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COMMUNITY PROPERTY WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP

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See community property it is similar to joint ownership with right of survivorship where the death of one spouse allows that spouse's one half-interest in the community property to pass to the surviving spouse without probate. … [Read more...] about COMMUNITY PROPERTY WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP

COMMUNICATION

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Information given; the sharing of knowledge by one with another; conference; consultation or bargaining preparatory to making a contract Also intercourse; connection. In French law. The production of a merchant's books, by delivering them either to a person designated by the court, or to his adversary, to be examined in all their parts, and as shall be deemed necessary to the … [Read more...] about COMMUNICATION

COMMUNITY SERVICE

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Work that is of benefit to the community, is unpaid, and usually the result of a sentence or plea that a criminal defendant may receive as a lesser alternative punishment. … [Read more...] about COMMUNITY SERVICE

COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT

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Part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 dealing with certain types content on the Internet, such as obscenity. … [Read more...] about COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT

COMMUNLAE

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In feudal law on the continent of Europe, this name was given to towns enfranchised by the crown, about the twelfth century, and formed into free corporations by grants called "charters of community." … [Read more...] about COMMUNLAE

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