cahoots (k[schwa]-hoots).Slang. Partnership, esp. in an illegal act; collusion (the lawyer was in cahoots with her client). CAIRNS’S ACT Cairns’s Act (kairn-z[schwa]z). Hist. An 1858 statute that expanded the relief available in England’s chancery courts to include monetary damages in addition to injunctive relief. • Cairns’s Act was superseded by the Judicature Acts of 1873–1875. […]
A crime that involves preying upon and victimizing individuals. • Examples include robbery, rape, and carjacking.
unwritten law. Law that, although never enacted in the form of a statute or ordinance, has the sanction of custom. • The term traditionally includes caselaw. — Also termed jus non scriptum; jus ex non scripto; lex non scripta; jus moribus constitutum. “[T]he very words of the court promulgating the opinion and making the decision
privy (priv-ee), n. pl. A person having a legal interest of privity in any action, matter, or property; a person who is in privity with another. • Traditionally, there were six types of privies: (1) privies in blood, such as an heir and an ancestor; (2) privies in representation, such as an executor and a
casus male inclusus (kay-s[schwa]s mal-ee in-kloo-s[schwa]s). [Latin “case wrongly included”] A sit-uation literally provided for by a statute or contract, but wrongly so because the provision’s literal application has unintended consequences.
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survey, n. 1. A general consideration of something; appraisal (a survey of the situation). 2. The measuring of a tract of land and its boundaries and contents; a map indicating the results of such measurements (the lender requires a survey of the property before it will issue a loan). government survey. A survey made by