Legal And Court Terms (B-D)

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Papers containing the trial jurymen's names.

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Ballots or slips

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Evidence from the most reliable source, an original as against a copy.

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Best evidence

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Defendant's request to obtain more detials of the plaintiff's case.

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Bill of Particulars

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State statues regulating the sales of corporate securities through investment companies. Laws imposed to prevent the sale of securities of fraudulent ventures.

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Blue Sky Laws

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Requiring a person to apprear for trial.

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Binding over

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Commonly used legal dictionary.

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Black's Law Dictionary

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Without deceit or fraud.

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Bona fide

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What an attorney does to obtain an order of the court in a contested action.

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Bring on a motion

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Obligation of a party to produce a particular state of conviction in the mind of the trier of fact.

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Burden of proof

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List of cases ready to be tried.

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Calendar

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System of correlated rules or standards.

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Canon

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That you take. A writ requiring the officer to take the body of the defendant into custody.

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Capias

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In contemplation of death or in anticipation of approaching death.

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Causa mortis

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The grounds on which a civil action may be sustained.

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Cause of action

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Let him beware. Warning or notice given by a party, judge, or officer against the performance of certian acts within his power and jurisdiction. A notice enterd in court to prevent the act from being done.

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Caveat

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Let the buyer beware. Purchaser buys at his own risk.

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Caveat emptor

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Unlimited objections to a juror for a specific reason.

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Challenge for Cause

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Objection made to an entire jury panel.

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Challenge to the Array

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Statement made by the judge to a jury.

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Charge

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Any item of intangible property oter than real estate.

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Chattel

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A thinkg, personal chattel.

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Chose

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Personal property in the posession of another.

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Chose in action

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Indirect evidence. Evidence from which you can draw a conclusion, but alone does not establish a fact.

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Circumstantial evidence

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Added provision to a will after its excecution.

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Codicil

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The transcription of any conversation that interrups the questions and anwers during a deposition or trial.

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Colloquy

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Party making the complaint.

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Complainant

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First paper filed in a civil action in Superior Court. The plaintiff's statement of his claims.

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Complaint

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Right of a spouse to the aid, companionship, and services of the other person in all conjugal relations.

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Consortium

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The stubborn resistance to authority.

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Contumacy

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Transfer of an estate in land.

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Conveyance

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Very abundant.

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Copious

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Relating to the body; bodily.

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Corporal

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Describes such things as having an objective, material existence, possessing are real body. Things perceptible by the senses of sight and touch.

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Corporeal

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Body of the crime. The legal requisites constituting the crime. It is the objective proof that a crime has been committed.

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Corpus delicti

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Body of law.

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Corpus juris

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Custodian of papers filed in court.

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County Clerk

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Claim alleged by the defendant against the plaintiff.

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Cross Complaint

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Blamable, censurable, involving the breach of a legal duty or commission of a fault.

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Culpable

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Seduce or corrupt

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Debauch

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One who has ceased to live.

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Decedent

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Judgement which declares the rights of parties or expresses an opinion of the court on a question of law without ordering anything to be done. It is distinguished from other actions in that it does not seek execution or performance from the defendan or opposing parties.

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Declaratory Judgement

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Instrument conveying title to real property.

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Deed

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Security instrument affecting transfer of real property. A transfer of legal title to property from the trustor to trustee.

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Deed of Trust

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Temporary, conditionally, provisionally.

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De bene esse

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In fact, in deed, actually. A phrase used to characterize a person government, or past action which must be accepted for all practical purposes but is illegal.

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De facto

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Failure of defendant to plead within the time allowed.

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Default

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By right, legitimate, lawful. Opposite of de facto

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De jure

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A lease. The lessee shall have full use and enjoyment of the leased premisis. A conveyance of an estate.

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Demise

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To stop, to stay. A pleading attacking the legal sufficiency of a pleading of the other side.

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Demurrer

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New, renewal, revived, a second time.

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De nova

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To give. Dispotion of real property or a gift contained in a will.

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Devise

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Multi-volume collection of abbreviated case summaries arranged by subject matter.

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Digest

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Intending to cause delay.

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Dilatory

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Verdict entered in a jury trial by the court without consideration by the jury because there are no factual issues for the jury to decide.

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Directed verdict

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Pre-trial procedure that permits one party to acquire any information held by the adverse party relating to an action.

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Discovery

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Dismissal without trial which allows a party to bring another civil action for the same cause unless civil action is barred.

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Dismissal without prejudice

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Dismissal without trial which bars the assertion of the same cause of action or claim against the same party.

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Dismissal with prejudice

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The place where a person has his permanent home and principal establishment, to where he plans to return.

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Domicile

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Second prosecution for same offense.

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Double Jeopardy

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Rule in some states that does not hold a person responsible for an act if it was done as the result of a mental disease or defect.

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Durham Rule