that is given to testimony that is given under an oath.

This means to give up a lien or an assignment of a creditor to trustee in a case of bankruptcy that makes the creditor’s claim allowable.

a voluntary act of giving up a franchise to the granter of the franchise.

This occurs when the transfer of the burden of proof is from one side of the court to the other and can happen when a defendant makes a convincing denial of all

the term for a temporary sentence while waiting for a final decree.

the act of standing by and not giving out any information that is important to resolve a legal issue.