Legal proceeding is an activity that seeks to invoke the power of a tribunal in order to enforce a law. Although the term may be defined more broadly or...
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Perjury (category Legal terminology)
it is not perjury to lie about matters that are immaterial to the legal proceeding. Statements that entail an interpretation of fact are not perjury because...
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Trier of fact (redirect from Trier of fact in Anglo-American based legal systems)
fact is a person or group who determines disputed issues of fact in a legal proceeding (usually a trial) and how relevant they are to deciding its outcome...
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financial loss to the ward. The Latin legal term ad litem means "for the lawsuit" or "for the legal proceeding". A guardian ad litem is thus someone appointed...
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Avro Keyboard (section Legal proceeding)
the developers behind Bengali computing happened to work under threat of legal persecution and law enforcing agencies. They indicated that Jabbar complained...
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Pro se legal representation (/ˌproʊ ˈsiː/ or /ˌproʊ ˈseɪ/) means to argue on one's own behalf in a legal proceeding, as a defendant or plaintiff in civil...
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Jury duty or jury service is a service as a juror in a legal proceeding. Different countries have different approaches to juries: variations include the...
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Ex parte (category Latin legal terminology)
Zealand, Canadian, South African, Indian, and U.S. legal doctrines, ex parte means a legal proceeding brought by one party in the absence of and without...
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Evidence (law) (redirect from Legal proof)
of evidence, encompasses the rules and legal principles that govern the proof of facts in a legal proceeding. These rules determine what evidence must...
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Procedural defense (category Legal terminology stubs)
legitimacy of the legal proceeding. A party argues that it should not be held liable for a legal charge or claim brought against them by some legal process, because...
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H. Raja (section Legal proceeding)
against H. Raja". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 30 September 2021. Legal action to be taken against H.Raja of BJP for insulting Muslims, Christians...
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A number of Latin terms are used in legal terminology and legal maxims. This is a partial list of these terms, which are wholly or substantially drawn...
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Robin Rosenberg said because the request was not part of a legal proceeding she could not legally grant the request only based on "extensive public interest"...
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Mario Giordano (born 19 June 1966) is an Italian journalist and television presenter. He received several disciplinary sanctions, and has been sued for...
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Lawsuit (redirect from Legal battle)
A lawsuit is a proceeding by one or more parties (the plaintiff or claimant) against one or more parties (the defendant) in a civil court of law. The archaic...
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Procedural law (redirect from Court proceeding)
and facts are determined is intended to maximize the fairness of any proceeding. Nevertheless, strict procedural rules have certain drawbacks. For example...
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offense which is carried out without legal process or supervision by a court or tribunal through a legal proceeding. Extrajudicial punishment is often a...
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Killing of Malice Green (section Legal proceeding)
Malice Green (April 29, 1957 – November 5, 1992) was an American resident of Detroit, Michigan who died after being assaulted by Detroit police officers...
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David Larible (section Legal proceeding)
David Larible (born 23 June 1957 in Verona, Italy) is an Italian clown. David Larible comes from six generations of circus artists, and his family has...
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Summons (redirect from Legal summons)
purposes. A judicial summons is served on a person involved in a legal proceeding. Legal action may be in progress against the person, or the person's presence...
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It Ends with Us controversy (section Other legal pleas)
found Lively's accusations of sexual harassment "legally protected" due to being part of a legal proceeding and thus immune from a lawsuit. Liman also stated...
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common law Duplicity (law) – Legal term Preliminary hearing – Type of legal proceeding that precedes a trial "indictment". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online)...
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The bill defines absolute divorce as the “legal termination of a marriage by a court in a legal proceeding.” On May 15, 2024, the House of Representatives...
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Jinnahbhai Poonja (section Legal issues)
Mahomedali was also sent to the United Kingdom because there was a legal proceeding against Poonja, which placed the family's property at risk of being...
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United States patent law, an interference proceeding, also known as a priority contest, is an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple...
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Willis Towers Watson (section Legal issues)
was settled for $75 million plus $15 million to resolve a separate legal proceeding from the Delaware Court of Chancery. The defendants tried to collect...
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found Lively's accusations of sexual harassment "legally protected" due to being part of a legal proceeding and thus immune from a lawsuit. He also wrote...
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En banc (category French legal terminology)
judges to overrule a prior decision and thus avoid the need for an en banc proceeding. Federal law provides that for courts with more than 15 judges, an en...
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in civil and criminal procedure that halts further legal process in a trial or other legal proceeding. The court can subsequently lift the stay and resume...
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band Effie M. Morrissey, 1890s American schooner Morrissey Hearing, legal proceeding, much less formal than a trial, used in the United States to handle...
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