DURESS OF PROPERTY
the way of getting property that involves pressuring and threatening a person and the property.
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the way of getting property that involves pressuring and threatening a person and the property.
This applies to the rendering of medical services that is on a prepaid basis rather than the payment of a fee for each service.
the highest court that can be approached and whose decision is final and no appeal can be taken against.
1. A loss that can be evaluated in money terms. 2. Money lost by a dependent when a support person dies. TLD Example: The court’s decision to compensate the wrongfully discharged employee
1. A book with bank records in it. 2. A book that a merchant records sales to customers in.
This term applies to taking another person’s property without any cause or permission. It is an unlawful action.
the act or the performance on which a bond is conditioned or the conditions of the bond.
This term is applied when the evidence presented disproves or is contrary to the testimony of a witness.
1. To remove money from a bank. 2. A term in criminal law where a person separates themselves from criminal activity.
This means to act as your own insurance carrier like the employer who pays directly employees who are hurt while working.
the term given to a claim for the appropriation of public land where mineral exist and is mined within the law.
1. Not being under the influence of an intoxicating beverage. 2. The opposite of drunk. 3. A person who is sensible and sedate.
1. The eyewitness testimony. 2. Testimony that is seen or heard to take place.
a term given to the power a principal grants to an agent.
A term that is used to describe a person who steals cattle.
1. used to describe a disease or an illness that is often permanent and make a person ineligible to take out an insurance policy. 2. A defect in a deed or document.
1. A period of a jail sentence. 2. In some jurisdictions, a death from wounding to be called murder must occur with one year and a day.3. Time during which a person
a term that is used for a person’s basic instinct of survival and protecting their own health, body and life.
the name that is given to a beach that is open to the public that is different from a private beach.
This term is applied to the blanket denial that covers all charges.