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Business Organizations
- Actual Authority
- Affiliate
- Affiliated Corporation
- Agency
- Agent
- Aggregate Theory
- Alter Ego
- Amend Bylaws
- Annual Report
- Apparent Authority
- Appraisal
- Appraisal of Shares
- Arbitration
- Articles of Dissolution
- Articles of Incorporation
- Assignment of Interest
- Assignment of Partnership Interest
- Assumed or Fictitious Name
- Authorized Shares
- Balance Sheet
- Beneficial Owner
- Blank Stock
- Board of Directors
- Book Value
- Bulk Transfer
- Business Corporation
- Business Secrets
- Business Tort
- Bylaws
- Cancellation of Redeemable Shares
- Capital Account
- Capital Surplus
- Capitalization of Earnings
- Certificate of Authority
- Close Corporation
- Common Stock
- Common Stock Voting Rights
- Consent of Directors in Lieu of Meeting
- Consolidation
- Constituent Corporations
- Continuity of Existence
- Conversion of Stock
- Convertible Shares
- Corporate Bonds
- Corporate Indemnification of Officers
- Corporate Name Registration
- Corporate Officer
- Corporate Powers
- Corporate Purpose
- Corporate repurchase of shares
- Corporate Resolution
- Corporate Seal
- Cross Purchase Insurance Agreement
- Cross purchase plan
- Depletion Reserve
- Derivative Action
- Diluted Shares
- Director
- Discount Shares
- Distribution Rights
- Dividend
- Domestic Corporation
- Double Taxation
- Earned Surplus
- Equity Securities
- Fair market value
- Fiduciary Duty
- Firm Price
- Foreign Corporation
- Fractional Shares
- Franchise Tax
- General Partner
- Going Concern Value
- Good Faith Offer
- Good Will of Business
- Holder of Record
- Hostile Takeover
- Incorporator
- Insolvent
- Insurance Funding
- Interference with Business Relations
- Issued Shares
- Key Employee
- Letter of Intent
- Liability of Sole Proprietor
- Limited Liability
- Limited Liability Company
- Limited Partnership
- Liquidation
- Marshalling of Assets
- Meetings of Board of Directors
- Merger
- Mortgage Bonds
- Multiple of Earnings Formula
- Municipal Corporation
- Net Assets
- Net Worth
- No par value
- Nonprofit Organization
- Notice of Dissolution
- Operating Agreement
- Option Price
- Option to purchase
- Outstanding Shares
- Par Value
- Partial Liquidation
- Partner's Interest in the Partnership
- Partnership
- Partnership Agreement
- Partnership Property
- People Pill
- Piercing the Corporate Veil
- Poison Pills
- Preemptive Rights
- Preferred Stock
- Principal
- Professional Corporation
- Proxy
- Quorum
- Redemption of Shares
- Registered Office
- Reservation of Corporate Name
- Section 1244 Stock
- Securities Act of 1933
- Securities Exchange Act of 1934
- Senior Securities
- Share dividend
- Share Exchange
- Share Restriction
- Share Subscription
- Shareholder Meetings
- Shares in Series
- Short-form Merger
- Silent Partners
- Sinking Fund
- Sole Proprietorship
- Stock Dividend
- Stock Split
- Stockholders' Restrictive Agreement
- Subchapter S Corporation
- Subchapter S Election
- Subordination of Bonds
- Subsidiary
- Surviving Corporation
- Trade Secrets
- Transfer Agent
- Treasury Shares
- Trust Indenture
- Ultra Vires
- Undisclosed Principal
- Vicarious Liability
- Voluntary Dissolution
- Voting Trust
- Watered Shares
- Winding Up
- Wrongful Dissolution
Civil Procedure↑ Top
- Action in Rem
- Adequate Remedy at Law
- Adjourn
- Admiralty and Maritime Claims
- Affirmative Defense
- Amendment of Pleadings
- Ancillary Jurisdiction
- Answer
- Appeal of Interlocutory Order
- Arbitration
- Assignment of Errors
- Attachment
- Attorney Work Product
- Cause of Action
- Certificate of Service
- Challenges for Cause
- Choice of Laws
- Civil Docket Entries
- Civil Liability
- Civil Litigation
- Civil Remedy
- Class Action
- Class Certification
- Clerk of Court
- Closing Argument
- Complaint
- Compulsory Counterclaim
- Condemnation Proceedings
- Consent Decree
- Counterclaim
- Court Administrator
- Court of Equity
- Court of General Jurisdiction
- Court of Limited Jurisdiction
- Cross-Examination
- Crossclaim
- Damages
- Declaratory Judgment
- Default Judgment
- Defendant
- Defense
- Deficiency judgment
- Demand for Jury Trial
- Demurrer
- Denial
- Deposition Upon Written Questions
- Direct Examination
- Directed Verdict
- Discovery
- Discovery Disclosure
- Discovery in Aid of Execution
- Discovery Rule
- Dismissal With Prejudice
- Dismissal Without Prejudice
- Dispositive Motion
- Diversity Jurisdiction
- Domicile and Residence
- Duty to Supplement Discovery
- Entry of Judgment
- Entry Upon Land
- Erie v. Tompkins
- Excusable Neglect
- Execution
- Extradition
- Failure to State a Claim
- Fed.R.Civ.P. 11
- Fed.R.Civ.P. 60
- Federal Question Jurisdiction
- Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law
- Frivolous Defense
- Garnishment
- Indispensable Party
- Insufficiency of Service of Process
- Interpleader
- Intervention
- Involuntary Dismissal of the Action
- Irreparable Injury
- Joinder of Claims
- Joinder of Parties
- Joint and Several Liability
