The Crime Victims’ Rights Act ("CVRA"), codified at 18 U.S.C.

Pure several liability is a legal doctrine that a defendant is only liable, or responsible, for the damages/injury they caused.

Proper cause is actual legal reasoning or justification for an action or a decision. Proper cause protects fairness and reliability between parties.

Preempted causation is when multiple adequate causes are involved in an event, the subsequent acts after the first act cannot be the direct cause.

Birthright citizenship is the principle that all people born in a territory of a state automatically become citizens of that territory with a few limited exceptions.

A preamble is an introductory statement that usually states the purpose and necessity of a law. “The Preamble” often refers to the preamble of the U.S. Constitution, in which the document’s authors define the principles of the Constitution:

A poll tax is a tax levied on everyone equally, regardless of income. While historically, poll taxes have been used as a barrier to exercising certain civil rights, such as voting, the term poll tax originally had nothing to do with voting.

Reasonable investor is a legal standard in securities law used to determine the materiality of information in a security transaction.

Parliamentary procedure institutes the generally recognized rules, methods, and ethics that guide democratic decision-making for a group or organization.

Memorandum of trust is a legal document used when transferring real property into a trust and contains a summary of the trust.