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Lawsuit :: Lawsuit (n.) An action at law; a suit in equity or admiralty; any legal proceeding before a court for the enforcement of a claim.

Rebellion :: Rebellion (v. i.) Open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority..

Felo-de-se :: Felo-de-se (n.) One who deliberately puts an end to his own existence, or loses his life while engaged in the commission of an unlawful or malicious act; a suicide..

Unlaw :: Unlaw (n.) Any transgression or offense against the law.

Joinder :: Joinder (v. t.) Acceptance of an issue tendered in law or fact.

Inlaw :: Inlaw (v. t.) To clear of outlawry or attainder; to place under the protection of the law.

Course :: Course (n.) Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.

Clutch :: Clutch (n.) A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp..

Domebook :: Domebook (n.) A book said to have been compiled under the direction of King Alfred. It is supposed to have contained the principal maxims of the common law, the penalties for misdemeanors, and the forms of judicial proceedings. Domebook was probably a general name for book of judgments..

Fraud :: Fraud (n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.

Puritan :: Puritan (n.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England..

Outlaw :: Outlaw (n.) A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection..

Raptorial :: Raptorial (a.) Adapted for seizing prey; -- said of the legs, claws, etc., of insects, birds, and other animals..

Laity :: Laity (a.) Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it..

Mufti :: Mufti (n.) An official expounder of Mohammedan law.

Civilian :: Civilian (n.) A student of the civil law at a university or college.

Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained..

Act :: Act (n.) The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress..

Truly :: Truly (adv.) Conformably to law; legally; legitimately.

Decree :: Decree (n.) An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru// decision..

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