- Judgment Creditor
- Judgment Docket
- Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict
- Judgment on the Pleadings
- Jury Deliberations
- Jury Instructions
- Laches
- Limited Jurisdiction
- Magistrate Judge
- Mediation
- Memorandum of Law
- Misjoinder
- Mortgage Foreclosure Action
- Motion for More Definite Statement
- Motion for New Trial
- Motion for Substitution of Parties
- Motion for Summary Judgment
- Motion in Limine
- Motion to Consolidate
- Motion to Dismiss
- Motion to Strike
- Motions
- Notice of Appeal
- Oral Deposition
- Order to Compel Discovery
- Peremptory Challenges
- Permissive Counterclaim
- Personal Jurisdiction
- Physical and Mental Examination
- Plaintiff
- Pleadings
- Preliminary Injunction
- Pretrial Conference
- Procedural law
- Proximate Cause
- Quasi In Rem Actions
- Real Party in Interest
- Record on Appeal
- Recusal of Judge
- Redirect Examination
- Relation Back
- Relief
- Remedy
- Remittitur
- Removal Action
- Request for Production of Documents
- Requests for Admissions
- Responsive Pleading
- Rule 11 Sanctions
- Rule 12(b) Motion to Dismiss
- Scope of Discovery
- Service of Process
- Sheriff's sale
- Show Cause Order
- Special Verdict
- Spoliation
- Standing
- Standing Orders
- Statute of Limitations
- Stay Upon Appeal
- Stipulation of Counsel
- Subject Matter Jurisdiction
- Subpoena
- Summons
- Supersedeas Bond
- Supplemental Pleadings
- Temporary Restraining Order
- Third Party Complaint
- Third Party Defendant
- Venue
- Verdict
- Video Deposition
- Voir Dire
- Voluntary Dismissal
- Waiver of Summons
- Writ of Mandamus
- Writ of Scire Facias
- Written Interrogatories
Constitutional Law↑ Top
- "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree"
- "Open Fields" Doctrine
- "Stop and Frisk"
- 13th Amendment
- 42 U.S.C. § 1983
- Affirmative Action
- Arrest Warrant
- Article II of the U.S. Constitution
- Article III of the U.S. Constitution
- Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
- Bill of Rights
- Bills of Attainder
- Border Search
- Brady Violation
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Civil Asset Forfeiture
- Civil Liberties
- Civil Rights Acts
- Comity
- Compulsory Process Clause
- Consent
- Consent Search
- Constitution
- Constitutional Law
- Court of Appeals
- Cruel and Unusual Punishment
- Custodial Interrogation
- De Facto Segregation
- Declaration of Independence
- Double Jeopardy
- Due Process
- Due Process Clause
- Eighth Amendment
- Eminent Domain
- Equal Protection of the Law
- Establishment of Religion
- Ex Post Facto Laws
- Exclusionary Rule
- Executive Powers
- Executive Privilege
- Exigent Circumstances
- Expectation of Privacy
- Federal Preemption
- Federalism
- Feminist Jurisprudence
- Fifteenth Amendment
- Fifth Amendment
- First Amendment
- Foreign Intelligence Exception
- Fourteenth Amendment
- Freedom of Contract
- Freedom of Religion
- Full Faith and Credit
- Fundamental Rights
- Gender Discrimination
- Gideon v. Wainwright
- Grand Jury Indictment
- Harmless Error Analysis
- Hostile Work Environment
- Impartial Jury
- Impeachment
- Inherent Powers
- Involuntary Confession
- Judicial Bias
- Judicial Power
- Judicial Review
- Jurisdiction
- Just Compensation
- Justiciable Controversy
- Knock and Announce Rule
- Lawful arrest
- Lawrence v. Texas
- Legislative Powers
- Liberty
- Liberty Interest
- Mere Suspicion
- Miranda Rights
- Mootness
- Motion to Suppress
- Motor Vehicle Searches
- Necessary and Proper Clause
- Nineteenth Amendment
- Oath or Affirmation
- Overbreadth Doctrine
- Plain View
- Planned Parenthood v. Casey
- Police Power
- Preamble to the Constitution
- Presumption of Innocence
- Prior Restraint of Speech
- Privilege (Law of Defamation)
- Privileged Communications
- Privileges and Immunities Clause
- Probable Cause
- Procedural Due Process
- Proportionality in Punishment
- Protected Class
- Punishment
- Pursuit of Happiness
- Rational Basis Test
- Reasonable Notice
- Reasonable Suspicion
- Retaliatory Hostile Work Environment
- Right Against Self-Incrimination
- Right of Privacy
- Right to a Speedy Trial
- Right to Bail
- Right to Bear Arms
- Right to Confrontation
- Right to Counsel
- Right to Due Process of Law
- Right to Jury Trial
- Right to Privacy
- Roe v. Wade
- Search Incident to Arrest
- Search Warrant
- Second Amendment
- Separation of Powers
- Sex Discrimination
- Sexual Harassment
- Sixteenth Amendment
- Sixth Amendment
- Spending Power
- Standing
- State Action or Under Color of Law
- Strict Scrutiny Test
- Substantive Due Process
- Supremacy Clause
- Tenth Amendment
- Terry v. Ohio
- The Commerce Clause
- The Compact Clause
- The Right of Free Speech
- The Takings Clause
- The Taxing Power
- The War Power
- Three Sources of Law
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
- Treason
- Treaties
- Twelfth Amendment
- Twenty-fifth Amendment
- Twenty-sixth Amendment
- Unlawful or Unreasonable Search or Seizure
- Venue
- Veto Power
- Void for Vagueness
- Waiver of Miranda Rights
- Writ of Habeas Corpus
