legal compensation
1compensation culture — noun A culture (set of social customs) based on a sense of entitlement to legal compensation for ones own or others mistakes …
2compensation — com·pen·sa·tion /ˌkäm pən sā shən/ n 1: the act of compensating 2 in the civil law of Louisiana: the ending of mutual obligations between two people for money or quantities of fungible things usu. by operation of law but sometimes by an agreement …
3Compensation culture — describes a society in which it is acceptable for anyone who has suffered a personal injury to seek compensatory damages through litigation from someone connected with the injury. The term is especially used to describe the legal climate with… …
4Compensation — • Denotes the price paid for human exertion or labour Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Compensation Compensation † …
5compensation committee — USA In a publicly held company, an operating committee of the company s board of directors. A compensation committee of a publicly traded company in the US is composed of independent and outside directors referred to as non executive directors.… …
6Legal personality — (also artificial personality, juridical personality, and juristic personality) is the characteristic of a non human entity regarded by law to have the status of a person. A legal person (Latin: persona ficta), (also artificial person, juridical… …
7legal advertising — 1) Legal notices required by law to be published in court approved local newspapers. 2) Advertising for the legal services of lawyers and law firms. Category: Small Claims Court & Lawsuits Nolo’s Plain English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill,… …
8compensation culture — UK US noun [singular] british showing disapproval the tendency for people to try to get compensation for any loss, damage, or suffering caused by another person Thesaurus: court cases and legal processeshyponym …
9legal injury — UK US noun [U] LAW ► physical damage to property or harm done to a person that happens as the direct result of someone breaking a law: »Our legal injury claim professionals work to accomplish injury compensation for your mental injury …
10Compensation, Occult — • An extra legal manner of recovering from loss or damage; the taking, by stealth and on one s private authority, of the value or equivalent of one s goods from a person who refuses to meet the demands of justice Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin… …
