Circumstance - Legal Terms

Legal Terms

  • Aggravating circumstance
  • Attendant circumstance, a legal concept which Black's Law Dictionary defines as the "facts surrounding an event."
  • Exigent circumstance
  • Extenuating circumstances

Read more about this topic:  Circumstance

Famous quotes containing the words legal and/or terms:

    “Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will be recognized as the legal equals of men.”
    —Mary A. Livermore (1821–1905)

    “It must be a peace without victory.... Victory would mean peace forced upon the losers, a victor’s terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which the terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)