Contracts↑ Top
- Acceptance
- Accommodation
- Accord and Satisfaction
- Acknowledgement
- Acquiescence
- Agreement of Sale
- Aleatory Contract
- Amend
- An agreement in principle
- Anticipatory Breach
- Arbitration Provisions
- Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code
- Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code
- Assent
- Assignment
- Auction
- Bad Faith
- Beneficial Interest
- Benefit of the Bargain Damages
- Bid Amount
- Bilateral Contract
- Bill of Sale
- Binding Term
- Breach of Contract
- Breach of Warranty
- Bulk Sales Act
- Buyer
- Caveat Emptor
- Collective Bargaining Agreement
- Conditional Acceptance
- Conflict of Laws
- Consent
- Consequential Damages
- Consideration
- Constructive Breach
- Consumer Protection Laws
- Contingency Agreement
- Contract
- Contract Damages
- Contract Enforcement
- Contract for Sale of Business
- Contract for Sale of Goods
- Contract Formation
- Contract Made by Minors
- Contract of Adhesion
- Conveyance
- Copyright Protection
- Corporate Resolution
- Counter Offer
- Damages for Breach
- Default
- Discharge
- Disclaimer
- Duty of Good Faith and Fair Dealings
- Electronic Commerce
- Elements of a Contract
- Employment Contract
- End User Software Agreement
- Executory Contract
- Exemplary Damages
- Expectancy damages
- Express Contract
- Financing Statement
- Forbearance
- Forfeiture
- Form Contract
- Forum Selection Clause
- Franchise Agreement
- Fraud
- Fully Executed Contract
- Gift
- Gratuitous Contract
- Illegal Contract
- Implied Consent
- Implied Contract
- Implied Warranty
- Impossibility of Performance
- Indemnification
- Independent Contractor
- Installment Contract
- Interpretation of Contract
- Landlord
- Lease Agreement
- Legal Fee Agreement
- Lessor and Lessee
- Liability
- Limitation of Damages Clause
- Liquidated Damages
- Long Term Agreement of Sale
- Lost Profit Damages
- Mailbox Rule
- Material Term
- Mediation
- Meeting of the Minds
- Mirror Rule
- Mitigation of Damages
- Modify
- Mortgage Agreement
- Mutual Assent
- Mutual Mistake
- Non-Compete Agreement
- Non-Disclosure Agreement
- Notice of Contract Termination
- Novation
- Offer
- Offeree
- Offeror
- Open end contract
- Oral Contract
- Parol Contract
- Parol of Evidence Rule
- Pecuniary Damages
- Performance
- Power of Attorney
- Promise
- Promisee
- Promisor
- Promissory Estoppel
- Purchaser
- Quantum Meruit
- Quasi Contract
- Ratify a Contract
- Reaffirmation Agreement
- Redemption
- Release
- Reliance Interest
- Renew
- Requirements Contract
- Rescission of Contract
- Restatement of Contracts
- Restitution
- Royalty provision
- Rules of Construction
- Sale
- Sales Contract
- Section 2-206 of the Uniform Commercial Code
- Section 2-207 of the Uniform Commercial Code
- Secured Transaction
- Security Interest
- Seller
- Severable Contract
- Shrink Wrap License
- Special Damages
- Specific Performance
- Speculative Damages
- Statute of Frauds
- Subcontract
- Tenant
- Terms and Conditions
- Unconscionable
- Undue Influence
- Unenforceable Contract
- Uniform Commercial Code
- Unilateral Contract
- Unilateral Mistake
- Unjust Enrichment
- Vendor
- Void
- Waiver
- Warranty
- Warranty Disclaimer
- Warranty for a Particular Purpose
- Warranty of Merchantability
Criminal Law↑ Top
- Abet
- Accessory
- Accomplice
- Accusation
- Accused
- Acquittal
- Actus Reus
- Admissible Evidence
- Admission
- Alibi
- Appeal
- Armed Robbery
- Arraignment
- Arrest Warrant
- Arson
- Assault
- Auto Theft
- Battered Woman Syndrome
- Battery
- Bench Trial
- Bench Warrant
- Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
- Blackmail
- Booking
- Break and Enter
- Bribery
- Burglary
- Capital Offense
- Capital Punishment
- Change of Venue
- Charge
- Circumstantial Evidence
- Coercion
- Collusion
- Complicity
- Concurrent Sentence
- Consecutive Sentence
- Conspiracy
- Contraband
- Corroborating Evidence
- Corruption
- Criminal Attempt
- Criminal Code
- Criminal Contempt
- Criminal Fraud
- Criminal Harassment
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Negligence
- Criminal Organization
- Criminal Procedure
- Criminal Summons
- Criminal Trespass
- Cross-Examination
- Cruelty
- Danger to Society
- Deadly Force
- Death Penalty
- Deceit
- Declaration under Penalty of Perjury
- Deferred Sentence
- Deliberate
- Deliberate Ignorance
- Deliberate Indifference
- Depraved Heart Murder
- Depravity of Mind
- Discovery
- Dismissal
- Domestic Violence
- Double Jeopardy
- Due Process of Law
- Embezzlement
- Entrapment
- Exculpate
- Excusable Homicide
- Exhibit
- Expunge
- Extortion
- Extradition
- Felonious Homicide
- Felony
- Felony Murder
- Fifth Amendment
- First Amendment
- First Degree Murder
- Forgery
- Fourteenth Amendment
- Fourth Amendment
- Grand Jury
- Guilty Plea
- Habitual Offender
- Harassment
- Hate Crime
- Heat of Passion
- Homicide
- Human Trafficking
- Hung Jury
- Identity Theft
- Inchoate Offense
- Incompetency
- Indictment
- Infanticide
- Insanity
- Intoxication
- Involuntary Manslaughter
