Questions tagged [legal-terms]
Use this when questioning the meaning of legal terms.
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Why is everyone affraid to give “legal advice”? What is the difference between legal advice and personal opinion?
Why is it illegal to give your opinion/advice about a legal problem or case if you are not licensed or do not have a lawyer/client contract?
Findlaw.com says it's ok if you are just a friend, or ...
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Is this considered Kidnapping under law?
Okay so the title is questionable but hopefully intriguing. I am not a man of law so I do not know, anyways. Prom is coming up, my friend has a girlfriend 2 hours north of where we live and he wants ...
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What is the meaning of “Additionally, and subject to our obligations hereunder and under X”?
Question: What is the meaning of
"Additionally, and subject to our obligations hereunder and under X"
?
Background: The following section is part of a Terms of Use statement.
The rights that ...
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Legally enforceable contract?
I told my landlord that I will only be living in the apartment for half a school year because of my early graduation. I told him that my girlfriend would be taking over the other half of the school ...
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Can I use this other code in my own commercial projects?
I asked a legal question about the code earlier. In this other code, there are no copyrights. It even says this:
This is the Readme File
All rights reserved.
No part of this publication may ...
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Right to travel(transportation code definitions) [duplicate]
I believe we can all agree that there is no reasonable argument that anyone has the right to drive without a drivers license. The states have been granted in several court cases even up to the supreme ...
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Are State-Authorized Century Farm Programs Titles of Nobility?
Both the Federal and State governments are prohibited from granting "titles of nobility" under the US Constitution (Art. 1, Sec. 9 & 10).
My understanding is that "titles of nobility" are ...
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Would I be violating terms of service if I asked for permission but got no reply?
I created a Python API wrapper for a service, which I want to release as an open source python package if possible but not necessarily, the main issue is that I have a small python project where I ...
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Are there any legal terms to use for charging the client for downtime hours at reduced full-time rate?
Normally, when working as a contractor, the bench time — when the client fails to provide you with the work to do, and no explicit work hours were assigned, either — is not compensated.
This could be ...
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How can a cash sale result in a voidable title?
§ 2-403. Power to Transfer; Good Faith Purchase of Goods; "Entrusting".
Please look at the statute above. It is fairly short. There is a link to it here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/2-403
I am ...
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Terms and condition for web scraping
I intend to scrape (download all articles) from a newspaper website which has some terms and conditions listed in its footer. The part which seems to be in my interest is as follows:
You shall not ...
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do we have to register our trademark to be valid… can we take a legal action if someone is using similar trademark but our is not registered?
My question is about do we have to register our trademark to be valid.
1. can we take a legal action if someone is using similar trademark but our is not registered?
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can we legally use the source code of customer software without asking them?
My question is
can we use the source code of the software that we made for previous customer and we use that source code again legally without his permission?
can he take any legal action ?
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Why is 'give effect' used so often, rather than 'effect[uate]'?
I'm aware of the difference between the verbs "affect" and "effect", and refer to the latter. Why use "give effect", when it can be substituted with a one-word synonym like "effect" or "effectuate"
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Creative commons for erotic purpose
I am a young writer and I need free photos of girls's body ( so with faces covered ) for the cover of my erotic book similar to 50 shades of grey.
Can I use the photos of flickr under this licence ...
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Are 'no contra proferentem' clauses enforceable?
Are 'no contra proferentem' clauses enforceable? It seems the point they exist is to increase fairness and removing them would inherently make contracts less fair. Also, is there another name from ...
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What are the rights a owner can do with an island?
Suppose, I have enough money to purchase a big island near Hawaii. After I purchased, I started to make some changes, such as:
Changing the name of the Island.
Build an airport.
Build some houses for ...
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Automatic Renewal Contract / Contract Law - Licensee Cancels before Expiration Date, but not within 30 day period
Has this turned into contract law - can the licensee cancel the upcoming auto-renewal?
Licensee entered into a multi-year software usage contract with Licensor. The software license is a straight ...
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What does 'duty to devote full time' mean?
In a work contract there is the following term
Duty to Devote Full Time
The Employee agrees to devote full-time efforts, as an employee of the
Employer, to the employment duties and ...
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What is the difference between “private” and “confidential”?
It is often stated on the envelope of bank statements, or certain email messages:
Private and Confidential
Presumably, "Private" and "Confidential" are two different legal terms, hence the need to ...
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When a law specifies that documents should be available for examination at “convenient times”, for which party should it be convenient?
Michigan Compiled Law, CONDOMINIUM ACT (EXCERPT) Act 59 of 1978
Section 559.157 covers books, records, contracts, and financial statements; examination; audit or review; opt-out of requirements of ...
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What should I add behind the Trade Name for my Sole Proprietorship?
I am registered as a Sole Proprietorship in India to do business.
I have provided a Trade Name eg. ABC
So I have 2 questions:
In my Terms of Service and any other legal document can I use the Trade ...
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How to mention other website as the Product or Service in other website's terms?
Let's say I have a Billing website(1st website) for clients where a client makes an account and buys a plan.
Then what I do is create a website(2nd website) for that client's shop where his employees ...
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What are the differences between particulars, facts, and information?
In this tax rule, in some places information sharing is legalised/allowed where on the other places particulars sharing is legalised/allowed and elsewhere facts sharing is allowed though in some ...
