10 Terms
Contributors in Courts
Courts
Restitution
Legal services; Courts
Act of restoring anything to its rightful owner; the act of restoring someone to an economic position he enjoyed before he suffered a loss.
Defence of property
Legal services; Courts
Affirmative defence in criminal law or tort law where force was used to protect one's property.
Conformed copy
Legal services; Courts
An exact copy of a document on which has been written things that could not or were not copied, i.e., a written signature is replaced on the conformed copy with a notation that it was signed by the ...
Memorandum
Legal services; Courts
An informal note or instrument embodying something the parties desire to have in written evidence.
Harmless error
Legal services; Courts
An error committed during a trial that was corrected or was not serious enough to affect the outcome of a trial and therefore was not sufficiently harmful (prejudicial) to be reversed on appeal.
Digest
Legal services; Courts
An index or compilation of abstracts of reported cases into one, set forth under proper law topic headings or titles and usually in alphabetical arrangement.
Mistrial
Legal services; Courts
An invalid trial, caused by fundamental error. When a mistrial is declared, the trial must start again from the selection of the jury.
