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Use of terms of art. Legal English, in common with the language used by other trades and professions, employs a great deal of technical terminology which is unfamiliar to the layman (e.g. waiver, restraint of trade, restrictive covenant, promissory estoppel). Much of this vocabulary is derived from French and Latin.
A Law Reference Collection, 2011, ISBN 1624680003 and ISBN 978-1-62468-000-7; Trinxet, Salvador. Trinxet Reverse Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations and Acronyms, 2011, ISBN 1624680011 and ISBN 978-1-62468-001-4. Raistrick, Donald. Index to Legal Citations and Abbreviations. 3rd ed. London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2008. This book focuses more on British ...
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
At common law, this was the name of a mixed action (springing from the earlier personal action of ejectione firmae) which lay for the recovery of the possession of land, and for damages for the unlawful detention of its possession. The action was highly fictitious, being in theory only for the recovery of a term for years, and brought by a ...
As pointed out by Sandro Nielsen in 1994, law dictionaries can serve various functions. The traditional law dictionary with definitions of legal terms serves to help users understand the legal texts they read (a communicative function) or to acquire knowledge about legal matters independent of any text (a cognitive function) – such law dictionaries are usually monolingual.
Acknowledgment (law) Acting (law) Actual notice; Ad sectam; Adequate remedy; Adjustment (law) Adverse; Adverse inference; Adverse party; Affray; Affreightment; After-acquired property; Age of candidacy; Agreement in principle; Allegation; Allonge; Ambiguity (law) Ampliative; An unjust law is no law at all; Angary; Animus (law) Antecedent (law ...
Slip law; Slippery slope; Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List; Spoliation of evidence; Strike for cause; Subject-matter jurisdiction; Substantial disruption; Substantive due process; Substantive law; Sugar bowl (legal maxim) Suppression of evidence; Suspect classification; Symbolic speech
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