Legal Glossaries

Aviation Legal Glossary

Includes terms such as above sea level, air traffic control, barometric pressure, calibrated airspeed, ceiling, commercial operator and other aviation terms.

Business Law Legal Glossary

Including terms such as acquisition, affidavit, bench trail, board of directors, capital assets, damages, deadlock, entity and other terms.

Cancer Glossary

Online Glossary covers terms such as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adenoma, Biopsy, Carcinoembryonic Antigen, Debulking, Edema, Fistula and other terms.

Car Accident Glossary

Includes terms such as assigned risk, bodily injury liability, common negligence, damages, hit and run, misdemeanor, personal auto policy (PAP), and other legal definitions related to car accident litigation.

Commonly Used Legal Terms

Online Glossary covers terms such as arbitration, arraignment, malfeasance, misdemeanor, negligence per se, nolo contendere, perjury, plea bargain, statute of limitation, waiver, willful negligence, defendant, default judgment, and other legal terms.

Criminal Defense Glossary

Online glossary provides definitions for terms such as acquittal, affidavit, default judgement, habeas corpus, homicide, malicious prosecution, nolo contendere, pretrial conference, proxy, sequester, voir dire and other terms.

Estate Planning Glossary

Provides definitions for words related to estate planning, including administrator, attorney-in-fact,

beneficiary, escheat, executor, liabilities, living trust and other terms.

Family Law Glossary

Includes definitions for terms such as ab initio, admissible, bench warrant, bill of particulars, child custody, COLA, guardian ad litem, joint tenancy, leasehold estate, postnuptial, praecipe, visitation credit, yield capitalization and other terms.

Maritime Legal Glossary

Online Glossary includes terms such as abandon, backfreight, ballast movement, cabotage policies, cargo manifest, entry, even keel, feeder service, fiduciary duty general cargo carriers, harbor master, jacob's ladder, keel, knot, etc.

Medical Malpractice Legal Glossary

If you have injured due to the negligence of a doctor, nurse or someone serving in a medical care capacity, these terms will be useful to you as you work through the claim process: adjudicate, answer, contingency fee, damages, deposition, failure to diagnose, hospital malpractice, liability risk, occupational therapy, terminal illness, wrongful death, etc.

Motorcycle Accidents Legal Glossary

Provides definitions for words related to motorcycle accidents, including: ABS, affidavit, damages, default judgment, engine cut off switch, hearing, Hell's Angels, MSF, negligence, nuisance, shaft drive, sport bike, wind triangle, wrongful death statutes, etc.

Personal Injury Glossary

Online Glossary covers terms such as abstract of title, accomplice, additur, bailiff, bankruptcy, breach of contract, case law, certiorari, decedent, declaratory judgment and other terms.

Prescription Drug Legal Glossary

Including terms such as accolate, accutane, baycol,

bextra, celebrex, cipro, drug, duract,

ephedra, equitable remedies, negligence, neurontin/gabapentin and other terms.

Railroad Legal Glossary

Online Glossary includes terms such as absolute block, absolute permissive block, bad order, bakehead, bighole, caboose, centralized traffic control, dinger, electric switch lock, engine whistle signals, facing point lock and other terms.

Social Security Disability Glossary

Terminology related to Social Security Disability programs and claims, including: AIME, benefits, delayed retirement credits, earnings record, FICA, supplemental security income (SSI), trust funds, lawful alien status, lump sum death payment, and others.

Toxic Torts Legal Glossary

Online Glossary covers terms such as acid rain, air emissions, air quality standards, biochemicals, bronchoscopy, civil action, carbon monoxide, chlorophenoxy, dioxin, environmental exposure, fish kill, fluorides, ground water, hazardous chemical, industrial waste, irritant, jurisdiction, latency period, lead, malignant mesothelioma, mercury, negligence, neuro-toxicity, phenols, pollutant, radon, statute of limitations, systemic effects, tampering, the clean water act, threshold level, toxic pollutants, toxicity, vioxx, zyprexa, etc.

Truck Accidents Glossary

Provides definitions for words related to tractor trailer accidents, including: air ride suspension, blind spot, commercial drivers license (CDL), driveline, exempt carrier, fixed tandem, truckload carrier, and other terms.

Workers' Compensation Glossary

If you have been injured on the job, these Workers' Compensation terms will be useful as you work through the claim process: agreed medical advisor, maximal medical improvement (MMI), stipulated rating, subjective factors, temporary disability, etc.

Wrongful Death Glossary

Provides definitions such as absolute liability, affidavit, bad faith, caps on damages, design defect, discovery, failure to diagnose, hospital malpractice, implied warranty of merchantability, inadequate warning, joint liability, medical malpractice, misdiagnosis, negligence, notice of defective condition, prescription error, product liability, statute of limitations, strict liability, terminal illness, tort, vicarious liability and wrongful death.

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