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Left triangular ligament The left triangular ligament is a fold of some considerable size, which connects the posterior part of the upper surface of the left lobe to the diaphragm; its anterior layer is continuous with the left layer of the falciform ligament.
Left Turn (US) Left Turn is an anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian network that was formed in 2001 in the aftermath of the anti-WTO (world trade organization) mass mobilizations that took place in Seattle, Washington DC and Quebec City. The group publishes a magazine, also called Left Turn which will publish its twenty third issue in December 2006.
Left ventricle The left ventricle is one of four chambers (two atria and two ventricles) in the human heart. It receives oxygenated blood from the left atrium via the mitral valve, and pumps it into the aorta via the aortic valve.
Left Wing Fascists Left Wing Fascists is a band from the Tidewater region of Virginia. The band consisted of Big Al Staggs (vocals), Scott Carlisle (lead guitar), Eric Nestor (guitar and vocals), Markus Wegener (bass) and Rick Murphy (drums).
Left Youth (Finland) The Left Youth (Vasemmistonuoret in Finnish, Vänsterunga in Swedish) is a political youth organization in Finland. It is considered the youth wing of the Left Alliance, but it is not officially affiliated with the party - members of the Left Youth are not automatically members of the Left Alliance.
Left-arm In cricket terminology, a batsman who bats left handed is described as a 'left hand' bat. However, a bowler who bowls the ball with his or her left hand is, by convention, called a 'left-arm' or 'left arm' (rather than 'left hand' or 'left handed') bowler.
Left-arm unorthodox spin In cricket, left-arm unorthodox spin – often known as slow left-arm chinaman and abbreviated to SLC – is a style of bowling. The bowler uses a wrist torsion action to spin the ball so that when it pitches it turns from off to leg for a right-handed batsman, i.
Left-bank Ukraine Left-bank Ukraine (; ; ) is a historic name of the part of Ukraine on the left (East) bank of the Dnieper River, comprising the modern-day oblasts of Chernihiv, Poltava and Sumy as well as the eastern parts of the Kiev and Cherkasy.
Left-foot braking Left-foot braking is the technique of using the left foot to operate the brake pedal in an automobile, leaving the right foot dedicated to the throttle pedal. It contrasts with the normal practice of the left foot operating the clutch pedal, and the right foot operating the brake and accelerator pedals.
Left-Green Movement The Left-Green Movement (Vinstrihreyfingin - grænt framboð) is a political party in Iceland. It was founded in 1999 by a few members of Alþingi that did not approve of the planned merger of the left parties in Iceland that resulted in the founding of the Alliance (Samfylkingin).
Left-handed A person who is left-handed primarily uses his or her left hand, more so than the right hand; a left-hander will probably use the left hand for tasks such as personal care, cooking, and so on. Writing is not as precise an indicator of handedness as it might seem, because many left-handed people write with their right hand but use their left hand for other tasks.
Left-handed specialist In baseball, a left-handed specialist (also called, somewhat derisively, a LOOGY or Lefty One Out Guy) is a left-handed relief pitcher who specializes in getting left-handed batters out. These pitchers will commonly only pitch to a very small number of batters in each outing (often just one), and rarely to right-handed batters.
Left-libertarianism Historically, the term libertarianism was coined by leftist followers of Mikhail Bakunin to describe their own, anti-statist version of socialism, as contrasted with the state socialism implemented by Leninist regimes. In much of the non-English speaking world, the term still has this meaning.
Left-right symmetry Left-right symmetry is a general principle in physics which holds that valid physical laws must not produce a different result for a motion that is left-handed than motion that is right-handed. The most common application is expressed as equal treatment of clockwise and counter-clockwise rotations.
Left-to-right mark The left-to-right mark () is a non-printing character used in the computerized typesetting of bi-directional text containg mixed left-to-right scripts (such as English and Russian) and right-to-left scripts (such as Arabic and Hebrew). It is used to change the way adjacent characters are grouped with respect to text direciton.
Left-wing conspiracy Left-wing conspiracy refers to a purported cohesive network of political liberals who seek to discredit, smear and politically ruin conservatives in a more insidious and illegal way than is common in modern mainstream politics.
Left-wing politics In politics, left-wing or the left are associated, to varying degrees, with social (as opposed to classical) liberalism, social democracy, socialism, green politics , anarchism, and communism, in contradistinction to its polar opposite on the political spectrum, the right.
Left, Right & Center Left, Right, & Center is a weekly public radio program hosted by Matthew Miller that provides a confrontational political discourse between various points on the political spectrum. The show's regular co-hosts are as follows:
Lefter Küçükandonyadis Lefter Küçükandonyadis (Greek: ΛευτÎĎης Αντωνιάδης Lefteris Antoniadis), born 1925 in Istanbul, is a legendary football player and well recognised as one of the greatest footballers to play for Turkey. At the height of his career in the 1950s, he was regarded as one of the best players in the world.
Leftfield Leftfield were a duo of electronica artists and record producers, Paul Daley (formerly of A Man Called Adam and the Brand New Heavies) and Neil Barnes, formed in 1989 in London, England. The name Leftfield was originally used simply by Neil Barnes for the first single Not Forgotten but after this Paul Daley was involved firstly in remixing songs and then in the creation of following music.
LeftLion LeftLion is an underground listings magazine which covers Nottingham, with a specific focus on the local music scene. The magazine also gives its name to regular free music nights at venues in the city, featuring bands from the area, and produces monthly podcasts.
Leftover Salmon Leftover Salmon is a genre-bending band from Boulder, Colorado. Their unique blend of bluegrass, rock, country, and Cajun/Zydeco, which the band calls "Polyethnic Cajun Slamgrass", has found favor with the jam band scene.
Lefty Frizzell William Orville 'Lefty' Frizzell (March 31, 1928 – July 19, 1975) was an American country music singer and songwriter of the 1950s; a leading exponent of the Honky Tonk style of country music. His relaxed style of singing was a major influence on later stars Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson.
Lefty GĂłmez Vernon Louis GĂłmez (November 26, 1908 in Rodeo, California - February 17, 1989 in Greenbrae, California) was a Hispanic, left-handed, Major League pitcher who played in the American League for the New York Yankees between 1930 and 1942. [his career, almost entirely spent with the Yankees, he had a 189-102 record] with 1468 [[strikeouts and a 3.
