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DELIRIOUS

used to describe a person who has acted irrationally due to lacking awareness of a reasonable action.

NOL PROSSED

a Latin term that means a case is terminated by the prosecuting attorney during a trial. Also called nolled.

LAWFUL ISSUE

the term that is given to people who are able to inherit due to kinship.

LEGAL ISSUE

another term used to describe a person’s descendants and is the same as lawful issue.

INCIDENTAL

This means depending on something else, is likely to happen or is happening in addition to another event.

LEAVING SCENE OF ACCIDENT

the term that is used when a person leaves the site of an accident without first checking to see if people are ok.

AD TESTIFICANDUM

Latin. Denoting that a person should appear for the purpose of testifying.

BENCH LEGISLATION

the decisions of a judge that are contrary to the law and that should have been left to state or federal legislative governments to decide.

INFRINGEMENT OF TRADEMARK

the term that describes the deceiving of the public by using a trademark so similar to a real one that people think it is the real one.

EXTRINSIC FRAUD

the term given to the deceit that lays the groundwork for setting aside a judgement.

MORAL FRAUD

the term given to the deceit that is involved in a wrong of m oral nature.

MATERIAL FRAUD

the term that is applied to tricking a person to enter a contract or agreement that without trickery they wouldn’t have considered.

INTRINSIC FRAUD

the term used to describe deceit in transactions, perjury during a trial, forgery, bribing witnesses.

FRAUD IN TREATY

where deceit is used to get a person to sign a document that will misrepresent the intended agreement.

ACCIDENTAL DEATH

Any death that is due to an accident and not from any natural causes. It is an unexpected and not anticipated death.

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