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Arraignment

The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint.

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Instrument 76% connected

That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Arraign 74% connected

To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Arraign 74% connected

To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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(law) the removal or termination or destruction of something that has been found to be a nuisance

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Assumed name noun · 78% connection

(law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of inc…

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Attestant noun · 78% connection

(law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature

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Attestator noun · 78% connection

(law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature

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Cease and desist order noun · 78% connection

(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity; "injunctions were forme…

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Civil wrong noun · 78% connection

(law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought

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Combination in restraint of trade noun · 78% connection

(law) any monopoly or contract or combination or conspiracy intended to restrain commerce (which are illegal according to antitrust la…

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Comparative negligence noun · 78% connection

(law) negligence allocated between the plaintiff and the defendant with a corresponding reduction in damages paid to the plaintiff

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Compensatory damages noun · 78% connection

(law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensa…

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Concurrent negligence noun · 78% connection

(law) negligence of two of more persons acting independently; the plaintiff may sue both together or separately

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Constructive possession noun · 78% connection

(law) having the power and intention to have and control property but without direct control or actual presence upon it

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Contributory negligence noun · 78% connection

(law) behavior by the plaintiff that contributes to the harm resulting from the defendant's negligence; "in common law any degree of c…

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Criminal negligence noun · 78% connection

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Criminal possession noun · 78% connection

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Amplitude noun · 78% connection

The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the risi…

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Answer noun · 78% connection

the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of ‘…

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Appeal noun · 78% connection

(law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decis…

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Appear verb · 78% connection

To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's…

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Appearance noun · 78% connection

The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, ei…

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Attach verb · 78% connection

To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a t…

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Bail noun · 78% connection

The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely…

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Bail bond unknown · 78% connection

A bond or obligation given by a prisoner and his surety, to insure the prisoner's appearance in court, at the return of the writ.

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Certiorari noun · 78% connection

A writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to call up the records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there depending, in…

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Com- unknown · 78% connection

A prefix from the Latin preposition cum, signifying with, together, in conjunction, very, etc. It is used in the form com- before b, m…

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Count verb · 78% connection

A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a dec…

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