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SAFE INVESTMENT RULE

the calculation of a future earning of a person who has died and is used by a jury to award damages to the heirs.

ON ALL FOURS

a term that is applied to a case that is similar to another case in all aspects.

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

PRETRIAL DISCOVERY

The name given to a bill of discovery given to the opposing party before a trial. See, What Is Discovery in Law? A Guide for Non-Lawyers

SUGGESTION OF ERROR

a request for another hearing that is based on an assumption that an error was made at the earlier hearing.

PRECLUDE

1. Make possible, to prevent. 2. To exclude or to rule out.

SEVEN YEARS

a term for a person who has been seen or heard from and is presumed to be dead.

PARAMOUNT TITLE

the name of the title that is the claim to the ownership of property that is better than any other sort of claim to the title.

CLEARING THE COURTROOM

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

CRIME AGAINST NATURE

the term given to a sex perversion such as that as seen between an human and an animal or between people that is seen as being deviating from “normal”.

PERMANENT SUPPORT ORDER

the term that is used for a court edict where a spouse must support the other and any children indefinitely and permanently.

MOST FAVORED NATION CLAUSE

A clause between nations where the countries agree to treat each other the same as the countries that treat them the best.

NUDE CONTRACT

a contract where no payments will be made. See nudum pactum.

POSITIVE EVIDENCE

1. The eyewitness testimony. 2. Testimony that is seen or heard to take place.

SEARCH AND SEIZURE UNREASONABLE

1. An unlawful search conducted with no legal authority. 2. A search that is harsh and intense that violates rights of the person being investigated.

INTERESTED PERSON

the term given to a concerned person or a person with a share in something.

PRECONDITION

a condition that needs to happen before a thing can take place.

COMMON-LAW REPLEVIN

the civil suit where the owner is seeking to regain the possession of his property that is taken or is being held by another.

SELF-PRESERVATION

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

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