- Justifiable Homicide
- Kidnap
- Knowingly
- Larceny
- Maim
- Manslaughter
- Manslaughter by Negligence
- Mass Murder
- Mayhem
- Mens Rea
- Miranda Warning
- Misdemeanor
- Money Laundering
- Motion to Suppress
- Motive
- Murder
- Obstruction of Justice
- Perjury
- Physical Force
- Plea Negotiations
- Premeditation
- Probable cause
- Provocation
- Psychopath
- Racial Profiling
- Racketeering
- Ransom
- Rap Sheet
- Rape
- Reasonable Suspicion
- Receiving Stolen Property
- Riot
- Robbery
- Second Degree Murder
- Self-Defense
- Serial Killer
- Sexual Assault
- Sixth Amendment
- Solicitation
- Specific Intent
- Statutory Rape
- Summary Offense
- Tax Evasion
- Terrorism
- Theft
- Third Degree Murder
- Threat
- Title 18 of the US Code
- Trafficking
- Treason
- Unlawful Assembly
- Vagrancy
- Voluntary Manslaughter
- Voyeurism
- Weapon
Ethics↑ Top
- Acceptance of Representation
- Access to Evidence
- Accounting for Funds
- Acquiring an Interest in Litigation
- Administration of Justice
- Adversary System
- Advertising
- Advertising Media
- Agreement to Limit Liability
- Ambulance Chasing
- Attorney-Client Privilege
- Bar Admission
- Bar Admission Applicant
- Bribery
- Business Affairs of Lawyer
- Campaign Contributions
- Candidate for Judicial Office
- Candor Toward Tribunal and Disclosure of material Facts
- Certification as Specialist
- Client Security Fund
- Client Trust Account
- Client With Diminished Capacity
- Comments to the Rules
- Commingling Funds
- Communicate With Juror
- Communication With Person Represented by Counsel
- Communications About a Lawyer's Services
- Compensation or Retirement Plan
- Competence
- Competence in Technology
- Concurrent Conflict of Interest
- Conduct Involving Fraud
- Conflict of Interest
- Contingent Fee
- Continuing Legal Education
- Contract of Representation
- Control of Litigation
- Costs Advanced to Client
- Criminal Conduct by Client
- Criminal Conduct by Lawyer
- Dealing With Unrepresented Person
- Declining Representation
- Delivery of Funds or Property
- Destruction of Potential Evidence
- Diligence
- Diminished Capacity of Lawyer
- Discharge by Client
- Disclosure of Client Fraud
- Disclosure to Tribunal
- Disputed Property
- Disruptive Trial Conduct
- Division of Fees
- Duties to Former Clients
- Duty of Confidentiality
- Duty of Partner
- Duty of Prosecutor
- Duty to Disclose Legal Authority
- Duty to Report Judicial Misconduct
- Duty to Report Lawyer Misconduct
- Ex Parte Proceeding
- Expediting Litigation
- Explain Matter to Client
- Extrajudicial Statement
- False Evidence to Tribunal
- Fee in Domestic Relations Case
- Fiduciary Duty
- Financial Assistance to Client
- Flat Fee
- Former Judge, Arbitrator or Mediator
- Fraud by Client
- Frivolous Discovery Request
- Frivolous Representation
- Handling Client's Funds
- Harassment or Discrimination
- Hourly Fees
- Immunity from Civil Liability for Client Protection Fund
- Impartiality of Tribunal
- Informed Consent
- Informing Client of Settlement Offers
- Internet-based Client Leads
- Law Partnership
- Lawyer as Counselor
- Lawyer as Negotiator
- Lawyer as Witness
- Lawyer Diligence
- Lawyer Discrimination
- Lawyer's Personal Interests
- Legal Malpractice
- Lien to Secure Fees
- Maintain Communications With Client
- Malpractice
- Model Rule 8.4 (c)
- Model Rule 8.4 (e)
- Model Rules of Professional Conduct
- Multijurisdictional Practice
- Mutual Referral of Clients
- Nonlawyer Assistants
- Notice of Withdrawal
- Obtaining Evidence
- Officer of the Court
- Other Duty of Bar Applicant
- Partnership With Nonlawyer
- Personal Conscience
- Plea Bargain
- Prepaid Legal Services Plan
- Pro Bono Public Service
- Professional Corporation
- Professional Independence of Lawyer
- Prosecutor's Duty to Disclose
- Prosecutor's Use of Public Statements
- Prospective Client
- Reasonable Fees
- Reduced Fees
- Referral to Other Professionals
- Reporting Lawyer's Professional Misconduct
- Respect for Rights of Third Persons
- Responsibility of Partner or Supervising Lawyer
- Rule 1.12(a)
- Rule 1.16(b)(2)
- Rule 1.16(d)
- Rule 1.18(b)
- Rule 1.6(b)(1)
- Rule 1.6(b)(5)
- Rule 1.8 (c)
- Rule 2.1
- Rule 2.4(a)
- Rule 3.4(a)
- Rule 3.4(b)
- Rule 3.4(d)
- Rule 3.8(a)
- Rule 5.2(a)
- Rule 5.4(b)
- Rule 5.5(b)(2)
- Safekeeping Property
- Sale of Law Practice
- Screened
- Serving as Arbitrator
- Sexual Relations With Client
- Sharing Legal Fees With a Nonlawyer
- Soliciting
- Terminating Representation
- Transactions Between Client and Lawyer
- Trial Publicity
- Trial Tactics
- Unauthorized Practice of Law
- Unjust Expectations of Client
- Withdrawal Due to Incapacity
- Withholding Information From Client
- Zealous Representation
Evidence↑ Top
- "Clear and Convincing" Evidence
- Acknowledged Documents
- Administrative Hearing
- Admissibility
- Admissibility of Confessions
- Admissibility of Duplicates
- Admissibility of Evidence of Insurance
- Admissibility of Religious Beliefs
- Admissibility of Vital Statistics
- Admission of Party Opponent
