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Confidential information
Confidential informationA contract will commonly contain a clause forbidding disclosure of trade secrets and confidential information to third parties during and after the contract. It will also often require company materials to be kept secure and returned (with any copies) when the contract ends. In the case of employment contracts, post termination restraints must be reasonable. RELATED TERMS-------------------------------------- Contract A negotiated oral or written agreement setting forth the terms for an exchange of value between parties (which may be individuals or companies) and under which each party promises to perform an obligation. Certain terms, such as the obligations to be performed and the terms for setting price or compensation must be mutually understood, known in legal lingo as a "meeting of the minds," and promised to by the parties to form a legal contract. Will A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed. Clause Contracts. A particular disposition which makes part of a treaty; of an act of the legislature; of a deed, written agreement, or other written contract or will. Trade In its most extensive signification this word includes all sorts of dealings by way of Bale or exchange. In a more limited sense it signifies the dealings in a particular business, as the India trade; by trade is also understood the business of a particular mechanic, hence boys are said to be put apprentices to learn a trade, as the trade of a carpenter, shoemaker, and the like. Confidential Particularly in close trading relationships, giving access to confidential information and trade secrets to trading partners can be risky. A duty to keep such material confidential can be imposed. This needs to be in respect of keeping information secret, preventing disclosure to third parties or being used with a view to going into competition. A separate confidentiality agreement or a term in another agreement should address such issues both during and after the relationship. Information 1) An accusation or complaint made in writing to a court of competent jurisdiction, charging some person with a specific violation of some public law. 2) In the French law, the term information is used to signify the act or instrument which contains the depositions of witnesses against the accused. Parties Contracts. Those persons who engage themselves to do, or not to do the matters and things contained in an agreement. Company An association of a number of individuals for the purpose of carrying on some legitimate business. Materials Everything of which anything is made. When 1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent. Case 1) Practice. A contested question before a court of justicea suit or action a cause. 2) An agreement in writing, between a plaintiff and defendant, that the facts in dispute between them are as there agreed upon and mentioned Employment An employment is an office. Post After. When two or more alienations or descents have taken place between an original intruder ant or defendant in a writ of entry, the writ is said to be in the post, because it states that the tenant had not entry unless after the ouster of the original intruder. Reasonable Conformable or agreeable to reason; just; rational. SIMILAR TERMS-------------------------------------- Confederacy 1) International law. An agreement between two or more states or nations, by which they unite for their mutual protection and good. 2) Criminal law. An agreement between two or more persons to do an unlawful act, or an act, which though not unlawful in itself, becomes so by the confederacy. Confederation Government. The name given to that form of government which the American colonies, on shaking off the British yoke, devised for their mutual safety and government. Conference 1) Practice. It is the meeting of the parties or their attorneys in a cause, for the purpose of endeavoring to settle the same. 2) In legislation, when the senate and house of representatives cannot agree on a bill or resolution which it is desirable should be passed, committees are appointed by the two bodies respectively, who are called committees of confrence, and whose duty it is, if possible, to -reconcile the differences between them. Confessio Latin. Acknowledgment; admission; confession. Confessio facti Admission of a fact. Confessio juris Admission of the law -- of the effect of a thing in law. Confession A statement made by a person suspected or charged with a crime, that he (or she) did, in fact, commit that crime. Confessor Evid. A priest of some Christian sect, who receives an account of the sins of his people, and undertakes to give them absolution of their sins. Confidence game A fraud scheme where the Perpetrator gains the confidence of the Mark to defraud the Mark in some way. Perfect Confidence Games are so effective that Marks do not report them to the authorities for fear of looking foolish or because the game involved something unlawful (such as illegal gambling). Confidential Particularly in close trading relationships, giving access to confidential information and trade secrets to trading partners can be risky. A duty to keep such material confidential can be imposed. This needs to be in respect of keeping information secret, preventing disclosure to third parties or being used with a view to going into competition. A separate confidentiality agreement or a term in another agreement should address such issues both during and after the relationship. Confidentiality Particularly in close trading relationships, giving access