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good-faith improver.A person who makes improvements to real property while actually and reasonably be-lieving himself or herself to be the owner or lawful occupant. • The improver may be entitled to recover the value of the improvements from the true owner or to remove them. See IMPROVEMENT. [Blacks Law 8th]

good-faith exception.Criminal procedure. An exception to the exclusionary rule whereby evidence obtained under a warrant later found to be invalid (esp. because it is not supported by probable cause) is nonetheless admissible if the police reasonably relied on the notion that the warrant was valid. • The good-faith exception was adopted by the Supreme Court…

good-faith bargaining.Labor law. Negotiations between an employer and a representative of employees, usu. a union, in which both parties meet and confer at reasonable times with open minds and with a view to reaching an agreement. • The National Labor Relations Act requires good-faith bargaining, and failure to bargain in good faith is considered an…

good faith,n. A state of mind consisting in (1) honesty in belief or purpose, (2) faithfulness to one’s duty or ob-ligation, (3) observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing in a given trade or business, or (4) absence of intent to defraud or to seek unconscionable advantage. — Also termed bona fides. Cf. BAD…

good delivery.See DELIVERY. [Blacks Law 8th]

good deed.See DEED. [Blacks Law 8th]

good consideration.See CONSIDERATION(1). [Blacks Law 8th]

  good cause shown.See good cause under CAUSE(2). [Blacks Law 8th]

good cause.See CAUSE(2). ). [Blacks Law 8th]

good behavior. 1. A standard by which judges are considered fit to continue their tenure. [Cases: Judges 7. C.J.S. Judges §§ 21–24, 27–29.] 2. Orderly conduct, which in the context of penal law allows a prisoner to reduce the time spent in prison. Cf. good time under TIME. [Cases: Prisons 15; Sentencing and Punishment 1966.…