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EXTENUATION

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

FLOATING SECURITY

This term applies to the fair and equitable lien for a going concern that serves as a temporary security.

VOID JUDGMENT

a term that is used for a judgement that has no legal force or effect.

ADDICT

The habitual user of any habit-forming drug such as a narcotic, tranquiliser, hallucinatory drug or amphetamines.

EXCLUSIONARY RULE

a doctrine that will prevent the illegally gathered evidence being presented to the court.

CHARGE D

French term for the representative who is sent to another government as a substitute for the ambassador.

DEBT FRAUDULENT

the name of the debt where the person who owes the money to the creditor has deceived him by defrauding him.

IRREGULAR JUDGMENT

the term given to the judgement that is contrary to a practice of the court and is contrary to the mode of procedure that is established.

RETROACTIVE STATUTE

a law that imposes a new obligation on past things or a law that starts from a date in the past.

TAX COURT

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

TACIT LAW

the term that is given to a law that is accepted by the consent of the people rather than a government body.

TRAVERSE COMMON

This term is applied to the flat denial of the charges brought about by the opposing side.

MOOT QUESTION

the term that is given to a hypothetical question and a question that is not answered by referring to facts.

STATUTE PENAL

a law that provides the punishment for a crime or an offense.

UNLESS LEASE

a lease to drill for oil or gas that will terminate unless drilling starts by a set date.

SHIELD LAW

a law that will protect an informant’s right to conceal his source of information.

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