Legal Terms 3 Flashcards
Acts which impede the court. It can be failure to carry out an order, or it can be disrespectful conduct.
Contempt of court
Legitimate; lawful.
De jure
Formality of court’s inquiry of prisoner as to whether he/she has any legal cause to show why judgment should not be pronounced against him/her on verdict of conviction.
Allocution
A system of correlated rules or standards.
Canon
In a court’s decision, the statement of a rule or principle of law which is not essential to the determination of the issues in a particular case but is used to explain the court’s reasoning.
Dictum
By or for one person, not adversary.
Ex parte
A right of access onto, over, under, or across real property.
Easement
An ownership of property by two or more persons; when one joint tenant dies, his/her interest passes to the other tenants.
Joint tenancy
Temporary or immediate; not final.
Interlocutory
Appointed to protect a minor defendant’s interest during specific litigation.
Guardian ad litem
And following.
Et seq.
Order of a higher court directing a lower court to take certain action.
Mandamus
Things done; especially the acts and declarations admissible in evidence that form the environment of a litigated issue, considered as exception to hearsay rule.
Res gestate
The arrangement (or the fee) where a lawyer undertakes to represent a client; usually refers to a continuing arrangement.
Retainer
Above, earlier in this document
Supra
