- JALOUSIE
- A screen or shutter consisting of overlapping horizontal slats that is used on the exterior to keep out sun and rain while admitting light and air.
- JAMB
- The side post or lining of a doorway, window, or other opening.
- JOINT
- The space between the adjacent surfaces of two components joined and held together by nails, glue, or cement, for example.
- JOINT NOTE
- A note signed by two or more persons who have equal liability for payment.
- JOINT TENANCY
- Joint ownership by two or more persons with right of survivorship. Four unities must be present: time, title, interest, and possession. Property held by two or more people with right of survivorship.
- JOINT VENTURE
- In legal effect it is a partnership for a limited, specific business project.
- JOISTS
- One of a series of parallel beams to which the boards of floor and ceiling laths or plaster boards are nailed and supported in turn by larger beams, girders, or bearing walls.
- JUDGMENT
- A court of competent jurisdiction's final determination of a matter presented to it. The final decision by a court in a lawsuit, motion, or other matter.
- JUDGMENT AFFIRMED
- A decision by an appellate court reaffirming, approving, and agreeing with an inferior court's decision.
- JUDGMENT DEBTOR
- A person who has an unsatisfied money judgment levied against him or her.
- JUDGMENT LIEN
- A money judgment that, because it has been recorded, has become a lien against the judgment debtor's real property.
- JUDGMENT REVERSED
- A decision by an appellate court disagreeing with an inferior court's decision and modifying tha decision to conform with its findings.
- JUNIOR LIEN
- A lien lower in priority or rank than another or other liens.
- JUNIOR MORTGAGE
- A mortgage second in lien to a previous mortgage.
- JURISDICTION
- The authority of a court to hear and decide a particular type of case. The power of a court to hear and decide a case or issue.
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