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Imprisonment or prosecution, a
malicious setting in motion of the law, without probable cause, whereby someone
is wrongfully and maliciously accused of a criminal offense or a civil wrong,
and by reason of which that person sustains damage.
An axiom; a general or leading
principle.
The settlement of disputes by
the amicable intervention of an outside party who is a stranger to the
controversy.
Criminal intent; evil intent;
guilty intent.
In real property, an absorption
by operation of law, of a lesser right or estate in a greater right or estate,
upon the union of their ownership in the same person. It takes place
independently of the will of the party. (2) A consolidation of corporations, in
which only one of two or more former corporations survives the consolidation,
or which brings into existence a new corporation and destroys the former
corporations.
Any crime or offense not
amounting to a felony (q.v.).
An exclusive privilege of
buying, selling, making, working, or using a particular thing. (2) The absolute
and exclusive control by a person, or combination of persons, of the sale of a
particular commodity. (3) A combination of producers or dealers to raise
commodity prices via the more or less exclusive control of the supply or the
purchasing power.
Descriptive of something which
is not genuine or concrete, something which is pretended. (2) A meeting,
especially for the purpose of arguing points of law by way of exercise.
