Category: E

If an insured person pays for a policy in advance, the “earned” premium is the portion of the policy that has already been used.

The bar that stops the litigation of facts that have already been determined.

This concerns the operation of laws outside the boundary of a state or country.

This term means a change in the rules governing how property will be inherited by the legal descendants.

situation in an organisation that calls for a response from management.

This term is given to verdict that is out of proportion to the matter in hand and violates the conscious of the court.

the term that is given to an injunction that is issued without notice being given to the party opposing.

The name given to the freedom a child gets when his parents allow him to leave home. Cf., What Does Emancipation Mean?

the person who is appointed as the executor and will also be the trustee.

These are the written down records of court decisions.

a bar that will renounce or renege that facts that have already been agreed to in a contract.

the principle that states that you should do everything possible in order to correct the situation before seeking help from a court.

a Latin phrase that means a claim has arisen from the breaking of a law.

the abbreviation for a proposed amendment, Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution.

the term used to describe the wilful and premeditated determination to bring about harm to another.

the objection to the plaintiff’s suit that is based on having no legal validity to a claim.

1. a homicide that is committed in self-defence. 2. An accidental homicide. See homicide, justifiable; justifiable homicide.

a law that states after being missing for a certain number of years a person is declared dead. See legally dead; presumption of death.

an exception that will take back or withdraw from a deed something that has already been granted.

a clause in a contract or a lease that is made during a time of government price control regulations.