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Subcategories
This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
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Pages in category "American legal terminology"
The following 178 pages are in this category, out of 178 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Capable of repetition yet evading review
- Chilling effect
- Choate (law)
- Clear and present danger
- Collateral estoppel
- Color (law)
- Comity
- Commandeering
- Commanding precedent
- Commercial speech
- Community standards
- Commutation (law)
- Comparative negligence
- Consent decree
- Continuance
- Controlling law
- Corporate integrity agreement
- Course of performance
- Crossclaim
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- I know it when I see it
- IDIQ
- If it doesn't fit, you must acquit
- Illegal aliens (Library of Congress Subject Heading)
- Illegal per se
- Imminent lawless action
- Implied consent
- In but not of
- In open court
- In-chambers opinion
- Independent source doctrine
- Indispensable party
- Infectious invalidity
- Insurance bad faith
- Invited error
- Involuntary servitude
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- Separate but equal
- Sexually oriented business
- Slip law
- Slippery slope
- Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List
- Spoliation of evidence
- Strike for cause
- Subject-matter jurisdiction
- Substantial disruption
- Substantive due process
- Substantive law
- Sugar bowl (legal maxim)
- Suppression of evidence
- Suspect classification
- Symbolic speech