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Terms for subject Law (8349 entries)

pres	presumption
Present Law Base	PLB
presentence report	A report prepared by the probation department for the judge when sentencing a defendant. Describes defendant's background: financial, job, and family status
presentence report	community ties
presentence report	criminal history
presentence report	and facts of the current offense
presentment	Declaration or document issued by a grand jury that either makes a neutral report or notes misdeeds by officials charged with specified public duties. It ordinarily does not include a formal charge of crime. A presentment differs from an INDICTMENT
presidium	Praesidium
press review	press cuttings	Alexan­der Dem­idov
Pressure Point Control Tactics	PPCT
presumed father	A man who is married to the mother of the child, who has signed a declaration of paternity, or has received the child into his home and held the child out to the community as his child, whether that man is the biological father of the child, or not
presumption	An inference of the truth or falsity of a proposition or fact, that stands until rebutted by evidence to the contrary
presumption of innocence	defendant is believed to be innocent in the absence of evidence rebutting that assumption
presumption of innocence	A hallowed principle of criminal law that a person is innocent of a crime until proven guilty. The government has the burden of proving every element of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt and the defendant has no burden to prove his innocence
presumption of law	a rule of law that courts and judges shall draw a particular inference from a particular fact, or from particular evidence
Presumptive Finding Of Death	PFD
pretermitted child	A child born after a will was written, who is not provided for by the will. Most states have laws that provide for a share of estate property to go to such children
pretrial conference	meeting before the trial to try and resolve the case, agree on evidence, etc
pretrial conference	Any time both sides of the case go to court before trial. In criminal cases, it's usually when the defendant and prosecutor talk about settling the case
pretrial offense	offense committed before the trial begins