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(law) a person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee
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(law) A doctrine in the law of wills under which a testator may effectively change the disposition of his property without changing the text of the will, so long as the acts or events changing the disposition have some significance other than avoiding the requirements of the will.
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(theology) An act of divine grace by which the redeemed in Christ are admitted to the privileges of the sons of God.
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(law) The allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.
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(law) The resolution of a dispute through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or similar means, as opposed to litigation.
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(law) An action to secure clarification on a point of law, in concord and in the mutual interest of the parties involved.
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(Roman law) A deferred decision.
adj
(law) Of or relating to a statute that abrogates the common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
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(Scotland, law) One who carries out an apprising.
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(Scotland, law) A creditor for whom an appraisal is made.
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A person who appropriates something.
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A process through which two or more parties use an arbitrator or arbiter in order to resolve a dispute.
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One who supports, affirms, defends, or vindicates; a champion.
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A trial or hearing before such a court.
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(obsolete) stipulation; agreement
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The action of an advowee, advocate or patron.
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(transitive, law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case.
v
(law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
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The act of bequeathing or leaving by will.
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(historical) The right of a will or charter
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Something or somebody that may be suitable.
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A situation covered by the terms of an international treaty (or similar understanding), and which consequently requires action from the parties involved.
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(law) One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his or her own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain.
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The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
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(law) A form of alternative dispute resolution, similar to but less formal than mediation, in which the parties bring their dispute to a neutral third party, who helps lower tensions, improve communications and explore possible solutions.
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(law, obsolete) A cognizor.
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(obsolete or historical) A traditional form of expulsion from an organization or school.
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Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose.
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(law) The custody and support of children in divorce proceedings.
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(law) Expenses other than attorney's fees associated with the prosecution or defense of a lawsuit for which, in some jurisdictions, the prevailing party may demand repayment.
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Obsolete form of covenant. [(law) An agreement to do or not do a particular thing.]
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(law) One who deceases; a person who dies.
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(law, chiefly US) A dead person.
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(law) A formal statement of what a person or organization intends to do, which is not binding in the way a contract is.
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(law, Scotland) A legal declaration.
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(slang or nonstandard) One who commits a deed or action; a doer or perpetrator.
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(historical, law) An object forfeited to the state (and supposedly to God) because it had caused the death of a person.
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(law) The person or entity to whom property is devised in a will.
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The process of resolving disputes between parties.
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A business or group that provides alternative dispute resolution services such as conciliation, mediation, arbitration, or negotiation, sometimes as a private alternative to public judicial courts and litigation.
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(law) A writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him.
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(law) A legal concept where a person is ensured all legal rights when deprived of their liberty for a given reason.
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(archaic) A judicial writ ordering seizure of a debtor's property.
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One who is or feels entitled.
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(law) A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, especially of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer.
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(law) By or from a will/testament.
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(transitive) To proceed against (a person) in the Court of Exchequer.
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(law) The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity.
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Alternative form of gentleman's agreement [A usually unwritten agreement not bound by law but by honour.]
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(law, of a judge or equivalent official) To convene or preside over a trial or other legal proceeding in a court of law.
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To enrol (jurors), e.g. from a jury pool; to register (the names of jurors) on a "panel" or official list.
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(law) A provision in a will that disinherits any beneficiary who raises a challenge against the will.
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(law) A writ from a higher court to an inferior judge to stay proceedings.
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Contribution of work or information, as an opinion or advice.
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(law) A person who dies without making a valid will.
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(law) A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
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(law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong
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Alternative form of last will. [Synonym of testament.]
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(now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
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(intransitive, chiefly US, informal) To exercise one's right to legal representation, especially on the occasion of refusing to answer law-enforcement officials' questions without the presence of such legal representation.
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(law) An action that can be taken by an individual or a corporation to attempt to remedy a legal difficulty.
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(law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong
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(law) A document, made by a person when still legally fit to do so, which provides clear instructions or principles to be employed by a surrogate decision-maker, such as expressing a desire to be allowed to die instead of being kept alive by artificial means, in the event of being severely disabled or suffering from a terminal illness.
