Legal Dictionary
We give you a real legal dictionary, with each term organized so you can use it to score more points on exams.
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We'll get you from losing points on words you half-knew to knowing more legal terms than your examiners. Licensed attorneys created every entry, so you can use the exact definition instead of guessing which sense the question meant.
“I was on my bedroom floor two weeks before 1L, googling consideration, actually nauseous, because Wikipedia kept sending me to 1800s English history. I opened the dictionary and there was the sense my professor was going to mean, with an example sitting right there. I showed up the first week knowing the word.”
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Incoming 1L · Basic
“I work nights and I was reading the hypo on the bus, stuck on promissory estoppel like it was a foreign language. I looked it up, read the definition, then the example, and the whole hypo clicked before my stop. I walked into class actually ready to talk.”
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1L, works nights · Basic
“I was rewriting the same Contracts paragraph at 1 a.m. because I was using consideration like a vibe. I opened the dictionary, read the exact definition, and rewrote the paragraph around it. That is how you take points on an exam instead of hoping the grader knows what you meant.”
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2L · Basic
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You get a legal definition based on the closest source of truth, the citation you are tested on, and examples relevant for your exam preparation.
A requirement for the enforceability of a promise that demands a bargained-for exchange in which each party incurs a legal detriment or confers a legal benefit.
Dwight Dorsey, facing foreclosure on his home, transfers the property deed to the mortgagee in exchange for full discharge of the outstanding loan balance. The mortgagee accepts the deed and cancels the debt. The transaction satisfies the requirement of consideration because the discharge of the debt supplies the bargained-for exchange.
The President transmits a message to Congress recommending new legislation on infrastructure funding. Congress treats the message as a formal proposal and begins committee review. The communication does not illustrate the doctrine of consideration.
Daniel Diaz offers to pay Delilah Duran $50,000 to settle her pending contract claim. Duran rejects the offer. At trial Diaz attempts to introduce the offer to show the claim lacked merit. The evidence rule bars admission of the offer. The facts do not illustrate the doctrine of consideration.
Diego Duarte promises to watch Danielle Dixon's child for an afternoon without payment. While the child is in his care Duarte fails to secure a gate and the child is injured. Dixon sues for negligence. The facts illustrate tort liability for a gratuitous undertaking rather than the doctrine of consideration.
A jury awards Destiny Davis $1 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages against a corporate defendant. On appeal the court examines the ratio between the awards and the reprehensibility of the conduct. The facts concern due-process excessiveness review rather than the doctrine of consideration.
Dominion Capital's owners, a married couple, sign a written marital property agreement reallocating future earnings. One spouse later claims the agreement lacks consideration and is unenforceable. The statute renders the signed agreement enforceable without any exchange of consideration between the spouses.
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Legal Definitions
Licensed attorneys created every definition, organized so you can actually use the term. You get the legal language the exam scores, not a glossary line that is vaguely true everywhere.
Various senses
Plenty of legal terms carry one meaning in contract law and another in procedure. Those are separated into numbered senses rather than blended into a single sentence that is vaguely true everywhere and precisely wrong in context.
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