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  2. Prejudice (legal term) - Wikipedia

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    Prejudice is a legal term with different meanings, which depend on whether it is used in criminal, civil, or common law.In legal context, prejudice differs from the more common use of the word and so the term has specific technical meanings.

  3. Vesting - Wikipedia

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    It is a "basic right that has been granted, or has accrued, and cannot be taken away"; for example. one has a right to a vested pension. [2] Generally, the portion vested cannot be reclaimed by the employer, nor can it be used to satisfy the employer's debts. Any portion not vested may be forfeited under certain conditions, such as termination ...

  4. Due Process Clause - Wikipedia

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    Procedural due process has also been an important factor in the development of the law of personal jurisdiction, in the sense that it is inherently unfair for the judicial machinery of a state to take away the property of a person who has no connection to it whatsoever. A significant portion of U.S. constitutional law is therefore directed to ...

  5. Eminent domain - Wikipedia

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    Eminent domain [a], also known as land acquisition, [b] compulsory purchase, [c] resumption, [d] resumption/compulsory acquisition, [e] or expropriation [f], is the compulsory acquisition of private property for public use.

  6. Natural rights and legal rights - Wikipedia

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    Natural rights are those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and so are universal, fundamental and inalienable (they cannot be repealed by human laws, though one can forfeit their enjoyment through one's actions, such as by violating someone else's rights). Natural law is the law of natural rights.

  7. Vance v. Terrazas - Wikipedia

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    Vance v. Terrazas, 444 U.S. 252 (1980), was a United States Supreme Court decision that established that a United States citizen cannot have their citizenship taken away unless they have acted with an intent to give up that citizenship. The Supreme Court overturned portions of an act of Congress which had listed various actions and had said ...

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  9. Substantive due process - Wikipedia

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    Hardwick, White argued that the doctrine of substantive due process gives the judiciary too much power over the governance of the nation and takes away such power from the elected branches of government. He argued that the fact that the Court has created new substantive rights in the past should not lead it to "repeat the process at will".