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(law) A surety, under the old writ of mainprise, for a prisoner's appearance in court at a day.
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(South Africa) An order (restitutory interdict) handed down by a court on application, originating in Roman Dutch law where a person (spoliator) is compelled to return a thing that has been taken unlawfully. The case turns on possession, not ownership: a mandement van spolie can even be brought by a thief where the owner unlawfully retrieves the thing stolen.
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(law, Britain, Canada) A court order which freezes assets so that a defendant to an action cannot dissipate their assets from beyond the jurisdiction of the court.
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Negotiation to resolve differences conducted by an impartial party.
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(US law) A warning given by a law enforcement officer to criminal suspects in his custody advising them of certain constitutional rights, called their Miranda rights.
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(law, archaic outside the US) A warrant issued for someone to be taken into custody.
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(law) A common law writ prohibiting the departure of a person or of property from the jurisdiction of a court.
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(UK, Ireland, law) A court order granted against a third party which has been innocently mixed up in wrongdoing, forcing the disclosure of documents or information.
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A person who opts into, out of, or for something.
adj
(obsolete) Settled by a pact or treaty; relating to pacts or treaties.
v
(law) To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right.
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(UK, law, historical) A remedy available to subjects to recover property from the Crown.
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A voluntary engagement, or a paper containing it; a promise.
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(law) A testamentary device wherein the writer of a will creates a trust (usually unfunded at that point), and decrees in the will that property in his estate at the time of his death shall be placed in the trust.
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The writ charging a person with this offence, the writ of praemunire facias.
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One who preempts; especially one who appropriates public land.
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A claimant to an abolished or already occupied throne.
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(law) The failure of a testator to name a legal heir in his will.
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(law) A person who would likely stand to inherit under a will, except that the testator did not know of the party or of the relationship at the time the will was written.
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(law) A copy of a legally recognised and qualified will.
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(law) The legal protection of confidentiality for disclosures made to certain professionals by their clients.
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(law, finance) One who engages or undertakes; a promiser
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The act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor.
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(law) A writ brought before a proper tribunal, to inquire by what warrant a person or a corporation acts, or exercises certain powers.
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(law) An order issued by a court of law or other legal authority for a specified timeframe forbidding the restrained party from contacting and close proximity to the protected party and other restrictions, usually banning the possession of arms.
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(law) A legal remedy in which the court orders a party to perform a specific act, such as fulfilling the terms of a contract.
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(rare) The act of submitting; submission
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A person who submits to the authority of another.
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(by extension) A person or organization that expresses an interest in working with, or taking over, another.
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(law) A type of surety bond that a court requires from an appellant who wants to delay payment of a judgement until the appeal is over.
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(law) In patent law, to describe the solution to a problem in a way that excludes a particular alternative to solving that problem addressed by a later invention.
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(law) The condition of being testate, of having left a valid will at one's death.
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(law) A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his or her will as to disposal of his or her inheritance (estate and effects) after his or her death, benefiting specified heir(s).
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The act or power of giving by testament, or will.
adj
(law) having left a legally valid last will and testament (of one who has died).
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The action of a testator in disposing of property by a will
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(law) One who makes or has made a legally valid will.
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(Scotland, law) The last clause in a Scottish deed, which narrates when and where the parties signed the deed, before what witnesses, by whose hand written, etc.
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(countable) An act of beseeeching or entreating; an entreaty, a plea, a request.
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A final statement of terms or conditions made by one party to another, especially one that expresses a threat of reprisal or war.
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(law, archaic) The person who is vouched, or called into court to support or make good his warranty of title in the process of common recovery.
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(law enforcement) warrant
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(law, countable) A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest, or to execute a judgment.
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(law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.
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(law) A writ that compels a government entity to perform mandatory or purely ministerial duties correctly.
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An order for the release of a person from custody.
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(law) A writ which lay to recover lands in fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner.
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