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  2. Intervention (law) - Wikipedia

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    While the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure require no judicial permission and impose no intervention deadline, common law dictates that a party may not intervene post-judgment unless the trial court first sets aside the judgment. [8] For the same reason, an intervenor must enter the lawsuit before final judgment to have standing to bring an appeal.

  3. Impleader - Wikipedia

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    While many kinds of civil procedures devices occur in the form of motion, an impleader action is technically its own lawsuit. [1] Impleader is frequently used for indemnification, such as an insurance policy or their employer. If for example a defendant is in a car accident, and their insurance policy includes an indemnification clause, they ...

  4. Interpleader - Wikipedia

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    Interpleader is a civil procedure device that allows a plaintiff or a defendant to initiate a lawsuit in order to compel two or more other parties to litigate a dispute. An interpleader action originates when the plaintiff holds property on behalf of another, but does not know to whom the property should be transferred.

  5. Amicus curiae - Wikipedia

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    The role of an amicus was described by Lord Justice of Appeal Cyril Salmon in Allen v Sir Alfred McAlpine & Sons Ltd [1968] 2 QB 229 at p. 266 F-G: . I had always understood that the role of an amicus curiae was to help the court by expounding the law impartially, or if one of the parties were unrepresented, by advancing the legal arguments on his behalf.

  6. Negotiorum gestio - Wikipedia

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    Negotiorum gestio ([nəˌgō.shē-ˈȯr-əm-ˈgestēˌō], Latin for "management of business") is a form of spontaneous voluntary agency in which an intervenor or intermeddler, the gestor, acts on behalf and for the benefit of a principal (dominus negotii), but without the latter's prior consent.

  7. List of Philippine legal terms - Wikipedia

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    Municipal Trial Courts in Cities, a type of civil court below Regional Trial Courts: OCA N/A: English Office of the Court Administrator: petitioner [2] N/A: English A plaintiff. petitioner-in-intervention N/A: English An intervenor who supports the case of the petitioner. [11] Cf. intervenor-oppositor. ponencia [2] report Spanish The Court's ...

  8. The Boys Aren't in Crisis. Worry About These Kids Instead. - AOL

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    One study concluded that children from poor families had less “gray matter” in their frontal lobes, explaining up to a 20 percent difference in test scores. When we consider poverty as a ...

  9. Civil procedure - Wikipedia

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    Most countries make a clear distinction between civil and criminal procedure. For example, a criminal court may force a convicted defendant to pay a fine as punishment for their crime, and the legal costs of both the prosecution and defence. But the victim of the crime generally pursues their claim for compensation in a civil, not a criminal ...