CALUMNY (n): a false statement maliciously made to injure someone's reputation.
CAPIAS (n): a writ authorizing an officer to arrest the person
specified therein.
CAVEAT (n): a legal notice to a court or public officer to suspend a
certain proceeding until the
notifier is given a hearing.
CHAMPART (n): a share of landlord in the produce of land.
CHAMPERTY(n): an illegal agreement in which a person not naturally
interested in a lawsuit finances
it with a view to sharing the disputed property.
CHATTEL (n): a movable article of property, such as chair, horse,
motor car etc.
COGNOVIT (n): written admission by a defendant of leability, made to
avoid the expense of a trial.
COUNTERPLEA(n): a plaintiff's answer to a defendant's plea or couterclaim.
DELICT (n): misdemeanour, offence, (roman law) a civil wrong
permitting compensation or punitive
damages.
MALVERSATION(n): misconduct in public office.
MANDAMUS : a judicial writ issued as a command to an inferior, or to
an office, a cooperation etc. commanding
to an interior court, or to an officer, a corporation etc
commanding that a specified thing be done.
MISFEASANCE: the wrongful performance of a normally lawful act.
MITTIMUS : a writ instructing a jailor to hold a prisoner.
MORTMAIN : property which can neither be seized, sold or transferred.
NON-FEASANCE: the ommission of some actwhich ought to have been performed.
OBROGATION: the annulment or atleration of law by an enactment of a new one.
PALIMONY : an allowance for support made under court ordder and given
usu by a man to his former
mistress or live-in companion after they have separated.
PECCADILLO: petty sin or offence, a triffling fault.
PLEADINGS : the formal written statements presented alternately by the
plaintiff and defendant in a lawsuit.
PREMISE : details of property, names of people etc specified in a
the first part of a legal agreement.
PROTECTORY: an institution for the welfare of destitute or delingquent children.
PURVIEW : that which is provided or enacted in a statue, the purpose
of the statue.
RECOGNIZANCE: bond or obligation entered into before a court of law,
binding a person to do a particular act.
SEISIN :legal possession of either land or chattel.
SPADO : an impotent person, one unable to procreate.
SPECIALITY:a special agreement, contract etc expressed in an
instrument under seal.
TORT :private or civil wrong for which the suffer can seek
redress through court.
TRANSPIRE :
WRIT :a formal legal written order to do or not to do something,
issued by a court of law or a person in authority.
CAPIAS (n): a writ authorizing an officer to arrest the person
specified therein.
CAVEAT (n): a legal notice to a court or public officer to suspend a
certain proceeding until the
notifier is given a hearing.
CHAMPART (n): a share of landlord in the produce of land.
CHAMPERTY(n): an illegal agreement in which a person not naturally
interested in a lawsuit finances
it with a view to sharing the disputed property.
CHATTEL (n): a movable article of property, such as chair, horse,
motor car etc.
COGNOVIT (n): written admission by a defendant of leability, made to
avoid the expense of a trial.
COUNTERPLEA(n): a plaintiff's answer to a defendant's plea or couterclaim.
DELICT (n): misdemeanour, offence, (roman law) a civil wrong
permitting compensation or punitive
damages.
MALVERSATION(n): misconduct in public office.
MANDAMUS : a judicial writ issued as a command to an inferior, or to
an office, a cooperation etc. commanding
to an interior court, or to an officer, a corporation etc
commanding that a specified thing be done.
MISFEASANCE: the wrongful performance of a normally lawful act.
MITTIMUS : a writ instructing a jailor to hold a prisoner.
MORTMAIN : property which can neither be seized, sold or transferred.
NON-FEASANCE: the ommission of some actwhich ought to have been performed.
OBROGATION: the annulment or atleration of law by an enactment of a new one.
PALIMONY : an allowance for support made under court ordder and given
usu by a man to his former
mistress or live-in companion after they have separated.
PECCADILLO: petty sin or offence, a triffling fault.
PLEADINGS : the formal written statements presented alternately by the
plaintiff and defendant in a lawsuit.
PREMISE : details of property, names of people etc specified in a
the first part of a legal agreement.
PROTECTORY: an institution for the welfare of destitute or delingquent children.
PURVIEW : that which is provided or enacted in a statue, the purpose
of the statue.
RECOGNIZANCE: bond or obligation entered into before a court of law,
binding a person to do a particular act.
SEISIN :legal possession of either land or chattel.
SPADO : an impotent person, one unable to procreate.
SPECIALITY:a special agreement, contract etc expressed in an
instrument under seal.
TORT :private or civil wrong for which the suffer can seek
redress through court.
TRANSPIRE :
WRIT :a formal legal written order to do or not to do something,
issued by a court of law or a person in authority.
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