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A proceeding for taking and preserving the testimony of witnesses, which otherwise might be lost before the trial in which it is Intended to be used. It is usually allowed where the witnesses are aged and infirm or are about to remove from the state. 3 Bl. Comm. 450. … [Read more...] about PERPETUATING TESTIMONY

An injury not to a person's body which includes the mind or emotions. For example, the result of your arm being broken after falling on an item left carelessly on the ground. … [Read more...] about PERSONAL INJURY

estates. Any limitation tending to take the subject of it out of commerce for a longer period than a life or lives in being, and twenty-one years beyond; and in case of a posthumous child, a few months more, allowing for the term of gestation;; or it is such a limitation of property as renders it unalienable beyond the period allowed by law. Scattergood v. Edge, 12 Mod. 278, … [Read more...] about PERPETUITY

A plaintiff's attorney who specializes in lawsuits that involve plaintiffs who suffer bodily injury. … [Read more...] about PERSONAL INJURY LAWYER

That fiction of the English law which for certain political purposes ascribes to the king in his political capacity the attribute of immortality; for, though the reigning monarch may die, yet by this fiction the king never dies, i. c, the office is supposed to be reoccupied for all political purposes immediately on iris death. Brown. … [Read more...] about PERPETUITY OF THE KING