Professio Lex

A distinction drawn on the basis of contrast.

The amount of evidence which a plaintiff (or prosecuting attorney, in a criminal case) must present in a trial in order to win is called the...

Evidence introduced in a trial which bears on the truth and honesty of a witness or party is termed character evidence. Evidence of a person...

A conflict of interest exists if: (1) the representation of one client will be directly adverse to another client; or (2) there is a signifi...

The propriety of concurrent representation can depend on the nature of the litigation. For example, a suit charging fraud entails conflict...

Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19, there are some instances where parties must be joined. This compulsory joinder of parties is an e...

The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes stated in Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles . ...

Compliance Theory is the title given to various academic attempts to explain why nation states are willing to cede (some) sovereignty to ext...

Collective Security is a system aspiring to the maintenance of peace, in which participants agree that any "breach of the peace is to b...

A lawyer should cultivate habits of civility, but surely a lawyer's aspiration should be for something greater than refraining from ...

Civil commitment is a process in which a judge decides whether a person who is alleged to be mentally ill should be required to go to a ...

Admissible evidence, in a court of law, is any testimonial, documentary, or tangible evidence that may be introduced to a factfinder--usuall...

The system of laws originated and developed in England and based on court decisions, on the doctrines implicit in those decisions, and on cu...

In law of evidence , client's privilege to refuse to disclose and to prevent any other person from disclosing confidential communication...

A suspension of activity or an authorized period of delay or waiting. A moratorium is sometimes agreed upon by the interested parties, or it...

The unjustifiable denial by a party to a contract of any intention to perform contractual duties, which occurs prior to the time performance...

Lat: loosely, the criminal act; but the term more properly refers to the "guilty act" or the "deed of crime." Every crim...