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Terms
- Cabotage
- Trade transit of a vessel along the coast (coastal trading), from one port to another within the territorial limits of a single nation.
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- Cancel
- To terminate; to put an end to.
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- Candy
- Crystallized sugar more fully called sugar candy; also any confection made of, or so incrusted.
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- Canon Law
- The law of the Church; based on religious beliefs.
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- Capital Punishment
- The most severe of all sentences: that of death.
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- Cardholder Agreement
- A contract presented by a credit card company or through an agent, usually a bank, setting out the terms of the consumer's use of and liability for the credit card.
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- Carriage
- The transportation, by carriers, of people or goods for free or for reward.
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- Carrier
- Persons who carry goods or passengers for others, either freely or for consideration.
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- Carrier's Case
- A monumental 1473 English case which extended the offence of theft (then called larceny) to include a carrier of goods who, initially lawfully in possession, converts goods to his own use.
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- Carry
- The observation or declaration by the chair of a meeting that a member’s motion has passed or attained the requisite majority vote, and is thus converted into a resolution of the whole meeting or organization.
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- Case Law
- The entire collection of published legal decisions of the courts which, because of stare decisis, contributes a large part of the legal rules which apply in modern society.
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- Caveat
- Latin: let him beware. A formal warning.
Expanded Legal Definition of Caveat
- Caveat Emptor
- Let the buyer beware or that the buyers should examine and check for themselves things which they intend to purchase and that they cannot later hold the vendor responsible for the broken condition of the thing bought.
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- Cease and Desist Letter
- A letter which advises a person to stop (cease and desist) using specified legal rights which are asserted by another.
Expanded Legal Definition of Cease and Desist Letter
- Centrocon Clause
- A clause in an arbitration agreement which bars a claim if not made in writing and an arbitrator appointed within a set time frame.
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- Certificate of Independent Legal Advice
- A document that attests that a person has received legal advice on a proposed contract, from a lawyer not associated with the other contracting party.
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- Certificate of Pending Litigation
- A registration or/of a notice or warning that litigation is ongoing as to ownership of a particular piece of land or other real property; also known as a certificate of lis pendens.
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- Certiorari
- A formal request to a court challenging a legal decision of an administrative tribunal, judicial office or organization (eg. government) alleging that the decision has been irregular or incomplete or if there has been an error of law.
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- Cestui Que Trust or Cestui Que Use
- Latin: the beneficiary of a trust.
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- Ceteris Paribus
- Latin: all things being equal or unchanged.
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- Chambers
- A court which sits to dispose of procedural matters.
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- Champerty
- When a person agrees to finance someone else's lawsuit in exchange for a portion of the judicial award.
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- Chancery
- The English law court with exclusive jurisdiction over equity; now phased-out and merged with the common law courts.
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- Charity
- A corporate non-profit body holdings property in trust for educational, religious, anti-poverty or some other purpose beneficial to the community.
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- Charterparty
- A transportation contract which includes the full and exclusive use of the airplane, vehicle or vessel for the duration of the transportation of either goods or persons.
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- Chaste
- A person who has never voluntarily had sexual intercourse outside of marriage such as unmarried virgins.
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- Chattel
- Moveable items of property which are neither land nor permanently attached to land or a building, either directly or vicariously through attachment to real property.
Expanded Legal Definition of Chattel
- Chattel Mortgage
- When an interest is given on moveable property other than real property (in which case it is usually a 'mortgage'), in writing, to guarantee the payment of a debt or the execution of some action.
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- Check or Cheque
- A form of bill of exchange where the order to pay is given to a bank which is holding the payor’s money.
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- Child
- A young individual who is under the legal age of majority, or who is the natural offspring of another.
Expanded Legal Definition of Child
- Child of the Marriage
- A dependent child of two persons, married at the time of conception of the child, and for whom both parents are financialy liable.
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- Child Support
- Periodic money payments payable by a non-custodial parent, to the custodial parent, for the care of his or her child.
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- Chinese Wall
- A screening barricade established within a law firm to prevent conflicts of interests between associates.
Expanded Legal Definition of Chinese Wall
- Chirograph
- A medieval form of contract which allowed for several verifiable authentic versions.
