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