(law) the removal or termination or destruction of something that has been found to be a nuisance
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(law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct)
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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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Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; -- opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, conceivabl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, excess, actual, damages, punishment.a tort based on willful and malicious interference with the marriage relation by a third party without justification or excuse
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, excess, actual, damages, punishment.The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, excess, actual, damages, punishment.To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, excess, actual, damages, punishment.Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, excess, actual, damages, punishment.The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the l…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, excess, actual, damages, punishment.the position of professor; "he was awarded an endowed chair in economics"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, excess, actual, damages, punishment.an unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, excess, actual, damages, punishment.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, excess, actual, damages, punishment.One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, excess, actual, damages, punishment.(with ‘in’) guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child; "my fate is in your hand…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, excess, actual, damages, punishment.That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: compensation, excess, actual, damages, punishment.
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