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Fiduciary
Definition:
A person who has assumed a special relationship to another person or another person's property, such as a trustee, administrator, executor, lawyer, or guardian. The fiduciary must exercise the highest degree of care to maintain and preserve the person's rights and/or property, which are within his/her charge
Interrogatories
Definition:
In the discovery phase of civil litigation, these written questions are submitted by one party to another party and must be answered in writing under oath.
Public defender
Definition:
In a civil tort action such as a medical malpractice suit, the plaintiff must show that an act or omission of the defendant was a proximate cause of the plaintiff's injury or loss. Similarly, in a criminal action, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant's action was the direct cause of the crime
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