Community Property at Legal Glossary What is it? A method for defining the ownership of property acquired during marriage, ...
Community Property: A method for defining the ownership of property acquired, and the responsibility for debts incurred during marriage.
Community Property definition:
A marriage property legal term; property acquired or owned during a marriage or, where recognized, a marriage-like relationship, and which belongs, notwithstanding title, ...
Community Property
It is asystem of dividing property owned by husband and wife equally on divorce or on the death of one of them.
Community Property: Property and profits received by a husband and wife during the marriage, with the exception of inheritances, specific gifts to one of the spouses, and property and profits clearly traceable to property owned before marriage, ...
Community Service Order: A sentence, which may have been given instead of detention to an offender over 16. He or she must work for between 40 and 240 hours, unpaid, in the community, supervised by a Probation Officer.
Community Service: Work that convicted defendants are required to perform in order to repay the community for the harm caused to the community by the crime.
COMMUNITY PROPERTY: Property acquired by a couple during their marriage. Refers to the system in some states for dividing the couple's property in a divorce or upon the death of one spouse.
Community control
A form of probation restricting the defendant's movements to an extreme degree.
Commutation
The reduction of a sentence, as from death to life imprisonment.
community water system (CWS) : A public water system which serves at least 15 service connections used by yearround residents or regularly serves at least 25 year-round residents.
community property Property acquired during marriage and owned by both husband and wife.
Community Adjustment:
Disposition of a juvenile offense that involves releasing the offender to a parent or guardian, with follow-up assistance by either the police or a community agency.
COMMUNITY. This word has several meanings; when used in common parlance it signifies the body of the people.
2. In the civil law, by community is understood corporations, or bodies politic. Dig. 3, 4.
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In community property states, property owned and controlled entirely by one spouse in a marriage. At divorce, separate property is not divided under the state's property division laws, but is kept by the spouse who owns it.
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n. in community property states, property acquired by a couple wh...
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Official Community publication containing (in the L series) the texts of regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations, agreements and other measures, and (in the C series) notices, particulars of cases brought before the European Court, ...
Community Treatment Order An order to provide a person who suffers from a serious mental disorder with a comprehensive plan of community-based treatment or care and supervision that is less restrictive than being detained in a psychiatric ...
Ask respected people in your community if they think your case is fair. Ask how they think the judge should rule. Tell them the entire story. Tell them all the facts. Ask, "Does this seem reasonable? What do you honestly think?" Then listen.
It may be time in jail, community service or a period of probation. TOP Sequestration : The taking of someone's property, voluntarily (by deposit) or involuntarily (by seizure), by court officers or into the possession of a third party, ...
Nothing else but custom arising from the universal agreement of the whole community. Custom handed down by tradition, use, and experience. 1 Bl. Com. 17. See Unwritten Law.
But at the other extreme end of the scale of civilization are societies to which Austin himself refuses to apply his system, and where, it would be conceded on all sides, there is neither political community nor sovereign nor law - none of the facts ...
Demarche A word coined by the diplomatic community and referring to a strongly worded warning by one country to another and often, either explicitly or implicitly, with the threat of military consequence.
Community Property - Property or profits owned and accumulated by a husband and wife in states having community property laws. Such property or profits are owned in common as a kind of marital partnership.
The privilege, also known as riparian rights, may be modified or even denied because of the competing needs of other private-property holders or of the community at large.
Separate Property: In community property states (California, Texas, Arizona, Idaho, Louisiana, New Mexico, Nevada and Washington), the property owned by one spouse which he/she acquired: a) before marriage, b) by inheritance, c) as a gift, d) ...
Character evidence includes criminal convictions and reputation in the community for honesty.
Interagency Collaboration: Interagency collaboration is the process of coordinating the responsibilities of the agencies involved at a hazardous waste site by addressing community concerns, whether health issues or environmental quality concerns, ...
[French solidaire characterized by community of interests, from Middle French, from Latin (in) solidum for the whole, involving all]
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character evidence - The testimony of witnesses who know the general character and reputation of a person in the community in which he or she lives.
Once found principally in large cities, violent street gangs now affect public safety, community image, and quality of life in communities of all sizes in urban, suburban, and rural areas. No region of the United States is untouched by gangs.
Diversion Programs - Programs designed to divert offenders from official processing to a less formal, less adversarial and more community-based setting.
Guardian ad Litem Program - when a child is thrust into the legal system because of abuse, neglect or dependency, a trained GAL volunteer researches the child's home and community situation.
Probation: An alternative to imprisonment allowing a person found guilty of an offense to stay in the community, usually under conditions and under the supervision of a probation officer.
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Common law has been referred to as the "common sense of the community, crystallized and formulated by our ancestors". Equity law developed after the common law to offset the rigid interpretations medieval English judges were giving the common law.
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Vesting
Denotes the manner in which title is held. Examples of common vestings are: Community Property, Joint Tenancy and Tenancy in Common.
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Zoning is the chief planning tool of local government to guide the future development of a community, protect neighborhoods, concentrate retail business and industry, ...
Comprehensive Plan: Official plan adopted by local governments that guides decision making over proposed public and private actions affecting community development.
objective standard: standard that measures a person's behavior or knowledge against what a reasonable person would have done or known, thus holding the person to a community standard of behavior.
Restitution - Either financial reimbursement to the victim or community service imposed by the court for a crime committed.
An African term loosely translated to mean "humanity towards others." Ubuntu or "Bantu" law embodies important African cultures values, such as the restoration of equilibrium, reconciliation, and formative justice derived from the community.
Registration lasts for 10 years and can be renewed. Registration can also be made throughout the EU using a Community Trade Mark (CTM). This is cheaper than registering a trade mark in every individual EU state.
This includes its financial, legal and policy implications, and any further relevant information, such as whether the document is awaiting further consideration by other European Community bodies.
It does not involve the arrest of the accused and is used where the police, either by the relatively less serious nature of the crime or because of the standing of the accused in the community, ...
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probation - Sentence imposed for commission of crime whereby a convicted criminal offender is released into the community under the supervision of a probation officer in lieu of incarceration.
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