Plea Bargaining - Law Dictionary Search Results
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plea bargaining : the negotiation of an agreement between the prosecution and the defense whereby the defendant pleads guilty to a lesser offense or to one or some of multiple offenses usually in exchange for more lenient sentencing recommendations, a specific sentence, or dismissal of other charges plea-bargain vi plea bargain n ...
plea bargain
plea bargain The process in which the defendant and the prosecutor in a criminal case work out a mutually satisfactory disposition of the case subject to court approval. It usually involves the defendant's pleading guilty to a lesser offense or to only one or some of the counts in a multi-count indictment in return for a lighter sentence than the defendant would have received if convicted of the more serious charges. Source: Federal Judicial Center ...
plea agreement
plea agreement : an agreement reached at the conclusion of plea bargaining : plea bargain ...
Application
Application, a request, a motion to a Court or judge; the disposal of a thing.A prayer made to an authority for relief to set aside an order of another authority, Shaik Saidulu v. Chukka Yesu Ratnam, (2002) 3 SCC 130 (136): AIR 2002 SC 749. [Hyderabad Municipal Corporatiion Act (2 of 1956) s. 71]Includes a petition. [Limitation Act, 1963 (36 of 1963), s. 2 (b)]Means an application made to a Tribunal under s. 19. [Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993 (51 of 1993), s. 2 (b)]Means an application made under s. 19. [Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 (13 of 1985), s. 3 (b)]Means an application made to a Tribunal under section 19, Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993 (51 of 1993), s. 2(b).Means an application made under section 16, Railways Claims Tribunal Act, 1987 (54 of 1987), s. 2(a).An application for the purpose is a request by all the lessees to permit the change of the user of the land showing readiness and willingness to ...
Bargain and sale
Bargain and sale, A contract for the sale of real or personal property of any kind operating under the Statute of Uses as a conveyance of the land, or at Common Law, from early times of goods sold without delivery, the vendor of land being held originally to possess or be seised of the property to the use of the purchaser. In the case of goods the Common Law rule was and is that the property may be transferred by the contract if the parties so intend [see Ogg v. Shuter, (1875) LR 10 CP at p.162; and (English) Sale of Goods Act, 1893, s. 20]. In the case of land a similar result was effected by the Statute of Uses (27 Hen. 8, c. 101), which attached the property to the use and turned it into a legal estate. No formalities were required for a bargain and sale of lands until 27 Hen. 8, c. 16, required that bargains and sales of any estate of inheritance must be by deed enrolled within six months in the records of one of the King's Courts at Westminster. The devise of a lease and release (...
illusory
illusory : likely to mislead or deceive : false deceptive [an plea bargain leading to a longer sentence than expected] ...
bargain
bargain often attrib [Old French bargaigne negotiation, haggling, from bargaignier to haggle] 1 : an agreement between parties that settles what each gives or receives (as a promise or performance) in a transaction between them compare contract 2 a : something acquired by or as if by bargaining b : something whose value considerably exceeds its cost [a purchase] vi 1 a : to negotiate over the terms of an agreement (as a contract) b : to engage in collective bargaining [the employer must with the union] 2 : to agree to certain terms or conditions : come to terms [plaintiff ed with the store for a lower price] vt : to convey according to a bargain [does hereby grant, , sell, alien and confirm to the party of the second part, the following described property] often used with sell in deeds to indicate that the conveyor is receiving consideration in exchange for the property ...
bargainable
bargainable : subject to bargaining ;esp : legitimately subject to collective bargaining [a issue] ...
bargaining unit
bargaining unit : the group of employees for whom a labor union negotiates a collective bargaining agreement called also collective bargaining unit ...
benefit of the bargain
benefit of the bargain :the advantage that would be or have been gained under a contract if completed as agreed ;specif : the difference between the actual value of property and the value of property as it is represented in case of misrepresentation called also benefit of one's bargain loss of bargain compare out-of-pocket rule ...
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