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| The body of law created by administrative agencies (in the for of rules, regulations,orders, and decisions) in order to carry out their duties and responsibilities |
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| Any word or action intended to make another person fearful of immediate physical harm: a responsible believeable threat. |
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| The body of law developed from custom or judicial decisions in England and US courts not attributable to a legislature |
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| A common law doctrine under which judges are obligated to follow the precedents established in prior decisions |
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| A method of settling disputes outside the courts by using the services of a neutral third party who acts as a communicating agent between the parties and assists them in negotiating a settlement |
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| Legal cause exists when the connection between an act and an injury is strong enough to justify imposing liability |
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| Liability regardless of fault. In tort law, strict liability is imposed on those engaged in abnormaly dangerous activities, on persons who keep dangerous animals and on manufactures or sellers that introduce into commerce goods that are unreasonable dangerous when in a defective condition |
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| The unexcused harmful or offensive intentional touching of another |
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| Intentionally holding someone against there will |
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| is a technique for the resolution of disputes outside the courts, where the parties to a dispute refer it to one or more persons |
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| Defamation in oral form. Statements that are false to individual characters |
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| The provisions in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the US constitution that guarantee that no person shall be deprived from life liberty or property without due process of law. |
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| The phase in the letigation process during which the opposing parties may obtain information from each other and from third party prior to trail |
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| The provisions in the 14th amendment to the US constitution that guarantees that no state will (deny to any person within its jursidiction any laws) this clause mandates that the state gov must treat similarly situated individuals in a smiler manor. |
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| A writ from a higher court asking a lower court for the record of a case |
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| The failure to excercise the standard of care that a reasonable person would excercise in similar circumstances |
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| A crime-such as arson murder rape or robbery ranging from 1 year in a state pen to the death pentalty |
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| Mental state, or intent Normally a wrongful mental state is a necessary as a wonderful act to establish criminal liability. What constitutes such a mental state varies according to the wrongful action. Thus for murder, the men era is the intent to take a life. |
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| Statements made by the plaintiff and the defendants in a law suit that detail the facts charges and defenses involved in the litigation. |
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| Defamation in written form or other form like digital recording. |
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