Wherein the party of the first part hereby confuses the party of the second part.
Money or benefits given to make up for something bad that happened, because apparently 'sorry' doesn't pay the bills. The corporate world's way of putting a price tag on suffering, inconvenience, or injury. Often appears in legal settlements where lawyers translate your pain into billable hours and percentage points.
The fancy legal term for when a higher court says "nope" and annuls a lower court's decision, effectively erasing it from existence. It's the judicial version of ctrl+z, typically used in civil law systems to describe supreme courts flexing their authority. Think of it as the legal system's ultimate do-over button, but with more Latin.
The art of technically following regulations while completely missing their spirit or intent, focusing on checking boxes rather than actual safety or ethics. It's how companies can claim they're compliant while everything is obviously on fire.
The executive power move where a governor or president decides someone's punishment was a bit too harsh and dials it back a notch. It's basically the legal system's "my bad" button, offering pardons, commutations, or sentence reductions when mercy trumps strict justice. Think of it as the get-out-of-jail card that only the big bosses can hand out.
A clause in contracts that decides which state's laws apply if things go sideways, because apparently geography matters in legal disputes. Companies always pick the state with laws most favorable to them, which is why Delaware is very popular.
A doctrine that redirects funds from a settlement when individual payments would be impractical, usually sending unclaimed money to charities 'as near as possible' to the original purpose. Your $1.47 from a class action becomes a donation.
Unethical practices where someone finances another's lawsuit in exchange for a share of the proceeds (champerty) or meddles in litigation without legitimate interest (maintenance). Once common law crimes, now mostly historical curiosities.