EXTRATERRITORIALITY
This concerns the operation of laws outside the boundary of a state or country.
Your Free Online Legal Dictionary • Featuring Black’s Law Dictionary, 2nd Ed.
This concerns the operation of laws outside the boundary of a state or country.
an illegal act of trickery that results in damages to a person or persons.
The term that is given to a statement that contradicts itself.
the term applied to having planned malice and is often used in an indictment.
1. A book with bank records in it. 2. A book that a merchant records sales to customers in.
a principle that a law officer can conduct a search or seize a criminal without having a warrant if he is sure a criminal act is in progress or has been committed.
An example of this is the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Act where federal laws aim at preventing corporations, individuals, combinations of corporations or trusts from gaining and maintaining a monopoly
1. A device to detect lies. 2. A machine that copies documents.
the term that is given to any remedy that is not an ordinary action. See proceeding, ordinary.
The unqualified and the total agreement in accepting a liability or a responsibility.
1. A loss that can be evaluated in money terms. 2. Money lost by a dependent when a support person dies. TLD Example: The court’s decision to compensate the wrongfully discharged employee
1. The rehearing of a case in a higher court. 2. The rehearing of a motion that is based on new material.
1. To favour or to encourage. 2. To act in a condescending manner to a person. 3. To use a store’s facilities as a regular customer.
The term applied to the contract where a person binds his property to another should he not pay a loan.
1. A period of a jail sentence. 2. In some jurisdictions, a death from wounding to be called murder must occur with one year and a day.3. Time during which a person
1. used to describe a disease or an illness that is often permanent and make a person ineligible to take out an insurance policy. 2. A defect in a deed or document.
1. The occupation or the profession chosen. 2. To chase a person until they are captured.
1. Being in a set place at a given time. 2. To bring a motion before a court.
1. Damage to a person’s body. 2. An injury that exists so a person cannot physically enjoy his property. TLD Example: The driver of one of the cars involved in the collision was
1. A hindrance or an obstacle. 2. A disability such as a speech or hearing impediment.