A contract where one person hires another who is usually an expert to evaluate a business plan or idea. The evaluator will either contract with the originator of the idea to further its development or have prior agreed not to disclose or exploit the idea. … [Read more...]

Rules which govern the admissibility of evidence into court … [Read more...]

And this he is prepared to verify. The Latin form of concluding a plea in confession and avoidance. These words were used, when the pleadings were in Latin, at the conclusion of any pleading which contained new affirmative matter. They expressed the willingness or readiness of the party so pleading to establish by proof the matter alleged in his pleading. A pleading which … [Read more...]

Relating to moral principles or a generally accepted moral code of society. … [Read more...]

To strip; to despoil; to lay waste; to commit waste upon an estate, as by cutting down trees, removing buildings, etc. To injure the value of a reversionary interest by stripping or spoiling the estate. … [Read more...]