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23 Cards in this Set
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Res
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legal term that means thing or things
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res communes
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in civil law, refers to things that are common to all; light and air
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res gestae
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are things done; the whole of any transaction under invesigation and every part of it
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res inter alios acta
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thing done between other people. To speak of a thing done between third parties or outsiders to an action
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res integra
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points of law that have not yet been decided
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res judicata
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a controversy already legally decided
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res nova
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new thing
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res nullius
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the property of nobody
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civiliter mortuus
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a person dead in the eyes of the law
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Ipso jure
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by the law itself
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force majure
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French: an act of God
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sui generis
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peculiar to itself, or unique
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Ignorantia legis neminem excusat
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ignorance of the law is no excuse
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res ipsa loquitur
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the thing speaks for itself
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ipse dixit
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it rests on someones personal authority
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Act of God
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a happening for which no one is liable because no one could foresee or prevent it
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Quasi
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as if or in some sense and denotes a thing resembles another w/wi it is compared but that there are material diff between them
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seriatim
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series
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Ipse
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demonstrative pronoun used by attorneys for emphasis, saying it to mean myself, himself, herself and itself
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ipso facto
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by the very act of fact, in itself w/o any further action by any other act
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Champerty
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illegal agreemnt with a litigant whereby a stranger to the action agrees to meet the expenses of the suite for a share of the proceeds
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bipartite
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instrument in two parts executed by both parties
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multipartite
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object of instrument having multiple parts
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