9 Terms
Contributors in Courts
Courts
Reasonable suspicion
Legal services; Courts
A particularised and objective basis, supported by specific and articulate facts, for suspecting a person of criminal activity.
Sealed instrument
Legal services; Courts
At common law and under some statutes, an instrument to which the bound party has affixed a personal seal.
Inchoate instrument
Legal services; Courts
An unrecorded instrument that must, by, law, be recorded to serve as effective notice to third parties.
Parol evidence rule
Legal services; Courts
Oral evidence may not be produced as evidence to controvert written evidence if the written document was intended to be a complete statement of the agreement.
Per curium
Legal services; Courts
By the court; used when the entire court, rather than an individual justice, is credited with writing an opinion.
Claim
Legal services; Courts
A debt owing by a debtor to another person or business. In probate parlance, the term used for debts of the decedent and a procedure that must be followed by a creditor to obtain payment from his ...
Without prejudice
Legal services; Courts
A declaration that no rights or privileges of the party concerned are waived or lost. In a dismissal these words maintain the right to bring a subsequent suit on the same claim.