Lefty O'Doul Francis Joseph "Lefty" O'Doul (March 4, 1897 - December 7, 1969) was an American Major League Baseball player who went on to become an extraordinarily successful manager in the minor leagues, and also a vital figure in the establishment of professional baseball in Japan.
Lefty Phillips Harold Ross "Lefty" Phillips (June 16, 1919 - June 12, 1972) was an American coach, manager, scout and front office executive in Major League Baseball. Phillips was the second manager in California Angels franchise history.
Lefty Scott Marshall "Lefty" Scott (July 15, 1915 - March 3, 1964) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1945. The 29-year-old rookie was a native of Roswell, New Mexico.
Lefty the Salesman Lefty the Salesman (commonly known simply as Lefty) is a Sesame Street character from the 70s and 80s. He is not to be confused with Lefty, the shaky Fat Blue Anything Muppet in the "Secret Knock" skit.
Lefty Williams Claude Preston "Lefty" Williams (March 9, 1893 - November 4, 1959) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. He is probably best known for his involvement in the 1919 World Series fix, better known as the Black Sox scandal.
Lefty-righty switch In baseball, the lefty-righty switch is a manouevre by which a player that struggles against left- or right-handed players is replaced by a player who excels in the situation, usually only for the duration of the situation in question. For instance, a right-handed pitcher who is weak against left-handed hitting and is facing a left-handed hitter would be replaced with a pitcher, usually left-handed, who does a superior job of getting a left-handed hitter out.
LeFrak City, Queens LeFrak City is a large housing development in the Corona neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens, built in the mid-1960s for working and middle-class families and located on the north side of the Long Island Expressway. The complex of twenty eighteen-story (technically sixteen-story, since the lobbies are the 2nd floors and there are no 13th floors) apartment towers covers 40 acres (162,000 m²) and currently houses over 14,000 people.
LeFrak-Moelis Records LeFrak-Moelis Records (or LMR for short) is a New York City-based record label founded by The LeFrak Organization and music industry veteran Herb Moelis. They had initial success in the late 1980's and early 1990's with Miami-based freestyle artist Stevie B.
Leg (geometry) In a right triangle, the legs of the triangle are the two sides that are perpendicular to each other, as opposed to the hypotenuse. The ratio of the lengths of the legs defines the trigonometric functions tangent and cotangent of the angles in the triangle.
Leg before wicket In the sport of cricket, leg before wicket (LBW) is one of the ways in which a batsman can be dismissed. An umpire will rule a batsman out LBW under a complex series of circumstances that primarily include the ball hitting the batsman's body when it would otherwise have continued to hit the wicket.
Leg warmer Leg Warmers are a type of clothing similar to a sock except that they are footless. Leg warmers were traditionally made of pure wool, though nowadays they are typically made from a mixture of cotton and/or synthetic fibers.
Leg-yield The leg-yield is a lateral movement performed on a horse, in which the horse travels both sideways and forward at the same time. The horse is fairly straight through his body in the leg-yield, although he may have a slight bend to the outside (away from the direction of travel).
Legacy (film) Legacy is the title of a film starring Madeline Zima, due in theaters in 2006. It was filmed in Los Angeles and concerns a sorority house where one of the rushees is found dead and the primary suspects are three of the most popular girls of the house.
Legacy code Legacy code is source code that relates to a no-longer supported or manufactured operating system or other computer system. The term can also mean code inserted into modern software for the purpose of maintaining an older or previously supported feature—for example supporting a serial interface even though most modern systems don't have a serial port.
Legacy costs Legacy costs is a term formed by analogy with the computer industry's legacy systems. Legacy costs are those incured by an organization in prior years under different leadership or when the entity's priorities and resources were different.
Legacy Community Ratepayers Association The Legacy Community Ratepayers Association (LCRA) is an organization established to provide unity of purpose with respect to such issues as safety, security, schooling and the general maintenance of the Legacy community in the character it was originally proposed. The Association shall seek to be a vehicle through which residents and homeowner families can make suggestions and voice concerns with a view to sustaining the wellbeing of the neighbourhood, and to promote friendship and understanding among all its members.
Legacy Hotels Real Estate Investment Trust Legacy Hotels Real Estate Investment Trust is real estate investment trust (REIT) established in 1997 and owner of 24 hotel and resort properties most of which are located in Canada, but it also has a couple in the US. It merged the Fairmont Hotels and Resorts and former CP Hotels and Resorts banner.
Legacy IBM PC Emulator Legacy (full name Legacy IBM PC emulator) is an in-progress emulator of the 16-bit IBM PC home computer, launched in the early 80's. The primary purpose of Legacy is to allow the playing of games that no longer work or run too quickly on modern IBM PC compatible computers.
Legacy mode Legacy mode is the state of a computer software system that is no longer supported or upgraded by the original manufacturer yet continues to execute satisfactorily for the user(s) in perpetuity. In some cases, legacy mode refers to backward compatibility.
Legacy of Cain The Legacy of Cain is an unfinished cycle of novellas by the 19th century Austro-Hungarian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. The 36 novellas were to be grouped into six books of six stories each, with each volume titled according to its central theme; those are "Love", "Property", "the State", "War", "Work", and "Death".
Legacy of Kain Legacy of Kain is a series of video games developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Eidos Interactive. Although the first game in the series was developed by Silicon Knights, Crystal Dynamics later won a legal battle over the rights to Legacy of Kain and continued the series without Silicon Knights.
Legacy of Power Legacy of Power is the 4th episode of the 12th incarnation of the Power Rangers series, Power Rangers: Dino Thunder. The episode is also the 500th episode of the Power Rangers series, commemorating the milestone episode with a clip show, showing scenes from the entire Power Rangers history.
Legacy of Rage Legacy of Rage (aka Long Zai jiang hu Cantonese title) is a 1986 Hong Kong action movie starring Brandon Lee in his Hong Kong movie debut, Michael Wong, Regina Kent, Chung Lam and Bolo Yeung. It was made by D.
Legacy of the Aldenata The Legacy of the Aldenata is the fictional universe of John Ringo's military science fiction series. The central premise is that in 2001, humanity receives greetings from a highly advanced, peaceable Galactic Federation.
Legacy of the Force The Legacy of the Force is a series of nine science fiction novels set in the Star Wars fictional universe from 40 ABY to an unspecified time. The series is being written by Troy Denning, Aaron Allston and Karen Traviss.
