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| failure to use the care which a reasonable and prudent person would use in similar circumstances |
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| public officer who administers oaths, attests and certifies documents, and takes acknowledgments |
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| substitution of a new contract, debt, or obligation for an existing one between the same or different parties |
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| solemn pledge attesting to the truth of a statement |
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| a promise; a commitment to do or to refrain from doing some specific act |
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| one to whom an offer is made |
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| a right supported by consideration to purchase property at an agreed price within a specified time |
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| legislative enactment (law enacted) by a local government such as a county or a city |
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| oral proof of contract terms which are not contained within the written contract document |
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| release from imprisonment upon specific conditions related to conduct or good behavior |
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| inventor's right to exclude others from making, using, or selling the invention for seventeen years |
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| relationship of a father to a child |
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| one to whom payment is made |
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| monetary; relating to money |
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| false testimony given under oath |
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| in federal court, complaint, answer to complaint, and reply to cross-claim (no other pleadings are allowed) |
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| an instrument authorizing one to act as agent or attorney-in-fact for another as to those matters listed in the instrument |
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| holding of a case which guides the decisions in future cases involving similar facts and similar legal issues |
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| privileged communications |
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| statements made by persons within specific, protected relationships for evidentiary purposes (husband-wife, attorney-client, priest-parishioner, and so forth) |
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| justification to believe that a crime was committed and that the accused is the person who committed it |
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| a sentence which releases a convicted person into the community under the supervision of a probation officer |
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| a doctrine which prevents a party to a contract from denying that consideration was given for the contract |
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| the last (negligent) act which leads to injury; legal cause |
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| an instrument authorizing one to cast the votes of another at a corporate meeting |
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| damages awarded over and above the amount of losses, which are awarded as punishment of the wrongdoer |
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| suppress, stop, cease, abate |
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| action to determine clear title to real estate |
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| deed without warranty, which passes only that title which the grantor has |
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| discharge of one party's obligation to another |
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| action to recover possession of personal property |
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| an equitable remedy which invalidates a contract on the basis of mutual mistake, fraud, impossibility, and so forth |
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| restoration of a thing to its rightful owner; a measure of damages according to the defendant's gains rather than the plaintiff's losses |
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