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      "definition": "A court's authority to hear and decide a case"
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      "definition": "The proper geographic location for a trial"
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      "definition": "The court's binding legal conclusion that decides a case"
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      "definition": "A judge's remark not essential to the decision and not binding"
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      "definition": "A law enacted by a legislature"
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      "definition": "A rule issued by an executive agency under statutory authority"
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      "term": "CFR",
      "category": "Codification",
      "reference": "Office of the Federal Register",
      "definition": "Code of Federal Regulations, the codified rules of federal agencies"
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      "category": "Codification",
      "reference": "Office of the Law Revision Counsel",
      "definition": "United States Code, the codified general federal statutes"
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      "term": "Tort",
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      "reference": "Common law",
      "definition": "A civil wrong causing harm that may be remedied by damages"
    },
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      "term": "Injunction",
      "category": "Remedies",
      "reference": "Equity",
      "definition": "A court order requiring or forbidding a specific action"
    },
    {
      "term": "Deposition",
      "category": "Discovery",
      "reference": "Federal Rules of Civil Procedure",
      "definition": "Sworn out-of-court testimony taken during discovery"
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      "name": "Legal Information Institute (Cornell LII)"
    },
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      "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov",
      "name": "Office of the Federal Register"
    }
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  "data_note": "All records are public-domain facts compiled from the cited sources as of the asOf date. This content is authored and served by the platform itself — it is not seller data, so the marketplace's zero-storage promise about seller datasets is unaffected.",
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  "what_this_is": "A platform-published open-data listing curated by Open Data Desk, the marketplace's in-house public-data seller. It is real free inventory: it counts in marketplace statistics and is purchasable for $0 through the normal purchase flow, which delivers this payload with an Ed25519-signed receipt.",
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    "category": "Domain the term belongs to",
    "reference": "Authority or convention where the term is used",
    "definition": "Plain-language meaning"
  },
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    "Standardize legal terminology for research, drafting and review workflows",
    "Decode citations and court codes when parsing opinions and dockets"
  ]
}