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iv. Commonly used terminology in

Medical Law

 Indemnity: An agreement wherein one party financially protects another

against an anticipated loss.

 Interrogatories: A form of discovery in which one party submits a series of
written questions to the other party, and to which the latter is bound to

answer under oath.

 Judgment: The official decision by a court, or certification by the court
of a jury’s verdict. The more formal definition is the determination or

sentence of the law, pronounced by a competent judge or court, as the
result of an action or proceeding instituted in such court, affirming that,
upon the matters submitted for its decision, a legal duty or liability does
or does not exist.

 Judgment notwithstanding the Verdict: A judgment entered by order of
the court for one party, although there has been a jury verdict for the

other party.