Score Booster Flashcards
Fiduciary
Relationship based on trust
Innuendo
Hidden from defamation
Injunction
Stay order
Pecuniary
Monetary
Judicial review
Process of revuew of executive actions by court
Substantial law
Defines rights, punishments
Procedural law
Lays down procedures
Doli incapax
Incapable of doing wrong, like an infant
Jus natural
Natural law
Pari passi
Equal footing
Ad hoc
For a unique reason, for a specific purpose
Locus standi
Right to take stand
Convicted
Person held guilty
Aquit
Person held not guilty
Status quo
Same as in the beginning
In personem
Against the person
Mutalis mutandis
All necessary changes having been made
Ispo facto
By the very fact
Amicus curiae
Friend of the court
Accomplice
Abettor
Plea of alibi
To be present at some other place, elsewhere
Novation
Substitution of an old contract by a new contract
In rem
Against the whole world