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  • 41illegality — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of legality Nouns 1. illegality, lawlessness, unlawfulness, unconstitutionality; illegitimacy, bar sinister, bastardy; criminality; outlawry; extralegality; criminology; criminalization. See… …

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  • 42conditionally privileged communication — A communication made in good faith on a subject in which the person communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, even though it contains matter which, without… …

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  • 43inducement — That which prevails on a person to promote an act or acts by him, for example, fraud inducing the making of a contract. 23 Am J1st Fraud § 111. That part of a declaration or complaint in an action for libel or slander the office of which is to… …

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  • 44justification — A showing by sureties of their qualifications as householders or freeholders and of their ability to respond in the amount of the suretyship obligation. Wilson v Eagleson, 9 Idaho 17, 71 P 613. A reason for committing an act which otherwise would …

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  • 45privileged communication — A communication between persons in such a confidential relationship, be it attorney and client, physician and patient, or confessor and penitent, that public policy prohibits the disclosure thereof by the person to whom it was made, as a witness… …

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  • 46privileged communication — n. Law 1. a communication that one cannot legally be compelled to divulge, as that to a lawyer from a client 2. a communication made under certain circumstances, as in a legislative proceeding, such that it is not actionable as slander or libel …

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