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guardianship Curatorship, i.e. legal guardianship under which the ward is totally and permanently incapable. Compare tutela. Parties are: curandus - ward; curator - guardian (see below) curator: guardian Guardian under a curatorship (cura). Types are: curator ad litem - guardian ad litem; curator bonis - guardian of the property
Pages in category "Latin legal terminology" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 315 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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
Latin legal terminology distinguishes among several types of tutela, [1] including: tutela fiduciaria, fiduciary guardianship. [2] tutela impuberum, guardianship for minors who were emancipated from the legal control (potestas) of a paterfamilias or head of household. [3]
Law Latin was the language in which the legal opinions of English courts were recorded at least until the reign of George II. Under his reign, the Proceedings in Courts of Justice Act 1730 (effective from 1733), mandated that all records of legal proceedings in England were to be made in English rather than Latin.
As the administrative language of the Eastern Roman Empire shifted away from Latin, legal codes based on the Corpus Juris Civilis were enacted in Greek. The most well known are: the Ecloga [6] (740) – enacted by emperor Leo the Isaurian; the Prochiron and Epanagoge [7] (c. 879) – enacted by emperor Basil the Macedonian; and
Latin rights or Latin citizenship (Latin: ius Latii or ius latinum) were a set of legal rights that were originally granted to the Latins and therefore in their colonies (Latium adiectum). Latinitas was commonly used by Roman jurists to denote this status. [1] With the Roman expansion in Italy, many settlements and coloniae outside of Latium ...
The terms actus reus and mens rea developed in English Law are derived from a principle stated by Edward Coke, namely, actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea, [1] which means: "an act does not make a person guilty unless (their) mind is also guilty"; hence, the general test of guilt is one that requires proof of fault, culpability or ...