Public Defender
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governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S.
Public Administrator at Legal Glossary What is it? Someone appointed by a probate court to oversee probate proceedings when a person dies without a will or heirs, and his or her property is expected to pass to the state.
Public Policy definition:
Certain acts or contracts are said to be against public policy if they tend to promote breach of the law, of the policy behind a law or tend to harm the state or its citizens.
Public Duty Doctrine definition:
A principle of personal injury law; that government owes duties to the public at large rather than to individuals.
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Public Service Commission: Also, Public Utilities Commission. A state agency which regulates utilities.
Public Domain
It refers to either land, property, or any form of creative and intellectual work which is the property of government and thus a public owned. In cases of real assets, they are usually free of cost to use or charged a very nominal fees.
Public Company
Under the Companies Act 1985, companies are incorporated as either private ("limited") or public ("Plc"). They are distinguished by different standards of regulation in the Companies Act 1985 and other legislation.
Public health law focuses on legal issues in public health practice and on the public health effects of legal practice.
Public Bills deal with matters of public policy. Most are introduced to Parliament by the Government. They tend to be general in character and affect everyone.
Public Benefit Corporation: A term used in some states for a nonprofit community service corporation. Typical examples are clubs like Kiwanis, Rotary, and Lions.
Go Public: The process of becoming a public, fully reporting company either by filing a registrations statement with the SEC, or by merging with a public company.
GOING PUBLIC - Selling privately held shares to new investors on the over-the-counter market for the first time.
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JUS GENTIUM PUBLICUM
Public International Law
JUS IN BELLO
Justice in War
These principles govern the conduct of parties during the law of war and armed conflict, and in a broader sense define the rights and obligations of neutral parties.
Public easement. Exists in favor of the people generally.
Education. Includes proper moral, as well as intellectual and physical, instruction.
Publicando: Public property.
Repetundis or Repetundarum: In cases of law, it generally refers to the recovery of extorted money.
Revocando: Recall from exile.
Public Buildings Service
The Public Buildings Service (PBS) designs, builds, leases, repairs, and maintains approximately seventy-three hundred federally controlled buildings in the United States.
public defender - lawyers regularly employed by the government to represent people accused of crimes who cannot afford to hire their own.
Public law - That law such as traffic ordinances or zoning ordinances which applies to the public.
Public defender - Government lawyer who provides free legal defense services to a poor person accused of a crime.
Public Defenders - the state provides legal counsel for defendants who have been determined by a judge as financially unable to hire their own attorney.
Public Buildings Cooperative Use Act: Federal law governing the construction, acquisition, and management of space by the General Services Administration for use by federal agencies.
Public Defender - Lawyers employed by the state to represent defendants accused of crimes that cannot afford to hire their own lawyer.
public defenders (or defense attorney): Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters. Return to Top
record: A written account of all the acts and proceedings in a lawsuit.
Public domain
A term of American copyright law referring to works that are not copyright protected, free for all to use without permission.
PUBLIC DEFENDER - A lawyer employed by the government to represent a person accused of a crime and who cannot afford to hire a lawyer.
REBUTTAL EVIDENCE - Evidence given to explain or disprove facts given in evidence by the opposing party.
Public Defender: An attorney appointed and paid by the state who defends a person in a criminal case after the court finds that the person is indigent--financially unable to hire a private attorney.
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PUBLIC DEFENDER: A lawyer who works for a state or local agency representing clients accused of a crime who cannot afford to pay.
Public defender
A court-appointed attorney for those defendants who are declared indigent.
Quash
To vacate or void a summons, subpoena, etc.
publication, service by See service by publication.
purport (noun) Meaning, substance, or legal effect; e.g., the purport of an instrument means the substance of it, as it appears on the face of the instrument.
REPUBLIC. A commonwealth; that form of government in which the administration of affairs is open to all the citizens. In another sense, it signifies the state, independently of its form of government. 1 Toull. n. 28, and n. 202, note.
Notary Public - A public officer whose function it is to administer oaths, to attest and certify documents, and to take acknowledgments.
Notary Public
A public officer who administers oaths, certifies documents, and performs certain other official acts, such as solemnizing a marriage.
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Public Guardian & Trustee
Protecting mentally incapable people
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Public Defender: Government lawyer who provides free legal defense services to a poor person accused of a crime.
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Public Key Infrastructure - a system of administrative procedures and methods, combined with secure information technologies, that is used to manage secure electronic commerce.
A public nuisance can be abated, to the extent necessary to prevent injury, by a person specially injured.
Self help should be approached with caution.
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A public offer to purchase stock at a specified price per share, usually done to gain a controlling interest in a corporation.
testamentary disposition
Leaving property in a will.
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3. A public recognition by a man of an illegitimate child as his own.
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Official publications: Cases, regulations and statutes are published electronically or in book format in either official or unofficial publications. Official publications are those that have been authorized by statute or governmental ruling.
Under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 and employee may disclose information about his or her employer's business (where there is wrongdoing by he employer).
Tax Sale
Public sale of property at auction by governmental authority, after a period of nonpayment of property taxes.
Coroner
A public official who holds an inquiry into violent or suspicious deaths. A coroner has the power to summon people to the inquest.
Obstruction of Public Administration of Government
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Members of the public who decide guilt or innocence in criminal cases at a Crown Court or the cause of death at a Coroner's Court.
They reach a verdict.
There is no jury in civil cases except in defamation cases.
Term: Notary Public
Definition: A public officer who administers oaths, certifies documents, and performs certain other official acts, such as solemnizing a marriage.
Notary Public
A person who authenticates a signature by determining that the person signing is truly the person of that name. Most banks have a notary public who can notarize documents.
Restatement A publication which tells what the law is in a particular field, as compiled from statutes and decisions.
Periodical - A publication which appears regularly but less often than daily.
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OPI - Open for Public Inspection.
Part 36 offer - Under the CPR, applies to either party and thus applies to the Claimant where the relief sought is a payment and in all other instances where the relief sought is not in respect of payment.
TENDER OFFER A public announcement that a company or person will pay a price above the current market price for shares of a company it wishes to acquire.
TESTATE One who dies leaving a will.
TESTATOR One who has made a will.
DEFAMATION: The publication of a statement that injures a person's reputation. Libel and slander are defamation.
DEFAULT JUDGMENT: A ruling entered against a defendant who fails to answer a summons in a lawsuit.
TOP Picket : To object publicly, on or adjacent to the employer's premises, to an employer's labor practices, goods or services. The most common form of picketing is patrolling with signs.
Color of Law Color of law is that characteristic of an individual who acts as a judge, police officer, mayor, or other public official.
Defaulting on a debt or other obligation such to account for public or trust funds. Usually used in the context of public officials. 2.
conflict of interest - Term used in connection with public officials and fiduciaries and their relationship to matters of private interest or gain to them.
Picket: Peaceful public demonstration, on or near an employer's premises, in furtherance of an existing or proposed trade dispute. Picketers may not threaten, insult or abuse other workers.
Plaintiff: Person who brings a case to court.
It is given by public officers to guarantee honest and faithful performance of their official duties while in office.
Burden of Proof - The duty to prove a fact or facts in dispute.
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