Category: S

a term that means to protect your own property or person an not resort to legal actions to do so.

a term to describe getting a person a drunk and then putting him a on a ship about to go to sea.

a the law that concerns a person or a group of people. See statute, personal.

See amendments to Constitution.

This means to act as your own insurance carrier like the employer who pays directly employees who are hurt while working.

a clause that allows a different distribution of property than that was originally prescribed.

the name that is given to a fence that is built on a neighbour’s property to annoy him.

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

a term for the restriction that is placed on land where the deed forbids any placing of buildings within a certain distance from another person’s property.

a Latin phrase for a subpoena that orders a person to bring documents to court.

this is an event that has taken place after another event.

the evidence that is not the best evidence there is but it will be admitted to court if there is no primary evidence.

a term for describing the location of something.

a Latin term for slanderous in itself. slander a person makes about another about being a criminal or immoral.

a doctrine that says that no one should be tried twice for the same offense if he has already been acquitted.. See double jeopardy.

the receiving and the holding of stolen goods that is an offense if the person is aware they are stolen.

means to hold a court haring in private or in the judges chambers.

a law stating what cannot be done, that prohibits an act.

See equal protection of the law.

a term for a person who has been seen or heard from and is presumed to be dead.