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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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