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fbi× 2
Short for Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is an agency of the US federal government that deals principally with internal security and counter-intelligence and that also conducts investigations …
mutual-mistake× 2
an erroneous belief, at contracting, that certain facts are true. A mutual mistake occurs when the parties to a contract are both mistaken about the same material fact wi…
silks× 2
Use this for questions that specifically relate to Queen's Counsel, Senior Counsel, or Senior Advocate, a class of experienced and eminent lawyers in various Commonwealth jurisdictions around the worl…
k9× 1
a specially-trained police dog; a K9 unit may consist of a police cruiser, two officers and a dog
free-law-project× 1
The Free Law Project provides free access to primary legal materials, developing legal research tools, and supporting academic research on legal corpora
first-impression× 1
a tag for drawing parallels between current and past cases to develop ideas about how the court would rule in new areas of law.
admission-of-new-states× 1
for questions about the admission of new states into the United States or into similarly federated unions.
ohrc× 1
a quasi-constitutional statute that protects Ontarians from discrimination in certain social areas. It is overseen by the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
bfoq× 1
Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ) is a type of affirmative defence an employer can use in a discrimination case in the United States. (It allows discrimination for factors essential to the …
myanmar× 1
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia bordered by China, Thailand, India, Laos and Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal.
distributed-ledger-technology× 1
Consensus of replicated, shared, and synchronized digital data geographically spread across multiple sites, countries, or institutions. There is no central administrator or centralized data storage.
smart-contracts× 1
a computer protocol intended to digitally facilitate, verify, or enforce the negotiation or performance of a contract. Smart contracts allow the performance of credible transaction…