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Precedent (2801 bytes)
1: ... to use to decide its cases. In general, binding precedent involves decisions made by a higher court in a [[...
3: Precedent in law can also be divided into custom and [[case...
5: ... court to take notice of customary or traditional precedent in its deliberations.
7: ...ame as local law. Least weight would be given to precedent which stems from dissimilar circumstances, older ...
9: ...and greater equality under the law, then the next legal decision on that subject may serve to bring still...

Condition precedent (387 bytes)
3: ...o to heaven on the occurrence of other conditions precedent: it is not stated that I will ''only'' go to heav...

Is That Legal (178 bytes)
1: "'''Is That Legal'''" is a [[blog]] by [[University of North Caroli...
5: *[http://www.isthatlegal.org Is That Legal?]

Legal ethics (814 bytes)
1: '''Legal ethics''' refers to an [[ethical code]] governing...
5: While legal codes of ethics differ from place to place, they ...
7: [[Category:Legal ethics|*]]

Legal duty (345 bytes)
1: ...ing legal. In the [[U.S]] [[The President]] has a legal duty to manage the country in a matter of speakin...

Execution (legal) (1478 bytes)

Lambda Legal (1208 bytes)
1: ...ernmental organization]] devoted to promoting the legal rights of [[homosexuality|gay men and lesbians]],...
7: Lambda has played a role in many legal cases in the [[United States]] pertaining to [[ga...
10: * [http://www.lambdalegal.org Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund]

Legal tender (11860 bytes)
1: '''Legal tender''' is payment that cannot be refused in se...
3: ...law, or otherwise restrict, payment other than by legal tender (for example, by outlawing the use of fore...
5: ...l after a meal is served would have to accept any legal tender, though they would not be obliged to provi...
7: ...not demand to make a purchase, and so declaring a legal tender other than for debts would be redundant.
9: ==Legal tender in the United Kingdom==

Legal positivism (8451 bytes)
1: '''Legal positivism''' is a school of thought in modern an...
2: of legal positivism are:
7: ==Legal Positivism and Natural Law==
9: ...rporates the ''separation thesis'': the idea that legal validity has no essential connection with moralit...
13: ...f "what is law?" is central to legal positivism. Legal philosopher [[H. L. A. Hart]] sought to break dow...

Legal realism (1747 bytes)
1: ...ound. No single set of beliefs was shared by all legal realists, but many of the realists shared some of...
2: ...es, cases, etc.) did not determine the results of legal disputes. Jereome Frank is famously credited wit...
4: * Belief in ''legal instrumentalism'', the view that the law should b...
5: ... heirs to legal realism, including the [[critical legal studies]] movement and the law and economics scho...
9: ...s.cfm?abstract_id=339562 Brian Leiter, ''American Legal Realism'']

Immunity (legal) (1959 bytes)
1: ...hat makes that person or body free from otherwise legal obligations such as, for example, liability for d...
15: [[category:legal terms]]

Legal formalism (1409 bytes)
1: ... has argued that law is [[Indeterminacy debate in legal theory|indeterminate]].

Legal fiction (6674 bytes)
1: In the [[common law]], '''legal fictions,''' are suppositions of fact taken to be...
3: ...e to pass that the debt owed to the King became a legal fiction, in that the debtor was not entitled to c...
5: A similar but more complicated legal fiction involved pleadings in cases where title t...
7: Another legal fiction involves resignation from [[Parliament]]....
9: A rather significant legal fiction that is still extant today is the concept...

Street Legal (803 bytes)
1: :''[[Street Legal (2000)|Street Legal]] is also the name of an New Zealand television s...
2: '''''Street Legal''''' was a [[Canada|Canadian]] [[television serie...
4: ...e television movie '''''Shell Game''''', ''Street Legal'' focussed on the professional and private lives ...

Boston Legal (5378 bytes)
1: ...off (television)|spin-off]] to the long-running [[legal drama]] ''[[The Practice]]''. The series, like i...
3: ...d more than have one episode introducing ''Boston Legal'' (something which ''[[JAG]]'' did for ''[[Navy N...
5: ...ens the door for Harris to guest-star on ''Boston Legal'' as a judge). By the time of this final episode ...
7: ...ation, the official premiere episode for ''Boston Legal'' does introduce new characters, such as partner ...
12: * '''Tara Wilson''' ([[Rhona Mitra]]) A paralegal at Young, Berluti & Frutt, she graduated from law...

Legal thriller (884 bytes)
1: ..., the legal system provides the framework for the legal thriller much as the system of modern police work...

Legal lexicography (1828 bytes)
1: Legal lexicography is a term used to describe the compl...
3: ...tical legal lexicography. The result of practical legal lexicography is called a [[law dictionary]].
5: ... lexicographers need to take a broad view of what legal lexicography involves. Most users of bilingual la...
7: ...if the purpose of the dictionary is to facilitate legal translation, e.g. a bilingual law dictionary, it ...
11: ...ngual LSP Dictionary. Principles and Practice for Legal Language''. Gunter Narr Verlag 1994.

Legal Jews (580 bytes)
1: ...documentation to prove that any grandparent was a Legal Jew.

Legal translation (1824 bytes)
1: ...w]]. As law is a culture-dependent subject field, legal translation is not a simple task.
3: ...pecialising in legal translation should translate legal [[document]]s and scholarly writings. The mistran...
5: ...o be read by someone who is familiar with another legal system and its language.
9: Translators of legal texts often consult [[law dictionary|law dictiona...
12: ...ngual LSP Dictionary. Principles and Practice for Legal Language''. Gunter Narr 1994.

Motion (legal) (4436 bytes)
1: A '''legal motion''' is a [[procedural device]] in [[law]] t...
21: ...motion by a prosecutor or other plaintiff to drop legal charges, usually in exchange for a [[diversion pr...

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