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Obstructing justice
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Obstructing justiceAn act which tends to impede or thwart the administration of justice. Examples include trying to bribe a witness or juror or providing law enforcement officers with information known to be false.
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Administration
Government. The management of the affairs of the government; this word is also applied to the persons entrusted with the management of the publio affairs.
Justice
Fairness. A state of affairs in which conduct or action is both fair and right, given the circumstances. In law, it more specifically refers to the paramount obligation to ensure that all persons are treated fairly. Litigants "seek justice" by asking for compensation for wrongs committed against them; to right the inequity such that, with the compensation, a wrong has been righted and the balance of "good" or "virtue" over "wrong" or "evil" has been corrected.
Bribe
Criminal law. The gift or promise, which is accepted, of some advantage, as the inducement for some illegal act or omission; or of some illegal emolument, as a consideration, for preferring one person to another, in the performance of a legal act.
Witness
The regular definition of this word is a person who perceives an event (by seeing, hearing, smelling or other sensory perception). The legal definition refers to the court-supervised recital of that sensory experience, in writing (deposition) or verbally (testimony).
Juror
Practice. From juro, to swear; a man who is sworn or affirmed to serve on a jury.
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.
False
Not true; as, false pretences; unjust, unlawful, as, false imprisonment. This his word, is frequently used in composition.
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Obstructing process
Criminal law. The act by which one or more persons at- tempt to prevent, or do prevent, the execution of lawful process.
Obstruction of justice
Impeding a lawful Investigation by such acts as providing false documents, false testimony, destruction of evidence, and intimidating witnesses.
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Obligor
The person who owes money or property as the result of a judgment.
Obreption
Civil law. Surprise.
Obscenity
Criminal law. Such indecency as is calculated to promote the violation of the law, and the general corruption of morals.
Obsolescence
One of the causes of depreciation: an impairment of desirability and usefulness caused by new inventions, current changes in design, improved processes of production, or external factors that make a property less desirable and valuable for a continued use.
Obsolete
This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed.
Obstructing justice
Obstructing process
Criminal law. The act by which one or more persons at- tempt to prevent, or do prevent, the execution of lawful process.
Obstruction of justice
Impeding a lawful Investigation by such acts as providing false documents, false testimony, destruction of evidence, and intimidating witnesses.
Occupancy
The taking possession of those things corporeal which are without an owner, with an intention of appropriating them to one's own use. Pothier defines it to be the title by which one acquires property in a thing which belongs to nobody, by taking possession of it, with design of acquiring.
Occupant
Occupant or occupier. One who has the actual use or possession of a thing. He derives his title of occupancy either by taking possession of a thing without an owner, or by purchase, or gift of the thing from the owner, or it descends to him by due course of law.
Occupation
1) Use or tenure; as, the house is in the occupation of A B. A trade, business or mystery; as the occupation of a printer. Occupancy. 2) In another sense occupation signifies a putting out of a man's freehold in time of war.
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Administration
Government. The management of the affairs of the government; this word is also applied to the persons entrusted with the management of the publio affairs.
Justice
Fairness. A state of affairs in which conduct or action is both fair and right, given the circumstances. In law, it more specifically refers to the paramount obligation to ensure that all persons are treated fairly. Litigants "seek justice" by asking for compensation for wrongs committed against them; to right the inequity such that, with the compensation, a wrong has been righted and the balance of "good" or "virtue" over "wrong" or "evil" has been corrected.
Bribe
Criminal law. The gift or promise, which is accepted, of some advantage, as the inducement for some illegal act or omission; or of some illegal emolument, as a consideration, for preferring one person to another, in the performance of a legal act.
Witness
The regular definition of this word is a person who perceives an event (by seeing, hearing, smelling or other sensory perception). The legal definition refers to the court-supervised recital of that sensory experience, in writing (deposition) or verbally (testimony).
Juror
Practice. From juro, to swear; a man who is sworn or affirmed to serve on a jury.
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.
False
Not true; as, false pretences; unjust, unlawful, as, false imprisonment. This his word, is frequently used in composition.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Obstructing process
Criminal law. The act by which one or more persons at- tempt to prevent, or do prevent, the execution of lawful process.
Obstruction of justice
Impeding a lawful Investigation by such acts as providing false documents, false testimony, destruction of evidence, and intimidating witnesses.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Obligor
The person who owes money or property as the result of a judgment.
Obreption
Civil law. Surprise.
Obscenity
Criminal law. Such indecency as is calculated to promote the violation of the law, and the general corruption of morals.
Obsolescence
One of the causes of depreciation: an impairment of desirability and usefulness caused by new inventions, current changes in design, improved processes of production, or external factors that make a property less desirable and valuable for a continued use.
Obsolete
This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed.
Obstructing justice
Obstructing process
Criminal law. The act by which one or more persons at- tempt to prevent, or do prevent, the execution of lawful process.
Obstruction of justice
Impeding a lawful Investigation by such acts as providing false documents, false testimony, destruction of evidence, and intimidating witnesses.
Occupancy
The taking possession of those things corporeal which are without an owner, with an intention of appropriating them to one's own use. Pothier defines it to be the title by which one acquires property in a thing which belongs to nobody, by taking possession of it, with design of acquiring.
Occupant
Occupant or occupier. One who has the actual use or possession of a thing. He derives his title of occupancy either by taking possession of a thing without an owner, or by purchase, or gift of the thing from the owner, or it descends to him by due course of law.
Occupation
1) Use or tenure; as, the house is in the occupation of A B. A trade, business or mystery; as the occupation of a printer. Occupancy. 2) In another sense occupation signifies a putting out of a man's freehold in time of war.
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