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• [+] Latin legal phrases (2 C, 295 P)
• [+] Pleas (9 P)
• [+] Informal legal terms (2 C, 31 P)

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• [+] French legal phrases (28 P)
• [+] American legal phrases (46 P)
• [+] Common law legal terms (6 P)

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• [+] Contract clauses (48 P)
• [+] English legal terms (71 P)
• [+] Judgment (law) (17 P)

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• List of legal Latin terms

A

• Abandonment
• Abeyance
• Absenteeism
• Absolute immunity
• Abstract of judgment
• Accession
• Accessory (legal term)
• Accord and satisfaction
• Acknowledgment (law)
• Acquiescence
• Act (document)
• Act of God
• Acting (law)
• Actual malice
• Actual notice
• Adjournment in contemplation of dismissal
• Adjudication
• Adjustment (law)
• Administration of an estate on death
• Administrative proceeding
• Adverse inference
• Adverse party
• Adverse possession
• Affirmation in law
• Affray
• Affreightment
• After-acquired property
• Age of majority
• Age of candidacy
• Aggravation (legal concept)
• Agreement in principle
• Aleatory contract
• All rights reserved
• Allegation
• Alluvion
• Ampliative
• Antecedent (law)
• Appellate jurisdiction
• Appointee
• Apportionment
• Appropriate adult
• Appropriation (law)
• Approved instrument
• Arbitrariness
• Arbitration award
• Arguido
• Argumentative
• Arraignment
• Art equity
• As is
• Asset protection
• Assignment (law)
• Attendant circumstance
• Attorney at law (United States)
• Avulsion (legal term)

B

• Bad faith
• Bail
• Balance of interests
• Bar (law)
• Barclays Bank Ltd v Quistclose Investments Ltd
• Barratry
• Bench (law)
• Bench (metonymy)

B cont.

• Benefactor
• Beneficiary
• Best interests
• Bifurcation (law)
• Black letter law
• Blunt instrument
• Bona fide purchaser
• Bonded warehouse
• Book of business (law)
• Brought to trial

C

• Call of Duty (legal)
• Capital call
• Carnal knowledge
• Cease and desist
• Cert pool
• Chain of title
• Champerty and maintenance
• Change of venue
• Charge (youth)
• Charging order
• Codicil (will)
• Coercion
• Collateral consequences of criminal charges
• Collateral descendant
• Collateral estoppel
• Collective redress
• Comity
• Commencement of action
• Common carrier
• Community standards
• Compass (law)
• Compel
• Complaint
• Compounding a felony
• Concurrent jurisdiction
• Confession of judgment
• Confusing similarity
• Connivance
• Constructive fraud
• Constructive notice
• Consumer product
• Contingent fee
• Continuance
• Continuing trespass
• Controlling law
• Controversy
• Controversy (law)
• Conviction
• Corporate opportunity
• Coverture
• Creature of statute
• Creditor's rights
• Cross-claim
• Cross-examination
• Culpability
• Culpable homicide
• Culprit
• Curtilage

D

• Deadlock provision
• Decisional law
• Decisory Oath
• Declarant
• Declaration (law)
• Declaration of mailing

D cont.

• Defeasance
• Defeasible estate
• Defendant
• Deforce
• Deliberation
• Demand guarantee
• Detention (imprisonment)
• Dictum
• Direct evidence
• Direct examination
• Dispositive motion
• Disrespecting the police
• Disseisor
• Dissolution (law)
• Divesting abandonment
• Docket (court)
• Doing business as
• Double jeopardy
• Double closing
• Double escrow
• Double majority
• Dual sovereignty doctrine
• Due process
• Dumb laws
• Duplicity (law)

E

• Earnest payment
• Emanation of the state
• Embracery
• Emphyteutic lease
• En banc
• Encumbrance
• Enrolled bill doctrine
• Entities of interest
• Equity (law)
• Equity of redemption
• Escrow
• European Authorized Representative
• Europeanisation of law
• Eurotort
• Exclusion clause
• Excusable negligence
• Excuse (legal)
• Executor
• Executory contract
• Extenuating circumstances
• Extraordinary resolution

F

• Fact-finding
• Fair comment
• False pretenses
• Family purpose doctrine
• Fault (legal)
• Fear or provocation of violence
• Fee simple
• Fee tail
• Feigned action
• Felony
• Fictitious defendants
• Field of use
• Filing (legal)
• Fleeing felon rule
• Fleeting expletive
• Force (law)
• Foreign corporation