(law) the removal or termination or destruction of something that has been found to be a nuisance
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(law) an answer by a defendant that fails to admit or deny the allegations set forth in the complaint
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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
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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
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…
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To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: answer, defendant, fails, admit, deny.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: answer, defendant, fails, admit, deny.To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: answer, defendant, fails, admit, deny.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 indic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: answer, defendant, fails, admit, deny.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: answer, defendant, fails, admit, deny.To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: answer, defendant, fails, admit, deny.A form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: answer, defendant, fails, admit, deny.To call a defendant or other party whose duty it is to be present in court, and make entry of his default, if he fails to appear; to e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: answer, defendant, fails, admit, deny.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: answer, defendant, fails, admit, deny.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: answer, defendant, fails, admit, deny.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: answer, defendant, fails, admit, deny.The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of…
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