All Legal Terms by letter Z

Zero Based Budgeting :- Zero based budgeting is a budget keeping method used by a company that accounts for all expenditures in the year they are actually realized. Accounts and budgets are more or less justified on an annual basis.

Zero Coupon Bond :- A zero coupon bond is a bond that pays no interest. Instead, the bond is sold as a discount and then is redeemable on maturity at the face value.

Zero Tolerance :- A zero tolerance program is a claim by authorities that no, meaning zero, violations of a particular statute will be allowed. Enforcement without exception.
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Zone of Danger :- In personal injury law, or negligence law, a zone of danger is a reference to the area within which a plaintiff can make a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress. Imaginary or speculative connections to the area of actual danger, or zone of danger, will not support a recovery. Foreseeability governs the extent of the zone. If it is foreseeable to defendant that the injury sustained by plaintiff was possible, plaintiff was within the zone of danger.

Zone of Privacy :- In constitutional law, the zone of privacy, which is protected, is the theoretical limits of a person's reasonable expectation of privacy, implied in the express guarantees found in the Bill of Rights.

Zoning :- Zoning refers to the separate divisions of a city wherein uses of real property are restricted according to a plan developed by the governing body by regulation. So there are residential zones, commercial zones, industrial zones, etc.

Zoning Ordinance :- Zoning Ordinances are laws passed by the city government that regulate the uses or real property according to a plan. So there are residential zones, commercial zones, industrial zones, etc.