Maryland Dog Bite Lawyer
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The amount of the Plaintiff's recovery will depend upon the nature and extent of the Plaintiff's injury. Injury can include such elements as physical injuries, emotional injuries and economic injuries such as loss of wages.
The different types of injuries have to be established through proving the injuries in court.
The primary types of injuries that account for substantial damges are permanent injury and scaring.
Suspension - Temporary loss of the right to practice law by an attorney.
Law Clerks - Persons who assist judges in legal research.
Leniency - Recommendation for a reduced sentence.
Motion -- Request to a court made before, during, or after a trial
Motion in Limine - Motion not to allow certain evidence that might prejudice the jury.
Liable - Legally responsible.
Libel - Published words or pictures that tend to injure a person’s reputation.
Letters of Administration - Legal permission for an administrator to take control of assets in the deceased person’s name.
Letters Testamentary – Letters of administration.
Leading Question - Question that suggests the answer desired.
Legal Aid - Professional legal services available to indigent persons.
Mitigating Circumstances - Those facts which may be considered as reasons to reduce the degree of blame.
Mitigation – Reduction of penalty.
Moot - A moot case or a moot point is one not subject to a judicial determination because it relates to an abstract question, because there is no actual controversy, or because the issues no longer exist.
Lien - Legal claim against another person’s property as security for a debt.
Miranda Warning – Warning to a person under arrest that he or she has a right to remain silent; that any statement he or she does make may be used in evidence against him; that he or she has the right to the presence of an lawyer; and that if he or she cannot afford an lawyer, one will be appointed for him or her prior to any questioning, if he so desires.
Mutuality –Meeting of the minds of contracting parties as to the material terms of the agreement.
Necessarily Included Offense – An offense necessary to the commission of a greater offense.
Lesser Included Offense – Necessarily included offense.
Misdemeanor - Offense punishable by not more than one year in county jail and or a one thousand dollar fine.
Mistrial - Invalid trial, caused by fundamental error or inability of a jury to reach a verdict.
Motion to Expunge – A motion to delete material from court records
Motion to Mitigate Sentence - Motion to reduce the sentence.
Limited Jurisdiction – Courts with limited jurisdiction may hear only certain kinds of cases and are precluded from hearing anything else.
Lis Pendens - A pending suit.
Litigant - A individual involved in a lawsuit.
Living Trust - A trust set up and in effect during the lifetime of the grantor.
Magistrate – A judge whose criminal and civil jurisdiction is limited by law.
Motion to Seal - Motion to close records to public scrutiny.
Motion to Suppress - Motion to prevent admission of evidence in a case.
Murder - Unlawful killing of a person with deliberate intent to kill.
Malfeasance - Evil doing, ill conduct; the commission of some act which is positively prohibited by law.
Malicious Abuse of Process – Tort involving a party's malicious misuse of the power of the judiciary Temporary relief - Action by the court granting one of the parties protection of its interest pending further action by the court.
Temporary restraining order - Emergency remedy by a court in exceptional circumstances, often when immediate or irreparable damages or loss might result before the opposition could take action
Title - Legal ownership of property, such as real property or automobiles.
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