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Legal explanations - Law terms Category: Legal Date & country: 25/02/2010, SG Words: 2570

Land
(n) Land is the surface of the earth identified by specific boundaries, including the airspace above that portion of surface, the minerals beneath it, and the erections and developments on the surface.

Landlady
(n) Landlady is the women who owns the title of a real property, the possession of which is rented or leased out to another person for a specified period.

Landlocked
(adj) A landlocked property is the landed property which do not have direct access to a public road by which one can reach the property without crossing another's property. A landlocked property is eligible for an easement right in the property from which it was derived where by it can access the public street.

Landlord
(n) Landlord is the person who owns the title of a real property, the possession of which is rented or leased out to another person for a specified period.

Landlord And Tenant
(n) Landlord and Tennant is the term used to represent the parties involved in renting or leasing out of a real property. The person who owns the property is the landlord and the person who use the property by an agreement is the tenant.

Landlord's Lien
(n) A Landlords lien is the right of a landlord on the properties of the tenant lying in his possession, to recover the rent and other damages payable by the tenant .There are specific procedure like written notice etc to be followed to exercise the lien.

Lanham Act
Federal statute that registers trademarks and protects the trademark owner by making it illegal for another party to produce a deceptively similar mark.

Lapse
(v) Lapse is the process by which an application, action, occurrence of an event, right etc become impossible, ineffective or otherwise inoperative. For example an appointment order lapse on the death of the appointee.

Larceny
(n) Larceny is the misappropriation of the goods or assets of another person with an intention to use them as his own. Larceny is a crime punishable and are classified as grand and petty Larceny based on the value of the property so misappropriated.

Last Antecedent Rule
(n) Doctrine of last Antecedent rules refers the application of qualification to the immediately preceding references when more than one references are contained in the sentences or provision, unless otherwise it was clearly evident that it refers to a different reference contained there in. Eg. A provision stipulate teachers, parents with mentally...

Last Clear Chance
(n) Last clear chance is the remedy available to a defaulted plaintiff to recover the damages from the defendant on the ground that, the defended could have diverted the occurrence of the incident. For example, if a drunken man was hit while crossing the road carelessly, he can claim damages from the driver on the ground that driver could have stop...

Last Will And Testament
(n) Last will and testament is the latest existing legitimate will or testament executed by a person before his death nullifying all the previous will and testament executed by him. The phrase is used to notify the legal existence of the document on the ground that there is no other will or testament executed after that date to supersede it.

Latent Defect
(n) Latent Defect is the defect, damages, imperfection etc of a goods or property, which are hidden or apparently unnoticeable to the buyer with a reasonable care and inspection, which the seller is aware of. Latent defects entitle the buyer to demand replacement or cancellation of the contract.

Lateral Support
(n) Lateral support is the implied support expected from the neighboring property against slippage, cave-in, landslide, flood etc such that any activity in the neighboring property shall not alter the situation prevailing then. For example, in a sloppy land, excavation of adjacent land may lead to landslide, in such cases a retaining wall or other ...

Law
(n) Law is the written Statute, ordinance, regulation, methods endorsed by the government or authority to regulate the governance of the land by deciding the rights and authorities of the people of the land

Law And Motion Calendar
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Law Book
(n) Law books are the printed materials containing the provisions and explanations of law, reports of cases decided by courts, commentaries on legislative procedures, rules and regulations, interpretations etc arranged in a meaning full order for references purposes.

Law Of Admiralty
(n) Law of Admiralty is the law, rules , regulations , customary practices and treatese that are applicable or accepted while in navigable waters. It is also known as maritime law

Law Of The Case
(n) Law of the case is the legal views arrived and pronounced by the judge with respect to the lawsuit pending before him. Later in all reference during the trial he is expected to continue with the same observation of law which is referred as 'law of the case'

Law Of The Land
(n) Law of the Land is the statute, law and other regulations to be followed and observed by the persons living in that country or state

Lawsuit
(n) A Law suit is the action taken by a person or legal entity against another person, persons or entities with an intention to avail legal repercussions for any loss occurred or may occur to him, by moving a petition in the court of the land

Lay A Foundation
(v) Lay a foundation is the testifying of the authenticity and expertise of the witness , documents or evidence produced before the court to assess the reliability of the witness , documents or evidences. Eg. Providing certificates proving the expertise of the physician whose certificate is used as an evidence

Leading
(v) Leading is the method of questioning by which a person can answer them in the way expected by the questioner. Such leading method is resorted to help the witness to remember the issue. eg. Attorney asking his question, 'was it about 5 in the evening, you saw the fight between the parties' , the answer can be a clear 'yes'. Leading questions to ...

Leading Question
(n) Leading question is the method of questioning by which a person is directed to answer them in the way expected by the questioner. eg. Attorney asking his witness the question, 'it was raining when the incident occurs, isn't it ? , the answer can be a clear 'yes' the expected answer. Leading questions to own witness are generally disallowed by t...

