(law) the removal or termination or destruction of something that has been found to be a nuisance
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Defective pleading
any pleading that fails to conform in form or substance to minimum standards of accuracy or sufficiency
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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
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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
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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
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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…
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The energy barrier that must be overcome for a reaction to begin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pleading, fails, conform, substance, minimum.In a curve referred to polar coordinates, any point for which the radius vector is a maximum or minimum.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pleading, fails, conform, substance, minimum.(criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial; "the judge set ba…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pleading, fails, conform, substance, minimum.The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pleading, fails, conform, substance, minimum.The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pleading, fails, conform, substance, minimum.a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant defaults (fails to appear in court)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pleading, fails, conform, substance, minimum.a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant defaults (fails to appear in court)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pleading, fails, conform, substance, minimum.One who fails to perform a duty; a delinquent; particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to his care; a pecula…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pleading, fails, conform, substance, minimum.(law) any pleading that attacks the legal sufficiency of the opponent's pleadings
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pleading, fails, conform, substance, minimum.The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pleading, fails, conform, substance, minimum.income obtained with a minimum of effort
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pleading, fails, conform, substance, minimum.using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness; "an economic use of home heating oil"; "a modern economical heatin…
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