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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.
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.
conformed copy
Legal services; Courts
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 ...
power of attorney
Legal services; Courts
An formal instrument authorizing another to act as one's agent or attorney.
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