Legacy of the Jedi Legacy of the Jedi is a book and part of the Star Wars Expanded Universe. It takes place during the Rise of the Empire story era from about fifty years before the events of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace to the Clone Wars, and follows the characters Lorian Nod and Count Dooku.
Legacy of the Wizard is a fantasy-themed, action-adventure platform game released for the MSX and Famicom in Japan and for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the United States. The game chronicles story of the Drasle family's attempt to destroy an ancient, evil dragon named Keela that is magically entrapped in a painting within an underground labyrinth.
Legacy preferences Legacy preferences or legacy admission is a type of preference given by educational institutions to certain applicants on the basis of their familial relationship to alumni of that institution. There is a long history of this practice at American universities and colleges.
Legacy Recordings Legacy Recordings is Sony BMG Music Entertainment's Award-winning catalog division. It was founded in 1990 by CBS Records (renamed Sony Music in 1991) to handle reissues of recordings from the vast catalogues of Columbia Records, Epic Records and associated labels.
Legacy system A legacy system is an existing computer system or application program which continues to be used because the user (typically an organization) does not want to replace or redesign it. Many people use this term to refer to "antiquated" systems.
Legacy transformation Legacy Transformation, or legacy modernization, refers to the upgrade and modernization of legacy applications through the evolution to new platforms and technologies. Sometimes refered to as software migration, legacy transformation aims to retain and extend the value of the legacy investment through migration to new platforms.
Legacy Trust Legacy Trust UK is a consortium that has been selected as the preferred candidate to establish a new charitable Trust to support a diverse range of cultural and sporting initiatives throughout the UK, associated with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The UK Government has announced in 2006 that it will receive a grant of ÂŁ40 million.
Legacy Virus In the fictional Marvel Universe, the Legacy Virus was a devastating plague that ripped through the mutant population, killing hundreds and mutating so that it affected baseline humans as well, until it was cured almost overnight by the sacrifice of the superhero Colossus, a member of the X-Men. The Legacy Virus storyline ran through various Marvel comics titles from 1993 to 2001.
Legacy: the Absolute Best Legacy: the Absolute Best is a two-disc compilation album by The Doors released in 2003. This compilation includes the uncensored versions of both Break on Through (the lyrics "she gets high" are restored) and The End (with Morrison's liberal use of the word "fuck" during the song's interlude).
Legal & General Legal & General Group Plc is a British based financial services company that provides life, health and other insurance, as well as pensions and investments. It is headquartered in London and its shares trade on the London Stock Exchange as part of the FTSE 100 Index.
Legal administrator A legal administrator is a non-attorney law office employee or law office manager responsible for a law firm's overall day-to-day operations. Legal administrators are responsible for ensuring the delivery of legal services by supervising staff and identifying and developing business opportunities.
Legal advice In the common law, legal advice is the giving of a formal and binding opinion regarding the substance or procedure of the law by an officer of the court, ordinarily in exchange for financial or other tangible compensation. Advice given without remuneration is normally referred to as being pro bono publico (in the public good), or colloquially, pro bono.
Legal age The concept of legal age is a limitation set by law that specifies that only people that have reached a certain age are allowed to participate in some activity. These ages differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and sometimes have special exceptions.
Legal aid Most liberal democracies consider that it is necessary to provide some level of legal aid to persons otherwise unable to afford legal representation. To not do so would deprive such persons of access to the court system.
Legal auditing According to the National Association of Legal Auditing (NALA), legal auditing is a litigation management practice and risk management tool, used by insurance and other consumers of legal services, to determine if hourly billing errors, abuses, and inefficiencies exist by carefully examining and indentifying unreasonable attorney fees and expenses auditors conduct a detailed analysis of original time records, attorney work production, expenses and hourly rate benchmarks. The purpose of a legal bill auditing is to save money for the insurance company and their clients.
Legal Action Comics Legal Action Comics is a series of comics anthologies edited by illustrator Danny Hellman which features work from many alternative comics artists. The first volume in the series was published in 2001 Hellman, Danny, editor.
Legal Briefs Legal Briefs is an interactive television program aired on CablePulse24 and CourtTV Canada, hosted by Lorne Honickman, a lawyer and journalist, as he discusses the ins & outs of the Canadian legal system and provides free legal advice.
Legal citation signals Legal citation signals are a set of brief abbreviated phrases or words used to clarify the proposition, authority, or significance of the legal citation. Signals help a reader quickly discern meaning or usefulness of a particular reference when the reference itself does not provide adequate information.
Legal Code of Pskov The Legal Code of Pskov (Russian: ĐźŃковŃкая ŃŃдная грамота) was a legal code of the Pskov Republic, based on certain resolutions of the Pskovian veche, boyar council, princely decrees, regulations of the Russkaya Pravda and common law.
Legal death Legal death is a legal pronouncement by a qualified person that further medical care is not appropriate, and that a patient should be considered dead under the law. The specific criteria used to pronounce legal death are variable and depend on circumstances.
Legal doctrine Legal doctrine is a framework, set of rules, procedural steps, or test, often established through precedent in the common law, through which judgments can be determined in a given legal case. A doctrine comes about when a judge makes a ruling where a process is outlined and applied, and allows for it to be equally applied to like cases.
Legal drama A legal drama is a work of dramatic fiction about law, crime, punishment or the legal profession. Subtypes of legal dramas include courtroom dramas and legal thrillers, and come in all forms, including novels, television shows, and films.
Legal education Legal education is the education of individuals who intend to become legal professionals or those who simply intend to use their law degree to some end, either related to law (such as politics or academic) or unrelated (such as business entrepreneurship). It includes:
Legal education in the United States Legal education in the United States generally refers to the education of lawyers, and that is the focus of this article. Other types of legal education, such as that of paralegals, of Limited Practice Officers (in Washington), and of the citizenry in general, is not presently incorporated in this article.
Legal entity A legal entity is a natural person or a legal construct through which the law allows a group of natural persons to act as if it were a single composite individual for certain purposes. The most common purposes are lawsuits, property ownership, and contracts.
Legal ethics Legal ethics refers to an ethical code governing those in the practice of law. In many places, lawyers are bound by an ethical code that is enforced by self-governing bar associations, which have the authority to discipline (up to and including disbarment) members who engage in unethical professional behavior.
Legal Electronic Data Exchange Standard The Legal Electronic Data Exchange Standard is a set of two file format specifications intended to standardize bill/invoice data transmitted electronically ("e-billed") from a law firm to a corporate client. It is abbreviated LEDES, and usually pronounced as "leeds".
