1. Knowledge sufficient to understand the nature of a transaction. 2. Official and authentic decision of a court of justice on the respective rights of the parties to an action submitted to it for determination.

Pertaining to the action in a court of law.

In the Medicare program, after payment or denial of an insurance claim and four levels of appeal, this is the fifth level in which the provider may file a civil action to be heard in a U.S. District Court. The amount in controversy must be $1000 or more.

1. Date in the Julian calendar, or actual number of the day within the year (i.e., July 17, 2006, is Julian date 2453934.1471). Astronomers and calendricists use the term in this sense, according to which a Julian date is a number, denoting a point in time, which consists of an integer part and a fractional part (e.g., 2439291.301), where the integer part is a Julian day number and the fractional part specifies the time elapsed since the start of the day denoted by that Julian day number. 2. In the commercial world the term “Julian date” has been used for a quite different concept, that of the number of the chronological date of the year 001 through 365 preceded by a two-digit year designation, so that January 1st = day 001 and February 28th = day 059; thus 06121 would be Monday, May 1, 2006. For the number of the day in the year, the proper term for this concept is “ordinal date.”

Legal territory over which a court has authority to hear and decide an issue and to enforce its decision.
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US: (1) A term used to describe which courts have the power or authority to decide a particular matter. (2) The geographical subdivision with respect to which an individual insurance regulatory body (such as a state insurance department) has authority.
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The power to hear and determine causes.

Philosophy of law and the system of applied justice through the law and the courts.

Type of life insurance policy purchased by an adult to give coverage for a child.