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VICE CONSUL

the name that is given to a consulate of a government who assumes the duties of a consul.

MORTGAGE CONVENTIONAL

The term applied to the contract where a person binds his property to another should he not pay a loan.

CLEARING THE COURTROOM

This up to the presiding judge who will removal all onlookers and any guests from the courtroom during proceedings.

LEGAL CAUSE

the term that is used for the real cause of an accident or an injury.

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.

CATTLE RUSTLING

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

SELF-PRESERVATION

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

REASONABLE BELIEF

a principle that a law officer can conduct a search or seize a criminal without having a warrant if he is sure a criminal act is in progress or has been committed.

E PLURIBUS UNUM

a Latin phrase that is the motto of the USA and states: Out of many, one or more commonly One for all and all for one.

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