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A program which concerns minor crimes and minor criminal defendants where they are given an opportunity to avoid conviction via an agreement to successfully complete a probationary period to show that they are able to correct their criminal behavior. … [Read more...] about PRETRIAL INTERVENTION

Where one is in possession of land, and another, who is out of possession, claims and sues for it Here the pretensed right er title is said to be in him who so claims and sues for the same. Mod. Cas. 302. Preteased title statute. The English statute 32 Hen. VIII. c. 9, … [Read more...] about PRETENSED RIGHT, OR TITLE

To win. To defeat another or others. … [Read more...] about PREVAIL

Allegations sometimes made in a bill in chancery for the purpose of negativing an anticipated defense. Hunt, Eq. pt I. c. 1. False pretenses. See FALSE. … [Read more...] about PRETENSES

The winning party. The party which wins a lawsuit and has a judgment rendered in its favor. That one of the parties to a suit who successfully prosecutes the action or successfully defends against it, prevailing on the main issue, though not to the extent of his original contention. … [Read more...] about PREVAILING PARTY