Category: S

money that is paid to an employee while he is away from work due to an illness.

a term where criminal records are sealed in cases that involve young offenders and can only be examined with a court order.

the name that is given to the US Attorney General.

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 means to cut off a person’s ability to breathe or to use an asphyxiating gas.

the term that is given to any remedy that is not an ordinary action. See proceeding, ordinary.

the name that is given to a ranking cabinet officer in the US government.

the name that is given to a bond that the parties in dispute submit to an impartial arbitrator.

the name of a federal law that has been enacted to aid small business enterprises.

term that is legal term and not medical term for a recurrent or a habitual mental illness.

a term that describes the position from which a person can’t escape. See last clear chance.

a statement in Article VI of the US Constitution that states laws are the laws of the land and all other laws are subservient to and bound by the laws laid down

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.

a term that describes the agreement between the insurer an the insured to cancel a policy and make a new policy.

the term that means to not show in court when you are supposed. Bail money is forfeited.

This a Latin phrase that means secretly, privately or clandestinely.

the power and the authority to make and enforce the law of the land. See inherent power.

a term that is used for the selecting of people who will serve on a jury.

a term used to describe what happens when a suspect is detained and then searched for any weapons.

1. To withhold executing a jail sentence on certain conditions. 2. A sentence that si given by the court that is not actually served.