A controlling interest is when a shareholder or group of shareholders in a corporation own enough voting stock to govern the outcome of important business decisions.

Session laws are the collection of statutes passed during a single congressional session. Statutes at Large are the published session laws in chronological order based on the enactment date of each statute at the end of each congressional session.

Slip laws are the first published version of individual statutes that have been passed by Congress. They can be either public law or private law and are published by the Office of the Federal Register.

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.