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Equal protection of the law
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Equal protection of the lawThe guarantee in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that all persons be treated equally by the law.
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Guarantee
Contracts. He lo whom a guaranty is made.
Constitution
1) Contracts. The constitution of a contract, is the making of the contract as, the written constitution of a debt. 2) Government. The fundamental law of the state, containing the principles upon which the government is founded, and regulating the divisions of the sovereign powers, directing to what persons each of these powers is to be confided, and the, manner it is to be exercised as, the Constitution of the United States.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
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Environmental protection agency
(EPA) A federal agency created to permit coordinated and environment effective governmental action to preserve the quality of the environment.
Envoy
International law. In diplomatic language, an envoy is a minister of the second rank, on whom his sovereign or government has conferred a degree of dignity and respectability, which, without being on a level with an ambassador, immediately follows, and among ministers, yields the preeminence to him alone.
Epilepsy
Medical jurisprudence. A discase of the brain, which occurs in paroxysms, with uncertain intervals between them.
Episcopacy
Ecclesiastical law. A form of government by diocesan bishops; the office or condition of a bishop.
Epistles
Civil law. The name given to a species of rescript. Epistles were the answers given by the prince, when magistrates submitted to him a question of law.
Equal protection of the law
Equinox
The name given to two periods of the year when the days and nights are equal; that is, when the space of time between the rising and setting of the sun is one half of a natural day.
Equitable
That which is in conformity to the natural law.
Equitable action
An action which may be brought for the purpose of restraining the threatened infliction of wrongs or injuries, and the prevention of threatened illegal action.
Equitable defense
A defense, in a common-law action, which rests upon equitable or legal and equitable grounds.
Equitable division (distribution)
A system of dividing property acquired by spouses during their marriage in connection with a divorce proceeding.
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Guarantee
Contracts. He lo whom a guaranty is made.
Constitution
1) Contracts. The constitution of a contract, is the making of the contract as, the written constitution of a debt. 2) Government. The fundamental law of the state, containing the principles upon which the government is founded, and regulating the divisions of the sovereign powers, directing to what persons each of these powers is to be confided, and the, manner it is to be exercised as, the Constitution of the United States.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Environmental protection agency
(EPA) A federal agency created to permit coordinated and environment effective governmental action to preserve the quality of the environment.
Envoy
International law. In diplomatic language, an envoy is a minister of the second rank, on whom his sovereign or government has conferred a degree of dignity and respectability, which, without being on a level with an ambassador, immediately follows, and among ministers, yields the preeminence to him alone.
Epilepsy
Medical jurisprudence. A discase of the brain, which occurs in paroxysms, with uncertain intervals between them.
Episcopacy
Ecclesiastical law. A form of government by diocesan bishops; the office or condition of a bishop.
Epistles
Civil law. The name given to a species of rescript. Epistles were the answers given by the prince, when magistrates submitted to him a question of law.
Equal protection of the law
Equinox
The name given to two periods of the year when the days and nights are equal; that is, when the space of time between the rising and setting of the sun is one half of a natural day.
Equitable
That which is in conformity to the natural law.
Equitable action
An action which may be brought for the purpose of restraining the threatened infliction of wrongs or injuries, and the prevention of threatened illegal action.
Equitable defense
A defense, in a common-law action, which rests upon equitable or legal and equitable grounds.
Equitable division (distribution)
A system of dividing property acquired by spouses during their marriage in connection with a divorce proceeding.
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