Legal words, terms, and concepts

Rhonda M.
For those who listen to supreme court podcasts (and aren't lawyers), here's a peppering of legal vocabulary (note: these words may have different meanings to a lawyer than they do to a common person, i.e. "estate," for the purpose of estate planning, may mean: (a) The interest which a person has in property; (b) The aggregate of property which a person owns).
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  1. a fortiori
    with greater reason
  2. ab initio
    at the beginning
  3. annulment
    an official or legal cancellation
  4. appellant
    relating to challenges to a legal decision
  5. appellate
    relating to challenges to a legal decision
  6. arrears
    the state of being behind in payments
  7. codicil
    a supplement to a will
  8. common law
    a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
  9. condonation
    a pardon by treating the offender as if the offense had not occurred
  10. corroborative
    serving to support or corroborate
  11. custody
    guardianship over
  12. de novo
    from the beginning
  13. derivative
    a compound obtained from another compound
  14. disputative
    inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits
  15. distributer
    someone who markets merchandise
  16. distributor
    a person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion
  17. doubt
    the state of being unsure of something
  18. estate
    extensive landed property retained by the owner
  19. extortion
    unjust exaction, as by the misuse of authority
  20. fiduciary
    relating to or of the nature of a legal trust
  21. franchise
    a statutory right or privilege granted by a government
  22. garnish
    decorate, as with parsley or other ornamental foods
  23. garnishment
    a court order to an employer to withhold all or part of an employee's wages and to send the money to the court or to the person who won a lawsuit against the employee
  24. grantee
    a recipient of a grant
  25. grantor
    a person who makes a grant in legal form
  26. infra
    (in writing) see below
  27. infra
    (in writing) see below
  28. intra vires
    within the legal power or authority or a person or official or body etc
  29. joint
    junction by which parts or objects are linked together
  30. lien
    the right to take and hold the property of a debtor
  31. malpractice
    professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage
  32. malpractice
    professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage
  33. maxim
    a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits
  34. noncausative
    not causative
  35. putative
    purported
  36. quasi
    having some resemblance
  37. reasonable
    showing sound judgment
  38. respondent
    replying
  39. revocation
    the act of annulling something previously done
  40. statutory
    relating to or created by regulations
  41. statutory law
    the body of laws created by legislative statutes
  42. subpoena
    a writ issued to compel the attendance of a witness
  43. supra
    at an earlier place
  44. trustee
    a person who administers property for someone else's benefit
  45. ultra
    far beyond the norm
  46. ultra vires
    beyond the legal power or authority of a person, official, body, etc.
  47. unilateral
    involving only one part or side
  48. vegetative
    of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous
Created on 八月 20, 2009

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