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An adverb denoting a time or event following a previously specified point or occurrence.
Tonya Takahashi entered a not guilty plea on March 1. She filed her written notice of intent to rely on a mental disease or defect defense on March 12. The court rejected the notice because it came more than ten days after the plea.
Timothy Tang left Titan Industries on June 15. The firm accepted a new client adverse to one of Tang's former matters on July 20. The firm could proceed because no lawyer remaining at the firm held material confidential information from the prior representation.
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Talia Torres signed a residential lease on April 1. The apartment lacked working heat from the lease date through the May 1 move-in date. Torres terminated the lease before taking possession and recovered damages for the landlord's breach.
Tobias Thomas raised his fist and advanced toward Theo Thomas, causing immediate apprehension of harmful contact. Thomas lowered his arm before any contact occurred. Liability for assault attached even though the attempt ended without completion.
Twin Rivers Bank filed a financing statement covering equipment on January 10 and perfected its interest on January 25. Trailblazer Airlines filed and perfected a conflicting interest on January 20. The bank's interest held priority because its filing occurred first with no gap in perfection.
Tabitha Taylor executed a will in 2018 that revoked her 2015 will. She later revoked the 2018 will by physical act. The 2015 will remained revoked because nothing in the circumstances or her declarations showed intent to revive it.
The rule requires written notice of an insanity defense at the time of the not guilty plea or within ten days thereafter. Filing outside that window bars the defense unless the court finds good cause for a later filing.
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After a lawyer leaves a firm, the firm may represent clients adverse to the former lawyer's clients unless the matter is the same or substantially related and remaining lawyers possess material confidential information.
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A landlord breaches the implied warranty of habitability if residential property is unsuitable on the lease date and continuously thereafter until the tenant is entitled to possession.
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An actor who puts another in apprehension of imminent harmful contact remains liable for assault even if the actor thereafter abandons the attempt.
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Priority dates from the earlier of filing or perfection provided there is no period thereafter when the interest is both unfiled and unperfected.
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If a later will that revoked an earlier will is itself revoked by a physical act, the earlier will stays revoked unless circumstances or declarations show the testator intended revival.
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…the District Court; and her inability to obtain a legal abortion in Texas. Viewing Roe's case as of the time of its filing and thereafter until as late as May, there can be little dispute that it then presented a case or controversy and that, wholly apart from the class aspects, she, as a pregnant single woman thwarted by the…