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Abatement

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Act of eliminating

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Abessive

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Denoting absence of a case

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Abjure

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To pronounce solemnly on oath

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Absist

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Passing away of any legal right

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Accrue

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To come into existence as an enforceable right or claim.

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Ad Interim

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In the meantime i.e. For a temporary period of time.

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Adjudicate

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To make an official judgement or decision upon a certain issue by a competent author

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Accede

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To consent or agree

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Accroach

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To exercise power without authority

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Agnates

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Relatives whose relationship can be traced wholly through males

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Arson

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Crime of unlawfully destroying property by fire

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Antimony

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A contradiction in law

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Accessory

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A person who is concerned in the crime but does not actually commit the crime

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Ad Hoc

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Formed for a particular purpose

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Affiant

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One who makes an affidavit

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Affray

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Unlawful fighting or use of force to intimidate others

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Alien

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A person who resides within the border of the country but is not subject of that country

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Alms

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Charitable donation

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Alimony

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A court ordered allowance that one spouse pays to the other spouse for maintenance

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Annulment

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Judicial act of nullifying

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Approver

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An accomplice who turn’s prosecutors’ witness

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Battery

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Crime of actual or intended use of physical force on a person

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Bear

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One who sells stocks or shares short i.e. Without possessing what he sells but intending

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Bequest

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Act of giving personal property by will

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Blasphemy
Attacking religion or religious tenets
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Bootlegging
The illegal manufacture, distribution, or sale of goods, especially alcohol or recordings
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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.
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Bull
One who buys shares not intending to take delivery but to resell at a higher price
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Banco
A seat or bench of justices
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Buggery
Act consisting of anal intercourse which is considered as unnatural in law
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Bullpen
It refers to an area in a prison where prisoners are kept in close confinement.
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Burglary
Illegal entry of a building with intent to commit a crime, especially theft.
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Caveat
a warning or proviso of specific stipulations, conditions, or limitations.
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Charge
Framing of formal accusation against someone in a criminal court
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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.
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Corporeal
Physical objects which are capable of physical manifestation
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Censure
An official reprimand
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Chattel
Movable property
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Condonation
The pardoning of an offence
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Consanguinity
the fact of being descended from the same ancestor.
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Contraband
Prohibited by law
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Covenant
An agreement in writing to do or not to do something
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Dactylography
It refers to the scientific study of fingerprints as a method of identification
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Derogation
An exemption from or relaxation of a rule or law
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Doli Incapax
deemed incapable of forming the intent to commit a crime or tort, especially by reason of age (under ten years old).
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Deputation
Service outside the parent department
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Domicile
Place or country of residence which recognized legally.
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Dysonomy
Bad laws
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Emancipation
The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restriction
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Droit
A legal right or claim
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Duress
Act done under threat or fear
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Exonerate
To free a person from blame or a duty imposed on him
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Embezzlement
theft or misappropriation of funds placed in one's trust or belonging to one's employer.
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Encumbrance
A liability on property
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Extradition
An act where one jurisdiction delivers a person accused or convicted of committing
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Fiat
A command
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Foeticide
Crime of killing a baby in the womb of the mother
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Fiduciary
A relationship based on trust or good faith
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Fugitive
A person who flees or escapes
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Gale
A periodic payment of rent
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Garnish
Money exacted from a new prisoner by other prisoners or as jailer’s fee
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Germane
Pertinent to legal issue pending before the court
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Graft
bribery and other corrupt practices used to secure illicit advantages or gains in politics or business.
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Gist
The ground or essence of legal action
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Gratuitous
Without legal consideration
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Graymail
Refers to solicited bulk email messages that are not spam
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Honorarium
Payment of services given voluntarily
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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.
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Ibid
From the same source
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Inchoate
Already started but not completed
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Inculpatory
To make a person liable for the guilt
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Inter Vivos
Transfer between living persons
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Intra Vires
Acts done within the powers
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Indictment
A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime
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Intestate
Not having made a will before one dies.
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Jeofail
An error or oversight in pleading
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Kin
Blood relatives
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Leet
A criminal court
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Magna Carta
One of the greatest common law documents and is foundation of constitutional liber
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Malefaction
A crime or offence
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Moratorium
A legal authorization to debtors to postpone payment
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Novation
A new obligation between the same parties
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Parole
The temporary or permanent release of a prisoner before the expiry of a sentence
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Plutocracy
Rule of the wealthy
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Quasi
As if it were
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Reclusion
Punishment involving civil degradation (as in the loss of the right to own property)
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Reprieve
Cancel or postpone the punishment of (someone, especially someone condemned to death)
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Retoreon
An act of lawful retaliation in kind for another nation’s unfriendly or unfair act
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Rubric
The title of a statue or code
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Sine Die
Without a fixed day
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Status Quo
Present condition
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Summon
Also called Citation, in law, the document issued by a court ordering a specific person
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Traverse
Deny an allegation
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Uterine
Blood of same mother and not father
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Verbatim
Exactly, word for word
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Vest
To clothe with legal right
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Wither Sake
An enemy
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Zabeta
A stated tariff
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Zero
Point from which reckoning begin

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