Legal fiction In the common law tradition, legal fictions are suppositions of fact taken to be true by the courts of law, but which are not necessarily true. They typically are done to evade archaic rules of procedure or to extend the jurisdiction of the courts in ways that were considered useful, but not strictly authorized by the old rule.
Legal formalism Legal formalism is a Positivist view in jurisprudence and the philosophy of law. While Benthamite positivism can be seen as appertaining to the legislature, legal formalism appertains to the Judge; that is, formalism does not (as positivists do) suggest that the substantive justice of a law is irrelevant, but rather, that in a democracy, that is a question for the legislature to address, not the Judge.
Legal Framework Order, 2002 The Legal Framework Order, 2002 (LFO) was issued by Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf in August 2002. It provided for the general elections of 2002 and the revival of the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan, but added numerous amendments to the Constitution.
Legal guardian A legal guardian is a person who has the legal authority (and the corresponding duty) to care for the personal and property interests of another person, called a ward. Usually, a person has the status of guardian because the ward is incapable of caring for his or her own interests due to infancy, incapacity, or disability.
Legal history of the People's Republic of China The origin of the current law of the People's Republic of China can be traced back to the period of the early 1930s, during the establishment of the Chinese Soviet Republic. In 1931 the first supreme court was established.
Legal challenges to NSA warrantless searches in the United States Legal challenges to NSA warrantless searches in the United States started one month after the existence of an NSA domestic surveillance program was revealed in the press on December 16, 2005. The litigation faces unusual obstacles.
Legal immigration problems In the USA, there is currently great inequality in illegal immigration and legal immigration, with legal immigrants of high skill facing multi-year bureaucratic backlogs at USCIS. With family and employment - based immigration, errors can result in tragic mistreatments of immigrants, spouses and children, even affecting US citizens.
Legal institutions of Scotland in the High Middle Ages Scottish legal institutions in the High Middle Ages are, for the purposes of this article, the informal and formal systems which governed and helped to manage Scottish society between the years 900 and 1288, a period roughly corresponding with the general European era usually called the High Middle Ages. Scottish society in this period was predominantly Gaelic.
Legal instrument Legal instrument is a legal term of art that is used for any written legal document such as a certificate, a deed, a will, an Act of Parliament or a law passed by a competent legislative body in municipal (domestic) or international law. Many legal instruments were written under seal by affixing a wax or paper seal to the document in evidence of its legal execution and authenticity (this could often remove the need for consideration in contract law); however, today most jurisdictions have done away with the requirement of documents being under seal in order to give them legal effect.
Legal issues in airsoft Airsoft as a game and airsoft guns themselves are legal in many parts of the world, but not legal in all countries. Some countries have specific restrictions such as maximum muzzle energy, rules against using the trademarks of real firearms, and special marking requirements (such as brightly colored barrel tips).
Legal issues with fan fiction Due to the modern definition of fan fiction as derivative works, there are many legal issues in fan fiction, most prominently (but not exclusively) arising under United States copyright law. The purpose of this article is to detail and clarify these issues.
Legal malpractice Legal malpractice is the term for negligence by an attorney that causes harm to his or her client. In order to rise to an actionable level of negligence, the injured party must show that the attorney's acts were not merely the result of poor strategy, but that they were the result of errors that no reasonable attorney would make.
Legal maxim A Legal Maxim is an established principle or proposition. The Latin term maxima is not to be found in Roman law with any meaning exactly analogous to that of a legal maxim in the modern sense of the word, but the treatises of many of the Roman jurists on Regular definitiones, and Sententiae juris are, in some measure, collections of maxims.
Legal monopoly A legal monopoly, statutory monopoly, or de jure monopoly is a monopoly that is protected by law from competition. A statutory monopoly may take the form of a government monopoly where the state owns the particular means of production or government-granted monopoly where a private interest is protected from competition such as being granted exclusive rights to offer a particular service in a specific region while agreeing to have their policies and prices regulated.
Legal Man "Legal Man" is a single released by Belle & Sebastian on Jeepster Records in 2000. The title track also features Jonny Quinn and Rozanne Suarez of The Maisonettes on congas and vocals, respectively.
Legal Marxism Legal Marxism was a Russian political movement based on a particular interpretation of Marxism whose proponents were active between 1894 and 1901. The movement's primary theoreticians were Pyotr Struve, Nikolai Berdyaev, Sergei Bulgakov, Mikhail Tugan Baranovsky and Semyon Frank.
Legal Matter Management Legal Matter Management or Matter Management can be defined as the comprehensive project management of legal matters within a corporate legal department. Matter management software systems help corporate legal departments and their staff manage the day to day complexities involved in managing legal matters.
Legal name Legal name is often the name which an individual is called at birth or which appears on their birth certificate (see birth name) or marriage certificate (in those States which have a statute allowing a name change to be recorded at marriage). Most States still allow the common law of changing one's name through non-fraudulent use and this is actually the most common method since most women who marry do not petition a court under the statutorily prescribed method, but simply use a new name (typically the husband's, a custom which started under the theory of coverture where a woman lost her identity and most rights when she married).
Legal naturalism Legal naturalism is a term coined by Olufemi Taiwo to describe a current in the social philosophy of Karl Marx which can be interpreted as one of Natural Law. Taiwo considered it the manifestation of Natural Law in a dialectical materialist context.
Legal nurse consultant A legal nurse consultant (LNC) is a registered nurse who uses existing expertise as a health care professional plus specialized legal training to consult on medical-related cases. This is also known as the nursing speciality of legal nursing.
Legal observer Legal observers are individuals, usually representatives of human rights agencies, who attend public demonstrations, protests and other activities where there is a potential for conflict between the demonstrators and the police, security guards or other law enforcement personnel. The purpose of legal observers is to monitor any illegal or improper behaviour by the police.
Legal origins theory In economics, the legal origins theory states that many aspects of a country's economic state of development are the result of their legal system, most of all where a particular country received its law from. The first papers on the theory were published from 1997 onwards by a group of researchers around Andrei Shleifer.
Legal outsourcing Legal outsourcing refers to the practice of a law firm obtaining legal support services from an outside law firm or legal support services company. When the outsourced entity is based in another country the practice is sometimes called Offshoring.
Legal periodicals Legal periodicals are issued in number at stated intervals that contains matters on a variety of legal topics distributed in the same way as in the case of general periodicals in to contributed articles, editorial materials, book reviews etc. They contain comments on current statutes and decisions and extended articles on important legal articles.
