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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION

a voluntary and non-profit organisation that helps to maintain the citizen’s civil rights who have been threatened or may be threatened.

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

This gives people the right to practice the religion of their own choosing granted by the US Constitution.

OLD-AGE ASSISTANCE

a term that is given to the financial assistance that is given to the poor and the elderly people.

EXCUSABLE HOMICIDE 1

1. a homicide that is committed in self-defence. 2. An accidental homicide. See homicide, justifiable; justifiable homicide.

INTRINSIC FRAUD

the term used to describe deceit in transactions, perjury during a trial, forgery, bribing witnesses.

SPECIAL DAMAGES

the term that si given to the extra damages that are awarded to a plaintiff over the loss of his property after considerations of the circumstances.

IMMUNITY FROM SUIT

the term used for people who are free from legal action due to reasons of public policy.

PARTIAL PARDON

a term that is applied when a person is forgiven for only part of a transgression and still needs to pay the penalty for the remaining offense.

ODIUM

a term that describes hated and malice.

PROOF OF DEATH

a term for evidence of death such as a death certificate that has been filed properly.

TRIED

the term that means having had a trial heard by a court.

PLENARY ACTION

the name given to a suit where the merits are fully investigated and discussed and the decision is not based on another suit.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

a guarantee of the 1st and 14th amendment giving people the right o speak without any restriction from the government.

JUST VALUE

a term mused in tax practices that is the fair value of property for tax purposes.

PARTIAL EVIDENCE

a term that is used for the evidence that will establish a fairly unimportant fact of a case.

FREE LIST

These are the articles and goods that have no duties charged to them

ABOLITION

The destruction or abolition of something such as the abolition of slavery.

REPUTABLE

a term for something that is honourable, worthy of respect and in good repute.

MULTIPLE DAMAGES

a term that is used for double and triple of damages to be awarded. See punitive damages.

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