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  2. List of legal abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    It is common practice in legal documents to cite other publications by using standard abbreviations for the title of each source. Abbreviations may also be found for common words or legal phrases. Such citations and abbreviations are found in court decisions, statutes, regulations, journal articles, books, and other documents.

  3. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    the law of the country in which an action is brought out lex lata: the carried law The law as it has been enacted. lex loci: the law of the place The law of the country, state, or locality where the matter under litigation took place. Usually used in contract law, to determine which laws govern the contract. / ˈ l ɛ k s ˈ l oʊ s aɪ / lex ...

  4. Trifluoroacetic acid - Wikipedia

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    Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) is a synthetic organofluorine compound with the chemical formula CF 3 CO 2 H. It is a haloacetic acid, with all three of the acetyl group's hydrogen atoms replaced by fluorine atoms.

  5. Section sign - Wikipedia

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    It is common practice to follow the section sign with a non-breaking space so that the symbol is kept with the section number being cited. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] : 212, 233 The section sign is itself sometimes a symbol of the justice system, [ a ] [ citation needed ] in much the same way as the Rod of Asclepius is used to represent medicine.

  6. Glossary of law - Wikipedia

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    At common law, this was the name of a mixed action (springing from the earlier personal action of ejectione firmae) which lay for the recovery of the possession of land, and for damages for the unlawful detention of its possession. The action was highly fictitious, being in theory only for the recovery of a term for years, and brought by a ...

  7. Legal practice - Wikipedia

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    Legal practice is sometimes used to distinguish the body of judicial or administrative precedents, rules, policies, customs, and doctrines from legislative enactments such as statutes and constitutions which might be called "laws" in the strict sense of being commands to the general public, rather than only to a set of parties.

  8. Nickel organic acid salts - Wikipedia

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    Nickel trifluoroacetate tetrahydrate exists, as well as two emerald green acid trifluoroacetates, a bridged trinuclear form [Ni 3 (CF 3 COO) 6 (CF 3 COOH) 6](CF 3 COOH) and a hydrated acid form [Ni 3 (CF 3 COO) 6 (CF 3 COOH) 2 (H 2 O) 4](CF 3 COOH) 2 both with triclinic crystal form. The first has density 2.205 and the second 2.124.

  9. Practice of law - Wikipedia

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    The definition of "unauthorized practice of law" is variable, and is often conclusory and tautological, [2] i.e., it is the doing of a lawyer's or counselor's work by a non-lawyer for money. [1] There is some agreement that appearing in a legally constituted court in a legal proceeding to represent clients (particularly for a fee) is considered ...