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| A law enacted by a legislative body of Congress. The words bill and law are used synonymously with act. |
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| A modification or alteration proposed to be made to a bill on its passage or to an enacted law. Also, a modification or change. |
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| A connected series of propositions; a system of rules. |
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| The ten original amendments to the U.S. Constitution. |
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| The failure by a party to a contract to fulfill the terms of the contract in accordance with his or her promise. |
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| The law as laid down in cases that have been previously decided. |
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| The distribution of powers of the federal government. |
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| That body of law including offenses against the individual, as distinguished from criminal law. |
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| Wrongs committed by one person against another in which the victim may be entitled to damages. |
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| A collection of laws classified by subject matter. |
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| The unwritten law, based on custom or court decision, as distinct from statute law. |
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| To assign responsibility and liability for damage in direct proportion to the amount of negligence of each of the parties. |
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| The basic principles and laws that govern a nation, state, or society; a document containing such laws. |
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| Negligence of the plaintiff, which, combined with negligence of the defendant, was the immediate and direct cause of the injury complained of. |
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| That body of law characterized by or relating to a crime or an offense against the state or society. |
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| A Latin term defining gross negligence. |
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| A Latin term used to define slight negligence. |
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| Absolute or unqualified title to real property. |
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| Pertaining to a system of land tenure existing during the Middle Ages. |
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| A tenant's interest in property as created by a lease. |
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| The majority of those votes cast on a question of law. |
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| The minority of those votes cast on a question of law. |
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| A law passed by a municipality. |
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| A person who brings an action; the party who complains or sues in a personal action and is so named on the record. |
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| A clause at the begining of a constitution or statute explanatory of the reasons for its enactment and the objects sought to be accomplished. |
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| Something done or said previously that may serve as an example or that affects a decision on a similar matter today. |
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| Law that describes the procedure for preparing a case for court, continuing it through the court, and bringing the case to a conclusion. Sometimes called adjective or descriptive law. |
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A Latin term meaning to stand by a decision. |
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| Law passed by the law-making body of a nation or state. |
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| Laws enacted by Congress or the state legislatures. |
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| The great body of law that states the rights and obligations of all persons and the law practiced by attorneys. |
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| A work that embodies the civil and religious law of the Jewish people. |
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| Basis of the Jewish law system. |
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| An injury or wrong committed to the person, property, or reputation of another. |
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| The systematic body of laws of the U.S. government. |
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| United States Constitution |
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| The supreme law of the United States. A written instrument agreed on by the people of the Union as the absolute rule. |
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| Law not committed to writing at its origin, but originated in custom, as the common law of England. |
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| The balance of authority to support on side of the issue rather than the other. |
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| Those laws committed to print or writing. |
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