Land, buildings or equipment or other objects that not movable and permanently affixed to the property. (A) A term for real estate that includes the land and anything permanently attached to the land like a building, home, trees and other permanent fixtures. (B) That which consists of land, and of all rights and profits arising from and annexed to land, of a permanent, … [Read more...]

A measure or a standard of caution and awareness for the safety of self and others that the average prudent person would use under the circumstances. The reasonable care test is a subjective test to determine whether a person committed negligence in their actions, not exercising reasonable care. … [Read more...]

Deliberate, organized resistance, by force and arms, to the laws or operations of the government committed by a subject See Hubbard v. Harnden Exp. Co., 10 R. I. 247 ; State v. McDonald, 4 Port. (Ala.) 455; Crashley v. Press Pub. Co., 74 App. Div. 118, 77 N. Y. Supp. 711. In old English law, the term "rebellion" was also applied to contempt of a court manifested by disobedience … [Read more...]

In foreign law. That quality of laws which concerns property or things, (qua ad rem spectant.) Story, Confl. Laws, f 16. … [Read more...]

The threshold that is the burden of proof in criminal cases required to convict a defendant, which requires the trier(s) of fact (judge or jury) to be absolutely certain of the guilt of the accused and without doubt. … [Read more...]