- Allegation
- Ancient Document Rule
- Authentication
- Autoptic Evidence
- Best Evidence Rule
- Burden of Persuasion
- Burden of Producing Evidence
- Burden of Proof
- Business Records Exception
- Certified Copies of Public Records
- Character Evidence
- Chart, Summary or Calculation
- Circumstantial Evidence
- Competency of Witness
- Conclusive Evidence
- Conflicting Evidence
- Corroborating Evidence
- Credibility of Witness
- Cross Examination
- Cumulative Evidence
- Curative Instructions
- Declaration Against Interest
- Demeanor
- Demonstrative Evidence
- Direct Evidence
- Direct Examination
- Discovery Process
- Document of Title
- Documentary Evidence
- Dying Declaration
- Error of Law
- Evidence of prior crimes in sexual offense cases
- Evidentiary Facts
- Exceptions
- Excited Utterance
- Exclusionary Rule
- Exculpatory Evidence
- Exhibit
- Expert Evidence
- Expert Qualification
- Extrinsic Evidence
- Eyewitness Testimony
- False Evidence
- Family Records
- Fed.R.Evid. 402
- Fed.R.Evid. 403
- Federal Rules of Evidence
- Habit or Routine Practice
- Harmless Error
- Hearsay
- Hearsay Within Hearsay
- Hostile Witness
- Hypothetical Question
- Identification Evidence
- Impeachment of Witness
- Impertinent Matter
- In Camera
- Inadmissible Pleas
- Incriminating Evidence
- Indicia
- Indirect Evidence
- Indispensable Evidence
- Inference
- Insufficient Evidence
- Interrogation by Court
- Intrinsic Evidence
- Irrelevant
- Judicial Notice
- Jury Instructions
- Lack of Personal Knowledge
- Lay Witness Opinion Testimony
- Leading Questions
- Learned Treatises
- Liability Insurance
- Limited Admissibility
- Marriage and Baptismal Certificates
- Material Evidence
- Misleading Question
- Mode and Order of Interrogation
- Motion in Limine
- Necessary Inference
- Newly Discovered Evidence
- Oath or Affirmation
- Objection to evidence
- Offer of Proof
- Offers to Compromise
- Opinion Evidence
- Opinion on Ultimate Issue
- Oral Deposition
- Oral Evidence
- Other crimes, wrongs or acts
- Overrule an Objection
- Parol Evidence Rule
- Past Recollection Recorded
- Plain Error
- Polygraph results
- Prejudicial Evidence
- Preliminary Hearing
- Preponderance of the Evidence
- Present Sense Impression
- Presumption
- Prima Facie Evidence
- Prior Inconsistent Statements
- Probative Evidence
- Probative Value
- Production of Documents
- Proffered Evidence
- Proof
- Proper Evidence
- Public Documents Under Seal
- Rape Shield Law
- Re-cross examination
- Real Evidence
- Rebuttable Presumption
- Rebuttal Evidence
- Records of Regularly Conducted Activity
- Records of Vital Statistics
- Rehabilitation of Witness
- Relevance
- Res Ipsa Loquitur
- Residual Exception
- Scintilla of Evidence Rule
- Scope of Cross-Examination
- Self Authentication
- Specific Prior Conduct
- Standard of Proof
- Statement Against Interest
- Statements for Purpose of Medical Diagnosis or Treatment
- Subsequent Remedial Measures
- Substantive Evidence
- Suppression of Evidence
- Tangible Evidence
- Telephone Conversations
- Then Existing Mental, Emotional, or Physical Condition
- Traditionary Evidence
- Trial Court
- Unresponsive Answer
- Voice Identification
- Weight of Evidence
Family Law↑ Top
- Abortion
- Adoption Decree
- Adoption Petition
- Adultery
- Age of Majority
- Alimony
- Alimony Pendente Lite
- Annulment
- Baby Boomers
- Best Interest of The Children
- Bigamy
- Breach of Promise to Marry
- Change of Circumstances
- Child Abuse
- Child Labor Laws
- Child Neglect
- Child Protective Services
- Child Selling
- Child Support
- Child's Home State
- Children's Rights
- Civil Union
- Collaborative Divorce
- Collusive Divorce
- Common Law Marriage
- Community Property
- Condonation
- Contempt of Custody Order
- Contempt of Support Order
- Criminal Conversation
- Curtesy
- Custodial Parent
- Custody Decree
- Custody Evaluation
- Default Divorce
- Delinquent Child
- Dependency Exemption
- Desertion
- Divided Custody
- Divisible Divorce
- Divorce
- Divorce Action
- Divorce Complaint
- Divorce Decree
- Divorce From Bed and Board
- Divorce Jurisdiction
- DNA test in Paternity Case
- Dower
- Duress
- Earning Capacity
- Emancipated Child
- Enforcing Support Orders
- Equitable Property Distribution
- Family Court
- Fault Divorce
- Foreign Divorce
- Foster Child
- Fraud or Failure to Make Full Disclosure
- Garnishment of Wages
- Grandparents' Custodial Rights
- Grounds for Divorce
- Guardianship
- Hague Convention
- Harassment
- Home Study Evaluation
- Impotence
- In Loco Parentis
- Incest
- Incompatibility
- Inherited Property
- Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights
- Irreconcilable Differences
- Joint Accounts
- Joint Custody
- Legal Capacity to Marry
- Legal Custody
- Legal Guardian
- Legal Separation
- Legitimation
- Living Separate and Apart
- Marital Communications Privilege
- Marital Debts
- Marital Property
- Marital Rape
- Marital Residence
- Marriage License
- Mediation
- Migratory Divorce
- Monogamy
- Mutual Releases
- No molestation
