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• resort — (n.) late 14c., that to which one has recourse for aid or assistance, from O.Fr. resort resource, help, back formation from resortir to resort, lit. to go out again, from re again + sortir go out (see SORTIE (Cf. sortie)). Meaning place people go …   Etymology dictionary

• resort — I verb administer, adopt, apply, avail oneself of, bring into play, call forth, employ, enlist, exercise, fall back upon, have recourse, look to, make use of, practice, press into service, put to use, try, turn to for help, turn to for support,… …   Law dictionary

• resort to — index employ (make use of), exploit (make use of) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• resort to arms — index belligerency, fight (battle) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• resort to superior authority — index appeal Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• Legal clinic — The phrase legal clinic (or law clinic) may refer to any private, nonprofit law practice serving the public interest[1]. In the academic context, these law school clinics provide hands on experience to law school students and services to various… …   Wikipedia

• Legal research in the United States — What is Legal Research? Legal research is the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision making. In its broadest sense, legal research includes each step of a course of action that begins with an… …   Wikipedia

• resort — ▪ I. resort re‧sort 1 [rɪˈzɔːt ǁ ɔːrt] verb resort to something phrasal verb [transitive] to take a bad or unpleasant course of action because everything else has failed: • The company may resort to a temporary closure of its only plant. • We… …   Financial and business terms

• legal ethics — Introduction       principles of conduct that members of the legal profession are expected to observe in their practice. They are an outgrowth of the development of the legal profession itself. Background       Practitioners of law emerged when… …   Universalium

• resort — re|sort1 [ rı zɔrt ] noun count * a place that many people go to for a vacation: a ski/seaside/mountain resort a resort island/town (as) a last resort used to say that you will do something only after trying everything else to solve a problem:… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• resort to — HAVE RECOURSE TO, fall back on, turn to, make use of, use, employ, avail oneself of; stoop to, descend to, sink to. → resort * * * re ˈsort to [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they resort to he/she/it resorts to …   Useful english dictionary