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Common Legal Terms - Land, buildings, and whatever is attached or affixed to the land. Generally synonymous with the words "real estate."
US District Court - Northern District of NY - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: administrator, consideration, corpus, Estate, Estate tax, Executor, Fiduciary, Inheritance tax, Personal property, Personal representative, Pretermitted child, Probate estate, Property tax, Surety Bond, trustee
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Common Legal Terms - A person accused of a crime is entitled to acquittal if, in the minds of the jury, his or her guilt has not been proved beyond a "reasonable doubt;" i.e., when jurors cannot say they feel an abiding conviction as to the truth of the charge.
US District Court - Northern District of NY - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Acquittal, Beyond a reasonable doubt, Burden of proof, Emeritus, Exonerate, In ambiguo, Mens rea, Onus
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Common Legal Terms - A phrase used to denote a hypothetical person who exercises qualities of attention, knowledge; intelligence, and judgment that society requires of its members for the protection of their own interest and the interests of others. Thus, the test of negligence is based on either a failure to do something that a reasonable person, guided by considerations that ordinarily regulate conduct, would do, or on the doing of something that a reasonable and prudent (wise) person would not do.
US District Court - Northern District of NY - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Ad damnum, Comparative negligence, Damages, Negligence, Proximate cause, Punitive damages
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Common Legal Terms - A written account of the proceedings in a case, including all pleadings, evidence, and exhibits submitted in the course of the case.
Administrative Office of the United States Courts - Cite This Source - This Definition - All the documents and evidence plus transcripts of oral proceedings in a case.
US District Court - Northern District of NY - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: appendix, discovery, Exhibit, Memorabilia, Request to admit, transcript, Trial brief, Visa
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Common Legal Terms - A person to whom the court refers a pending case to take testimony, hear the parties, and report back to the court. A referee is an officer with judicial powers who serves as an arm of the court.
US District Court - Northern District of NY - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: chief judge, clerk of court, court, judge, judicial lien, Judicial review, Judiciary, Jury Administrator, Nulla bona, Sheriff
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Common Legal Terms - Another hearing of a civil or criminal case by the same court in which the case was originally heard.
US District Court - Northern District of NY - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Attorney-at-law, Calendar, counsel, docket, en banc, Exceptions, panel, Prosecutor, Removal, Stare decisis, Strict liability
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Common Legal Terms - The reduction by a judge of the damages awarded by a jury.
US District Court - Northern District of NY - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Additur, Bailiff, bench trial, Charge, jury, equitable, evidence, Finding, Instructions, Jury instructions, Non-jury trial, Sequester
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Common Legal Terms - The transfer of a state case to federal court.
US District Court - Northern District of NY - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Attorney-at-law, Calendar, counsel, docket, en banc, Exceptions, panel, Prosecutor, Rehearing, Stare decisis, Strict liability