Medicine and Law Section 3
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| paraphrased | Restated; applies to restatement of text, passage, or work to convey the meaning in another form
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| perjured testimony | The voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised undre oath; false testimony
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| physician office laboratories (POLs) | Laboratories owned by a private physician or corporation, such as the laboratory inside a physician's office or a freestanding laboratory.
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| plaintiff | The person or group bringing a case or legal action to court.
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| precedence | To surpass in rank, dignity, or importance; to be, go, or come ahead or in front of.
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| precedents | A person or thing that serves as a model; something done or said that may serve as an example or rule to authorize or justify a subsequent act of the same kind.
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| preponderance of the evidence | Evidence that is of greater weight or more convincing than the evidence offered in opposition to it; evidence that as a whole shows that the fact sought to be proven is more probable than not.
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| prudent | Marked by wisdom or judiciousness; shrewd in the management of practical affairs.
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| quackery | The pretense of curing disease.
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| reasonable doubt | Doubt based on reason and arising from evidence or lack of evidence; it is not doubt that is imagined or conjured up, but doubt that would cause reasonable persons to hesitate before acting.
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| recourse | A turning to something or someone for help or protection.
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| relevant | Having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand.
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| respondent | The person required to make answer in a civil legal action or suit; similar to a defendant in a criminal trial.
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| slander | Oral defamtion; a harmful, false statement made about another person.
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| statutes | Laws enacted by the legislative branch of a government.
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| stipulate | To specify as a condition or requirement of an agreement or offer; to make an agreement or covenant to do or forbear from doing something.
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| subpoena | A writ or document commanding a person to appear in court under a penalty for failure to appear.
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| subpoena duces tecum | A legally binding request to appear in court and provide records or documents that pertain to a particular case.
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| testimony | A solemn declaration usually made orally by a witness under oath in response to interrogation by a lawyer or authorized public offical.
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| Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) | A unified set of rules covering many business transactions; it has been adopted in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and most US territories. Regulates fields of sales of goods; commercial paper; secured transactions in personal property; banking e
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| verdict | The finding or decision of a jury on a matter submitted to it in trial.
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