Leading The Witness
(n) Leading the witness is the method of questioning a witness by which he is directed to answer them in the way expected by the attorney. In such questioning the answers will be apparent in the questions itself. eg. Attorney asking his witness the question, 'it was raining then, is that the only reason you are waiting in the shelter ? the answer s...

Lease
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Leasehold
(n) Leasehold is the property which was held by a person by virtue of a lease agreement between him and the owner, permitting him to hold the property for such a period as said in the lease agreement for a consideration payable to the owner of the property. It differs from the freehold property to the extend that it is returnable after the expiry o...

Legacy
(n) Legacy is the gift of money made to a person by a will executed by a deceased person. Though the term devise is used to represent gift of property, Legacy is also used to refer property gifted.

Legal
(adj) The qualification 'Legal' is used to denote a situation when the action referred is not contravening any provisions or regulations containing in the law of the land

Legal Action
(n) A Legal Action is the action taken by a person or legal entity against another person, persons or entities with an intention to avail legal repercussions or remedies for any loss occurred or may occur to him, by moving a lawsuit in the court of the land

Legal Advertising
(n) Legal advertising is the advertisement required by law to announce the notices, proceedings of the court for the knowledge of the parties involved or are interested in the lawsuit so that they can participate in the proceedings. Legal advertisement in well circulated local newspapers are stipulated when the notice could not be served to the per...

Legal Age
(n) Legal age is the statutory age for attaining majority by which a person can enter in to a legitimate and valid contract with others and put himself responsible for all actions taken by him. The legal age for different actions are however different, like the legal age for marriage, signing of contract, buying alcohol etc

Legal Aid Society
(n) Legal aid society is the organization formed to render free legal assistance to the society especially the poor who cannot find means to get legal aid but has a strong legal cause. Legal Aid Societies are generally aided by local bar association or local governments with the help of volunteer attorneys.

Legal Custody
"An adult's right and responsibility to issue decisions, often with another parent, about a child's upbringing.

Legal Duty
(n) Legal duty is the responsibility of the persons or legal entities to abide by the rules and regulations laid by the law of land to maintain constitutional rights of its citizens. Eg. Responsibility to maintain vehicle used in the public place in good condition.

Legal Fiction
(n) Legal fiction is the presumption of facts arrived based on the circumstantial evidence or situation prevailing in that case, with an objective to achieve justice.

Legal Risk Placement
Type of adoption where the child is allowed to live with the adoptive parents prior to completing the adoption process. This avoids having the child live with foster parents. The adoptive parents assume a risk because the biological parent can select to take back the child and cancel the adoption until the adoption is completed.

Legal Separation
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Legal Services
(n) Legal services are the services involving legal or law related matters like issue of legal opinion, filing, pleading and defending of law suits etc by a lawyer or attorney practicing law related services

Legal Tender
(n) Legal tender is the instrument issued, circulated and controlled by government or central bank of the country which is used as instrument for tendering money transactions by handing over the possession of the instrument.

Legalese
(n) Legalese is the person who was specialized in the subjects of law and legal procedures by virtue of his qualification, research, experience or services.

Legatee
(n) Legatee is the person or legal entity who is the beneficiary named in a deceased's will to receive a gift named in that will as per the terms contained in that will

Legislative Immunity
A law that protects legislators from liability in a civil lawsuit for duties that they performed within their office's jurisdiction.

Legitimate
(adj) Legitimate is the term used to qualify an action, event or thing etc which satisfies all the legal adherence required for such action, event, things etc to be a legally existing and sustainable in the eyes of law. Eg.. Marriage relation is required to make the kid as a legitimate kid

Lemon Law
(n) Lemon Law is the statues empowering the buyer of an automobile to seek damages or replacement from the manufacture when they cannot rectify or fix the problem of the vehicle within a reasonable time

Lessee
(n) Lessee is the person who accept a property by a lease agreement with the owner of the property, to receive the benefit, rights in a property for a specific period, as per the terms and conditions contained in the lease agreement, for a consideration or rental pre-fixed.

Lesser-Included Offense
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Lessor
(n) Lessor is the person who lease out his property to any other person for a specific period as per the terms and conditions contained in the lease agreement, for a consideration or rental pre-fixed.

Let
(v) Let is the action by which a person voluntarily and willfully permit or allow another person to do any act or willfully abstain from stopping of any act known to him or her.

Letter Of Credit
(n) Letter of credit is the document issued by a bank sanctioning a credit to the customer for any particular transaction, guaranteeing the creditor availability of the fund to pay the amount due to the creditor when it becomes due.

