preventive law

noun

, Law.

1. consultation, as between lawyer and client, to prevent future litigation by dispensing legal advice, clarifying the terms of a contract, etc.

Example Sentences

“That’s the challenge. Because anytime you’re engaging in preventive law enforcement, that comes with criticisms.”

From Washington Post

One may imagine the frantic excess to which the taste for gladiatorial combats was carried in Rome, from the preventive law of Augustus that gladiators should no more combat without permission of the senate; that pr�tors should not give these spectacles more than twice a year; that more than sixty couples should not engage at the same time; and that neither knights nor senators should ever contend in the arena.

From Project Gutenberg

They alter perspectives for both the medical and legal professions, as physicians become better at spotting underlying threats to health, and lawyers engage in what he called “preventive law.”

From New York Times

In case after case, Oakland's centers have stopped collection agencies from attaching slum dwellers' salaries�thus halting job loss, family breakups and welfare problems that wind up costing taxpayers twice as much as a little preventive law.

From Time Magazine Archive

At which I shook my head again, feeling a trifle ashamed of our uncommon virtue, which could not, I thought, commend itself to so notorious a defier of preventive law.

From Project Gutenberg