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severance

severance, n. 1. The act of cutting off; the state of being cut off. 2. Civil procedure. The separation of claims, by the court, of multiple parties either to permit separate actions on each claim or to allow certain interlocutory orders to become final. — Also termed severance of actions; severance of claims. See bifurcated

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breach of trust

breach of trust. A trustee’s violation of either the trust’s terms or the trustee’s general fiduciary obligations; the violation of a duty that equity imposes on a trustee, whether the violation was willful, fraudulent, negligent, or inadvertent. • A breach of trust subjects the trustee to removal and creates personal liability.

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competitive injury

competitive injury. A wrongful economic loss at the hands of a commercial rival, such as the loss of sales due to unfair competition; a disadvantage in a plaintiff’s ability to compete with a defendant, caused by the defendant’s unfair competition. • Most courts require the plaintiff to show a competitive injury as an element of

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criminal anarchy

A doctrine advocating the overthrow of organized government by force or violence, by assas-sinating a head of government, or by some other unlawful act. • Most states have laws limiting speech that incites criminal anarchy. The laws do not apply to abstract philosophical expressions or predictions or like expressions protected by the First and Fourteenth

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ne injuste vexes

ne injuste vexes (nee in-j[schwa]s-tee vek-seez), n. [Law Latin “do not trouble unjustly”] Hist. A writ prohibiting a lord from demanding more services from a tenant than the tenure allowed. “The writ of ne injuste vexes… which prohibits distresses for greater services than are really due to the lord; being itself of the prohibitory kind,

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