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What is the difference between contract, deed and covenant?
What is the difference between a contract, deed and a covenant?
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Can I call myself a “A Spiritual Counselor Practioner?”
So let's say I would like to give life advise to people that is spiritually based.
If I make it clear I am not a licensed Therapist or Psychologist.
Is this acceptable?
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Isn't 'confidentiality' misnamed, when it's not confidential compared to solicitor-client privilege?
Though for Canadian law, Robin Nobleman JD (Osgoode) spotlights that:
This difference means that while all communications between a lawyer and his/her client are confidential, not all ...
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Terms for torts committed under theory of promissory estoppel?
The promissory estoppel doctrine allows an injured party to recover on a promise upon which he relied, and then suffered a loss as a result. ... All that must be proven is that a promise was made, and ...
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“authorized as incorporated”? the difference between class and series of shares?
1 As a result of four two-for-one stock splits on the Common Stock
effective October 20, 1989, May 15, 1992, August 22, 1997 and May 21,
2004, the number of shares of Series A ESOP Convertible ...
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'payable in like kind'? 'non-electing' shares?
each share of Series B Preferred Stock shall, by virtue of such
transaction and on the same terms as apply to the holders of Common
Stock, be converted into or exchanged for the aggregate amount ...
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interpretation of an article
The term "Common Stock" as used in this Appendix B means the Company's
Common Stock without par value, as the same exists at the date
of filing of the Amendment to the Company's Amended Articles ...
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difference between 'assigned' and 'endorsed' in this context?
Each such notice of redemption shall be irrevocable and shall specify
the date that is the redemption date, the redemption price, the number
of Shares to be redeemed, the place or places of ...
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Marketing using GMail [closed]
I purchased a database of bulk emails.
Now, planning to make some profit from it.
Can I use Gmail as my marketing mail id and send advertisements?
Is this Legal?
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Legalities on summarizing the content of publishers and publishing to our app for readers
We have built a technology which gets trending things happening on internet from publishers like techcrunch, bbc, time of India and many more leading publishers. Then it summarizes the content of the ...
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Which has precedence, a purchase policy or an invoice's payment terms?
If an online company has a posted policy that says your payment is due on the second of every month, but send you an invoice with terms of net 30 and a due date of the thirtieth, is the invoice date ...
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How to postpone a hearing? First appearance. (NY) (Family Law)
Would you please inform me of the/a proper and respectful procedure for having a hearing postpones or rescheduled? I would like more time to prepare for a family court case in which I intend on ...
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Question about NDA Term
I am currently reviewing our company's NDA templates and came across the following term:
This Agreement shall remain effective for six (6) months from the Effective Date. All obligations of the ...
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Child Arrangements Order non-biological relative living arrangements
I have been granted a UK Child Arrangements Order for a child who is not biologically related to live with me. By Virtue of this order (Childrens Act 1989, Section 12, Paragraph 2) I have been granted ...
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When does a cogeneration plant feed power to the net, according to the german KWK-G 2015?
§7 (1) of the current german KWK-G (Law concerning co-generation plants) makes a huge difference for power fed into the grid, or not. Say an installation consumes 150-200 kW contiually, and operates a ...
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Mistake of Law: Requisite of Intent - Distinguishing Nuance
Background: I am not a law student, I am a graduate student in mathematics who intermittently enjoys reading about law because I find it axiomatic, deductive and occasionally creative - similar to ...
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What is the legal interpretation of “As satisfied by” in this passage?
I had a difficulty understanding the meaning of "as satisfied" in the following sentence:
references in these Regulations to any requirement for any document to be written, in writing, to be ...
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Is the formalism “I put you on notice” important, in UK law, or can a less formal wording be equivalent?
Example case: a high value car specialist/expert sold me a car with a serious defect they should have known of and disclosed (such as past accident history) while warranting the condition was good/...
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How are terms in poor English enforced?
I was contacted by this phone company, who are trying to sell their service to me. They say that if I purchase a $19.95 credit on their phone plan, then I can get some discounts; also the $19.95 will ...
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What is the precise number of black racial groups of Africa? [closed]
Revisions to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on
Race and Ethnicity; Notices Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 210 / Thursday, October 30, 1997 /
Notices, Page 58789 at
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How can clicking on “I agree with …” have any legal weight?
Many times you have to agree with some conditions or terms on website by checking the "I agree" checkbox or clicking some button.
Or this - we are working on an agreement email for our client - our ...
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Is it legal to host a vpn server? Am I responsible for my random users' activity? [duplicate]
I want to host a VPN server in Paris. I will use VPN Gate server service which is powered by community. When I deploy their VPN server service I get about 40 users within minutes which is good.
So ...
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How long can my girlfriend stay over at my place despite not being on the lease?
I have recently signed a new lease and moved into my new place. The place I have moved in is a unit in an apartment complex. The manager of the complex told me I cannot have guests for more than 14 ...
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Legal Meaning of “Embarrassing”
A while ago on English.SE TimLymington posted:
For what it's worth, embarrassing is a term of art in the British
courts, meaning 'impossible to prove or disprove (and so having no
place in a ...
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Copying documentation and images from apache2 license
I am software developer and I wrote framework that is based on the same concepts as framework that is available in different language.
This framework is under Apache2 License and I want to copy big ...
