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  2. Treason laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Definition: levying war or conspiring to levy war against the state, or adhering to the enemy. This definition, in Title 13, Chapter 75, § 3401 of Vermont Statutes, echoes the definition found in the United States Constitution. Penalty: Death by electrocution. Vermont criminal law maintains capital punishment specifically for treason.

  3. Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act - Wikipedia

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    RESPA was created because various companies associated with the buying and selling of real estate, such as lenders, real estate agents, construction companies and title insurance companies were often engaging in providing undisclosed kickbacks to each other, inflating the costs of real estate transactions and obscuring price competition by ...

  4. Title insurance - Wikipedia

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    A real estate attorney, broker, escrow officer (in the western states), or loan officer can provide detailed information as to the price of title search and insurance before the real estate contract is signed. Title insurance coverage lasts as long as the insured retains an interest in the land insured and typically no additional premium is ...

  5. Explainer-Article 23: what you need to know about Hong ... - AOL

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    The package, known as Article 23, is designed to update or create new laws to prohibit treason, sabotage, sedition, the theft of state secrets and espionage. Some lawyers analysing the draft said ...

  6. Treason - Wikipedia

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    Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance. [1] This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplomats, or its secret services for a hostile and foreign power, or attempting to kill its head of state.

  7. List of legal abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of abbreviations used in law and legal documents. 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.

  8. The little-known way some insurers try to stay ahead of wildfires

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    By law, his company can only protect homes covered by insurance policies that include its services, he said. In recent years, insurance companies have cut back on coverage in California, largely ...

  9. Adjustment (law) - Wikipedia

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    Insurance adjustment, the settlement of an insurance claim; the determination for the purposes of a settlement of the amount of a claim, particularly a claim against an insurance company, giving consideration to objections made by the debtor or insurance company, as well as the allegations of the claimant in support of his claim. [5]