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hostile environment harassment
(as comments, jokes, or acts) relating to the victim's constitutionally or statutorily protected classification (as race, religion, ethnic origin, or age) that has the effect of substantially interfering with a person's work performance or of creating a
felony
which the punishment may be death or imprisonment for more than a year see also attainder, treason NOTE: Originally in English law a felony was a crime for which the perpetrator would suffer forfeiture of all real
fortuitous event
fortuitous event : an event of natural or human origin that could not have been reasonably foreseen or expected and is out of the control of the persons
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garnish
garnish [Anglo-French garniss-, stem of garnir to garnish, give legal summons, warn, from Old French, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German warnōn to take heed] 1 : to subject (property or money) to garnishment
general contractor
that contracts to be in charge of a building project usually involving the use of subcontractors called also original contractor prime prime contractor
habeas corpus
Latin, literally, you should have the body (the opening words of the writ)] : any of several writs originating at common law that are issued to bring a party before the court ;esp : habeas corpus ad
hate crimes
threat of violence that is intended to injure and/or intimidate the victim(s) because of their race, ethnicity, national origin, religious, sexual orientation, or disability.
horizontal privity
or successive interest in the land burdened or benefited by the covenant 2 : the relationship between the original supplier of a product and an ultimate user or a bystander affected by it used esp. in connection
hostile
a party to a legal action [if the interests of the party joined involuntarily render him to the original plaintiff, he must remain a defendant "J. H. Friedenthal et al."] 3 a : adverse to or incompatible
incorporator
incorporator : any of the persons who join as original members in incorporating a company
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