Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 1 P28 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 258 AMBIT ambiguity deprives a person of the notice requirement of due process of law and therefore renders the statute unconstitutional. AMBIT A boundary line that indicates ownership of a parcel of land as opposed to other parcels an exterior or enclosing line. The limits of a power or jurisdiction. The delineation of the scope of a particular subject matter. AMBULANCE CHASER A colloquial phrase that is used derisively for a person who is hired by an attorney to seek out negligence cases at the scenes of accidents or in hospitals where injured parties are treated in exchange for a percentage of the damages that will be recovered in the case. Also used to describe attorneys who upon learning of a personal injury that might have been caused by the negligence or the wrongful act of another immediately contact the victim for consent to represent him or her in a lawsuit in exchange for a contingent fee apercentage of the judgment recovered. AMBULATORY Movable revocable subject to change capable of alteration. An ambulatory court was the former name of the Court of King s Bench in England. It would convene wherever the king who presided over it could be found moving its location as the king moved. An ambulatory disposition is a judgment decree or sentence that is subject to change amendment or revocation. A will is considered ambulatory because as long as the person who made it lives it can always be changed or revoked. AMENDMENT The modification of materials by the addition of supplemental information the deletion of unnecessary undesirable or outdated information or the correction of errors existing in the text. In practice a change in the pleadings statements of the allegations of the parties in a lawsuit may be achieved if the parties agree to the amendment or if the court in which the proceeding is pending grants a motion for the amendment made by one party. A judgment may be altered by an amendment if a motion to do so is made within a certain time after its .