Left Turn (US) Left Turn is an anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian network that was formed in 2001 in the aftermath of the anti-WTO (world trade organization) mass mobilizations that took place in Seattle, Washington DC and Quebec City. The group publishes a magazine, also called Left Turn which will publish its twenty third issue in December 2006.
Left ventricle The left ventricle is one of four chambers (two atria and two ventricles) in the human heart. It receives oxygenated blood from the left atrium via the mitral valve, and pumps it into the aorta via the aortic valve.
Left Wing Fascists Left Wing Fascists is a band from the Tidewater region of Virginia. The band consisted of Big Al Staggs (vocals), Scott Carlisle (lead guitar), Eric Nestor (guitar and vocals), Markus Wegener (bass) and Rick Murphy (drums).
Left Youth (Finland) The Left Youth (Vasemmistonuoret in Finnish, Vänsterunga in Swedish) is a political youth organization in Finland. It is considered the youth wing of the Left Alliance, but it is not officially affiliated with the party - members of the Left Youth are not automatically members of the Left Alliance.
Left-arm In cricket terminology, a batsman who bats left handed is described as a 'left hand' bat. However, a bowler who bowls the ball with his or her left hand is, by convention, called a 'left-arm' or 'left arm' (rather than 'left hand' or 'left handed') bowler.
Left-arm unorthodox spin In cricket, left-arm unorthodox spin – often known as slow left-arm chinaman and abbreviated to SLC – is a style of bowling. The bowler uses a wrist torsion action to spin the ball so that when it pitches it turns from off to leg for a right-handed batsman, i.
Left-bank Ukraine Left-bank Ukraine (; ; ) is a historic name of the part of Ukraine on the left (East) bank of the Dnieper River, comprising the modern-day oblasts of Chernihiv, Poltava and Sumy as well as the eastern parts of the Kiev and Cherkasy.
Left-foot braking Left-foot braking is the technique of using the left foot to operate the brake pedal in an automobile, leaving the right foot dedicated to the throttle pedal. It contrasts with the normal practice of the left foot operating the clutch pedal, and the right foot operating the brake and accelerator pedals.
Left-Green Movement The Left-Green Movement (Vinstrihreyfingin - grænt framboð) is a political party in Iceland. It was founded in 1999 by a few members of Alþingi that did not approve of the planned merger of the left parties in Iceland that resulted in the founding of the Alliance (Samfylkingin).
Left-handed A person who is left-handed primarily uses his or her left hand, more so than the right hand; a left-hander will probably use the left hand for tasks such as personal care, cooking, and so on. Writing is not as precise an indicator of handedness as it might seem, because many left-handed people write with their right hand but use their left hand for other tasks.
Left-handed specialist In baseball, a left-handed specialist (also called, somewhat derisively, a LOOGY or Lefty One Out Guy) is a left-handed relief pitcher who specializes in getting left-handed batters out. These pitchers will commonly only pitch to a very small number of batters in each outing (often just one), and rarely to right-handed batters.
Left-libertarianism Historically, the term libertarianism was coined by leftist followers of Mikhail Bakunin to describe their own, anti-statist version of socialism, as contrasted with the state socialism implemented by Leninist regimes. In much of the non-English speaking world, the term still has this meaning.
Left-right symmetry Left-right symmetry is a general principle in physics which holds that valid physical laws must not produce a different result for a motion that is left-handed than motion that is right-handed. The most common application is expressed as equal treatment of clockwise and counter-clockwise rotations.
Left-to-right mark The left-to-right mark () is a non-printing character used in the computerized typesetting of bi-directional text containg mixed left-to-right scripts (such as English and Russian) and right-to-left scripts (such as Arabic and Hebrew). It is used to change the way adjacent characters are grouped with respect to text direciton.
Left-wing conspiracy Left-wing conspiracy refers to a purported cohesive network of political liberals who seek to discredit, smear and politically ruin conservatives in a more insidious and illegal way than is common in modern mainstream politics.
Left-wing politics In politics, left-wing or the left are associated, to varying degrees, with social (as opposed to classical) liberalism, social democracy, socialism, green politics , anarchism, and communism, in contradistinction to its polar opposite on the political spectrum, the right.
Left, Right & Center Left, Right, & Center is a weekly public radio program hosted by Matthew Miller that provides a confrontational political discourse between various points on the political spectrum. The show's regular co-hosts are as follows:
Lefter Küçükandonyadis Lefter Küçükandonyadis (Greek: ΛευτÎĎης Αντωνιάδης Lefteris Antoniadis), born 1925 in Istanbul, is a legendary football player and well recognised as one of the greatest footballers to play for Turkey. At the height of his career in the 1950s, he was regarded as one of the best players in the world.
Leftfield Leftfield were a duo of electronica artists and record producers, Paul Daley (formerly of A Man Called Adam and the Brand New Heavies) and Neil Barnes, formed in 1989 in London, England. The name Leftfield was originally used simply by Neil Barnes for the first single Not Forgotten but after this Paul Daley was involved firstly in remixing songs and then in the creation of following music.
LeftLion LeftLion is an underground listings magazine which covers Nottingham, with a specific focus on the local music scene. The magazine also gives its name to regular free music nights at venues in the city, featuring bands from the area, and produces monthly podcasts.
Leftover Salmon Leftover Salmon is a genre-bending band from Boulder, Colorado. Their unique blend of bluegrass, rock, country, and Cajun/Zydeco, which the band calls "Polyethnic Cajun Slamgrass", has found favor with the jam band scene.
Lefty Frizzell William Orville 'Lefty' Frizzell (March 31, 1928 – July 19, 1975) was an American country music singer and songwriter of the 1950s; a leading exponent of the Honky Tonk style of country music. His relaxed style of singing was a major influence on later stars Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson.
Lefty GĂłmez Vernon Louis GĂłmez (November 26, 1908 in Rodeo, California - February 17, 1989 in Greenbrae, California) was a Hispanic, left-handed, Major League pitcher who played in the American League for the New York Yankees between 1930 and 1942. [his career, almost entirely spent with the Yankees, he had a 189-102 record] with 1468 [[strikeouts and a 3.
Lefty O'Doul Francis Joseph "Lefty" O'Doul (March 4, 1897 - December 7, 1969) was an American Major League Baseball player who went on to become an extraordinarily successful manager in the minor leagues, and also a vital figure in the establishment of professional baseball in Japan.
