(law) the removal or termination or destruction of something that has been found to be a nuisance
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Compensatory damages
(law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated
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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) negligence allocated between the plaintiff and the defendant with a corresponding reduction in damages paid to the plaintiff
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
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Submission to an injury by the party injured.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, losses, readily, proven, occurred.a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, losses, readily, proven, occurred.a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, losses, readily, proven, occurred.The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, losses, readily, proven, occurred.To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will avera…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, losses, readily, proven, occurred.The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, losses, readily, proven, occurred.An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, losses, readily, proven, occurred.Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, losses, readily, proven, occurred.A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to originate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, losses, readily, proven, occurred.To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, losses, readily, proven, occurred.The adjustment of a debt, or avoidance of an obligation, by some form of compensation agreed on between the parties; also, the sum or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, losses, readily, proven, occurred.The cause which moves a contracting party to enter into an agreement; the material cause of a contract; the price of a stripulation; c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, losses, readily, proven, occurred.
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