Expanded Legal Definition of Chirograph
- Chose In Action
- A property right in something intangible, or which is not in one's possession, but enforceable through legal or court action.
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- Church
- A charitable association of persons organized for the advancement of religion and for the conduct of religious worship, services or rites, and that is permanently established.
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- CIF
- Transportation contract acronym for "cost, insurance and freight" usually in reference to the sale price being inclusive thereof.
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- Circumstantial Evidence
- Evidence which may allow a judge or jury to deduce a certain fact from other facts which have been proven.
Expanded Legal Definition of Circumstantial Evidence
- Citation
- An order of a court to either do a certain thing or to appear before it to answer charges.
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- Citizen's Arrest
- Detainment of a person suspected of having committed a crime, by a person other than a police officer.
Expanded Legal Definition of Citizen's Arrest
- Civil Code
- A document in civil law jurisdictions that purports to be a compendium of the applicable law as it pertains to the citizen.
Expanded Legal Definition of Civil Code
- Civil Covenant of Solidarity
- A contract by two individuals of the age of majority, of different or same gender, to provide legal rights and obligations as a result of their cohabitation.
Expanded Legal Definition of Civil Covenant of Solidarity
- Civil Law
- A body of law derived and evolved directly from Roman Law, the primary feature of which is that laws are struck in writing; codified, and not determined, as is common law, by the opinions of judges based on historic customs.
Expanded Legal Definition of Civil Law
- Civil Liability
- A civil law requirement to compensate another because of an unlawful injury to his/her person or property.
Expanded Legal Definition of Civil Liability
- Civil Union
- A formal union between two people, of the same or of different genders which results in, but falls short of, marriage-like rights and obligations.
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- Clandestine
- Something purposely kept from the view or knowledge of others either in violation of the law or to conduct or conceal some illegal purpose.
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- Class Action
- When different persons combine their lawsuits into one opposed to a common defendant, because the facts are sufficiently similar.
Expanded Legal Definition of Class Action
- Clayton's Case
- An English case which established a presumption that monies withdrawn from a money account are presumed to be debits from those monies first deposited; first in, first out.
Expanded Legal Definition of Clayton's Case
- Clean Hands
- A maxim of the law to the effect that any person, individual or corporate, that wishes to ask or petition a court for judicial action, must be in a position free of fraud or other unfair conduct.
Expanded Legal Definition of Clean Hands
- Clear Days
- Full and complete days.
Expanded Legal Definition of Clear Days
- Client-Solicitor Privilege
- A right that belongs to the client of a lawyer that the latter keep any information or words spoken to him during the provision of the legal services to that client, strictly confidential.
Expanded Legal Definition of Client-Solicitor Privilege
- Coastal Trading
- Trade transit of a vessel along the coast, from one port to another within the territorial limits of a single nation.
Expanded Legal Definition of Coastal Trading
- Codicil
- An amendment to an existing will. Does not mean that the will is totally changed; just to the extent of the codicil.
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- Collateral
- Property which has been committed to guarantee a loan.
Expanded Legal Definition of Collateral
- Collateral Descendant
- A descendant that is not direct, such as a niece or a cousin.
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- Collateral Source Rule
- A rule of tort law which holds that the tortfeasor is not allowed to deduct from the amount he or she would be held to pay to the victim of the tort, any goods, services or money received by that victim from other 'collateral' sources as a result of the tort (eg. insurance benefits).
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- Collective Bargaining
- Trade agreement negotiation between an employer and a person(s) representative of a larger unit of employees, to govern hiring, work, pay and dispute resolution.
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- Collective Bargaining Agreement
- A contract on hiring, working conditions and dispute resolution between an employer and a union, the latter representing employees of a defined group.
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- Collision
- An accidental contact between two or more vehicles or ships which causes damage.
Expanded Legal Definition of Collision
- Collusion
- A secret agreement between two or more persons, who seem to have conflicting interests, to abuse the law or the legal system, deceive a court or to defraud a third party.
Expanded Legal Definition of Collusion
- COLREGS 1972
- Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972; an international set of standard navigation rules to prevent collisions at sea.
