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States' rights
the rights conceded to the states by the United States constitution
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a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws; "common law originated in the unwritten laws of Eng…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Legal theory.an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Legal theory.the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Legal theory.the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Legal theory.the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Legal theory.an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Legal theory.a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws; "common law originated in the unwritten laws of Eng…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Legal theory.that branch of jurisprudence that studies the rights and obligations of parties entering into contracts
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Legal theory.(law) the removal or termination or destruction of something that has been found to be a nuisance
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) 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…
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(Stoic philosophy) a matter having no moral merit or demerit.; "Esteem (or reputation, fame, glory) was for Stoics an adiaphoron, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rights, conceded, states, united, constitution.Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admiss…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rights, conceded, states, united, constitution.One of party opposed to a federative government; -- applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rights, conceded, states, united, constitution.Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rights, conceded, states, united, constitution.low-growing annual herb of southwestern United States (Texas) having silky foliage and blue flowers; a leading cause of livestock pois…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rights, conceded, states, united, constitution.That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterati…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rights, conceded, states, united, constitution.(law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different lo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rights, conceded, states, united, constitution.a point conceded or yielded; "they won all the concessions they asked for"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rights, conceded, states, united, constitution.Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an inde…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rights, conceded, states, united, constitution.Regulated by, dependent on, or secured by, a constitution; as, constitutional government; constitutional rights.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rights, conceded, states, united, constitution.the convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rights, conceded, states, united, constitution.Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is…
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