Category: T

an offer by a person who has bound himself to fulfill a contract to carry out his obligations.

the denying of all conclusions that have been made by the grand jury in an indictment.

This term is applied to the flat denial of the charges brought about by the opposing side.

a term for a postponement for a limited time.

a trust where a trustee does not have any role to play.

evidence that is based on what a dead person has said many years before.

refusing to answer a question on the grounds of self-incrimination. See the fifth amendment.

a term used to revoke a will by tearing up the paper it has been written on.

an attempt to corrupt and intimidate a jury to make it decide the way you want it to.

a term for the power to make a will as prescribed by law.

the term applied when the title to a mortgaged property is kept by the mortgagee until the owner has paid off the mortgage in full.

the presumed ownership of property that is based on the occupancy of the property rather than the legal right to the title.

a trust that will benefit an educational institution or whose money or property will go towards establishing one.

the term given to evidence that does not favour either party and is offered by a disinterested party.

a term that means the restraint, moderation and to refrain from an excess.

a term that is used for the right to hold office for a period of time.

This means to direct a verdict where the court grants the motion to sustain the judgement.

a principle that says a person under attack ha the right to stand and defend himself with force and if the assailant is killed he won’t be considered guilty. See justifiable homicide.

the term that is given to a law that is accepted by the consent of the people rather than a government body.

a principle that states a person is guilty of a crime if he has injured or attacked a person he hasn’t meant to harm.