- No-Fault Divorce
- Non-custodial Parent
- Nonsupport
- Palimony
- Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act
- Parental Liability
- Parenting Coordinator
- Parenting Plan
- Paternity Proceedings
- Pension Plan
- Petition to Leave the State
- Petition to Modify Custody Order
- Petition to Modify Support
- Physical Abuse
- Physical Custody
- Postnuptial Agreement
- Prenuptial Agreement
- Property Settlement Agreement
- Protection From Abuse
- Protective Order
- Provocation
- Qualified Domestic Relations Order
- Reconciliation
- Recrimination
- Requirements for Marriage
- Restraint of Marriage
- Retirement Plan
- Same Sex Marriage
- Same Sex Rights of Custody of Children
- Separate Property
- Separation Agreement
- Shared Custody
- Social Security Benefits
- Sole Custody
- Split Custody
- Split Custody Calculator
- Spousal Support
- Stalking
- Step-child
- Supervised Visitation
- Support Conference
- Support of Parent
- Support Officer
- Support Order Calculation
- Surrogate Mother
- Surrogate Parenting Contracts
- Tax Returns
- Temporary Custody
- Tenants by the Entirety
- Tender Years Doctrine
- Total Disability
- U.N. Rights of Child
- Uncontested Divorce
- Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act
- Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act
- Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
- Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act
- Visitation Schedule
- Void and Voidable marriages
- Voluntary Termination of Parental Rights
- Waiting Period
- Ward
- Wishes of the Child
Real Property↑ Top
- a balloon loan
- a Balloon payment
- Actual Notice
- Ad valorem taxes
- Adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM)
- Adjustment index
- Adverse Possession
- American Society of Home Inspectors
- Amortization
- Annual Percentage Rate (Apr)
- Appraisal
- Appreciation
- Appurtenant Easement
- Assignment
- Assignment of leases
- Assumable mortgage
- Assumption clause
- Blanket Mortgage
- Bona fide purchaser for value
- Building code
- Chain of title
- Closing
- Closing costs
- Co-borrower
- Co-ownership
- Co-signer
- Collateral
- Common Law
- Community Property
- Competitive market analysis (Comps)
- Concurrent Ownership
- Conforming loan
- Construction Mortgage
- Constructive Eviction
- Constructive Notice
- Conveyance
- Covenants
- Covenants that run with the land
- Debt to income ratio
- Deed
- Deed in lieu
- Deed of trust
- Default
- Disclosures
- Dominant Tenement
- Down payment
- Due on sale
- Due on sale clause
- Earnest money
- Easement
- Easement in gross
- Eminent domain
- Encumbrance
- Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA)
- Equitable Servitude
- Escape clause
- Escrow
- Estate
- Estate at will
- Estate for years
- Estoppel certificate
- Exchange Value
- Fair Housing Act
- Fair Market Value
- Fannie Mae
- Fee mortgage
- Fee Simple Defeasible
- Fee Simple Determinable
- Fee simple estate
- FHA
- FICO score
- Financing statement
- Fixed rate mortgage
- Fixture
- Forbearance
- Foreclosure
- Freddie Mac
- Ginnie Mae
- Gross Lease
- Guaranty
- HECM -- Reverse Mortgage
- Home inspection
- Homeowners association (HOA)
- Hud-1 Settlement Statement
- Implied Easement
- Insurable Title
- Intercreditor agreement
- Intermediate term mortgage
- Joint Tenants with the Right of Survivorship
- Judgment
- Junior financing
- Junior lien
- Lease
- Leasehold estate
- Legal Description
- License
- Lien
- Lien waiver
- Life estate
- Lis Pendens
- Loan acceleration
- Loan fraud
- Loan origination fee
- Market value
- Marketable Title
- Mechanics Lien
- Mezzanine loan
- Modification
- Mortgage
- Mortgage broker
- Mortgage commitment
- Mortgage contingency clause
- Mortgage insurance
- Mortgagee
- Mortgagor
- Neighborhood association
- Net Lease
- Non-conforming loan
- Non-disturbance
- Non-recourse
- Notary public
- Participation loan
- Partition
- Personal property
- PITI
- Planned Unit Development (PUD)
- Plat
- Power of sale
- Prescriptive Easement
- Prime rate
- Principal
- Quit Claim Deed
- Quitclaim deed
- Real estate
- Real Estate Broker
- Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA)
- Real estate transfer
- Realized Proceeds
- Recorder of Deeds
- Recording Statutes
- Refinancing
- Regulations
- Reinstatement period
- Relinquished Property
- Replacement Property
- RESPA
- Restrictive Covenants
- Right-of-way
- Secondary financing
- Secured loan
- Security agreement
- Security interest
- Seller
- Special forbearance
- Special warranty deed
- Submortgage
- Subordination
- Subordination, non-disturbance and attornment agreement
- Survey
- Tenants by the entirety
- Tenants in common
- Title insurance
- Title Insurance Binder
- Title policy endorsement
- Title search or examination
- Truth in Lending Act
- Underwriting
- Variance
- Warranty deed
- Zoning
Security Transactions and Mortgages↑ Top
- a Balloon Payment Mortgage
- Accession
- After-acquired collateral
- Agricultural Lien
- Amortize
- Annual Percentage Rate
- Article 9 of the U.C.C.