Letters
(n) Letters are the written communications of expressions , opinions, testamentary , inferences, communications etc recorded for later references

Letters Of Administration
(n) Letters of Administration is the document issued by the court establishing the authority of an administrator of the estate of a deceased person, when such administrator is appointed by a court in the absence of naming of an administrator in the will.

Letters Testamentary
(n) Letters of Testamentary is the document issued by the court stating the authority of the executor of the estate of a deceased person, when the executors appointment is approved by the court .

Leverage
(n) Leverage is the advantage taken by a buyer by using external finance or assistance to buy a property. With external finance a buyer can acquire a property far more costlier than his resources.

Levy
(v) Levy is the charge imposed on a property , or activity , transaction etc to recover the amount due for its use, payable by a judgment in a lawsuit, taxation provisions etc.

Lewd
(adj) Lewd is the method of doing an activity which is improper or are against the moral decencies expected from an individual of a modern civilized society. Eg. Stripping in public

Lewd And Lascivious
(adj) Lewd And Lascivious are the activities of which the main intention is to arouse sexual sensation or sex related impulses on the public by exposing genitalia or publishing sexually teasing postures etc

Lex Loci
"Latin meaning "the law of a place." In other words, the local law.

Liability
(n) Liability is the legal responsibility to make good the loss, damage, shortage occurred to a person, entity, property etc by the action or failure of the person responsible to do such acts or legally accountable for such action or non action. Eg. a person carelessly leave his vehicle on a slop, it slips down to an adjacent shop injuring the shop...

Liability Insurance
Insurance that compensates those who experience damages or injuries caused by the policy-owner. All fifty states require automobile drivers to have liability insurance.

Liable
(adj) A person or entity is said to liable to compensate the void when he makes or cause to make a loss or damage to the other party by an action he is not expected to do or no action of his responsibilities or contractual obligations.

Libel
(n) Libel is the recorded publishing or broadcasting of false or untrue information about a person or entity, as if they are statement of facts, with an intention to defame or harm the reputation of the person or entity about whom such statements are made. Libel is defamation which is written or otherwise broadcasted as against slander, which is or...

Libel Per Se
(n) Libel Per Se is a false statement printed or otherwise broadcasted, containing wrong information about the person or entity where the intention of such publication is to defame such persons or entity. Eg. Announcement or report accusing a person as involved in immoral activities. Such statements are generated with the intention to defame so mal...

Liberty
(n) Liberty is the unrestricted freedom to do and practice activities required by a person for his normal life without infringing the rights of other person or the society

License
(n) License is the legal permission from the authorities to perform certain acts, conducts, activities etc which are restricted or otherwise controlled by the authorities as a matter of policy. Eg. License to hold weapons. License to do mining activities

Licensee
(n) Licensee is the person or legal entity who has got legal permission from the authorities to perform certain acts, conducts, activities etc which are restricted or otherwise controlled as a matter of policy. Eg. Licensee dealing alcohol.

Licensor
(n) Licensor is the person or legal entity who has got authority to grant legal permission for performing certain acts, conducts, activities etc which are restricted or otherwise controlled as a matter of policy.

Lie Detector Test
(n) Lie Detector Test is the polygraph test which adopt the technique of measuring the psychological reaction in a body when a person tells a lie or conceal a fact, there by judging the authenticity of answers made by the person subjected to the test. It is a matter of mental strength, so a seasoned liar may go scot-free in this test

Lien
(n) Lien is the authority of the person holding or otherwise in custody or control of an article or property, rights etc, to use them for recovering the amount payable to him by the owner of such assets, property or rights. There are different type and functional lien like a landlords lien on the property of tenant left over the rented property. Li...

Lienor
(n) Lienor is the person holding or otherwise in custody or control of an article or property, rights etc, to use them for recovering the amount payable to him by the owner of such assets, property or rights. Eg. Attorney is a Lienor , on the compensation receivable by his client , for his unpaid bills

Life Estate
(n) Life Estate is the right to occupy, possess or otherwise use a property during one's life time. The right in the property exists so as the right holder is alive. After his or her death it reverts to the title holder or the survivor mentioned in the deed of bestowing life estate.

Life Expectancy
"The amount of time that someone is predicted to live, as calculated by actuarial tables. Insurance companies use a person's life expectancy to decide the premium size that the person should have to pay.

Life Insurance
Contract between an insured person and an insurance company where the insured pays a regular fee in exchange for the company issuing a determined amount of money to a beneficiary when the policy-holder dies.

Life Tenant
Someone who possesses a property for life.

Life Without Possibility Of Parole
(n) Life Without Possibility of Parol is the punishment awarded to criminal at the extreme end whose existence in the society is dangerous and when death penalty is not followed or otherwise is not possible considering the circumstances. In life without parol sentences, the society get rid of the criminals without executing them .

Life-Prolonging Procedures
(n) Life prolonging procedures are the steps taken to sustain life of a critically ill person with the support of medical aids, life saving equipments etc, who otherwise will die on withdrawing the medical support.