Expanded Legal Definition of COLREGS 1972
- Comity
- A principle of international law, that one state, to the greatest extent possible, recognize the legislative, executive or judicial acts of another.
Expanded Legal Definition of Comity
- Commercial Arbitration
- Arbitration of a dispute as to a trade transaction for the supply or exchange of goods or services.
Expanded Legal Definition of Commercial Arbitration
- Commission
- A formal group of experts brought together on a regular or ad hoc basis to debate matters within that sphere of expertise, and with regulatory or quasi-judicial powers such as the ability to license activity in the sphere of activity or to subpoena witnesses.
Expanded Legal Definition of Commission
- Commissioner of Oath
- A formal appointment or commission governments give to individuals empowering them to certify the oath of another upon documents, such as affidavits.
Expanded Legal Definition of Commissioner of Oath
- Committee
- A term of parliamentary law which refers to a body of one or more persons appointed by a larger assembly or society, to consider, investigate and/or take action on certain specific matters.
Expanded Legal Definition of Committee
- Commodum Ex Injuria Sua Nemo Habere Debet
- Latin: a wrongdoer should not be enabled by law to take any advantage from his actions.
Expanded Legal Definition of Commodum Ex Injuria Sua Nemo Habere Debet
- Common Carrier
- A carrier who accepts to transport goods indiscriminately.
Expanded Legal Definition of Common Carrier
- Common Land
- Land that, ownership notwithstanding, is available for the use and enjoyment of all, or for the use or enjoyment of a class of persons.
Expanded Legal Definition of Common Land
- Common Law
- Judge-declared law. Law which exists and applies to a group on the basis of customs and legal precedents developed over hundreds of years in Britain.
Expanded Legal Definition of Common Law
- Common Law Relationship
- Two unmarried persons living together as though married.
Expanded Legal Definition of Common Law Relationship
- Common Share
- The basic share in a corporation.
Expanded Legal Definition of Common Share
- Commorientes
- Two or more persons dying at about the same time, usually in the same event, but in circumstances in which it is impossible to determine the order of death.
Expanded Legal Definition of Commorientes
- Communism
- A utopian state of government where specified property or means of production are owned by the state and not citizens or persons, and which may also provide for a form of equal distribution of national production.
Expanded Legal Definition of Communism
- Community Property
- A marriage property legal term; property acquired or owned during a marriage or, where recognized, a marriage-like relationship, and which belongs, notwithstanding title, as in a partnership and as tenants in common (“hence “community”), to each spouse equally and subject to division on that basis in the event of separation or divorce.
Expanded Legal Definition of Community Property
- Company
- A legal entity, allowed by legislation, which permits a group of people, as shareholders, to apply to the government for an independent organization to be created, which can then focus on pursuing set objectives, and empowered with legal rights which are usually only reserved for individuals, such as to sue and be sued, own property, hire employees or loan and borrow money.
Expanded Legal Definition of Company
- Comparative Negligence
- An tort law analysis which considers the negligence of the victim and which may lead to a reduction of the award against the defendant, proportionate to the contribution of the victim’s negligence.
Expanded Legal Definition of Comparative Negligence
- Compassionate Care Leave
- Paid or unpaid leave to care or support a gravely ill family member.
Expanded Legal Definition of Compassionate Care Leave
- Conciliation
- A form of alternate dispute resolution (ADR) in which a neutral third-party hears both sides and then isues a non-binding suggested resolution.
Expanded Legal Definition of Conciliation
- Concubinage
- Civil law term for an unmarried couple living nonetheless as husband and wife or, where same-sex relationships are recognized by law, such similar cohabitation relationships.
Expanded Legal Definition of Concubinage
- Conditional Discharge
- A sentence of a person found guilty of a crime in which upon completion of specified actions by the accused, no criminal record issues as regards the offense for which a conditional discharge was granted.
Expanded Legal Definition of Conditional Discharge
- Conditional Sentence
- A sentence of a person convicted of a crime which allow that person to serve his sentence whilst continuing to reside within his/her community, subject to supervision and reporting, and fully recoverable in the event of breach of those conditions.
