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SUPPORT

1. Supply a means of survival and livelihood. 2. The obligation to provide for your family.

SELF-PRESERVATION

a term that is used for a person’s basic instinct of survival and protecting their own health, body and life.

CATTLE RUSTLING

This term is applied to stealing cattle that was a common crime in years gone by.

PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES

These are the consequences or results that are likely to take place following an act or an event.

EXHAUSTION OF REMEDY

the principle that states that you should do everything possible in order to correct the situation before seeking help from a court.

ABSOLUTE ACCEPTANCE

The unqualified and the total agreement in accepting a liability or a responsibility.

EXIGENCY OF A BOND

the act or the performance on which a bond is conditioned or the conditions of the bond.

PRECARIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

These are the circumstances that exist when the conduct of an executor and administration of an estate is unwise and reckless.

DUE COMPENSATION

This term applies to the recompense that a person is entitled to receive.

TRUE MAN DOCTRINE

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.

LOGROLLING

1. The case where a legislator will vote for a bill as long as the legislator with the bill for one of the other person’s bills. 2. Using an excess of extraneous

COLLATERAL POWER

the right to dispose of property that is given to a person with no interest in the said property. Also called naked power.

REFUSAL TO PLEAD

1. Default in a lawsuit by not defending yourself. 2. To keep silent when you have been accused.

VIS-A-VIS

a French term for face to face or in relation to.

REAPPORTIONMENT

a term used when new district boundaries are created for a better representation of the areas population.

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