Reasonable suspicion
Definition - Noun
: an objectively justifiable suspicion that is based on specific facts or circumstances and that justifies stopping and sometimes searching (as by frisking) ...
reasonable suspicion : an objectively justifiable suspicion that is based on specific facts or circumstances and that justifies stopping and sometimes searching (as by frisking) a person thought to be involved in ...
Reasonable Suspicion - Level of suspicion required to justify law enforcement investigation, but not arrest or search. A lower level of suspicion or evidence than probable cause.
See also above suspicion (the law); lay down the law; letter of the law; long arm of the law; Murphy's law; possession is nine points of the law; take the law into one's hands; unwritten law.
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Expanded Legal Definition of ArraignmentArrest The detainment or restraint of a person or thing for the purposes of determining legal rights as regards a thing, or suspicion of criminal activity as regards a person.
The same measure may be meted out to those who publish invectives against judges or juries with the object of creating suspicion or contempt as to the administration of justice.
reasonable cause - As basis for arrest without warrant, is such state of facts as would lean man of ordinary care and prudence to believe and conscientiously entertain honest and strong suspicion that person sought to be arrested is guilty of ...
The Supreme Court recently reaffirmed and expanded the principle first enunciated in Skinner, stating that, in some contexts, 'testing based on `suspicion' of [wrongful activity] would not be better, but worse' than suspicionless testing.
life with propriety, and some of them, indeed, with scrupulous exactness, who exhibit no strongly marked features of either temperament, no traits of superior or defective mental endowment, but yet take violent an- tipathies, harbor unjust suspicions, ...
Marketable Title: A title not subject to reasonable doubt or suspicion of invalidity in the mind of a reasonable and intelligent person: one which a prudent person guided by competent legal advice would be willing to accept and purchase at market ...
After discovering secret bank accounts held by her employer, Lisa reported her suspicions of fraudulent activity to the police. Since the state had no whistleblower act and Lisa was an at-will employee, her employer decided to fire her immediately.
Within the meaning of the law relating to actions for malicious prosecutions, - a reasonable cause of suspicion, ...
one holding a check or promissory note, received for value (he/she paid for it) in good faith and with no suspicion that it might be no good, claimed by another, ...
EXONERATE -- To free from suspicion; to show someone to be free of guilt.
one's right to sue on a contract may only accrue when the contract is breached or when the opposing party repudiates the contract. It may not accrue on the mere suspicion that the contract may be breached.
suspicion of unfitness on which the judge rules; and a limited number of peremptory challenges. Once selected, the jury (usually with several alternates) takes an oath to act fairly and without preconceptions.
If you believe that you have been exposed to benzene you should report your suspicions to your employer and be tested. Several tests can measure your exposure to Benzene.
Every civil lawsuit should be a search for truth, and the outcome should not be decided upon mere possibilities or suspicions but upon solid evidence, i.e., evident facts, upon which reasonable persons cannot disagree.
 See also: State, Person, Law, Information, Right
  
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