- As-extracted Collateral
- Assignment of Mortgage
- Attachment of Security Interest
- Authenticated
- Automobile Loan
- Bailment Contract
- Bi-weekly Mortgage Payment
- Blanket Security Interest
- Bridge Financing
- Buyer in the Ordinary Course of Business
- Certificate of Title
- Chain of Title
- Chattel Mortgage
- Chattel Paper
- Collateral
- Commercial Lender
- Commercially Reasonable Conduct
- Commodity Account
- Consignee
- Consignment
- Consolidated Mortgage
- Construction Mortgage
- Consumer credit transaction
- Consumer Goods
- Consumer Obligor
- Continuation Statement
- Contract for Sale
- Conventional Home Mortgage
- Deed of Trust
- Default
- Deficiency Judgment
- Distraint for Rent
- Duration of Financing Statement
- Effectiveness of Security Agreement
- Encumbrance
- Endorser
- Equipment
- Equity Line of Credit
- Equity of Redemption
- Farm Products
- Federal Housing Administration
- FHA Loan
- File Number per U.C.C. §9-519(a)
- Filing Office
- Finance Charge
- Financing Statement
- Fixed-rate Mortgage
- Fixture Filing
- Fixtures
- Floating Lien
- Forbearance
- General Intangible
- Goods
- Guarantor
- Health-care insurance receivable
- Holder in due course
- Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)
- Indemnify
- Installment Sale
- Instrument
- Intangible Personal Property
- Interest-only Mortgage
- Inventory
- Investment Property
- Judicial Foreclosure
- Lease Agreement
- Letter-of-Credit Rights
- Lien
- Lien Creditor
- Loan Origination Fee
- Loan Servicing
- Loan-to-value ratio
- Mechanics Lien
- Merchant
- Mortgage
- Mortgage Assumption
- Mortgage Financing from Seller
- Mortgage Foreclosure
- Mortgage Insurance
- Mortgage Loan Commitment
- Mortgage Note
- Mortgage Refinance
- Mortgagee
- Mortgagor
- Negotiable Instrument
- New Debtor
- New Value
- Non Recourse Loan
- Non Сash Proceeds
- Non-Judicial Foreclosure
- Non-Purchase Money Security Interest
- Non-recourse Lending
- Nonpossessory Security Interest
- Open-end Mortgage
- Original Debtor
- Package Mortgage
- Perfected Security Agreement
- Personal Property
- Pledge
- Power of Sale Clause
- Predatory Mortgage Lending
- Priority
- Proceeds
- Promissory Note
- Public Auction Sale
- Purchase Money Security Interest
- Quasi in Rem
- Real Estate
- Recorder of Deeds
- Redemption
- Repossession
- Revised Article 9 - Place of Filing
- Right to redeem collateral
- Satisfaction piece
- Scope of U.C.C. Article 9
- Secretary of State
- Secured Creditor
- Secured Loan
- Secured Party
- Secured Transaction
- Security
- Security Agreement
- Security Interest
- Self-help Repossession
- Senior Lien
- Set-off of mutual debts
- Statute of Frauds for Security Agreements
- Statutory Liens
- Subordinate
- Subordination
- Sufficiency of Description
- Supporting Obligation
- Surety
- Tangible Chattel Paper
- Tangible Personal Property
- Termination Statement
- Title Search
- Trade Fixture
- U.C.C. § 9-609
- Unsecured Loan
- USDA Mortgage
- VA Loan
- Variable Rate Mortgage
- Waiver
- Wraparound Mortgages
Torts↑ Top
- "But for" Test
- Abuse of Process
- Actual Damages
- Alienation of Affections
- Asbestos
- Assault
- Assumption of the Risk
- Attractive Nuisance
- Auto Accident
- Automobile Insurance
- Bad Faith Insurance Claim
- Battery
- Breach of Confidence
- Breach of Duty
- Business Torts
- Causation
- Charitable Immunity
- Claim
- Class Action
- Class Certification
- Closed Head Injury
- Collateral Source Rule
- Comparative Negligence
- Compensatory Damages
- Concussion
- Consent as a Defense
- Consequential Damages
- Conspiracy
- Contributory Negligence
- Conversion
- Copyright Infringement
- Damages
- Defamation
- Defective Product
- Defense of Necessity
- Dental Malpractice
- Design Defect
- Detinue
- Disparagement
- Dram Shop Act
- Due Care
- Duty of Care
- Duty to Inspect
- Duty to Warn
- Eggshell Skull Rule
- Exacerbation of a Prior Condition
- Expert Witness
- Failure to Warn
- False imprisonment
- False Light
- Federal Torts Claims Act
- Food Poisoning
- Foreseeable
- Fraud
- Full Tort Liability Insurance
- General Damages
- Good Samaritan Defense
- Gross Negligence
- Harm
- Impairment of Earning Capacity
- Injunction
- Injurious Falsehood
- Injury
- Insurance Adjuster
- Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
- Intentional Torts
- Interference with Business Relations
- Interference with Contract
- Intervening Cause
- Invasion of Privacy
- Invitee
- Irreparable Harm
- Joint Tortfeasors
- Jury Verdict
- Landowners' Liability
- Last Clear Chance Rule
- Legal Malpractice
- Liability
- Libel
- Licensee
- Loss of Consortium
- Loss of Earning Capacity
- Lost Wages
- Malice
- Malicious Prosecution
