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Today's Terms
Discovery
Definition:
A legal process by which lawyers are entitled to find out information from their adversary in a pending case.
Lack of jurisdiction
Definition:
The phrase may mean lack of power to act in a particular manner or to give certain kinds of relief. It may consist of a court's total lack of power to act at all, or lack of power to act in particular cases because the parties have not complied with conditions essential to the exercise of jurisdiction.
Indigent
Definition:
A person found by the court to be unable to afford to hire a lawyer or otherwise meet the expense of defending a criminal matter.
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