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CONSENT RESTRICTIONS ON

A term in medical jurisprudence where consent can’t be obtained from a minor or a person who cannot understand the request for consent or is under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

NOTICE CONSTRUCTIVE

a term that applies to the inferred or the implied notice that can’t be contradicted legally.

DELIBERATE SPEED

This term means that the law or a regulation needs to be maintained or instituted without delay.

REMOTE CAUSE

These are the matters that concern negligence and this is a cause that would not to lead to the event to happen.

CORPORATE MEDICINE

This applies in some states where a group of physicians that form a corporation in order to practice medicine. They still have a personal liability to each patient.

INCOMPETENT

This says that a person is incapable, inefficient and without the qualities needed to discharge their obligations and duties.

INSURANCE LIABILITY

the insurance policy that pays for injuries or damages to another person or other person’s property.

OUTRAGE AND INDIGNITY

a term that is applied when a person has injuries to their body as well as harm to their emotional stability.

LEGAL REPORTING

is term in medical jurisprudence where physicians have to report any injuries that appear to have been inflicted in a criminal nature, such as gun shot wounds.

LEWD

a term that also means indecent, pornographic, obscene and lascivious.

CONTUMELY

This means to be insolent, rude or to act with disdain.

IRREPARABLE DAMAGE

an injury sever in nature that it is impossible to calculate the extent by awarding money.

PAPER PROFIT

the term that is given to the gains that are evident on a financial statement but are not converted to cash for the purposes of taxation.

FREE LIST

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

PUT IN FEAR

This means to intimidate or to be placed in a position of being afraid not to perform an act you have been urged to carry out.

NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE

the term that describes a killing without any intent to kill but occurs when a person is acting in negligence.

HOMICIDE EXCUSABLE

This term applies to a person who kills another person while defending himself.

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