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PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES

These are the consequences or results that are likely to take place following an act or an event.

DELECTUS PERSONAE

a Latin phrase where the right of one partner is to approve or disapprove of a new partner.

NO CODE

a term that a family or a person can give to a physician not to keep a person alive by artificial means or to resuscitate if death is near.

CLEARING THE COURTROOM

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

SOLEMNITY OF CONTRACT

the concept that says that 2 or more people are free to make an agreement that they wish and it will be respected and enforced.

EXIGENCY OF A BOND

the act or the performance on which a bond is conditioned or the conditions of the bond.

EASEMENT OF ACCESS

the right given to use a pathway or a road to a property that belongs to another person to give access to a road.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

the name that is given to the union of all of the states under the US Constitution where government control is vested in the people of the states.

TRUE MAN DOCTRINE

a principle that says a person under attack ha the right to stand and defend himself with force and if the assailant is killed he won’t be considered guilty. See justifiable homicide.

ENTRAPMENT

the act of public officers where they lure a suspected criminal into doing a criminal act.

DAY FIXED FOR TRIAL

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

HOMOTRANSPLANTATION

the term that describes taking an organ from one person and giving it to another person.

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.

NOTICE OF PENDENCY

used in real estate that indicates that a piece of property has a lien against it and a person needs to take care before taking title to it.

CROSS-EXAMINATION

The term used when a witness is examined by the opposing party in the suit before the court. See,

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