Meeting of the minds

Definition
: assent to the mutually agreed upon and understood terms of an agreement by the parties to a contract that may be manifest by objective signs of intent (as conduct) <the parties had not reached a meeting of the minds, and they did not have a specifically enforceable agreement ­Franklin v. Stern, 858 P.2d 142 (1993) (dissent)>



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inevitable discovery

a doctrine in criminal law: evidence obtained by methods that are unconstitutional may be admissible if it would have been inevitably discovered without the unlawful methods


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