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  2. Juridical person - Wikipedia

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    A juridical person maintains certain duties and rights as enumerated under relevant laws. [1] [2] The rights and responsibilities of a juridical person are distinct from those of the natural persons constituting it. Since the beginning of writing at the start of recorded history, associations have been known as the original form of the ...

  3. Legal person - Wikipedia

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    In law, a human person is called a natural person (sometimes also a physical person), and a non-human person is called a juridical person (sometimes also a juridic, juristic, artificial, legal, or fictitious person, Latin: persona ficta). Juridical persons are entities such as corporations, firms (in some jurisdictions), and many government ...

  4. Judicial officer - Wikipedia

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    A judicial officer is a person with the responsibilities and powers to facilitate, arbitrate, preside over, and make decisions and directions with regard to the application of the law. [ 1 ] Judicial officers are typically categorized as judges , magistrates , puisne judicial officers such as justices of the peace or officers of courts of ...

  5. Judiciary - Wikipedia

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    The Supreme Court Building houses the Supreme Court of the United States, the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.. The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law in legal cases.

  6. Strict scrutiny - Wikipedia

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    In U.S. constitutional law, when a law infringes upon a fundamental constitutional right, the court may apply the strict scrutiny standard. Strict scrutiny holds the challenged law as presumptively invalid unless the government can demonstrate that the law or regulation is necessary to achieve a "compelling state interest". The government must ...

  7. Judge - Wikipedia

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    A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a judicial panel.In an adversarial system, the judge hears all the witnesses and any other evidence presented by the barristers or solicitors of the case, assesses the credibility and arguments of the parties, and then issues a ruling in the case based on their interpretation of the law and their own personal ...

  8. Sub judice - Wikipedia

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    Sub judice is now irrelevant to journalists because of the introduction of the Contempt of Court Act 1981. Under Section 2 of the Act, a substantial risk of serious prejudice can only be created by a media report when proceedings are active. Proceedings become active when there is an arrest, oral charge, issue of a warrant, or a summons.

  9. Legal status - Wikipedia

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    Thus, legal status is "a feature of individuals and their relationships to the law." [ 5 ] Tiffany Graham added to Balkin's definition: "legal status refers to a set of characteristics that define an individual's membership in an official class, as a consequence of which rights, duties, capacities and/or incapacities are acquired."