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BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK

This term applies to a child who is born to parents who are not married to each other. See bastard; illegitimate child.

PROCESS IRREGULAR

a writ or court order that has not been issued to conform to laws already established.

PRIVILEGE WRIT OF

a term that is used for the court order that is used to enforce a privilege.

DERIVATIVE TORT

the court action that is based on the criminal conduct of the defendant against the plaintiff where the plaintiff seeks recompense for injuries.

ENTAILMENT

This term means a change in the rules governing how property will be inherited by the legal descendants.

SUGGESTION OF ERROR

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

TREATISE

the term that is given to a major and a comprehensive book that is a on a particular subject.

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.

ON THE MERITS

term used by a court where a decision of the court has been based on presented facts and not technical legal practice.

TRUTH-IN-LENDING ACT

federal law that requires people who apply for credit be given information that is accurate and easily understood.

CLOSED SHOP CONTRACT

a contract where an employer hires union labour and all employees agree to be members while working there.

TRANSITORY CRIME

This term applies to a crime that is committed in one location and tried in another.

COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION

federal government agency that supports the prices of agricultural products through, purchases, loans and subsidies and helps to sell the products in foreign and domestic markets.

TAX COURT

the name of a federal court of law that deals with tax disputes.

SPITE FENCE

the name that is given to a fence that is built on a neighbour’s property to annoy him.

MAGNUSON-MOSS WARRANTY ACT

The name given to a federal law that requires all labels to be plain, visible and understood easily by the consumers.

NE EXEAT

a Latin phrase for a court order that forbids a person involved in a legal matter to leave the country or state where the court has jurisdiction.

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