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- Condition Precedent
- A contractual condition that suspends the coming into effect of a contract unless or until a certain event takes place.
Expanded Legal Definition of Condition Precedent
- Condition Subsequent
- A condition in a contract that causes the contract to become invalid if a certain event occurs.
Expanded Legal Definition of Condition Subsequent
- Condominium
- A unit or defined portion of ownership in real property, similar to an apartment.
Expanded Legal Definition of Condominium
- Condonation
- Obvious or implied forgiveness.
Expanded Legal Definition of Condonation
- Conduct Unbecoming
- Conduct on the part of a certified professional that is contrary to the interests of the public served by that professional, or which harms the standing of the profession in the eyes of the public.
Expanded Legal Definition of Conduct Unbecoming
- Cone of Silence
- An oath by a solicitor or other employee in a law firm not to disclose any information in regards to a previous client otherwise placing that lawyer or employee in a conflict of interest with other clients of the same law firm.
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- Confederation
- A loose association of states in which a central, subordinate and limited government structure is created for some common purpose, except in Canada where it is used to describe a federal system in which the central government is not so subordinate to the provincial or regional governments.
Expanded Legal Definition of Confederation
- Confession
- A statement made by a person suspected or charged with a crime, that he (or she) did, in fact, commit that crime.
Expanded Legal Definition of Confession
- Conflict of Laws
- A specialized branch of law which resolves cases which have an element of conflicting foreign law.
Expanded Legal Definition of Conflict of Laws
- Confusion
- Civil law: grounds for extinguishing a contractual obligation when creditor and debtor become the same person.
Expanded Legal Definition of Confusion
- Connivance
- Secretly privy or accessory to the act of another.
Expanded Legal Definition of Connivance
- Consensus
- A decision achieved through negotiation whereby a hybrid solution is arrived at between parties to an issue, dispute or disagreement, comprising typically of concessions made by all parties, and to which all parties then subscribe unanimously as an acceptable resolution to the issue or disagreement.
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- Consensus Ad Idem
- Latin: an agreement - a meeting of the minds between the parties where all understand the commitments made by each. A basic requirement for a contract.
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- Consideration
- Some right, interest, profit or benefit accruing to the one party of a contract, or some forbearance, detriment, loss or responsibility given, suffered or undertaken by the other.
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- Consign
- To leave an item of property in the custody of another.
Expanded Legal Definition of Consign
- Consortium
- Companionship, love and affection and intimacy between husband and wife within a mariage.
Expanded Legal Definition of Consortium
- Conspiracy
- An agreement between two or more persons to commit a criminal act.
Expanded Legal Definition of Conspiracy
- Constitution
- The basic law of a state which sets out how that state will be organized, the powers and authorities of government between different political units, and by stating and the basic principles of the society.
Expanded Legal Definition of Constitution
- Construction
- The legal process of interpreting a phrase or document; of trying to find it’s meaning.
Expanded Legal Definition of Construction
- Constructive Dismissal
- Under the employment law of some states, judges will consider a situation where there has been a fundamental violation of the rights of an employee, by the employer, so severe that the employee would have the right to consider himself as dismissed, even though, in fact, there has been no act of dismissal on the part of the employer.
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- Constructive Eviction
- An implied eviction where the landlord's act or omission justifies the immediate departure of the tenant.
Expanded Legal Definition of Constructive Eviction
- Constructive Total Loss
- Insured property that has been abandoned because its actual total loss appears to be unavoidable, or because it could not be preserved or repaired without an expenditure which would exceed its value.
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- Constructive Trust
- A trust which a court declares or imposes onto participants in very specific circumstances such as those giving rise to an action for unjust enrichment, and notwithstanding the lack of any willing settlor to declare the trust.
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- Consuetudo Volentes Ducit, Lex Nolentes Trahit
- Customs leads the willing, law drags the unwilling.
Expanded Legal Definition of Consuetudo Volentes Ducit, Lex Nolentes Trahit
- Consumer Fraud
- An act or omission in the conduct of trade or commerce designed to mislead a consumer.
