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PASSIVE CONCEALMENT

a term that applies to the act of a person being silent about a fact and it doesn’t imply the active hiding of an event or fact.

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.

RIGHT OF APPROACH

a right given to a nation at war being able to stop and search a ship of another country and are spelled out by conventions of war.

MASTER OF THE SHIP

the term that is given to the captain of a ship or the chief commanding officer of a ship.

VERBAL AGREEMENT

An oral agreement that is reached without anything committed to writing. Also a parol contract. See oral contract; verbal contract.

CLEARING THE COURTROOM

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

SPECIAL PROCEEDING

the term that is given to any remedy that is not an ordinary action. See proceeding, ordinary.

DAY FIXED FOR TRIAL

the term that is given for the day that a summons to be appear in court must be answered.

BETROTHAL

a term meaning to promise to marry or an engagement.

DUE COMPENSATION

This term applies to the recompense that a person is entitled to receive.

MOTION TO ADJOURN

the term that is given to the proposal to end a meeting or a session of court.

CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

the conclusion that is reached by a court after considering all of the presented facts in a case. It is also a statement of the law by a court.

CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

A term in medical jurisprudence where an accuser’s mental capacity to understand the charges against him and may have no knowledge of the crime.

THINGS IN ACTION

a term for a creditor’s right to be paid by a debtor and a right to possession that is recoverable by a law suit.

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