Tag: Common Legal Terms

  • Regulation

    Regulation in United States Plain-English Law Regulation as defined by Nolo’s Encyclopedia of Everyday Law (p. 437-455):A law issued by a state or federal administrative agency for the purpose of implementing and enforcing a statute Citation Notes State codes of regulation are often […]

  • Regulation

    Regulation in United States Plain-English Law Regulation as defined by Nolo’s Encyclopedia of Everyday Law (p. 437-455):A law issued by a state or federal administrative agency for the purpose of implementing and enforcing a statute Citation Notes State codes of regulation are often […]

  • Life Insurance

    Life Insurance in United States Life Insurance Definition A contract of Insurance wherein the insurer agrees to pay a specified sum (according to the definition of Life Insurance based on the Cyclopedic Law Dictionary) in the event of the death of a particular person, if it occurs at a time […]

  • Administration

    Administration in United States Administration Definition (Lat. Administrare, to assist in). Management or control. Of Government. The management of the executive department of the government. Those charged with the management of the executive department of the government. Of Estates. The […]

  • Administration

    Administration in United States Administration Definition (Lat. Administrare, to assist in). Management or control. Of Government. The management of the executive department of the government. Those charged with the management of the executive department of the government. Of Estates. The […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]

  • Tenant

    Tenant in United States Tenant Definition (Lat. eneo, tenere, to hold). One who holds or possesses lands or tenements by any kind of title, either in fee, for life, for years, or at will. In a popular sense, he is one who has the temporary use and occupation of lands or tenements which […]

  • Tenant

    Tenant in United States Tenant Definition (Lat. eneo, tenere, to hold). One who holds or possesses lands or tenements by any kind of title, either in fee, for life, for years, or at will. In a popular sense, he is one who has the temporary use and occupation of lands or tenements which […]

  • Adoption

    Adoption in United States Adoption Definition The act by which a person takes the child of another into his family, and treats him as his own. A juridical act creating between two persons certain relations, purely civil, or paternity and filiation. 6 Demolombe Code Nap. § 1. As […]

  • Marital Property

    Marital Property in United States Plain-English Law Marital Property as defined by Nolo’s Encyclopedia of Everyday Law (p. 437-455):Most of the property accumulated by spouses during a marriage, called community property in some states. The United States Marital Property Laws General […]

  • Marital Property

    Marital Property in United States Plain-English Law Marital Property as defined by Nolo’s Encyclopedia of Everyday Law (p. 437-455):Most of the property accumulated by spouses during a marriage, called community property in some states. The United States Marital Property Laws General […]

  • Discovery

    Discovery in the United States A procedure used before civil trials that allows one party to obtain information about a case from the opposing party. Discovery assists litigants in civil suits prepare for trial. Evidence is basically gathered in three ways during discovery. The first is by […]

  • Discovery

    Discovery in the United States A procedure used before civil trials that allows one party to obtain information about a case from the opposing party. Discovery assists litigants in civil suits prepare for trial. Evidence is basically gathered in three ways during discovery. The first is by […]