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Issue No: 256
February 11, 2012

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Reviewing The Views
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Crime & Punishment
Law Lexicon
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Law Lexicon

 

Primary authority - Constitutions, codes, statutes, ordinances, and case law sources.

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Private law - That law, such as a contract between two persons or a real estate transaction, which applies only to the persons who subject themselves to it.

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Privilege - A benefit or advantage to certain persons beyond the advantages of other persons, i.e., an exemption, immunity, power, etc.

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Pro se - For himself; in his own behalf. One who does not retain a lawyer and appears for himself in court.

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Probable cause - A reasonable belief that a crime has or is being committed; the basis for all lawful searches, seizures, and arrests.

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Probate - Court proceeding by which a will is proved valid or invalid. Term used to mean all proceedings pertaining to the administration of estates such as the process by which assets are gathered; applied to pay debts, taxes, and expenses of administration; and distributed to those designated as beneficiaries in the will. Conducted in states courts.

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Probate court - The court with authority to supervise estate administration.


Source: Jurist International.

 
 
 
 


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