Immunity From Prosecution: The waiver by a prosecutor of his or her right to prosecute in exchange for information or testimony.
Immunity may refer to:
Medicine
Immunity (medical), resistance of an organism to infection or disease ...
Immunity
It refers to act of exemption from performing normal duties or attending office. It also refers to the exemption from attending the legal hearings, be involved in Legal prosecution, penality or liability.
Immunity (Immune System): The body's ability to fight infection and disease.
Immunosuppression: Weakening of the immune system that causes a lowered ability to fight infection and disease.
Immunity An exemption that a person (individual or corporate) enjoys from the normal operation of the law such as a legal duty or liability, either criminal or civil.
immunity
n. exemption from penalties, payments or legal requirements, granted by authorities or statutes. Generally there are three types of immunity at law: a) a promise not to prosecute for a crime in exchange for information or testimony in a ...
Immunity
An exemption from the normal operation of the law such as a legal duty or liability, either criminal or civil, enjoyed by a person (individual or corporate) For example, ...
Immunity - Grant by the court, which assures someone will not face prosecution in return for providing criminal evidence.
Impeachment - A criminal proceeding against a public official.
immunity pl: -ties [Latin immunitas, from immunis exempt from public service, exempt, from in- non- + -munis (from munia services)] 1 : exemption from a duty or liability that is granted by law to a person or ...
Immunity - Freedom from duty or penalty.
Impeachment of a witness - An attack on the credibility of a witness by the testimony of other witnesses.
Immunity
Exemption from prosecution granted to a witness to compel answers to questions which otherwise could be withheld because of the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination.
IMMUNITY: Exemption from a legal duty, penalty or prosecution.
IMPAIRMENT: When a person's faculties are diminished so that his or her ability to see, hear, walk, talk and judge distances is below the normal level as set by the state.
immunity - Legal protection from liability. There are many categories of immunity in civil and criminal law.
Immunity - A grant by the court assuring someone that they will not face prosecution in return for their providing criminal evidence.
IMMUNITY. An exemption from serving in an office, or performing duties which the law generally requires other citizens to perform. Vide Dig. lib. 50, t. 6; 1 Chit. Cr. L. 821; 4 Har. & M'Hen. 341.
immunity: A right to be excepted from duty or penalty. (See also privilege.) ...
Executive immunity
Definition
: immunity granted to officers of the executive branch of government from personal liability for tortious acts or omissions done in the course of carrying out their duties ...
Qualified Immunity
Quasi In Rem
Qualified Medical Child Support Order QMCSO ...
Sovereign Immunity: The doctrine that the government, state or federal, is immune to lawsuit unless it gives its consent.
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Waiver of immunity - A means authorized by statute by which a witness, before testifying or producing evidence, may relinquish the right to refuse to testify against himself or herself, ...
legislative immunity
A legal doctrine that prevents legislators from being sued for actions performed and decisions made in the course of serving in government.
governmental immunity
n. the doctrine from English common law that no governmental body...
grace period
n. a time stated in a contract in which a late payment or perform...
Expanded Legal Definition of DeterrenceDiplomatic Immunity Immunity extended to diplomat officers from criminal and civil jurisdiction of their host state.
The discretionary function exception restores the government's immunity in situations where its employees are carrying out governmental or 'regulatory' duties. See 138 Cong. Rec. S13982-01, *S14010 (daily ed. Sept. 18, 1992).
King’s Evidence A term used in monarchies synonymous with "state’s evidence" in the US, where one of a number of accused persons is given immunity from prosecution in exchange for testifying against his alleged accomplices and ...
The criminals are offered a promise of immunity from prosecution if they will abandon their unlawful activities. After a revolution or civil war the victorious side will often extend amnesty to the losers; e.g.
A special and exclusive legal advantage or right such as a benefit, exemption, power or immunity.
Constitutional law: the abrogation doctrine refers to the power of Congress to revoke a state's sovereign immunity and authorize suits against that state.
Definition from Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary ...
Privilege - A benefit or advantage to certain persons beyond the advantages of other persons, i.e., an exemption, immunity, power, etc.
Privilege: A benefit or right enjoyed by an individual, a group of people, a company, etcetera, not enjoyed by others; special dispensation; an exemption from the performance of some act that others are required to perform; an immunity.
Privilege: Special legal right such as a benefit, exemption, power or immunity.
TOP Privilege : A special and exclusive legal advantage or right such as a benefit, exemption, power or immunity.
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