Legal Jargon Flashcards
Abatement
Act of eliminating
Abessive
Denoting absence of a case
Abjure
To pronounce solemnly on oath
Absist
Passing away of any legal right
Accrue
To come into existence as an enforceable right or claim.
Ad Interim
In the meantime i.e. For a temporary period of time.
Adjudicate
To make an official judgement or decision upon a certain issue by a competent author
Accede
To consent or agree
Accroach
To exercise power without authority
Agnates
Relatives whose relationship can be traced wholly through males
Arson
Crime of unlawfully destroying property by fire
Antimony
A contradiction in law
Accessory
A person who is concerned in the crime but does not actually commit the crime
Ad Hoc
Formed for a particular purpose
Affiant
One who makes an affidavit
Affray
Unlawful fighting or use of force to intimidate others
Alien
A person who resides within the border of the country but is not subject of that country
Alms
Charitable donation
Alimony
A court ordered allowance that one spouse pays to the other spouse for maintenance
Annulment
Judicial act of nullifying
Approver
An accomplice who turn’s prosecutors’ witness
Battery
Crime of actual or intended use of physical force on a person
Bear
One who sells stocks or shares short i.e. Without possessing what he sells but intending
Bequest
Act of giving personal property by will
Blasphemy
Attacking religion or religious tenets
Bootlegging
The illegal manufacture, distribution, or sale of goods, especially alcohol or recordings
Bottomry
a system of merchant insurance in which a ship is used as security against a loan to finance a voyage, the lender losing their money if the ship sinks.
Bull
One who buys shares not intending to take delivery but to resell at a higher price
Banco
A seat or bench of justices
Buggery
Act consisting of anal intercourse which is considered as unnatural in law
Bullpen
It refers to an area in a prison where prisoners are kept in close confinement.
Burglary
Illegal entry of a building with intent to commit a crime, especially theft.
Caveat
a warning or proviso of specific stipulations, conditions, or limitations.
Charge
Framing of formal accusation against someone in a criminal court
Conclusive Proof
when one fact is declared by the Evidence Act to be conclusive proof of another, the Court shall, on proof of the one fact, regard the other as proved and shall not allow evidence to be given for the purpose of disproving it.
Corporeal
Physical objects which are capable of physical manifestation
Censure
An official reprimand
Chattel
Movable property
Condonation
The pardoning of an offence
Consanguinity
the fact of being descended from the same ancestor.
Contraband
Prohibited by law
Covenant
An agreement in writing to do or not to do something
Dactylography
It refers to the scientific study of fingerprints as a method of identification
Derogation
An exemption from or relaxation of a rule or law
Doli Incapax
deemed incapable of forming the intent to commit a crime or tort, especially by reason of age (under ten years old).
Deputation
Service outside the parent department
Domicile
Place or country of residence which recognized legally.
Dysonomy
Bad laws
Emancipation
The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restriction
Droit
A legal right or claim
Duress
Act done under threat or fear
Exonerate
To free a person from blame or a duty imposed on him
Embezzlement
theft or misappropriation of funds placed in one’s trust or belonging to one’s employer.
Encumbrance
A liability on property
Extradition
An act where one jurisdiction delivers a person accused or convicted of committing
Fiat
A command
Foeticide
Crime of killing a baby in the womb of the mother
Fiduciary
A relationship based on trust or good faith
Fugitive
A person who flees or escapes
Gale
A periodic payment of rent
Garnish
Money exacted from a new prisoner by other prisoners or as jailer’s fee
Germane
Pertinent to legal issue pending before the court
Graft
bribery and other corrupt practices used to secure illicit advantages or gains in politics or business.
Gist
The ground or essence of legal action
Gratuitous
Without legal consideration
Graymail
Refers to solicited bulk email messages that are not spam
Honorarium
Payment of services given voluntarily
Hypothecation
Hypothecation is the practice where you pledge an asset to a bank when applying for a loan. The bank keeps the car as collateral or security until you pay it off.
Ibid
From the same source
Inchoate
Already started but not completed
Inculpatory
To make a person liable for the guilt
Inter Vivos
Transfer between living persons
Intra Vires
Acts done within the powers
Indictment
A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
Intestate
Not having made a will before one dies.
Jeofail
An error or oversight in pleading
Kin
Blood relatives
Leet
A criminal court
Magna Carta
One of the greatest common law documents and is foundation of constitutional liber
Malefaction
A crime or offence
Moratorium
A legal authorization to debtors to postpone payment
Novation
A new obligation between the same parties
Parole
The temporary or permanent release of a prisoner before the expiry of a sentence
Plutocracy
Rule of the wealthy
Quasi
As if it were
Reclusion
Punishment involving civil degradation (as in the loss of the right to own property)
Reprieve
Cancel or postpone the punishment of (someone, especially someone condemned to death)
Retoreon
An act of lawful retaliation in kind for another nation’s unfriendly or unfair act
Rubric
The title of a statue or code
Sine Die
Without a fixed day
Status Quo
Present condition
Summon
Also called Citation, in law, the document issued by a court ordering a specific person
Traverse
Deny an allegation
Uterine
Blood of same mother and not father
Verbatim
Exactly, word for word
Vest
To clothe with legal right
Wither Sake
An enemy
Zabeta
A stated tariff
Zero
Point from which reckoning begin