Lefty Phillips Harold Ross "Lefty" Phillips (June 16, 1919 - June 12, 1972) was an American coach, manager, scout and front office executive in Major League Baseball. Phillips was the second manager in California Angels franchise history.
Lefty Scott Marshall "Lefty" Scott (July 15, 1915 - March 3, 1964) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1945. The 29-year-old rookie was a native of Roswell, New Mexico.
Lefty the Salesman Lefty the Salesman (commonly known simply as Lefty) is a Sesame Street character from the 70s and 80s. He is not to be confused with Lefty, the shaky Fat Blue Anything Muppet in the "Secret Knock" skit.
Lefty Williams Claude Preston "Lefty" Williams (March 9, 1893 - November 4, 1959) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. He is probably best known for his involvement in the 1919 World Series fix, better known as the Black Sox scandal.
Lefty-righty switch In baseball, the lefty-righty switch is a manouevre by which a player that struggles against left- or right-handed players is replaced by a player who excels in the situation, usually only for the duration of the situation in question. For instance, a right-handed pitcher who is weak against left-handed hitting and is facing a left-handed hitter would be replaced with a pitcher, usually left-handed, who does a superior job of getting a left-handed hitter out.
LeFrak City, Queens LeFrak City is a large housing development in the Corona neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens, built in the mid-1960s for working and middle-class families and located on the north side of the Long Island Expressway. The complex of twenty eighteen-story (technically sixteen-story, since the lobbies are the 2nd floors and there are no 13th floors) apartment towers covers 40 acres (162,000 m²) and currently houses over 14,000 people.
LeFrak-Moelis Records LeFrak-Moelis Records (or LMR for short) is a New York City-based record label founded by The LeFrak Organization and music industry veteran Herb Moelis. They had initial success in the late 1980's and early 1990's with Miami-based freestyle artist Stevie B.
Leg (geometry) In a right triangle, the legs of the triangle are the two sides that are perpendicular to each other, as opposed to the hypotenuse. The ratio of the lengths of the legs defines the trigonometric functions tangent and cotangent of the angles in the triangle.
Leg before wicket In the sport of cricket, leg before wicket (LBW) is one of the ways in which a batsman can be dismissed. An umpire will rule a batsman out LBW under a complex series of circumstances that primarily include the ball hitting the batsman's body when it would otherwise have continued to hit the wicket.
Leg warmer Leg Warmers are a type of clothing similar to a sock except that they are footless. Leg warmers were traditionally made of pure wool, though nowadays they are typically made from a mixture of cotton and/or synthetic fibers.
Leg-yield The leg-yield is a lateral movement performed on a horse, in which the horse travels both sideways and forward at the same time. The horse is fairly straight through his body in the leg-yield, although he may have a slight bend to the outside (away from the direction of travel).
Legacy (film) Legacy is the title of a film starring Madeline Zima, due in theaters in 2006. It was filmed in Los Angeles and concerns a sorority house where one of the rushees is found dead and the primary suspects are three of the most popular girls of the house.
Legacy code Legacy code is source code that relates to a no-longer supported or manufactured operating system or other computer system. The term can also mean code inserted into modern software for the purpose of maintaining an older or previously supported feature—for example supporting a serial interface even though most modern systems don't have a serial port.
Legacy costs Legacy costs is a term formed by analogy with the computer industry's legacy systems. Legacy costs are those incured by an organization in prior years under different leadership or when the entity's priorities and resources were different.
Legacy Community Ratepayers Association The Legacy Community Ratepayers Association (LCRA) is an organization established to provide unity of purpose with respect to such issues as safety, security, schooling and the general maintenance of the Legacy community in the character it was originally proposed. The Association shall seek to be a vehicle through which residents and homeowner families can make suggestions and voice concerns with a view to sustaining the wellbeing of the neighbourhood, and to promote friendship and understanding among all its members.
Legacy Hotels Real Estate Investment Trust Legacy Hotels Real Estate Investment Trust is real estate investment trust (REIT) established in 1997 and owner of 24 hotel and resort properties most of which are located in Canada, but it also has a couple in the US. It merged the Fairmont Hotels and Resorts and former CP Hotels and Resorts banner.
Legacy IBM PC Emulator Legacy (full name Legacy IBM PC emulator) is an in-progress emulator of the 16-bit IBM PC home computer, launched in the early 80's. The primary purpose of Legacy is to allow the playing of games that no longer work or run too quickly on modern IBM PC compatible computers.
Legacy mode Legacy mode is the state of a computer software system that is no longer supported or upgraded by the original manufacturer yet continues to execute satisfactorily for the user(s) in perpetuity. In some cases, legacy mode refers to backward compatibility.
Legacy of Cain The Legacy of Cain is an unfinished cycle of novellas by the 19th century Austro-Hungarian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. The 36 novellas were to be grouped into six books of six stories each, with each volume titled according to its central theme; those are "Love", "Property", "the State", "War", "Work", and "Death".
Legacy of Kain Legacy of Kain is a series of video games developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Eidos Interactive. Although the first game in the series was developed by Silicon Knights, Crystal Dynamics later won a legal battle over the rights to Legacy of Kain and continued the series without Silicon Knights.
Legacy of Power Legacy of Power is the 4th episode of the 12th incarnation of the Power Rangers series, Power Rangers: Dino Thunder. The episode is also the 500th episode of the Power Rangers series, commemorating the milestone episode with a clip show, showing scenes from the entire Power Rangers history.
Legacy of Rage Legacy of Rage (aka Long Zai jiang hu Cantonese title) is a 1986 Hong Kong action movie starring Brandon Lee in his Hong Kong movie debut, Michael Wong, Regina Kent, Chung Lam and Bolo Yeung. It was made by D.
Legacy of the Aldenata The Legacy of the Aldenata is the fictional universe of John Ringo's military science fiction series. The central premise is that in 2001, humanity receives greetings from a highly advanced, peaceable Galactic Federation.
Legacy of the Force The Legacy of the Force is a series of nine science fiction novels set in the Star Wars fictional universe from 40 ABY to an unspecified time. The series is being written by Troy Denning, Aaron Allston and Karen Traviss.
Legacy of the Jedi Legacy of the Jedi is a book and part of the Star Wars Expanded Universe. It takes place during the Rise of the Empire story era from about fifty years before the events of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace to the Clone Wars, and follows the characters Lorian Nod and Count Dooku.
