Law

Items

• transfer of ownership

  Any means by which ownership of a property changes hands
• transfer of rights

  Assigning the rights of a patent or petty patent owner, partly or wholly, to an assignee
• treason

  The betrayal of one's own country by attempting to overthrow the government through waging war against the state or materially aiding its enemies
• trial

  A judicial examination of issues of fact or law for the purpose of determining the rights of the parties involved
• trust account

  A legal arrangement through which funds or assets are held by a third party (the trustee) for the benefit of another party (the beneficiary)
• unilateral contract

  A contract created by an offer than can only be accepted by performance
• usus

  The right to use another person's property for his own use and for the use of his family without changing the essential qualities of the property
• valid

  Having legal efficacy or force
• values

  The basic general norms upon which is built the entire legal system
• verdict

  The formal decision or judgment rendered by a court at the conclusion of a trial or legal proceeding
• verbal agreement

  A type of contract that is agreed to via spoken communication, but not written down and signed.
• vicariously

  Experienced or realised through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another
• violate

  To break or act against something, especially a law, agreement, principle, or something that should be treated with respect
• vis major

  An irresistible natural occurrence that causes damage or disruption and that is neither caused by nor preventable by humans / superior force
• volenti non fit injuria

  A person who knowingly and voluntarily risks danger cannot recover for any resulting injury / to a willing person, it is not a wrong
• voluntarily

  Free / without compulsion or solicitation
• war crimes

  Atrocities or offences against persons or property, constituting violations of the laws or customs of war
• warrant

  A writ permitting or directing someone to take some action
• weight of evidence

  The believability or persuasiveness of evidence in probative value, not the quantity or amount of evidence
• witness

  A person who testifies under oath in a trial
• written agreement

  A binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
• written consent

  A document giving permission
• void

  Of no legal effect
• voidable

  A formal agreement between two parties that may be rendered unenforceable for any number of legal reasons,
• uncodified legal system

  A legal system that does not have a single, comprehensive written constitution or a set of laws organized into a code