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RELATIVE FACT

the term that describes a fact that in important due to its relationship with another fact.

TAFT HARTLEY ACT

federal law that was enacted in 1947 giving rights to employees and employers where strikes are legal and other union deals.

STOCKHOLDERS

an meeting of stockholders to elect officers and conducting business that requires action and consent.

SPECIAL JURISDICTION

a court that has the power to handle certain cases that are specified by law and is called a court of special jurisdiction.

EXTENUATION

These are the fact or the fact ts that tend to lessen the severity of the penalty for a crime.

HATCH ACT

A law that prohibits a person employed in an executive government position from engaging in campaigns to elect candidates for public office.

ARBITRARY DISCRETION

a decision that is made wrongfully possibly due to whim or for the wrong or unsound reasons.

PROSECUTOR PUBLIC

the name of the district or state’s attorney who conducts criminal proceedings against accused people.

SMALL BUSINESS ACT

the name of a federal law that has been enacted to aid small business enterprises.

UNCLEAN HANDS

a doctrine that a decision should not favour the plaintiff who has not acted accordingly and honestly.

CLAUSE OF RETURN

a clause in a deed that provides a right under set and specified circumstances that the property will be returned to the grantor.

OFFER OF COMPROMISE

a term that is given to the proposal that will end a dispute and does away with a law suit.

DELINQUENT CHILD

This term applies to a child who has committed an unlawful offense that is punishable if it was an adult.

PARTNER SURVIVING

the name that is given to a partner who will settle the partnership affairs when the business is dissolved when one partner dies.

ESTOPPEL BY OATH

the bar that will deny something that is sworn to under oath in a previous suit in future suit.

COVENANT TO RENEW

a contract that is given to the lessee who has a right to renew the lease under conditions outlined in the clause for renewal.

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