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Today's Terms
Parent Infant Trauma Syndrome (P.I.T.S.)
Definition:
See Battered Child Syndrome
prima facie
Definition:
Literally, "on its face." A fact presumed to be true unless disproved by some other evidence. In a criminal case, when the prosecution rests, the state's case is said to be prima facie, if the evidence so far introduced is sufficient to convict.
Recognizance
Definition:
The continued, habitual or compulsive commission of law violations after first having been convicted of prior offenses.
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