| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
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| Pain | Pain and suffering. Physical discomfort and emotional distress. | Suffering | 82%
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| Aid | Aid and abet. To assist someone in committing or to encourage someone to commit a crime. | Abet | 79%
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| Cease | Cease and desist. Synonyms or near-synonyms. (See sticky comment.) | Desist | 76%
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| Soc | Soc and sac (alternative forms socan and sacan, sac and soc, or sake and soke) (UK, law, historical) The right of a lord to hear and decide legal cases on his estate without recourse to other courts. | Sac | 76%
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| Have | Have and hold. Synonyms or near-synonyms. (See sticky comment.) | Hold | 74%
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| Release | Release and discharge. A type of written document used to compromise a dispute. | Discharge | 68%
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| Year | Year and a day. A rule associated with the former common law standard that death could not be legally attributed to acts or omissions that occurred more than a year and a day before the death. | a day | 67%
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| Understood | Understood and agreed. Comprehended the clause in question and assented to its terms. | Agreed | 67%
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| Taxes | Taxes and other costs. All costs associated with the matter at hand. | Other costs | 64%
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| Cancelled | Cancelled and void. Synonyms or near-synonyms. (See sticky comment.) | Void | 61%
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| Facts | Facts and circumstances. Synonyms or near-synonyms. (See sticky comment.) | Circumstances | 50%
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| Execute | Execute and deliver. Synonyms or near-synonyms. (See sticky comment.) | Deliver | 50%
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| Give | Give and grant. Synonyms or near-synonyms. (See sticky comment.) | Grant | 48%
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| If | If and to the extent that. If something occurs that falls within defined boundaries. | To the extent that | 39%
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| Keep | Keep and maintain. Synonyms or near-synonyms. (See sticky comment.) | Maintain | 38%
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| Waif | Waif and stray. A legal privilege commonly granted by the Crown to landowners under Anglo-Norman law. A waif was an item of ownerless and unclaimed property found on a landowner's territory, while a stray referred to a domestic animal that had wandered onto the same land. A grant of waif and stray permitted the landowner to take ownership of such goods or animals if they remained unclaimed after a set period of time. | Stray | 38%
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| Deem | Deem and consider. Synonyms or near-synonyms. (See sticky comment.) | Consider | 36%
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| Bargain | Bargain and sale. In US real property law, a type of deed by “which the grantor implies to have or have had an interest in the property but offers no warranties of title to the grantee.” | Sale | 35%
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| By | By and between. Synonyms or near-synonyms. (See sticky comment.) | Between | 33%
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| Abuttals | Abuttals and boundaries (or butts and bounds). Boundary lines between plots of land. | Boundaries | 29%
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| Made | Made and entered into. Synonyms or near-synonyms. (See sticky comment.) | Entered into | 29%
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| Bind | Bind and obligate. Synonyms or near-synonyms. (See sticky comment.) | Obligate | 29%
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| Lands | Lands and tenements (or lands, tenements and hereditaments). Real property: land and building structures sitting on it. | Tenements | 24%
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| Order | Order and direct. Synonyms or near-synonyms. (See sticky comment.) | Direct | 20%
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| Depose | Depose and say. Synonyms or near-synonyms. (See sticky comment.) | Say | 11%
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