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Terms
- Facilitate
- To make easy or less difficult.
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- Fair Comment
- A comment made which though defamatory, is not actionable as it is an opinion on a matter of public interest.
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- Fair Dealing
- A limited exception to the exclusivity of intellectual property allowing fair critique or private study use of the protected material, and with appropriate acknowledgment.
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- Fair Market Value
- The hypothetical most probable price that could be obtained for a property by average, informed purchasers.
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- Fair Use
- A statutory exemption to copyright for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research.
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- Falsa Demonstratio Non Nacet
- A wrong description of an item in a legal document (such as a will) will not necessarily void the gift if it can be determined from other facts.
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- False
- An intentional or accidental untruth.
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- Fascism
- A form of government which is authoritarian, oppressively conservative, who believe in the supremacy of the stated national group, and which, at least initially, purports to vest law-making and administrative authority in the hands of workers or their organizations.
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- Fault
- A breach of duty or negligence and, in some circumstances, the errors or omissions of others or of things under a person's control.
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- Federalism
- A system of government which has created, by written agreement, a central and national government to which it has distributed specified legislative (law-making) powers, and called the federal government, and regional governments (or sometimes called provinces or states) governments to which is distributed other, specified legislative powers.
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- Fee
- A legal right in land; or a money payment to purchase a service or a right.
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- Fee Simple
- The most extensive tenure allowed under the intestate. In many common law jurisdictions, land is held in fee simple: as close as one can get to absolute ownership.
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- Fee Tail
- A form of ownership which passes onto successive lineal descendants of the owner.
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- Felony
- A serious crime for which the traditional punishment is prison for more than a year or death.
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- Fence
- A structure which encloses real property, wholly or partially, to impede entry and exit.
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- Ferae Naturae
- Latin: wild in nature; usually in reference to animals such as monkeys or lions.
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- Feudal System
- A social structure that existed throughout much of Europe between 800 and 1400 and that revolved around a multi-level hierarchy between lords (who held land granted under tenure from the king), and their tenants (also called 'vassals').
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- Fiat
- A shortly-worded and short-form, often truncated, Court order.
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- Fiduciary
- A legal duty of loyalty and faithfulness towards another.
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- Fieri Facias
- A legal proceeding which commands a sheriff to take and sell enough property from the person who lost a law suit, to pay the debt owed by the judgment.
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- Fifth Amendment
- A US Constitution article which provides fundamental rights in regards to legal process such as the immunity in regards to self incrimination.
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- Fiqh
- The law of Islam. Also spelled fikh.
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- Firefighters' Rule
- Public safety officers have no claim for injuries suffered during the performance of their duties on the premises of a hazard, even if intentionally created.
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- First Amendment
- The amendment to the US Constitution which sets out freedom of expression.
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- Fishing Expedition
- A speculative demand for information without any real expectation about the outcome of the demand or its relevance to the litigation.
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- Fixtures
- A chattel which has become real property by having been affixed thereto.
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- Flesch Reading Ease Test
- A legalese test against which insurance contracts are assessed.
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- Flotilla Principle
- A method of calculating the ceiling of liability in the event of loss while ships are under tow, using the tonnage of all ships in the flotilla.
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- Flotsam
- Things found floating on the sea, issue from a ship that has been lost.
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- F.O.B.
- Acronym for 'free on board'; a contract whereby the seller of goods agrees to absorb the costs of delivering the goods to the purchaser's transporter of choice.
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- Forage
- The act of searching for provisions.
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- Force Majeure
- French for an act of God; an inevitable, unpredictable act of nature, not dependent on an act of man.
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- Foreclosure
- To eliminate a right of redemption on mortgaged real property.
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- Forfeiture
- Seizure of private property because it was illegally obtained, is an illegal substance or the legal basis for possession has ended.
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- Forgery
- The making of a false document knowing it to be false with intent that it should be used or acted on as genuine to the prejudice of another.
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- Formal Reciprocity
- A form of international agreement wherein the signatories agree to give each other's citizens and corporations legal treatment no less favourable to that given to their own citizens and corporations.
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- Forum Conveniens
- The court or forum most suitable for the ends of justice.
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- Forward Contract
- An agreement to buy or sell a specified thing at a fixed price at some future date.
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- Fourteenth Amendment
- A 1868, post-USA civil war amendment to the US Constitution designed to, inter alia, give full civil and legal rights to former slaves.
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- Fourth Amendment
- US constitutional protection against unreasonable search or arrest.
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- Frankpledge
- A community pledge in medieval England whereby a defined number of people were jointly held responsible for the denunciation of any crime within their group.
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- Fraud
- Deceitful or deceptive conduct designed to manipulate another person to give something of value.
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- Fraudulent Conveyance
- A transfer of an interest in property done with intent to defeat creditors or others of their just and lawful entitlements.
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- Freedom of Contract
- That men and women have the liberty of contracting as they see fit with the expectation that those contracts will be judicially enforced if necessary, subject only to public policy.
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- Freedom of Expression
- Freedom to communicate ideas without restraint, whether orally or in print or by other means of communication.
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- Freehold
- Use of real estate for an indeterminate time.
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- Freight
- The money paid by a person for the transportation of goods.
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- Friendly Society
- A form of corporate structure in the United Kingdom for the conduct of life or health insurance, pension fund or education-related business.
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- Frustration
- The inability to complete a contract because the object of it has been lost or fundamentally changed.
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- Fuck
- To denunciate something, or a general swear word without necessarily referring to sex.
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- Fugitive
- One who runs away to avoid arrest, prosecution or imprisonment.
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- Functus Officio
- Latin: an officer or agency whose mandate has expired either because of the arrival of an expiry date or because an agency has accomplished the purpose for which it was created.
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- Fungibles
- Standard commercial moveable things that are sold by measure, number or weight.
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- Furiosi Nulla Voluntas Est
- Latin: mentally impaired persons cannot validly sign a will.
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- Furtum
- Latin: theft or a thing stolen.
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