Limitation Of Actions
(n) Limitation of Actions is the statutory limit within which one has to initiate procedures to recover his legitimate claim or seek remedies for his losses. The limitation period however varies from case to case with respect to the quantum, type, parties involved, application of statues etc.

Limited Jurisdiction
(n) Limited jurisdiction is the statutory limit of authority as regards to the quantum of dispute, type or magnitude of crime, parties involved in the dispute etc within which a court can accept a law suit to do a trial.

Limited Liability
Limited Liability is the limit up to which a person can be held responsible for any of his actions, non-actions or commitments and the consequential losses occurred to any person or entity. A typical example is the joint stock companies in which a shareholder is liable only to the extend of his unpaid shares in the event of bankruptcy of the compan...

Limited Liability Company
(LLC) "Company that provides its members the benefits of both a corporation and a partnership. Similar to a corporation, an LLC offers limited liability to its members. However, taxation for an LLC is passed to the individual owners of the LLC and corporate income tax is not paid.

Limited Liability Partnership
(LLP) Partnership that protects its members from liabilities held against their partners. Many law firms are formed as LLP's.

Limited Partnership
(n) A limited partnership is the type of partnership in which a section of partners have contributed towards the capital without any management authority in the partnership with a limited liability and pre-fixed percentage of return on their investment.

Lineal Descendant
(n) Lineal descendants are the direct line of relationship flowing downwards from an individual starting with his children, grand children and their children and so on . Unlike collateral descendants it wont include brothers and sisters

Lineup
(n) Lineup is the sequential formation of any group, article, persons etc to provide individual access in a convenient way without giving undue importance to any. A lineup is used in identification parade in which the suspected are mixed up with non suspected to verify whether they can be identified from the similar or equal persons or entities

Liquid Assets
Property that can be rapidly exchanged for cash.

Liquidate
(v) Liquidate is the process by which an ongoing business or activity is freeze and discontinued with a purpose to stop its operation and existence by paying of liabilities after disposing its assets.

Liquidated Damages
(n) Liquidated damages are the quantified damages payable by a party to the opposite party of the contract for the damages caused by his failure or on his incapacity to do or fulfill the conditions set in the agreement. Liquidated damages are the conditions included in the agreement and hence it is payable unless there is a fraud or gross misunders...

Lis Pendens
(n) Lis Pendence is the notification made to refer the existence of a legal suit, pending legal claim in the property under reference. The Latin word means suit pending with reference to that property. Lis Pendence informs the general public, proposed buyers or financiers etc, that a potential claim exists.

Litigant
(n) Litigant is the parties involved in a law suit as plaintiff, petitioner, defendant, respondent, cross-complainant or cross defendant. A litigant is a person interested in the lawsuit as for the cause or against it

Litigation
(n) Litigation is a law suit filed in a court seeking a legal remedy to the question or dispute existing between the plaintiff and the defendants

Litigious
(adj) Litigious is the person who is interested in prolonged legal disputes, controversy, legal battles , court room activities as a habit irrespective of whether he has a point to challenge or a worthwhile cause to defend.

Living Trust
(n) A living trust is the execution of a trust during the life time of trustor where by he forms a trust by transferring his property into that of the trust. Life time trusts are formed to separate a property for a specific cause there by it will not be subject to the general risk and obligations attributable to his or her properties during the lif...

Living Will
(n) Living will is the document authorizing any person to decide the termination of life by withdrawing the life sustaining medical supports when the testor is critically ill and incapable of taking any decision. The living will indirectly helps a mortally ill patient living with life saving equipments, to die in decorum at the same time absolving ...

Loan Broker
Middleman who brings together borrowers and lenders.

Locus
(n) Locus is the place or venue or location identifiable, where an event under reference is occurred . The Latin word 'low-cuss' mean the place.

Loiter
(v) Loiter is the action by which a person hang around a public place without any definite purpose, duty or other requirements with an intention to spend time or expecting of anything unexpected. Many statues prohibits loitering as a public nuisance.

Long Cause
(n) Long cause is the lawsuit which is expected to take longer than a day to complete the trial. Long Cause suits will find it difficult to fit in the court schedule because of its lengthy procedure as against short cause cases.

Long-Arm Statute
(n) Long-Arm Statute is the legal provision granting authority to a state or local court, on a person or entity not a resident in the jurisdiction of such court, to try them for a crime or default in which they are involved.

Loss
(n) Loss is the reduction in value of a business, article, property etc happened as an effect of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event or action. Eg. Loss on sale of a property

Loss Of Bargain
(n) Loss of Bargain is the loss resulted out of the inability to do an act consequential to a non performance of duties or contract by another person or entity. Eg.. Failure to deliver a product due to the non-supply of raw materials by the sub-contractor.