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- Backing Sheet
- A back cover page to a legal document designed to show, when folded, what the legal document is and who it is from.
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- Bad Faith
- Intent to deceive. A person who intentionally tries to deceive or mislead another in order to gain some advantage.
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- Bail
- The pledge of cash or property to secure the release of a thing or person which would otherwise be held in custody.
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- Bailee
- The person who receives property through a contract of bailment, from the bailor, and who may be committed to certain duties of care towards the property while it remains in his or her possession.
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- Bailiff
- A person acting with legal authority in the seizure of personal property.
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- Bailment
- The transfer of possession of something (by the bailor) to another person (called the bailee) for some temporary purpose (eg. repair or storage) after which the property is either returned to the bailor or otherwise disposed of in accordance with the contract of bailment.
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- Bailor
- The person who temporarily transfers possession of property to another, the bailee, under a contract of bailment.
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- Bait and Switch
- To lure a customer by advertising, at a very attractive price, a reputable product and then to denigrate it in favour of another product offered at a higher price.
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- Balance of Probabilities
- Burden of proof in civil trials.
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- Bank
- A corporation empowered to deal with cash, domestic and foreign, and to receive the deposits of money and to loan those monies to third-parties.
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- Banker
- An individual who is engaged in the business of banking.
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- Bankrupt
- A person who has legally declared bankruptcy.
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- Bankruptcy
- The formal condition of an insolvent person being declared bankrupt under law.
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- Bankruptcy Trustee
- An officer generally appointed by the court, who takes over the assets of a bankrupt to the benefit of creditors.
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- Bare Trust
- A trust that is or has become passive for the trustee because all the duties the settlor may have imposed upon the trustee have been performed or any conditions or terms have come to fruition.
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- Bare Trustee
- The trustee of a bare trust; a trust that has been reduced to holding the trust property at the absolute disposal and benefit of the beneficiaries.
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- Barrator
- A person who, on more than one occasion, incites litigation or spreads false rumours.
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- Barratry
- An intentional wrongful act committed by the crew or master of a ship to the prejudice of the owner or the charterer.
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- Barrister
- A lawyer that restricts his or her practice to the court room; a litigation specialist.
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- Bastard
- An illegitimate child, born in a relationship between two persons that are not married (ie. not in wedlock) or who are not married at the time of the child’s birth.
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- Battered Woman Syndrome
- A species of self-defence to manslaughter or murder in which expert evidence is led to demonstrate that a female defendant in an abusive relationship comes to believe that to save herself she must kill her husband first.
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- Battery
- Offensive and intentional contact, direct or indirect, which causes injury.
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- Battle of the Forms
- Two persons intending to contract but tendering differing form contracts rendering the conclusion as to the terms of the contract, or a determination as to whether there was a contract, difficult.
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- Batture
- An elevation of the bed of a river under the surface of the water or the elevation of the bank when it has emerged from the water or is as high as the adjoining land.
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- Bawdy House
- A brothel; an establishment of ill repute - within which occur acts of prostitution or lewd sex.
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- Bench
- A judge in court session.
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- Beneficiary
- The person for whom a trust has been created.
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- Benefit of Inventory
- A right of legal or testamentary beneficiaries to an estate to demand of the administrator an inventory of the estate.
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- Bequeath or Bequests
- Gift of personal property or chattels by will.
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- Bereavement Leave
- Authorized leave from work, paid or unpaid, for the purposes of attending to the funeral of a family member.
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- Berne Convention
- An international copyright treaty called the Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works signed at Berne, Switzerland in 1886; since amended several times.
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- Bicycle
- A muscle-propelled two-wheeled vehicle.
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- Bigamy
- Being married to more than one person at the same time; a criminal offence in most jurisdictions.
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- Bijural
- A legal instrument, such as a statute that, is to be applied to different legal systems.
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- Bill
- A proposed statute, not yet approved.
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- Bill of Attainder
- Conviction and sentence to death directly by statute, as opposed to resulting from trial.