Expanded Legal Definition of Consumer Fraud
- Consumer Scam
- A deceptive sale of goods or services to a consumer designed to extract money unreasonably excessive given the services rendered or goods provided, if any.
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- Contempt of Court
- Conduct that is disobedient, obstructive or contemptuous to the Court.
Expanded Legal Definition of Contempt of Court
- Contingency Fee
- A method of payment of legal fees represented by a percentage of an award.
Expanded Legal Definition of Contingency Fee
- Continuance
- An adjournment of a trial or some other legal hearing.
Expanded Legal Definition of Continuance
- Contract
- An agreement between persons which obliges each party to do or not to do a certain thing.
Expanded Legal Definition of Contract
- Contract Law
- That body of law which regulates the formation and enforcement of contracts.
Expanded Legal Definition of Contract Law
- Contribution
- The right of a person who has discharged a common liability to recover proportionate share from the other(s) that were so liable.
Expanded Legal Definition of Contribution
- Contributory Negligence
- The negligence of a person which, while not being the primary cause of a tort, nevertheless combined with the act or omission of the primary defendant to cause the tort, and without which the tort would not have occurred.
Expanded Legal Definition of Contributory Negligence
- Conversion
- A legal action against a person who found and converted someone else property to his own use.
Expanded Legal Definition of Conversion
- Conveyance
- A written document which transfers property from one person to another, usually real property.
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- Conviction
- The formal decision of a criminal trial which finds the accused guilty.
Expanded Legal Definition of Conviction
- Co-operative
- A group of people formed as a separate organization and which has as a stated purpose either in regards to the public at-large or in regards to the common interests of the members.
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- Co-ownership
- A generic legal term that refers to various forms of ownership over one asset by more than one person.
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- Coparcenary
- An obsolete co-ownership mechanism of English law where property, if there was no will, always went to the eldest son.
Expanded Legal Definition of Coparcenary
- Copyright
- The exclusive right to produce or reproduce (copy), to perform in public or to publish an original literary or artistic work, pursuant to a statute usually called the "Copyright Act", or some similar name.
Expanded Legal Definition of Copyright
- Corody
- A pension in food or such other things as may be required for sustenance.
Expanded Legal Definition of Corody
- Corollary Relief
- Relief sought from a Court which is incidental, consequential or additional to another principal relief.
Expanded Legal Definition of Corollary Relief
- Coroner
- A public official who holds an inquiry into violent or suspicious deaths.
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- Corporal Punishment
- A punishment for some violation of conduct which involves the infliction of pain on, or harm to the body
Expanded Legal Definition of Corporal Punishment
- Corporate Secretary
- Officer of a corporation responsible for the official documents of the corporation such as the official seal, records of shares issued, and minutes of all board or committee meetings.
Expanded Legal Definition of Corporate Secretary
- Corporation
- A legal entity, created under the authority of a statute, which permits a group of people, as shareholders, to apply to the government for an independent organization to be created, which then pursues set objectives, and is empowered with legal rights usually only reserved for individuals, such as to sue and be sued, own property, hire employees or loan and borrow money.
Expanded Legal Definition of Corporation
- Costs
- A court order that the losing party in litigation must pay the successful party's expenses plus an additional allowance, the latter as a contribution towards the winner's legal fees.
Expanded Legal Definition of Costs
- Costs Follow The Event
- An award of costs will generally flow with the result of litigation; the successful party being entitled to an order for costs against the unsuccessful party.
Expanded Legal Definition of Costs Follow The Event
- Council
- A formal group of experts brought together on a regular basis to debate matters within that sphere of expertise, often with advisory powers to government.
Expanded Legal Definition of Council
- Counterclaim
- A defendant's claim against a plaintiff.
Expanded Legal Definition of Counterclaim
- Court
- Either the room in which, and during which, judicial proceedings are hosted, or to the judicial body presiding over those proceedings, usually personified in the person of a judge.
Expanded Legal Definition of Court
- Court Martial
- A military court set up to try and punish offenses taken by members of the army, navy or air force.
Expanded Legal Definition of Court Martial
- Court of Admiralty
- A rather archaic term used to denote the court which has the right to hear shipping, ocean and sea legal cases; jurisdiction over maritime law cases.
