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deliberate elicitation

deliberate elicitation. Criminal procedure. The purposeful yet covert drawing forth of an incriminating response (usu. not during a formal interrogation) from a suspect whose Sixth Amendment right to counsel has attached but who has not waived that right. • Deliberate elicitation may occur, for example, when a police officer engages an arrested suspect in conversation […]

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lawyer solicitation

lawyer solicitation 律师招来客户 尽管律师有权做广告,但传统上该职业却不允许律师像银行家或证券经纪人那样招来客户。这一限制最早来自英国。当时英国的大律师不想像「普通商人」那样与同行招来客户互相竞争。近来这种招来客户的限制在美国受到攻击。它被认为有悖于宪法修正案第一条言论自由的规定。目前美国一些组织还设法改革这种限制律师招来客户的做法。它们认为,应该把有益的与有害的两种律师招来客户方式区别开来。当且仅当律师招来客户是有害的时,它才应被禁止。1978年最高法院的判决认为,招来当事人的限制对从事公共利益业务的律师不适用。

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pollicitation

pollicitation. Contracts. The offer of a promise. “By a promise we mean an accepted offer as opposed to an offer of a promise, or, as Austin called it, a pollicitation.” William R. Anson, Principles of the Law of Contract 6 (Arthur L. Corbin ed., 3d Am. ed. 1919).

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solicitation

solicitation, n. 1. The act or an instance of requesting or seeking to obtain something; a request or petition (a solicitation for volunteers to handle at least one pro bono case per year). 2. The criminal offense of urging, advising, commanding, or otherwise inciting another to commit a crime ( convicted of solicitation of murder).

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licitation

licitation (lis-[schwa]-tay-sh[schwa]n). 1. The offering for sale or bidding for purchase at an auction; esp., in civil law, a judicial sale of property held in common. See La. Civ. Code art. 811. [Cases: Husband and Wife 272(5); Partition 99. C.J.S. Partition § 149.] 2. CANT.

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