practice, evidence. To destroy or impair the credibility of a person; to impeach; to lessen the degree of credit to be accorded to a witness or document, as by impugning the veracity of the one or the genuineness of the other; to disparage or weaken the reliance upon the testimony of a witness, or upon documentary evidence, by any means whatever. To deprive one of credit or … [Read more...]

Debts that can be eliminated pursuant to declaring bankruptcy such as most credit card debt, medical bills and back rent. … [Read more...]

A difference between one thing and another, between one writing and another; a variance. 2. Discrepancies are material and immaterial. A discrepancy is immaterial when there is such a difference between a thing alleged, and a thing offered in evidence, as to show they are not substantially the same; as, when the plaintiff in his declaration for a malicious arrest averred, that … [Read more...]

Released, or liberated from custody. It is not equivalent to acquitted in a declaration for a malicious prosecution … [Read more...]

Latin, meaning Discretion is to discern through law what is just. … [Read more...]