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Legal personality — (also artificial personality, juridical personality, and juristic personality) is the characteristic of a non human entity regarded by law to have the status of a person. A legal person (Latin: persona ficta), (also artificial person, juridical… … Wikipedia
Legal psychology — involves empirical, psychological research of the law, legal institutions, and people who come into contact with the law. Legal psychologists typically take basic social and cognitive theories and principles and apply them to issues in the legal… … Wikipedia
Legal research — Legal research, according to one source, is the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision making. In its broadest sense, legal research includes each step of a course of action that begins with an… … Wikipedia
legal fiction — legal fic·tion n: something asssumed in law to be fact irrespective of the truth or accuracy of that assumption the legal fiction that a day has no fractions Fields v. Fairbanks North Star Borough, 818 P.2d 658 (1991) Merriam Webster’s Dictionary … Law dictionary
Legal research in the United States — What is Legal Research? Legal research is the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision making. In its broadest sense, legal research includes each step of a course of action that begins with an… … Wikipedia
Legal technicality — The term legal technicality is a casual or colloquial phrase referring to a technical aspect of law. The phrase is not a term of art in the law; it has no exact meaning, nor does it have a legal definition. The words legal technicality are often… … Wikipedia
Legal person — Note: This Wikipedia entry deals with the legal concept legal person . There is an ongoing political debate and controversy in the U.S. over the extent to which constitutional rights presumed to have been created for natural persons have… … Wikipedia
decision — de·ci·sion /di si zhən/ n: an authoritative determination (as a decree or judgment) made after consideration of facts or law; also: a report or document containing such a determination see also memorandum decision compare disposition, finding … Law dictionary
Legal aspects of transsexualism in the United States — Legal aspects of transsexualism in the United States. Contents 1 Birth certificates and marriage 1.1 Laws 1.2 Court cases 2 Passports … Wikipedia
LEGAL PERSON — LEGAL PERSON, a body of men or of property which the law, in imitation of the personality of human beings, treats artificially as subject of rights and duties independent of its component parts. The classic example of a legal person is the … … Encyclopedia of Judaism