to confidential information and trade secrets to trading partners can be dangerous. If you are obliged to disclose sensitive material, you need protection to keep information secret and secure, prevent disclosure to third parties or stop commercial information being used to compete with you. A separate confidentiality agreement or a confidentiality undertaking term in another agreement should address these issues both during and after the relationship. Confidentiality-non-disclosure clause A contract term that requires participants not to disclose specified types of proprietary information, such as patents, trade secrets or copyrighted material, learned while performing a job. It should be limited to a defined duration, such as when the information is made public, or a one or two year period after employment or assignment. It should identify as specifically as possible the type of material to be kept confidential, and should limit in scope the nature of the material. For instance, the fact that the writer worked for a particular client should not have to be kept secret. Confirmatio chartorum The name given to a statute passed during reign of the English king Edward I. Confirmee He to whom a confirmation is made. Confirmor He who makes a confirmation to another. Confiscate Latin confiscare, to transfer to the public purse: fiscus, a purse. To transfer property from private to public use; to forfeit property to the prince or state. "Confiscation" is the act of the sovereign against a rebellious subject. "Condemnation" as prize is the act of a belligerent against another belligerent. Conflict The opposition or difference between two judicial jurisdictions, when they both claim the right to decide a cause, or where they both declare their incompetency. Conflict of interest When any professional is not capable of performing services due to previous relationships or present relationships and/or a situation where confidentiality can be broken. Conflict of jurisdiction The contest between two officers, who each claim to have cognizance of a particular case. Conflict of laws Conflict of Laws, also known as "Private International Law", was a term first coined by Joseph Story in his 1st Edition, 1834 of that name. Conformed copy An exact copy of a document on which has been written things that could not or were not copied, i.e., a written signature is replaced on the conformed copy with a notation that it was signed by the parties. Confrontation Crim. law, practice. The act by which a witness is brought in the presence of the accused, so that the latter may object to him, if he can, and the former may know and identify the accused, and maintain the truth in his presence. No man can be a witness unless confronted with the accused, except by consent. Confusion The concurrence of two qualities in the same subject, which mutually destroy each other. PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS-------------------------------------- Confessio juris Admission of the law -- of the effect of a thing in law. Confession A statement made by a person suspected or charged with a crime, that he (or she) did, in fact, commit that crime. Confessor Evid. A priest of some Christian sect, who receives an account of the sins of his people, and undertakes to give them absolution of their sins. Confidence game A fraud scheme where the Perpetrator gains the confidence of the Mark to defraud the Mark in some way. Perfect Confidence Games are so effective that Marks do not report them to the authorities for fear of looking foolish or because the game involved something unlawful (such as illegal gambling). Confidential Particularly in close trading relationships, giving access to confidential information and trade secrets to trading partners can be risky. A duty to keep such material confidential can be imposed. This needs to be in respect of keeping information secret, preventing disclosure to third parties or being used with a view to going into competition. A separate confidentiality agreement or a term in another agreement should address such issues both during and after the relationship. Confidential information Confidentiality Particularly in close trading relationships, giving access to confidential information and trade secrets to trading partners can be dangerous. If you are obliged to disclose sensitive material, you need protection to keep information secret and secure, prevent disclosure to third parties or stop commercial information being used to compete with you. A separate confidentiality agreement or a confidentiality undertaking term in another agreement should address these issues both during and after the relationship. Confidentiality-non-disclosure clause A contract term that requires participants not to disclose specified types of proprietary information, such as patents, trade secrets or copyrighted material, learned while performing a job. It should be limited to a defined duration, such as when the information is made public, or a one or two year period after employment or assignment. It should identify as specifically as possible the type of material to be kept confidential, and should limit in scope the nature of the material. For instance, the fact that the writer worked for a particular client should not have to be kept secret. Confirmatio chartorum The name given to a statute passed during reign of the English king Edward I. Confirmee He to whom a confirmation is made. Confirmor He who makes a confirmation to another. We thank you for using the Juridical Dictionary to search for Confidential information. 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