DOWER BY COMMON LAW
A law in some states where a widow has the right to one-third of her husband’s land.
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A law in some states where a widow has the right to one-third of her husband’s land.
the term that is used to describe the shortest time a person can spend in jail for committing a certain crime.
A person with fame and notoriety in a community and is involved in the affairs of the community.
This means to take property when you have no right to do so.
The term applied to the support and control of a child that is determined by the court when the parents of the child are divorced or separated. See also, Common Reasons Grandparents
the term that is given to the wife of a husband who already had children.
a voluntary act of giving up a franchise to the granter of the franchise.
a person who presents himself as another for the purpose of committing fraud.
term used for the suffering of repeated humiliation and ridicule that is often grounds for divorce.
a term used for an uncontested taking possession of a property.
The artificial or spontaneous termination of a pregnancy before the embryo or foetus can survive on its own outside a woman’s uterus.
These are the organisation that by, written and oral examinations determine a physician to become a specialist. A diploma from this board states that the physician is an expert in his field
a term for taking another person’s property unlawfully where the value of the property is not large.
term that means to give-up or to abandon.
the name given to a person who tries to influence the legislators to vote in favour of a certain legislation.
These are the people owning stock in a building and loan association that are not borrowers.
See ordinary dangers.
the transfer of a case from a state court to the federal courts.
an attempt to overthrow or destroy a government that has been legally established.
a phrase that is used in referring to a promissory note that is endorsed in blank by the maker and creates a document that is payable to the bearer.