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ABSOLUTE

Something that is unconditional, final, complete and without any restrictions or conditions.

IN PERSONAM

a term that is used that describes a suit that is brought against a person as against one about a certain thing.

CONSONANT STATEMENT

where a witnesses testimony has been attacked and labelled as false and the court allows testimony from the person who was given the testimony that it was deemed to have been reliable

A PRIORI

Latin, is concluded from what has happened previously and that certain affects must by necessity will follow.

CONTRACT WITH SPECIALIST

This occurs when a patient has agreed to undergo a medical or surgical procedure and has agreed to the fee to be paid.

AUTOMATIC CONTINUANCE

the term used when a court ends before the case is settled and the case may be automatically bound over to next session or term of the court. Known as automatic continuance.

CHILD ABUSE

This term is applied to the often violent and inhuman behaviour that an adult shows toward a child.

UNDER COLOR OF LAW

This phrase means with the apparent authority of the law but it actually conflicts with the law.

UNDER COLOR OF TITLE

This phrase means with having the appearance of a title that is valid when there is no title.

MORAL DURESS

term that is used to describe the undue influence that is imposed on one person by another.

SECESSION

a term that means withdrawing from a membership in a group or organisation.

LEX SCRIPTA

a Latin phrase that means the written law and is the opposite of lex non scripta.

IN STATUS QUO

a Latin phrase that means without change and in the same situation as it was.

SUPPRESS

This means to forbid or to prohibit or out an end to a thing that already exists and to keep evidence from being presented by making out it is irrelevant or gotten

MEDICAL RECORDS

This the name that is given to the bundle of documents that belong to the person who is in hospital and show all actions taken by the hospital bout the person’s illness.

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