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| | death penalty
Also known as capital panishment;
maximum sentence for different kinds of murder, treason, death resulting from aircraft hijacking, and other federal crimes. |
| Criminal Law and Procedure | details | | | debtor
a person or business entity that owes money to another; |
| Bankruptcy Law | details | | | debtor in possession
a person or corporation who has filed a bankruptcy petition but remains in possession of property upon which a creditor has a lien or similar security interest. |
| Bankruptcy Law | details | | | defendant
The party that is sued in either civil lawsuite, or has violated criminal statute and now charged with a crime. |
| Litigation and Evidence | details | | | deportation
-an administrative procedure of permanent exclusion of a person from the USA against that person's will. If you have been deported, you can not re-enter the United States for at least five years. The country reserves the right to deport a person that ... |
| Immigration Law | details | | | Derivative Citizenship
Citizenship conveyed to children through the naturalization of parents or, under certain circumstances, to foreign-born children adopted by U.S. citizen parents, provided certain conditions are met |
| Immigration Law | details | | | discharge in bankruptcy
Generally it is an order given by the bankruptcy judge, at the conclusion of all legal steps in processing a bankrupt person's assets and debts, which forgives those remaining debts which cannot be paid, with certain exceptions. |
| Bankruptcy Law | details | | | Distributee
A distributee is a person entitled to take or share in the property of a decedent under the statutes governing descent and distribution. |
| Last Will and Testament | details | | | dominant estate
dominant estate is the parcel of real property that has an easement over another piece of property.
It is also called a dominant tenement. |
| Real Estate Law | details | | | donation
A gift made by either a person or a legal entity to benefit a third party. Usually it is for the benefit of a church, schools, educational institutions, theaters, hospitals.
Donation may be given as money, or household items, or in the form of serv ... |
| Charitable Gift | details |
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