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LEGAL TERMS

• ALIMONY: Support paid by one divorced spouse to the other. Now called
maintenance.
• ALLEGE: To state, assert, or charge; to make an allegation.
• ALTERNATE JUROR: A person who replaces a juror who can no longer serve.
• AMC: Associaton of Minnesota Counties.
• AMICUS CURIAE: (Latin, ‘A friend of the court’): A person who has no legal right to
apper before the court in a certain procceding, however, the court
allows him/her to introduce evidence,argument, or authority
because he/she has a cillateral interest in the cae.

• ANCILLARY ADMINISTRATION: A porbate administration in the state in which a
non- resident decendent has property.
• ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE: A term that describes the interest or cost, in
percentage, of having credit. The interest rate on
judgments is set each year by the State Court
Administrator.
• ANNULMENT: Formal invalidation of a marriage by means of a court decree
declaring that a marriage ia a nullity from the beginning.

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