USA Law

Tag: Ann de Vries

  • Civil Rights

    Civil Rights in the United States Civil Rights Definition The rights of a citizen; the rights of an individual as a citizen; the rights due from one citizen to another, the privation of which is a civil wrong, for which redress may be sought in a civil action. Also sometimes applied to the […]

  • Conspiracy

    Conspiracy in United States Conspiracy Definition (Lat. con, together, spiro, to breathe). In criminal law. A combination of two or more persons by some concerted action to accomplish some criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish some Eurpose, not in itself criminal or unlawful, […]

  • Corporation

    Corporation in United States Corporation Definition (Lat. corpus, a body). A franchise possessed by one or more individuals, who subsist as a body politic under a special denomination, and are vested, by the policy of the law, with the capacity of perpetual succession, and of acting in […]

  • 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. […]

  • Real Property

    Real Property in the United States The term real property derives from the Anglo-French phrase propreté proprieté, which in turn came from the Latin proprietat proprietas, essentially meaning private property. Real Property Definition Something which may be held by tenure, or […]

  • Extradition

    Extradition in United States Extradition Definition (Lat. ex, from, traditie, handing over) . The surrender by one sovereign state to another, on its demand, of persons charged with the commission of crime within its jurisdiction, that they may be dealt with according to its laws. […]

  • Disclosure

    Disclosure in the United States Release of information by one side in a legal case to the other side. Disclosure typically involves a prosecutor revealing information to the defense in a criminal case, but defense disclosure occurs in certain situations as well. Disclosure is a kind of […]

  • Estoppel

    Estoppel in the United States Estoppel Definition The preclusion of a person from asserting a fact by previous conduct, inconsistent therewith, on his own part, or the part of those under whom he claims, or by a solemn establishment, which he cannot be allowed to call in question. A […]

  • Breach

    Breach in United States Breach Definition In Contracts. The violation of an obligation, engagement, or duty. Breach may be either by renunciation, that is, by the declaration of the party that he does not intend to perform (32 Iowa, 409; 61 N. Y. 362; 52 Wis. 240), by such acts as will […]

  • Zoning

    Zoning in the United States Practical Information A regulation, enforced under the police power of municipalities and states and applied to the use of both lands and buildings, whereby land use is restricted to specific purposes and building construction is controlled as to type, intensity, […]

  • Title Insurance

    Title Insurance in United States Practical Information Note: Some of this information was last updated in 1982A contract (in U.S. law) by a title insurance company guaranteeing to make good to the beneficiary any loss, up to a fixed amount, sustained through defects in title to real […]

  • Negotiation

    Negotiation in United States Negotiation Definition The deliberation which takes place between the parties touching a proposed agreement. That which transpires in the negotiation makes no part of the agreement, unless introduced into it. It is a general rule that no evidence can be […]

  • Rescission

    Rescission in United States Practical Information Note: Some of this information was last updated in 1982An action in equity whereby a court is asked to annul a contract entered into through fraud, misrepresentation, or excusable error. For example, if a person enters into a contract of […]

  • 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 […]