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Today's Terms
Alibi
Definition:
A defense claim that the accused was somewhere else at the time a crime was committed.
Search warrants
Definition:
In general, an examination, without authority of law, of one's premises or person to find-stolen property or contraband.
res judicata
Definition:
Literally, "a thing that speaks for itself." In tort law, the doctrine, which holds a defendant guilty of negligence without an actual, shows that he or she was negligent. Its use is limited in theory to cases in which the cause of the plaintiff's injury was entirely under the control of the defendant, and the injury presumably could have been caused only by negligence.
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