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Legal Jargon Flashcards

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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

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Attacking religion or religious tenets

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Bootlegging

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The illegal manufacture, distribution, or sale of goods, especially alcohol or recordings

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Bottomry

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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

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One who buys shares not intending to take delivery but to resell at a higher price

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Banco

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A seat or bench of justices

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30
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Buggery

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Act consisting of anal intercourse which is considered as unnatural in law

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Bullpen

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It refers to an area in a prison where prisoners are kept in close confinement.

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Burglary

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Illegal entry of a building with intent to commit a crime, especially theft.

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Caveat

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a warning or proviso of specific stipulations, conditions, or limitations.

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Charge

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Framing of formal accusation against someone in a criminal court

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Conclusive Proof

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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

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Physical objects which are capable of physical manifestation

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Censure

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An official reprimand

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38
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Chattel

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Movable property

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39
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Condonation

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The pardoning of an offence

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Consanguinity

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the fact of being descended from the same ancestor.

41
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Contraband

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Prohibited by law

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Covenant

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An agreement in writing to do or not to do something

43
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Dactylography

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It refers to the scientific study of fingerprints as a method of identification

44
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Derogation

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An exemption from or relaxation of a rule or law

45
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Doli Incapax

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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

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Service outside the parent department

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Domicile

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Place or country of residence which recognized legally.

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Dysonomy

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Bad laws

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Emancipation

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The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restriction

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Droit

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A legal right or claim

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Duress

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Act done under threat or fear

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Exonerate

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To free a person from blame or a duty imposed on him

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Embezzlement

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theft or misappropriation of funds placed in one’s trust or belonging to one’s employer.

54
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Encumbrance

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A liability on property

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Extradition

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An act where one jurisdiction delivers a person accused or convicted of committing

56
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Fiat

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A command

57
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Foeticide

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Crime of killing a baby in the womb of the mother

58
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Fiduciary

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A relationship based on trust or good faith

59
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Fugitive

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A person who flees or escapes

60
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Gale

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A periodic payment of rent

61
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Garnish

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Money exacted from a new prisoner by other prisoners or as jailer’s fee

62
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Germane

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Pertinent to legal issue pending before the court

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Graft

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bribery and other corrupt practices used to secure illicit advantages or gains in politics or business.

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Gist

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The ground or essence of legal action

65
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Gratuitous

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Without legal consideration

66
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Graymail

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Refers to solicited bulk email messages that are not spam

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Honorarium

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Payment of services given voluntarily

68
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Hypothecation

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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.

69
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Ibid

A

From the same source

70
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Inchoate

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Already started but not completed

71
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Inculpatory

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To make a person liable for the guilt

72
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Inter Vivos

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Transfer between living persons

73
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Intra Vires

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Acts done within the powers

74
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Indictment

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A formal charge or accusation of a serious crime

75
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Intestate

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Not having made a will before one dies.

76
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Jeofail

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An error or oversight in pleading

77
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Kin

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Blood relatives

78
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Leet

A

A criminal court

79
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Magna Carta

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One of the greatest common law documents and is foundation of constitutional liber

80
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Malefaction

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A crime or offence

81
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Moratorium

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A legal authorization to debtors to postpone payment

82
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Novation

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A new obligation between the same parties

83
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Parole

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The temporary or permanent release of a prisoner before the expiry of a sentence

84
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Plutocracy

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Rule of the wealthy

85
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Quasi

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As if it were

86
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Reclusion

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Punishment involving civil degradation (as in the loss of the right to own property)

87
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Reprieve

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Cancel or postpone the punishment of (someone, especially someone condemned to death)

88
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Retoreon

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An act of lawful retaliation in kind for another nation’s unfriendly or unfair act

89
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Rubric

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The title of a statue or code

90
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Sine Die

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Without a fixed day

91
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Status Quo

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Present condition

92
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Summon

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Also called Citation, in law, the document issued by a court ordering a specific person

93
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Traverse

A

Deny an allegation

94
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Uterine

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Blood of same mother and not father

95
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Verbatim

A

Exactly, word for word

96
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Vest

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To clothe with legal right

97
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Wither Sake

A

An enemy

98
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Zabeta

A

A stated tariff

99
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Zero

A

Point from which reckoning begin

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