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TOP LEGAL TERMS THIS WEEK
1.     scienter
2.     quorum
3.     AORO
4.     Miranda warning
5.     lex causae
6.     lex patriae
7.     lex domicilii
8.     adjudication order
9.     appellant
10.     stare decisis


Quote of the Day
Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.

-Carl Schurz (1829-1906)
Speech, 1872


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