Deck 3

Question 1

Agricultural holding

Answer 1

a type of tenancy agreement for someone doing
agricultural work. The tenant has special rights
including, when the tenancy finishes, the right to
compensation for improvements to the land. If the
land has deteriorated the tenant must compensate
the landlord.

Question 2

Aiding and abetting

Answer 2

helping someone to commit a crime.

Question 3

Airspace

Answer 3

the space in the atmosphere directly above a piece
of land. If you own a piece of land you also own the
airspace above the land.

Question 4

Alias

Answer 4

a false name.

Question 5

Alibi

Answer 5

a claim that a person was elsewhere when a crime
was committed. If someone is accused of a crime
their alibi is:
• evidence that the person was somewhere else
when the crime was committed; or
• an attempt to prove that the person was
somewhere else when the crime was
committed.

Question 6

Alien

Answer 6

someone from a foreign country.

Question 7

Alienation

Answer 7

transferring the ownership of property from one

person to another

Question 8

All and sundry

Answer 8

everybody

Question 9

Allegation

Answer 9

an unproved statement declaring that something has

happened.

Question 10

Alleviate

Answer 10

to lessen or reduce.

Question 11

Allocation rate

Answer 11

the proportion of money left to be invested after
charges have been taken off when money is paid
into a fund (such as a pension fund). For example, if
the charges were 2%, the allocation rate would be
98%.

Question 12

Allotment

Answer 12

shares allocated to a buyer. An allotment of shares
in a company gives the owner (of the allotment) an
unconditional right to buy the shares at a fixed price.

Question 13

All that

Answer 13

words used in a conveyance to introduce the

description of the property which is being conveyed.

Question 14

Alternate director

Answer 14

a person appointed by a director to take the

director’s place.

Question 15

Alternative verdict

Answer 15

a person being found guilty of a less serious crime
than the one they were charged with. If a more
serious charge has not been proved and the
defendant has been found not guilty, the defendant
may be found guilty of a less serious crime instead.
For example, there may not be enough evidence to
convict someone of a murder but there may still be
enough for a manslaughter conviction. This is known
as an alternative verdict.

Question 16

Amalgamation

Answer 16

two or more companies combining.

Question 17

Ambiguity

Answer 17

capability of more than one meaning. When a
statement’s meaning is not clear because it is
capable of more than one meaning, it contains an
ambiguity.

Question 18

Ambulatory will

Answer 18

a will which can be revoked or changed while the

person who made it is still living.

Question 19

Amnesty

Answer 19

not punishing a person for an offence they have
committed and removing details of the offence from
the court’s records is giving the person an amnesty.

Question 20

Ancient lights

Answer 20

the right not to have the light you receive from a

neighbour’s land blocked.

Question 21

Annual accounts

Answer 21

the summary of an organisation’s financial
transactions during the year covered by their
accounts, and a ‘snapshot’ of the assets and
liabilities at the end of the year.

Question 22

Annual general Meeting

Answer 22

the yearly meeting of the members of an
organisation which must be held to meet legal
conditions. The annual accounts are presented for
approval at this meeting.

Question 23

Annual return

Answer 23

a return which must be sent by companies to the
Registrar of Companies. Each year the officers of a
company have to fill in an annual return with details
of the members, officers, shares issued and other
information about the company. The return is then
sent to Companies House for filing and is available
for inspection by members of the public.

Question 24

Annuitant

Answer 24

the person who gets paid an annuity.

Question 25

Annuity

Answer 25

an amount paid out every year to someone. The
money usually comes from an insurance policy. It
can be split up into smaller amounts and be paid out
more frequently, such as monthly. It is usually paid
for the rest of the beneficiary’s life.

Question 26

Annul

Answer 26

to cancel:
• an invalid marriage; or
• a bankruptcy order.

Question 27

Ante

Answer 27

before.

Question 28

Antecedents

Answer 28

details about the past of a defendant or a person
found guilty of a crime. The information about
previous crimes, background and bad behaviour is
given to the court before the sentence is given.

Question 29

Antenuptial agreement

Answer 29

a legal agreement between two people who are
about to get married. The agreement sets out how
the couple’s assets will be divided between them if
they later divorce.

Question 30

Anton Piller order

Answer 30

an order by the High Court. It gives the applicant
permission to search the defendant’s premises for
evidence, inspect it and take it away. It is intended to
prevent evidence being destroyed or hidden which
would be relevant to the case. (Since April 1999, this
has been known as a ‘search order’.)

Question 31

Appeal

Answer 31

asking a court to overturn a lower court’s decision. If
the decision of a court is disputed it may be possible
to ask a higher court to consider the case again by
lodging an appeal.

Question 32

Appellant

Answer 32

the person who is appealing to a court against a

decision of a lower court.

Question 33

Appellate jurisdiction

Answer 33

the authority a court has to hear an appeal against a

decision made by a lower court.