(law) the removal or termination or destruction of something that has been found to be a nuisance
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Legal proceeding
(law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked
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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) 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…
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the study of values and value judgments
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institution, sequence, steps, legal, judgments.A charitable institution, or a gift to create and support such an institution; as, Lady Margaret's charity.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institution, sequence, steps, legal, judgments.An office in the liturgy of the Church of England, used on Ash Wednesday, containing a recital of God's anger and judgments against si…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institution, sequence, steps, legal, judgments.(architecture) a gable having corbie-steps or corbel steps
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institution, sequence, steps, legal, judgments.the institution and conduct of legal proceedings against a defendant for criminal behavior
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institution, sequence, steps, legal, judgments.Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institution, sequence, steps, legal, judgments.a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it; "he signe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institution, sequence, steps, legal, judgments.Having steps; -- said of a cross each of whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center; -- termed also o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institution, sequence, steps, legal, judgments.Magic in which the aid of demons is invoked; black or infernal magic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institution, sequence, steps, legal, judgments.Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institution, sequence, steps, legal, judgments.To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institution, sequence, steps, legal, judgments.A book said to have been compiled under the direction of King Alfred. It is supposed to have contained the principal maxims of the com…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institution, sequence, steps, legal, judgments.
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