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Common Legal Terms - An officer of the court responsible for keeping order, maintaining appropriate courtroom decorum and custody of the jury.
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Common Legal Terms - A legal process by which persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts can seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, usually by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
Administrative Office of the United States Courts - Cite This Source - This Definition - Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may be released or "discharged" from their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings. The person who owes the debts is called the debtor and the people or companies to whom the debtor owes money are called creditors.
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Common Legal Terms - The area of federal law dealing with bankrupt persons or businesses.
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Common Legal Terms - 1. Historically, the partition separating the general public from the space occupied by the judges, lawyers and other participants in a trial. 2. More commonly, the term means the whole body of lawyers.
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Common Legal Terms - Trial without a jury in which a judge decides which party prevails.
Administrative Office of the United States Courts - Cite This Source - This Definition - Trial without a jury in which a judge decides the facts. (Also known as court trial.)
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Common Legal Terms - To give a gift to someone through a will.
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Common Legal Terms - Gifts made in a will.
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Common Legal Terms - Primary evidence; the best evidence available. Evidence short of this is "secondary." For example, an original letter is "best evidence," while a photocopy of a letter is "secondary evidence."
US District Court - Northern District of NY - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Admissible evidence, Circumstantial evidence, Closing argument, Corroborating evidence, Exclusionary Rule, immunity, Inadmissible, Parol evidence, procedure, Rules of evidence, Strike, Suppress