Citizen’s arrests can happen lawfully, but only in certain situations. Citizen’s arrests usually only arise in a few different situations. Many people accused of kidnapping claim citizen’s arrest to defend themselves against the allegation. Sometimes employees detain people for theft of items at a store where they’re working. And finally, in some real estate disputes, people will attempt to detain others for unlawful presence on property.
Yearly Archives: 2018
Legal-Ease: Enforceability of promises and gifts
Gifts and the law have a long history together. Some promises are actually enforceable against the person making the promise. To be enforceable, a promise must either include some reciprocal promise or be reasonably relied upon by the receiver in a way that causes harm or damage to the receiver. The multiple conditions that are […]
Legal-Ease: How significant is the error in this document?
Simple, unintentional errors like writing the wrong date are common in documents. Fortunately, the law provides some ways to ignore or correct unintentional errors in important documents.
Errors in documents are typically characterized as either substantive or non-substantive. Non-substantive errors in documents make a document inaccurate, but wouldn’t change what the document does when corrected. Substantive errors in documents literally alter what a document does.