- Manufacturing Defect
- Medical Expenses
- Medical Malpractice
- Mesothelioma Lawsuit
- Misdiagnosis
- Misrepresentation
- Mitigation of Damages
- Negligence
- Negligence Per Se
- Negligent Birth Delivery (Medical Malpractice)
- Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress
- Negligent Misrepresentation
- Negligent Torts
- Neuropsychologist
- Pain and Suffering
- Permanent Injury
- Plaintiff
- Premises Liability
- Preponderance of the Evidence
- Private Nuisance
- Product Liability
- Property Damage
- Property Torts
- Proximate Cause
- Public Nuisance
- Punitive Damages
- Reasonable Person
- Release of Liability
- Replevin
- Res Ipsa Loquitur
- Respondeat Superior
- Restatement of Torts (2d)
- Restitution
- Self-defense
- Slander
- Slip-and-Fall claim
- Social Host Liability
- Special Damages
- Statute of Limitations
- Statutory Tort
- Strict Liability
- Structural Settlement
- Substantial Factor
- Superfund
- Superseding Cause
- Tort
- Tort Law -- Aims and Purposes
- Tort reform
- Tortfeasor
- Tortious
- Tortious Interference
- Total Disability
- Toxic Torts
- Transferred Intent
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Treble Damages
- Trespass
- Trespass to Chattels
- Ultrahazardous Activity
- Underinsured Motorists Insurance
- Unfair competition
- Unjust enrichment
- Vicarious Liability
- Waiver as a Defense
- Workers' Compensation Laws
- Wrongful Death Action
- Wrongful Termination
Wills, Trusts and Estates↑ Top
- Abatement
- Acceleration of Estate
- Accounting
- Accrue
- Active Trust
- Ad Litem
- Adeem
- Ademption
- Administration of an Estate
- Administrator
- Administratrix
- Advance Directives
- Advancement
- Allowance
- Ambulatory Will
- Anatomical Gift
- Ancestor
- Ancillary Administration
- Antilapse Statute
- Appointee
- Apportionment
- Apportionment Clause
- Appraisal
- Appreciation
- Assets
- Attest
- Attestation Clause
- Audit
- Beneficiary
- Bequest
- Bond
- Bypass Trust
- Cash Surrender Value
- Casualty Loss
- Causa Mortis
- Caveat
- Cestui Que Trust
- Charitable Remainder Trust
- Charitable Trust
- Chattel
- Citation
- Class Gift
- Closing Statement of Personal Representative
- Collateral Heir
- Common Disaster Clause
- Competent Witness
- Condition Precedent
- Constructive Trust
- Contingent Remainder
- Creditor's Claim
- Creditor's Notice
- Curtesy
- Custodian
- Death Benefits
- Death Certificate
- Death Transfer Taxes
- Decedent
- Declaration of Trust
- Decree of Distribution
- Defeasible
- Degree of Kinship
- Degree of Relationship
- Demonstrative Gift (Legacy)
- Descendant
- Descent
- Devise
- Devisee
- Devolution
- Direct Heir
- Disclaimer
- Discretionary Trust
- Distributive Share
- Domicile
- Domiciliary Administration
- Donee
- Donor
- Double Indemnity
- Dower
- Durable Power of Attorney
- Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care
- Escheat
- Estate
- Estate Checking Account
- Estate for Years
- Estate Tax
- Executor or Executrix
- Family Allowance or Exemption
- Federal Estate Tax
- Fiduciary
- Fiduciary Duty
- Final Account
- Formal Probate
- General Legacy
- General Power of Appointment
- Gift Tax
- Gross Estate
- Guardian ad Litem
- Health Care Proxy
- Holographic Will
- Implied Trust
- Inchoate
- Income Beneficiary
- Indefeasible
- Informal Probate
- Inter Vivos Gift
- Inter Vivos Trust
- Intestate
- Intestate Succession Statutes
- Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust
- Last Will and Testament
- Legatee
- Life Estate
- Lineal Descendants
- Living Will
- Lucid Interval
- Maintenance Allowance
- Malfeasance
- Marital Deduction
- Marital Deduction Trust
- Marshaling of Assets
- Mutual Wills
- Net Estate
- Nonprobate Asset
- Notice to Creditors
- Nuncupative Will
- Passive Trust
- Per Capita
- Per Stirpes
- Personal Representative
- Pour-Over
- Precatory Trust
- Primary Beneficiary
- Primogeniture
- Probate
- Probate Court
- Probate Estate
- Purchase Money Resulting Trust
- Qualified Small Estate
- Reciprocal Wills
- Relationship by Affinity
- Relationship by Consanguinity
- Remainder
- Renunciation
- Residual Devise
- Residuary or Residual Clause
- Restatement of Trusts
- Reversionary Interest
- Revocable Living Trust
- Right of Election
- Self-Proved Will
- Specific Bequest or Legacy
- Spendthrift Trust
- Sprinkling Trust
- Taxable Estate
- Taxable Gift
- Tenancy (Estate) for Years
- Term Insurance
- Testamentary Capacity
- Testamentary Trust
- Testate
- Testator
- Testatrix
- Testimonium Clause
- Totten Trust
- Transfer Tax
- Trust
- Trust Corpus
- Uniform Probate Code
- Uniform Simultaneous Death Act
- Widow's Exemption
- Will Contest
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