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due process

and are the subject of endless judicial interpretation and decision-making. Fundamental to procedural due process is adequate notice prior to the government's deprivation of one's life, liberty, or property, and an opportunity to be heard and defend

eeoc

Usually, an alleged victim of workplace discrimination or harassment is required to file a claim with the EEOC prior to initiating a private lawsuit.

ex-rights

The purchaser of stock traded ex-rights does not acquire the right to purchase new securities at a discount prior to their public issuance because such right was retained by the seller.

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exhaust

available in the court of the State "U.S. Code"] b : to bring (a claim) through all available prior levels of review [each of his claims would now be ed "W. R. LaFave and J. H. Israel"]

follow

follow : to be in accordance with (a prior decision) : accept as authoritative see also precedent compare overrule

freedom of speech

as guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution see also free speech compare censorship, prior restraint

habitual criminal

habitual criminal : one convicted of a crime who has a certain number of prior convictions for offenses of a specified kind (as felonies) and is thereby under some statutes subject to an

heir

immediately after the death of the intestate by operation of law compare irregular heir in this entry NOTE: Prior to 1982 the Louisiana Civil Code distinguished between legal and irregular heirs who were required to go through

Cattle

(Animals) Act, 1878, repealing and replacing an Act of 1869 having the same title, and itself repealing eight prior Acts in pari materia, from 38 Geo. 3, c. 65, to 30 & 31 Vict. c. 125. In

reservation

a tribe is vested with the rights of an American citizen even if in a tribal court proceeding. Prior to the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, states could obtain civil and criminal jurisdiction over a reservation

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