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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
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 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 ...
A. Abandonment (legal) Abrogation in public law; Acceleration (law) Acceptance of responsibility; Acknowledgment (law) Acting (law) Actual notice; Ad sectam
Term used in contract law to specify terms that are voided or confirmed in effect from the execution of the contract. Cf. ex nunc. Ex turpi causa non oritur actio: ex nunc: from now on Term used in contract law to specify terms that are voided or confirmed in effect only in the future and not prior to the contract, or its adjudication. Cf. ex ...
The list is divided into separate lists for each position in the Supreme Court. Each justice is permitted to have three or four law clerks per Court term. Most clerks are recent law school graduates, who have typically graduated at the top of their class and spent at least one year clerking for a lower federal judge.
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 ...
Court historians and other legal scholars consider each chief justice who presides over the Supreme Court of the United States to be the head of an era of the Court. [1] These lists are sorted chronologically by chief justice and include most major cases decided by the court.