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Also known as social insurance, these are the required employment benefits that are provided by a state or federal government which ensure a minimum standard of living for lower and middle income people. Typical examples will include disability benefits and health insurance. … [Read more...] about COOPERATIVE INSURANCE

A judgment or finding, by judge or jury, that the defendant is guilty of a crime. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition In practice. In a general sense, the result of a criminal trial which ends in a judgment or sentence that the prisoner is guilty as charged. Finding a person guilty by verdict of a jury. 1 Bish. Crim. Law, … [Read more...] about CONVICTION

In old English law. The head or branches of a tree cut down; though coopertio arborum is rather the bark of timber trees felled, and the chumps and broken wood. Cowell. … [Read more...] about COOPERTIO

Such as is sufficient to establish the proposition in question, beyond hesitation, ambiguity, or reasonable doubt In an unprejudiced mind. Evans v. Rugee, 57 Wis. 623, 16 N. W. 49; French v. Day, 89 Me. 441, 36 Atl. 909 ; Ward v. Waterman, 85 Cal. 488, 24 Pac. 930 ; Winston v. Burnell, 44 Kan. 367, 24 Pac. 477, 21 Am. St Rep. 289. … [Read more...] about CONVINCING PROOF

In forest law. A covert; a thicket (dumetum) or shelter for wild beasts in a forest Spelman. … [Read more...] about COOPERTUM