Usually with regard to confidential information, where such information is shared only with those persons or parties with who have a need or require this information, e.g. an employee will require information that is essential for the employee to perform his or her job. … [Read more...]

The failure to exercise reasonable or prudent care that an ordinary person would make under the same circumstances. To prove negligence, the following elements are required: (i) the defendant owed a duty to the injured party or to the general public (such as driving a car), (ii) the actions or failure to act by the defendant was not representative of reasonable or prudent … [Read more...]

In a statute against "needless" killing or mutilation of any animal, this term denotes an act done without any useful motive, in a spirit of wanton cruelty, or for the mere pleasure of destruction. Grise v. State, 37 Ark. 460. … [Read more...]

Latin: That which is against, right or the divine law. A wicked or implous thing or act Calvin. … [Read more...]

Latin: Inauspicious. Applied, in the Roman law, to a day on which it was unlawful to open the courts or administer justice. Negatio conclusionis est error in lege. Wing. 268. The denial of a conclusion is. error in law. Negatio destruit negationem, et ambae faciunt affirmationem. Lord Coke cites this as a rule of grammatical construction, not always applying in law. Negatio … [Read more...]