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Such citations and abbreviations are found in court decisions, statutes, regulations, journal articles, books, and other documents. Below is a basic list of very common abbreviations. Because publishers adopt different practices regarding how abbreviations are printed, one may find abbreviations with or without periods for each letter.
The abbreviation used to refer to court decisions. Established The date the district court was established as a court or the date it was subdivided from a larger district. Judges The number of judgeships authorized for the district. Meeting places The number of locations at which the court hears cases.
The following pages contain lists of legal terms: List of Latin legal terms; List of legal abbreviations; List of legal abbreviations (canon law) on Wiktionary: Appendix: English legal terms; Appendix: Glossary of legal terms
The trial courts are U.S. district courts, followed by United States courts of appeals and then the Supreme Court of the United States. The judicial system, whether state or federal, begins with a court of first instance, whose work may be reviewed by an appellate court, and then ends at the court of last resort, which may review the work of ...
A question of law on which no court has previously ruled, or a factual situation about which no court has previously ruled; a legal case without a precedent: res nullius: nobody's thing Ownerless property or goods. Such property or goods are able and subject to being owned by anybody. res publica: public affair
The Court a quo is the court from which a cause has been removed to a higher court, which latter is called the Court ad quem. [2] A vinculo matrimonii. (Lat. from the bond of matrimony) A term descriptive of a kind of divorce, which effects a complete dissolution of the marriage contract. [1] Abactor. l. A cattle-stealer. [3] Abandonment ...
If there are two Justices of the High Court with the same surname, then the junior Justice will take their first name as part of their judicial title. [2] When two or more Justices are referred at the same time in a law report, their post-nominal letters become JJ.
Map of the U.S., showing areas covered by the Thomson West National Reporter System state law reports. These regional reporters are supplemented by reporters for a single state like the New York Supplement (N.Y.S. 1888–1938; 2d 1938–) and the California Reporter (Cal. Rptr. 1959–1991; 2d 1991–2003; 3d 2003–) which include decisions of intermediate state appellate courts. [3]