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Terms in "General Law"

absolute

accident

account

accounting

accredited

acknowledged

acquainted

acquisition

acquittance

adjournment

adjudge

adjustment

adult

advance-payment

adverse-interest

adversely

advise

affiant

affiants

affirm

aggregate

alleged

allocate

alter

alternate beneficiaries

ancestor

annex

annual

annulled

appellate-court

append

applicant

approval

argument

as-between

as-is

ascertain

assert

assignable

associate

assurance

at-law

attorney-general

authorize

authorized

autopsy

backup-withholding

bad-faith

battery

bear-interest

bearer

benefit

bequest

biological-parents

bona-fide

born-alive

borrow

bovine

bring-suit

by-virtue-of

cancel

candidate

capable

capital-gains

capital-investment

cargo

cash-flow

cash-value

certainty

certificate

certified-check

certify

chambers

change-of-beneficiary

charitable-organization

charitable-trust

children's-trust

choate

citation

cite

client

code

co-executor

columbarium

command

commingle

commission

commit

community

competence

competent

conclusion

concur

confidential-information

confidentiality

confirmation

consent

consequence

consequential-damages

consider

consign

consignment

construe

construed

contemporaneous

context

contingency

continuance

convey

counsel

count

court

creditor

crime

cure

current-liability

current-value

custom

customarily

damages

data

death

deceased

decedent

declarant

declaration

decree

deem

deletion

deliberate

delinquent

deny

depose

descendant

descent

designate

device

direct

disability

disabled

disapprove

disclaim

disclaimer

disclosure

discrepancy

discrimination

disposition

dispute

disqualify

dissolve

distribution

distributions

divulge

donee

donor

draft

due-care

due-date

duly

durable

duress

dwelling

elimination-period

empower

enable

ensue

entity

entry

enumerated

enure

enurement

equitable

equity

escape

evidence

examination

exclusion

excuse

execute

exhibit

expending

express

express-warranty

face

facsimile

fact

fair-market-value

false-statement

familiarity

fee

fetus

fictitious

fiduciary

final

financial-statement

fine

first-publication

fiscal

for-value-received

foreign-trade

foundation

fraudulent

frequency

full-disclosure

furnish

general-power-of-attorney

give-notice

good-faith

grace

gross-negligence

guarantee

guarantor

guaranty

hanging

hazard

health-care-power-of-attorney

health-insurance

herein

hoc

homicide

hospital-records

household-goods

identical

identity

illegal

imperative

improper

in-lieu-of

in-person

in-re

incapacitated

incident

inconsistent

increment

incurred

indemnify

industriously

ineligible

inevitable-accident

informed-consent

infringement-of-trademark

injunction

installment

instruct

interpretation

intestate

inure

invalid

invention

inventor

invoice

involuntary

irrevocable

issue

joinder

judge

judgment

judgment-creditor

judgment-debtor

judicial

jurisdiction

knowingly

language

last-will-and-testament

legal-right

legatee

legislation

legitimate

lemon-law

lender

levy

licensee

licensor

lieu

life-expectancy

limitation

liquidation

living-trust

living-will

local-law

loss-of-use

lump-sum-payment

mandate

mandatory

margin

market-price

maxim

medallion-guaranteed

meeting

menace

mental-illness

mental-incompetence

minutes

misconduct

monetary

money-order

moral

motion

move

native

natural

necessity

nee

negligence

net-income

net-proceeds

nominate

nonprofit

notify

nul

obliterate

occurrence

of-record

official

omission

on-account

on-call

on-demand

open-account

opinion

ordinary

organize

overdue

panel

paper

par

pass

payable

payee

payoff

pending

per-annum

per-se

percentage

permission

permit

pertain

pertinent

petition

poll

pool

portion

post-mortem

postpone

potential

pour-over-will

power

power-of-attorney

powers

practicable

precaution

precedence

preclude

predecease

predecessor

premium

preservation

pretenses

previous-question

primary

primary-beneficiary

principal

priority

probability

probable-consequences

probate

profess

prognosis

prohibit

promise

promissory-note

proposal

proprietary-information

prosecution

protest

provided-by-law

proximate

psychiatrist

publish

purport

pursuant-to

pursue

ratify

ratio

recourse

redemption

refusal

register

registered

registered-agent

registration

regulation

reimburse

relinquish

remaining-assets

removal

remuneration

render

repeal

represent

residuary-assets

residuary-estate

resignation

revocable

revocable-living-trust

revocation

revoke

right-of-representation

risk

roll

sane

scope-of-authority

secret

seller's-quotation

senate

senator

separation

set-aside

severable

sheriff

signature

simultaneous

single

singular

small-claims-court

sole

solicit

solvency

sound

source-of-income

speaker

special-power-of-attorney

specific-bequest

specific-distribution

specimen

spouse

statutory

stock-broker

subject-matter

subject-to

subscribing-witness

subsequent

substance

substitute

successor

summary

superior-court

supersede

surrogate

survive

sworn

terminate

terminated

testate

testator

threat

to-wit

total-disability

trade-secret

traveler's-check

tried

understood

undertake

undue-influence

unliquidated-claim

unprofessional-conduct

utter

vacation

valuation

verification

verify

viability

vice

wages

wholly

writ

writ-of-execution

written-consent

stare decisis

stay away order

stay of execution

stockholders' derivative action

stock in trade

street

structure

sua sponte

substitute in

sui generis

summation

summary judgment

superior court

supersedeas

supplemental

supra

surcharge

surplusage

surrebutal

surrogate court

tax return

tentative trust

testacy

testamentary

testamentary disposition

testamentary trust

testatrix

tools of trade

to wit

treasury bill

treasury bond

treasury note

trial court

trial de novo

T.R.O.

trust fund

ultrahazardous activity

undisclosed principal

usurious

venire

vigilante

viz

voluntary bankruptcy

waiver

wet reckless

widower

widow's election

words of art

writ of coram nobis

your honor

abatement

ab initio

abscond

accept

accounts payable

act

actual notice

adeem

ademption

ad hoc

adjudication

administer

ad seriatim

advance

adverse interest

a fortiori

age of consent

aka

alias

aliquot

all the estate I own

ambiguity

appear

appellant

appellate court

appellee

appreciation

approach

arbiter

arbitrary

assigned risk

assignment for benefit of creditors

Associate Justice

attorney at law (or attorney-at-law)

attorney's advertising

avulsion