Legacy of the Wizard is a fantasy-themed, action-adventure platform game released for the MSX and Famicom in Japan and for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the United States. The game chronicles story of the Drasle family's attempt to destroy an ancient, evil dragon named Keela that is magically entrapped in a painting within an underground labyrinth.
Legacy preferences Legacy preferences or legacy admission is a type of preference given by educational institutions to certain applicants on the basis of their familial relationship to alumni of that institution. There is a long history of this practice at American universities and colleges.
Legacy Recordings Legacy Recordings is Sony BMG Music Entertainment's Award-winning catalog division. It was founded in 1990 by CBS Records (renamed Sony Music in 1991) to handle reissues of recordings from the vast catalogues of Columbia Records, Epic Records and associated labels.
Legacy system A legacy system is an existing computer system or application program which continues to be used because the user (typically an organization) does not want to replace or redesign it. Many people use this term to refer to "antiquated" systems.
Legacy transformation Legacy Transformation, or legacy modernization, refers to the upgrade and modernization of legacy applications through the evolution to new platforms and technologies. Sometimes refered to as software migration, legacy transformation aims to retain and extend the value of the legacy investment through migration to new platforms.
Legacy Trust Legacy Trust UK is a consortium that has been selected as the preferred candidate to establish a new charitable Trust to support a diverse range of cultural and sporting initiatives throughout the UK, associated with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The UK Government has announced in 2006 that it will receive a grant of ÂŁ40 million.
Legacy Virus In the fictional Marvel Universe, the Legacy Virus was a devastating plague that ripped through the mutant population, killing hundreds and mutating so that it affected baseline humans as well, until it was cured almost overnight by the sacrifice of the superhero Colossus, a member of the X-Men. The Legacy Virus storyline ran through various Marvel comics titles from 1993 to 2001.
Legacy: the Absolute Best Legacy: the Absolute Best is a two-disc compilation album by The Doors released in 2003. This compilation includes the uncensored versions of both Break on Through (the lyrics "she gets high" are restored) and The End (with Morrison's liberal use of the word "fuck" during the song's interlude).
Legal & General Legal & General Group Plc is a British based financial services company that provides life, health and other insurance, as well as pensions and investments. It is headquartered in London and its shares trade on the London Stock Exchange as part of the FTSE 100 Index.
Legal administrator A legal administrator is a non-attorney law office employee or law office manager responsible for a law firm's overall day-to-day operations. Legal administrators are responsible for ensuring the delivery of legal services by supervising staff and identifying and developing business opportunities.
Legal advice In the common law, legal advice is the giving of a formal and binding opinion regarding the substance or procedure of the law by an officer of the court, ordinarily in exchange for financial or other tangible compensation. Advice given without remuneration is normally referred to as being pro bono publico (in the public good), or colloquially, pro bono.
Legal age The concept of legal age is a limitation set by law that specifies that only people that have reached a certain age are allowed to participate in some activity. These ages differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and sometimes have special exceptions.
Legal aid Most liberal democracies consider that it is necessary to provide some level of legal aid to persons otherwise unable to afford legal representation. To not do so would deprive such persons of access to the court system.
Legal auditing According to the National Association of Legal Auditing (NALA), legal auditing is a litigation management practice and risk management tool, used by insurance and other consumers of legal services, to determine if hourly billing errors, abuses, and inefficiencies exist by carefully examining and indentifying unreasonable attorney fees and expenses auditors conduct a detailed analysis of original time records, attorney work production, expenses and hourly rate benchmarks. The purpose of a legal bill auditing is to save money for the insurance company and their clients.
Legal Action Comics Legal Action Comics is a series of comics anthologies edited by illustrator Danny Hellman which features work from many alternative comics artists. The first volume in the series was published in 2001 Hellman, Danny, editor.
Legal Briefs Legal Briefs is an interactive television program aired on CablePulse24 and CourtTV Canada, hosted by Lorne Honickman, a lawyer and journalist, as he discusses the ins & outs of the Canadian legal system and provides free legal advice.
Legal citation signals Legal citation signals are a set of brief abbreviated phrases or words used to clarify the proposition, authority, or significance of the legal citation. Signals help a reader quickly discern meaning or usefulness of a particular reference when the reference itself does not provide adequate information.
Legal Code of Pskov The Legal Code of Pskov (Russian: ĐźŃковŃкая ŃŃдная грамота) was a legal code of the Pskov Republic, based on certain resolutions of the Pskovian veche, boyar council, princely decrees, regulations of the Russkaya Pravda and common law.
Legal death Legal death is a legal pronouncement by a qualified person that further medical care is not appropriate, and that a patient should be considered dead under the law. The specific criteria used to pronounce legal death are variable and depend on circumstances.
Legal doctrine Legal doctrine is a framework, set of rules, procedural steps, or test, often established through precedent in the common law, through which judgments can be determined in a given legal case. A doctrine comes about when a judge makes a ruling where a process is outlined and applied, and allows for it to be equally applied to like cases.
Legal drama A legal drama is a work of dramatic fiction about law, crime, punishment or the legal profession. Subtypes of legal dramas include courtroom dramas and legal thrillers, and come in all forms, including novels, television shows, and films.
Legal education Legal education is the education of individuals who intend to become legal professionals or those who simply intend to use their law degree to some end, either related to law (such as politics or academic) or unrelated (such as business entrepreneurship). It includes:
Legal education in the United States Legal education in the United States generally refers to the education of lawyers, and that is the focus of this article. Other types of legal education, such as that of paralegals, of Limited Practice Officers (in Washington), and of the citizenry in general, is not presently incorporated in this article.
Legal entity A legal entity is a natural person or a legal construct through which the law allows a group of natural persons to act as if it were a single composite individual for certain purposes. The most common purposes are lawsuits, property ownership, and contracts.
Legal ethics Legal ethics refers to an ethical code governing those in the practice of law. In many places, lawyers are bound by an ethical code that is enforced by self-governing bar associations, which have the authority to discipline (up to and including disbarment) members who engage in unethical professional behavior.
Legal Electronic Data Exchange Standard The Legal Electronic Data Exchange Standard is a set of two file format specifications intended to standardize bill/invoice data transmitted electronically ("e-billed") from a law firm to a corporate client. It is abbreviated LEDES, and usually pronounced as "leeds".
