commitment fee
commitment fee. An amount paid to a lender by a potential borrower for the lender’s promise to lend money at a stipulated rate and within a specified time. • Commitment fees are common in real-estate transactions. See LOAN COMMITMENT.
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scientific evidence
Fact or opinion evidence that purports to draw on specialized knowledge of a science or to rely on scientific principles for its evidentiary value. See DAUBERT TEST. [Cases: Criminal Law 388; Evidence 150, 505–574. C.J.S. Criminal Law § 761; Evidence §§ 216–226, 510, 513–514, 521, 523–527, 597–632, 634–660, 662–668, 670–671, 673–688, 691–709, 713–759, 800–812.]
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senility
senility. Mental feebleness or impairment caused by old age. • A senile person (in the legal, as opposed to the popular, sense) is incompetent to enter into a binding contract or to execute a will. — Also termed senile dementia (see-nIl di-men-shee-[schwa]). [Cases: Mental Health 3. C.J.S. Insane Persons§§ 2, 6.] — senile, adj.
incident
incident, adj. Dependent upon, subordinate to, arising out of, or otherwise connected with (something else, usu. of greater importance) (the utility easement is incident to the ownership of the tract). — incident, n. incident, n. 1. A discrete occurrence or happening (an incident of copyright infringement). 2. A dependent, subordinate, or consequential part (of something
irrelevant
irrelevant (i-rel-[schwa]-v[schwa]nt), adj. 1. (Of evidence) having no probative value; not tending to prove or disprove a matter in issue. — Also termed impertinent. Cf. IMMATERIAL. [Cases: Evidence 99. C.J.S. Evidence §§ 2–5, 197–199, 204, 206.] 2. (Of a pleaded allegation) having no substantial relation to the action, and will not affect the court’s decision.
argumentative pleading
A pleading that states allegations rather than facts, and thus forces the court to infer or hunt for supporting facts. • Conclusory statements in court papers are a form of argumentative pleading. — Also termed inferential pleading.
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statistical decision theory
statistical-decision theory. A method for determining whether a panel of potential jurors was selected from a fair cross section of the community, by calculating the probabilities of selecting a certain number of jurors from a particular group to analyze whether it is statistically probable that the jury pool was selected by mere chance. • This
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reputation evidence
Evidence of what one is thought by others to be. • Reputation evidence may be introduced as proof of character when character is in issue or is used circumstantially. Fed. R. Evid. 405(a). — Also termed reputational evidence. [Cases: Criminal Law 375; Evidence 106; Witnesses 333–362. C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 816–818; Evidence §§ 495–497, 499–502,
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