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civil action

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Any lawsuit relating to civil matters and not criminal prosecution.

pro bono

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Done without compensation for the public good: a lawyer's pro bono work. [Latin pr bon (public), for the (public) good : pr, for + bon, ablative of bonum, the good.]

In law, sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority to tend toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion ...

testament

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A testament is a legal declaration by which a person, the testator, names one or more persons to manage his/her estate and provides for the transfer of his/her property at death.