(law) the removal or termination or destruction of something that has been found to be a nuisance
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Comparative negligence
(law) negligence allocated between the plaintiff and the defendant with a corresponding reduction in damages paid to the plaintiff
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(law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensa…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) immediate and direct physical control over property
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(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…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity; "injunctions were forme…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) any monopoly or contract or combination or conspiracy intended to restrain commerce (which are illegal according to antitrust la…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensa…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) negligence of two of more persons acting independently; the plaintiff may sue both together or separately
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) having the power and intention to have and control property but without direct control or actual presence upon it
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) behavior by the plaintiff that contributes to the harm resulting from the defendant's negligence; "in common law any degree of c…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something w…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) possession for which criminal sanctions are provided because the property may not lawfully be possessed or may not be possessed…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something w…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(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…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.(law) the initial questioning of a witness by the party that called the witness
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law.
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the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of ‘…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: negligence, allocated, plaintiff, defendant, corresponding.(law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment; "she allocated part of the trust to her church by appoin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: negligence, allocated, plaintiff, defendant, corresponding.The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the mem…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: negligence, allocated, plaintiff, defendant, corresponding.To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: negligence, allocated, plaintiff, defendant, corresponding.the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: negligence, allocated, plaintiff, defendant, corresponding.One who acknowledged the right of the plaintiff or cognizee in a fine; the defendant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: negligence, allocated, plaintiff, defendant, corresponding.An instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff's demand to be just.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: negligence, allocated, plaintiff, defendant, corresponding.An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: negligence, allocated, plaintiff, defendant, corresponding.a plaintiff's reply to a defendant's plea
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: negligence, allocated, plaintiff, defendant, corresponding.A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: negligence, allocated, plaintiff, defendant, corresponding.That part of the process in which the plaintiff sets forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of the plaintif…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: negligence, allocated, plaintiff, defendant, corresponding.To state the plaintiff's cause of action at law in a legal form; as, the plaintiff declares in trespass.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: negligence, allocated, plaintiff, defendant, corresponding.
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