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To help you understand some of the legal language, you will find this legal glossary useful. We include English and Latin terms that are in common use in law. Just click on the word or expression to find the definition:
| ILLEGAL PER SE LAWS |
| Laws which make it an offense to operate a motor vehicle with a specified amount of alcohol in the blood. In States having such laws the specified amount of BAC is .10 percent. Rebuttable evidence is not considered relevant, except that the test was improperly administered |
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| INDICTABLE OFFENCE |
| A criminal offence triable only by the Crown Court. The different types of offence are classified 1, 2, 3 or 4. Murder is a class 1 offence |
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| INFANT |
| Also known as a minor: A person under 18 years of age which prevents them from acting on their own behalf in legal proceedings (see NEXT FRIEND) |
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| INJUNCTION |
| An order by a Court either restraining a person or persons from carrying out a course of action or directing a course of action be complied with. Failure to carry out terms of the order may be punishable by imprisonment |
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| INSPECTION OF DOCUMENTS |
| (see DISCOVERY OF DOCUMENTS) Following disclosure of each parties documents by discovery, the arrangements made by the parties to allow mutual exchange and copying of documents |
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| INTERLOCUTORY |
| Interim, pending a full order/decision, eg interlocutory judgment for damages pending further hearing to assess amount to be awarded and entered as final judgment |
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| INTERPLEADER |
| A claim by a third party to ownership of goods levied upon under a warrant of execution which is disputed by a creditor. The Court then issues an interpleader summons for the parties to attend Court to adjudicate on rightful ownership |
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| INTESTATE |
| Without leaving a will |
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| ISSUE |
| To initiate legal proceedings in pursuit of a claim |
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