Unparliamentary language breaks the rules of politeness in the House of Commons Chamber.
What is the Plain Language Legal Dictionary? Simple. It's a collection of over a thousand common legal terms defined in simple, everyday language. We cut out the legalese so anyone can make sense of their agreements, contracts, and documents.
LANGUAGE. The faculty which men possess of communicating their perceptions and ideas to one another by means of articulate sounds.
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EU-languages pages of a French passport
An international conference on passports and through tickets, held by the League of Nations in 1920, recommended that passports be issued in French, historically the language of diplomacy, ...
Foreign Language Interpreter Project - using grant funding, the Foreign Language Interpreter Project is certifying interpreters for the courts.
Language used to leave property to a person and his or her descendants, which typically take the form "to A, and the heirs of his body," where A is the person receiving the property.
Language in a will that provides that a person who makes a legal challenge to the will's validity will be disinherited.
No-Fault Proceedings
A civil case in which parties may resolve their dispute without a formal finding of error or fault .
The language of judgments therefore is not that 'it is decreed,' or 'resolved,' by the court; but 'it is considered,' that the plaintiff recover his debt, damages or possession as the case may require or that the defendant do go without day.
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affidavit: a statement of facts based on personal knowledge, written or adopted by a person (called the affiant) who signs it before a notary and swears to the truth of the statement.
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Limitation: Language in a claim that constrains the breath of a claim.
Literal Infringement: This means that a product, process, apparatus, or composition of matter satisfies every recital of a claim literally.
Verba. Words, language, discourse.
Verba debent intelligi cum effectu. Words are to be understood effectively.
Verbum. Latin. What is spoken; a word.
No-Contest Clause - Language in a will that provides that a person who makes a legal challenge to the will's validity will be disinherited.
Penal servitude is the maximum punishment for various acts and irregularities upon active service not distinctly of a treacherous or wilfully injurious character, for using or offering violence or insubordinate language to a superior, ...
Often after a judge has stricken some comment or testimony (an answer made before an objection has stopped the witness), he/she admonishes (warns) the jury not to consider the stricken language, ...
A term of international law: those groups of people which have acquired international recognition as an independent country and which have four characteristics; permanent and large population with, generally, a common language; ...
LegalTrac: An index of periodical literature that indexes most English-language legal periodical literature from 1980 to the present. Since this is an index, the full-text of the journals are not in LegalTrac.
document type definition - a format specification file that accompanies documents prepared according to SGML (standard generalized markup language), including XML (extensible markup language).
A fee simple on condition subsequent is conveyed by language that creates a right of entry or power of termination in the grantor and that expresses condition («on condition that," «provided that").
In most states the language of the deed must specifically state that the title is held by joint tenants.
putting questions to his own witness cannot ask "leading" questions, which put words in the mouth of the witness or suggest the answer, while on cross-examination he/she can pose a question that seems to contain an answer or suggest language for the ...
Section of the brief that shows the exact language from the authorities that you rely on in your brief. This includes the important statutes, regulations, constitutional provisions, court rules, or ordinances.
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Interpreter: The person who correctly translates court hearings from a second language to English.
DAMAGED GOODS
In the language of the customs, are goods subject to duties, which have received some injury either in the voyage home, or while bonded in warehouses.... more ...
HTML Acronym for Hypertext Markup Language. HTML is the set of codes inserted into a file or document that is intended for display on a Web browser. HTML tells the browser how to display a document's words ...
Patent Ambiguity: An obvious inconsistency in the language of a written document.
Peremptory Challenge: A challenge to a particular juror that requires no reason. Normally an attorney has a limited number of these challenges.
The precise language of the acknowledgment must be used, which is set by statute. There is an acknowledgment for instruments signed within New York State and a different one for instruments signed outside of New York.
words of art
n. 1) specialized language with meaning peculiar to a particular ...
work product
n. the writings, notes, memoranda, reports on conversations with ...
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interpreter: a person sworn at a judicial proceeding to translate oral or written language
interrogatories: written questions propounded by one party and served on an adversary, who must provide written answers thereto under oath ...
interpreter: A person that is certified as being able to translate, orally or in writing, spoken or sign language into the common language of the court.
Eligible/eligibility : Every person who is at least 18 years of age, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the state for one year, able to understand the English language, not currently serving on any other jury, ...
demeanor Physical appearance, including facial expressions, body language, and the like; the jury may consider the demeanor of a witness in judging the witness's credibility.
Most states use a form entitled Receipt and Acknowledgment of Acceptance of Service (or similar language), which the person who is served signs, dates, and sends back to the attorney who sent the complaint or petition.
Usually spoken defamation (serious harming of someone's reputation or character by making false statements) but can include gestures, sign language, and other "non-permanent" statements.
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This condition manifested before the individual’s 22nd birthday, is likely to continue indefinitely, and results in substantial functional limitations in three or more areas of major life activity, including self-care, language, learning, ...
More commonly called alimony, spousal support is the term used in California and a few other states as part of new non-confrontational language (such as "dissolution" instead of "divorce") now used since divorce is "no-fault" in all states but two.
an alien coming temporarily to the United States to pursue a full course of study in an approved program in either an academic (college, university, seminary, conservatory, academic high school, elementary school, other institution, or language ...
Direct contempts are those committed in the immediate view and presence of the court (such as insulting language or acts of violence) or so near the presence of the court as to obstruct or interrupt the due and orderly course of proceedings.
Although you may speak your motions, it is far better practice to write them using the common sense language in separate numbered simple sentences, one subject, one verb, no connectors (like and, but, however, etc.), minimum adjectives and adverbs.
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