Expanded Legal Definition of Court of Admiralty
- Court of Pie Powder
- A special court that sat in times of public markets or fairs in England in medieval times, with exclusive jurisdiction over disputes between merchants and consumers and any other dispute arising as a result of the market or fair and on fair grounds.
Expanded Legal Definition of Court of Pie Powder
- Covenant
- A written document in which signatories either commit themselves to do a certain thing, to not do a certain thing or in which they agree on a certain set of facts.
Expanded Legal Definition of Covenant
- Credit Card
- A plastic card issued to concede to the holder, upon presentation to authorized stores or service providers, products or services on credit.
Expanded Legal Definition of Credit Card
- Creditor
- A person to whom money, goods or services are owed by the debtor.
Expanded Legal Definition of Creditor
- Crime
- An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law and punished, usually by fine or imprisonment.
Expanded Legal Definition of Crime
- Crimen Omnia Ex Se Nata Vitiat
- Latin: property obtained by crime is tainted (vitiated).
Expanded Legal Definition of Crimen Omnia Ex Se Nata Vitiat
- Crimes Against Humanity
- An international criminal justice offence; the perpetration of acts of war upon a civilian, non-soldier population.
Expanded Legal Definition of Crimes Against Humanity
- Criminal Bankruptcy
- The forced bankruptcy of a convicted person.
Expanded Legal Definition of Criminal Bankruptcy
- Criminal Code
- A statute which purports or attempts to set out all prohibited or criminal offences, and their various punishments.
Expanded Legal Definition of Criminal Code
- Criminal Conversation
- Criminal conversation: synonymous with adultery.
Expanded Legal Definition of Criminal Conversation
- Criminal Harassment
- Unsolicited annoying, alarming or abusive conduct or words which are threatening.
Expanded Legal Definition of Criminal Harassment
- Criminal Law
- That body of the law that deals with conduct considered so harmful to society as a whole that it is prohibited by statute, prosecuted and punished by the government.
Expanded Legal Definition of Criminal Law
- Criminal Libel
- A criminal offence; deliberate publication of defamatory lies which the publisher knows to be false.
Expanded Legal Definition of Criminal Libel
- Criminal Negligence
- Reckless disregard for the lives or safety of other persons.
Expanded Legal Definition of Criminal Negligence
- Cross Examination
- The examination of a witness called by the other side at trial and for which leading questions are permitted.
Expanded Legal Definition of Cross Examination
- Crown
- The word refers specifically to the British Monarch, where she is the head of state of Commonwealth countries.
Expanded Legal Definition of Crown
- Cruelty
- Conduct that causes bodily or mental injury, or apprehension to such injury, to a person or an animal, without legitimate purpose.
Expanded Legal Definition of Cruelty
- Crumbling Skull Rule
- A legal theory, companion to the thin skull rule, which limits a tort defendant’s exposure to a plaintiff’s injuries to the plaintiff’s condition at the time of the tort.
Expanded Legal Definition of Crumbling Skull Rule
- Cuius Est Solum Ejus Est Usque Ad Caelum
- Latin: who owns the land, owns down to the center of the earth and up to the heavens.
Expanded Legal Definition of Cuius Est Solum Ejus Est Usque Ad Caelum
- Culpa Lata
- Latin: gross negligence.
Expanded Legal Definition of Culpa Lata
- Curial Deference
- That general courts ought to defer to the rulings of specialized tribunals save exceptional circumstances.
Expanded Legal Definition of Curial Deference
- Curtesy
- Widower's right to an interest in his deceased wife's real property.
Expanded Legal Definition of Curtesy
- Curtilage
- The yard surrounding a residence or dwelling house which is reserved for or used by the occupants for their enjoyment or work.
Expanded Legal Definition of Curtilage
- Custodia Legis
- In the custody of the law; the taking, seizing or holding of something by lawful authority.
Expanded Legal Definition of Custodia Legis
- Custody
- Charge and control of a person or item of property.
Expanded Legal Definition of Custody
- Cy-pres
- As near as may be.
Expanded Legal Definition of Cy-pres
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