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suspect — sus·pect 1 / səs ˌpekt, sə spekt/ adj [Latin suspectus, from past participle of suspicere to look up at, regard with awe, suspect, from sub sus up, secretly + specere to look at]: regarded or deserving to be regarded with suspicion or heightened… … Law dictionary
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class action — A lawsuit in which all members of a group of persons who have suffered the same or similar injury join together in an action against the alleged wrongdoer. The group must be sufficiently numerous that it is impractical for them all to be… … Business law dictionary
res ipsa loquitur — noun a rule of evidence whereby the negligence of an alleged wrongdoer can be inferred from the fact that the accident happened • Hypernyms: ↑rule of evidence … Useful english dictionary
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