USA Law

Category: Constitutional law

  • Fraud

    Fraud in United States Fraud Definition The unlawful obtaining of another's property by design, but without criminal intent, and with the assent of the owner obtained by artifice or misrepresentation. Any cunning deception or artifice used to circumvent, cheat, or deceive another. […]

  • Fraud

    Fraud in United States Fraud Definition The unlawful obtaining of another's property by design, but without criminal intent, and with the assent of the owner obtained by artifice or misrepresentation. Any cunning deception or artifice used to circumvent, cheat, or deceive another. […]

  • Federal Common Law

    Federal Common Law in the United States United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled "FEDERAL COMMON LAW, CIVIL": In the English legal tradition to which this country is heir, judge-made common law law developed by […]

  • Foreign Affairs

    Foreign Affairs in the United States War, Foreign Affairs, and the Constitution Introduction According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, the United States "became a nation among nations on July 4, 1776, fully endowed with sovereignty, that is, the capacity to do […]

  • PERSON

    PERSON in United States Person Definition A man considered according to the rank he holds in society, with all the rights to which the place he holds entitles him, and the duties which it imposes. 1 Bouv. Inst, note 137. A corporation, which is an artificial person. 1 Bl. Comm. 123; 4 […]

  • Constitutional Rights

    Constitutional Rights in the United States Choice of Law and Constitutional Rights United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled CHOICE OF LAW AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTSchoice of law (also called conflict of laws or conflicts […]

  • Censorship

    Censorship in the United States Censorship in the United States When the American colonists drafted laws before 1776, they borrowed from English precedents regarding personal rights and liberties but went far beyond Great Britain in the fields of freedom of religion, speech, press, and […]

  • Democracy

    Democracy in the United States The Democratic Process American self-government is founded on a set of basic principles. Some grow out of the organic characteristics of the nation, and others have evolved from the practical application of the fundamental theses expressed in the preamble to […]

  • Burden of Proof

    Burden of Proof in United States Burden Of Proof Definition The duty of proving the facts in dispute on an issue raised between the parties in a cause. See 16 N. Y. 66; 1 Gray (Mass.) BOO; 6 Wheat. (U.S.) 481. Burden of proof is to be distinguished from prima facie evidence or a prima…

  • Court of International Trade

    Court of International Trade in the United States Court Of International Trade Definition A court established by Congress under Article III of the Constitution to hear cases involving U.S. international trade law, including questions concerning tariffs, dumping, countervailing duties, and […]

  • Court of International Trade

    Court of International Trade in the United States Court Of International Trade Definition A court established by Congress under Article III of the Constitution to hear cases involving U.S. international trade law, including questions concerning tariffs, dumping, countervailing duties, and […]

  • Equity

    Equity in the United States Decisions based on a judge's sense of fairness rather than strict common law standards. The equity model permits judges to issue remedies in civil cases based on equitable principles that are outside or that supplement common law. Some of the flexibility of equity […]

  • Equity

    Equity in the United States Decisions based on a judge's sense of fairness rather than strict common law standards. The equity model permits judges to issue remedies in civil cases based on equitable principles that are outside or that supplement common law. Some of the flexibility of equity […]

  • Foreign Intelligence Surveillance

    Foreign Intelligence Surveillance in the United States The Acquisition of Foreign Intelligce Information and the Fourth Amendment Because it implicates the reasonable privacy expectations of U.S. persons, the acquisition, according to a Government brief, must, of course, comply with the […]

  • Foreign Intelligence Surveillance

    Foreign Intelligence Surveillance in the United States The Acquisition of Foreign Intelligce Information and the Fourth Amendment Because it implicates the reasonable privacy expectations of U.S. persons, the acquisition, according to a Government brief, must, of course, comply with the […]