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- Bill of Exchange
- A written order from one person (the payor) to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at some fixed future date, a certain sum of money, to either the person identified as payee or to any person presenting the bill of exchange.
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- Bill of Lading
- A document that a transport company possesses acknowledging that it has received goods, and serves as title for the purpose of transportation.
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- Binder
- A formal statement or written certification of an insurance policy.
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- Bird's Nest Custody
- A form of access or custody where the children stay in the former family residence and it is the parents who rotate in and out separately and on a negotiated schedule.
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- Black Code
- Statutes passed by pro-slavery, Southern states of the USA before and after the Civil War, to limit the civil rights of slaves or freed slaves. All black codes were eventually repealed.
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- Black Letter Law
- A principle of law so notorious and entrenched that it is commonly known and rarely disputed.
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- Blasphemy
- The scurrilous, deriding or intemperate expression of dissent or criticism of God or a state's oficial religion.
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- Blind Trust
- A trust in which a settlor reserves the right to terminate the trust but to assert no other power over the trust, which is administered without any other measure of control over the trust's administration.
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- Blockbusting
- Attempt to manipulate sale prices of real property by making representations as to crime rate or ethnic ratios.
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- Blue-Pencil Severance
- Striking out an offending part of a legal document, such as a contract or a statute.
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- Blue Sky Law
- An American law term that refers to government controls, through statutes, of the sale of securities to the public.
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- Boarding House
- Residential premises where both shelter and food are provided.
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- Board of Directors
- The group of most senior managers, operators and administrators of a corporation or association.
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- Bona Fide
- Latin: good faith.
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- Bona Vacantia
- Property that belongs to no person, and which may be claimed by a finder.
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- Bond
- A written guarantee in regards to the fulfillment of a legal obligation.
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- Born Alive
- A child born and independently breathing or with a heart beat.
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- Born Out of Wedlock
- Born of parents who were not married at the time of birth.
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- Bottomry
- An obsolete bond contract by which a ship owner or master borrowed money in a far-off port of call, for the repair of a ship in exchange for which, he would repay the loan on safe arrival at the ship's destination, for which the ship stood as collateral but where the lender assumed the risk of the loss of the ship en route.
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- Boundary
- An imaginary line which marks the limits of two adjacent pieces of real property.
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- Boundary Tree
- A tree whose trunk, roots or branches encroach on the property or air space of an adjoining owner.
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- Breach of Contract
- A failure of a party to a contract to perform his or her obligations as agreed to within the contract.
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- Breach Of Trust
- Any act or omission on the part of the trustee which is inconsistent with the terms of the trust agreement or the law of trusts.
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- Break and Enter
- A burglary; to break and enter onto another's premises, land or real property with the intent to there commit a crime, most typically theft
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- Breathalyzer
- A device which records alcohol impairment.
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- Brehon
- Judges in ancient and medieval Ireland.
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- Bribery
- A secret payment to a public officer in exchange for preferential treatment.
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- Browne v Dunn, The Rule in
- Rule of evidence named after the British case in which it was first established; that if you intend on later impeaching a witness with contradictory evidence, that evidence ought to be put to the witness.
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- Buggery
- Synonymous with sodomy and referring to 'unnatural' sex acts, including copulation, either between two persons of the same sex or between a person and an animal.
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- Builders' Lien
- A statutory charge against real property by those who have contributed material or manpower to its improvement.
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- Building Code
- A North American legal term for the local or municipal regulation which regulates the construction of new, or renovation of existing buildings.
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- Burden of Proof
- A rule of evidence that makes a person prove a certain thing or the contrary will be assumed by the court.
Expanded Legal Definition of Burden of Proof
- Burglary
- Breaking and entering a residence for the intention of committing a crime or while lawfully within, commit a crime and to thereafter break out.
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- But For
- A test in tort law linking the tort and the damages (aka causation), which are stated as: "but for" the defendant's negligence, the plaintiff would not have been injured.
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- By-Law
- A municipal, local or corporate rule or regulation.
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