Legal fiction In the common law tradition, legal fictions are suppositions of fact taken to be true by the courts of law, but which are not necessarily true. They typically are done to evade archaic rules of procedure or to extend the jurisdiction of the courts in ways that were considered useful, but not strictly authorized by the old rule.
Legal formalism Legal formalism is a Positivist view in jurisprudence and the philosophy of law. While Benthamite positivism can be seen as appertaining to the legislature, legal formalism appertains to the Judge; that is, formalism does not (as positivists do) suggest that the substantive justice of a law is irrelevant, but rather, that in a democracy, that is a question for the legislature to address, not the Judge.
Legal Framework Order, 2002 The Legal Framework Order, 2002 (LFO) was issued by Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf in August 2002. It provided for the general elections of 2002 and the revival of the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan, but added numerous amendments to the Constitution.
Legal guardian A legal guardian is a person who has the legal authority (and the corresponding duty) to care for the personal and property interests of another person, called a ward. Usually, a person has the status of guardian because the ward is incapable of caring for his or her own interests due to infancy, incapacity, or disability.
Legal history of the People's Republic of China The origin of the current law of the People's Republic of China can be traced back to the period of the early 1930s, during the establishment of the Chinese Soviet Republic. In 1931 the first supreme court was established.
Legal challenges to NSA warrantless searches in the United States Legal challenges to NSA warrantless searches in the United States started one month after the existence of an NSA domestic surveillance program was revealed in the press on December 16, 2005. The litigation faces unusual obstacles.
Legal immigration problems In the USA, there is currently great inequality in illegal immigration and legal immigration, with legal immigrants of high skill facing multi-year bureaucratic backlogs at USCIS. With family and employment - based immigration, errors can result in tragic mistreatments of immigrants, spouses and children, even affecting US citizens.
Legal institutions of Scotland in the High Middle Ages Scottish legal institutions in the High Middle Ages are, for the purposes of this article, the informal and formal systems which governed and helped to manage Scottish society between the years 900 and 1288, a period roughly corresponding with the general European era usually called the High Middle Ages. Scottish society in this period was predominantly Gaelic.
Legal instrument Legal instrument is a legal term of art that is used for any written legal document such as a certificate, a deed, a will, an Act of Parliament or a law passed by a competent legislative body in municipal (domestic) or international law. Many legal instruments were written under seal by affixing a wax or paper seal to the document in evidence of its legal execution and authenticity (this could often remove the need for consideration in contract law); however, today most jurisdictions have done away with the requirement of documents being under seal in order to give them legal effect.
Legal issues in airsoft Airsoft as a game and airsoft guns themselves are legal in many parts of the world, but not legal in all countries. Some countries have specific restrictions such as maximum muzzle energy, rules against using the trademarks of real firearms, and special marking requirements (such as brightly colored barrel tips).
Legal issues with fan fiction Due to the modern definition of fan fiction as derivative works, there are many legal issues in fan fiction, most prominently (but not exclusively) arising under United States copyright law. The purpose of this article is to detail and clarify these issues.
Legal malpractice Legal malpractice is the term for negligence by an attorney that causes harm to his or her client. In order to rise to an actionable level of negligence, the injured party must show that the attorney's acts were not merely the result of poor strategy, but that they were the result of errors that no reasonable attorney would make.
Legal maxim A Legal Maxim is an established principle or proposition. The Latin term maxima is not to be found in Roman law with any meaning exactly analogous to that of a legal maxim in the modern sense of the word, but the treatises of many of the Roman jurists on Regular definitiones, and Sententiae juris are, in some measure, collections of maxims.
Legal monopoly A legal monopoly, statutory monopoly, or de jure monopoly is a monopoly that is protected by law from competition. A statutory monopoly may take the form of a government monopoly where the state owns the particular means of production or government-granted monopoly where a private interest is protected from competition such as being granted exclusive rights to offer a particular service in a specific region while agreeing to have their policies and prices regulated.
Legal Man "Legal Man" is a single released by Belle & Sebastian on Jeepster Records in 2000. The title track also features Jonny Quinn and Rozanne Suarez of The Maisonettes on congas and vocals, respectively.
Legal Marxism Legal Marxism was a Russian political movement based on a particular interpretation of Marxism whose proponents were active between 1894 and 1901. The movement's primary theoreticians were Pyotr Struve, Nikolai Berdyaev, Sergei Bulgakov, Mikhail Tugan Baranovsky and Semyon Frank.
Legal Matter Management Legal Matter Management or Matter Management can be defined as the comprehensive project management of legal matters within a corporate legal department. Matter management software systems help corporate legal departments and their staff manage the day to day complexities involved in managing legal matters.
Legal name Legal name is often the name which an individual is called at birth or which appears on their birth certificate (see birth name) or marriage certificate (in those States which have a statute allowing a name change to be recorded at marriage). Most States still allow the common law of changing one's name through non-fraudulent use and this is actually the most common method since most women who marry do not petition a court under the statutorily prescribed method, but simply use a new name (typically the husband's, a custom which started under the theory of coverture where a woman lost her identity and most rights when she married).
Legal naturalism Legal naturalism is a term coined by Olufemi Taiwo to describe a current in the social philosophy of Karl Marx which can be interpreted as one of Natural Law. Taiwo considered it the manifestation of Natural Law in a dialectical materialist context.
Legal nurse consultant A legal nurse consultant (LNC) is a registered nurse who uses existing expertise as a health care professional plus specialized legal training to consult on medical-related cases. This is also known as the nursing speciality of legal nursing.
Legal observer Legal observers are individuals, usually representatives of human rights agencies, who attend public demonstrations, protests and other activities where there is a potential for conflict between the demonstrators and the police, security guards or other law enforcement personnel. The purpose of legal observers is to monitor any illegal or improper behaviour by the police.
Legal origins theory In economics, the legal origins theory states that many aspects of a country's economic state of development are the result of their legal system, most of all where a particular country received its law from. The first papers on the theory were published from 1997 onwards by a group of researchers around Andrei Shleifer.
Legal outsourcing Legal outsourcing refers to the practice of a law firm obtaining legal support services from an outside law firm or legal support services company. When the outsourced entity is based in another country the practice is sometimes called Offshoring.
Legal periodicals Legal periodicals are issued in number at stated intervals that contains matters on a variety of legal topics distributed in the same way as in the case of general periodicals in to contributed articles, editorial materials, book reviews etc. They contain comments on current statutes and decisions and extended articles on important legal articles.
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