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motion

Legal services; Courts

An application made to a court or judge which requests a ruling or order in favor of the applicant.

impeachment of a witness

Legal services; Courts

An attack on the credibility (believability) of a witness, through evidence introduced for that purpose.

temporary restraining order

Legal services; Courts

An emergency remedy of brief duration issued by a court only in exceptional circumstances, usually when immediate or irreparable damages or loss might result before the opposition could take action.

lien

Legal services; Courts

An encumbrance or legal burden upon property.

harmless error

Legal services; Courts

An error committed during a trial that was corrected or was not serious enough to affect the outcome of a trial and therefore was not sufficiently harmful (prejudicial) to be reversed on appeal.

An exact copy of a document on which has been written things that could not or were not copied, i.e., a written signature is replaced on the conformed copy with a notation that it was signed by the ...