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a posteriori
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ab extra
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ab initio –
Abandoned property
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Abandonment (legal) –
Abduction –
Abet
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Abeyance –
Abolitionism in the United States –
Abolitionism –
Abortion –
Abortion, legal and moral issues
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Abrogate –
Abstention doctrine –
Abstract –
Abstract of judgment –
Abstract of title
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Abuse of discretion
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Abuse of process –
Abut
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Acceleration (law) –
Accept
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Acceptance –
Acceptance of service
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Accessory –
Accommodation –
Accomplice
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Accord and satisfaction –
Account stated –
Accountability –
Accounting period –
Accounting reference date
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Accounts payable –
Accounts receivable –
Accrue
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Accusation
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Accused –
Acknowledge –
Acknowledgement of service
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Acknowledgment –
Acquis
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Acquit
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Acquittal –
Act of God –
Act of Parliament
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Action
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Actionable
–
Actual controversy
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Actual malice –
Actual notice –
actus reus –
ad colligenda bona –
ad hoc –
ad idem
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ad infinitum –
ad litem –
ad quod damnum –
ad seriatim
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ad valorem
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Addendum –
Adeem –
Ademption –
Adequate remedy –
Adhesion contract
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Adjourn
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Adjournment sine die –
Adjournment in contemplation of dismissal –
Adjudication –
Adjusted basis –
Adjuster
–
Administer
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Administration
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administration order
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Administrative hearing
–
Administrative law –
Administrative law judge –
Administrative Procedure Act (Japan) –
Administrative Procedure Act (United States)
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Administrator
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Administrator –
Admiralty actions
–
Admiralty court –
Admiralty law –
Admissible evidence –
Admission against interest
–
Admission of evidence
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Admission (law) –
Admission to bail
–
Admission to the bar
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Adopt
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Adoption –
Adultery –
Advance directive
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Adversary system
–
Adverse –
Adverse interest
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Adverse party –
Adverse possession –
Adverse witness
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Advisory opinion –
Advocate –
Affiant
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Affidavit –
Affirm
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Affirmative action –
Affirmative defense –
Affix –
Affreightment –
After-acquired property –
Age discrimination
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Age of consent –
Age of majority –
Agency
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Agency agreement –
Agent
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Agent for acceptance of service
–
Aggravated assault
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Agreed statement –
Aid and abet
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Alias –
Alibi –
Alien –
Alienation –
Alienation of affections –
Alimony –
All the estate I own
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Allegation –
Allege
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Allocation questionnaire –
Allocatur –
Allocution –
Allodial
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Alluvion
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Alodium
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alter ego –
Alternate director –
Alternative dispute resolution –
Alternative Minimum Tax
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Alternative pleading –
ALWD Citation Manual
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Ambiguity –
Ambulance chasing –
Amelioration Act 1798 –
Amended complaint
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Amended pleading
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American Academy of Appellate Lawyers –
American Arbitration Association –
American Bar Association –
American Civil Liberties Union –
American Civil Rights Movement
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American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man –
American Depositary Receipt
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American Law Institute –
amicus curiae –
Amnesty –
Amnesty International –
Amortization –
An eye for an eye
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Ancillary administration –
Ancillary jurisdiction
–
Ancillary relief –
Animal rights –
Animal rights by country or territory –
Animal law –
Animal Law Review –
Animal Legal Defense Fund –
Animal trial –
Animal Welfare Act of 1966 –
animus nocendi –
Animus revertendi –
annual general meeting
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Annul
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Annulment –
Anomie –
Answer (law) –
Antecedent (law) –
Antenuptial (prenuptial) agreement
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Antejuramentum –
Anticipatory breach
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Antidisestablishmentarianism –
Antinomianism –
Antitrust
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Antitrust laws
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Apartheid –
Ape personhood
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Apparent authority –
Appeal –
Appeal bond –
Appeals court
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Appear –
Appellant
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Appellate court –
Appellate review
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Appellee
–
Appraiser –
Appreciate –
Appreciation –
Apprenticeship
Approach the bench
Appurtenances
Appurtenant
Arbitrary
Arbitration –
Arbitration award –
Arbitrator
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arguendo –
Argumentative –
Arm's length
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Arraign
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Arraignment –
Arrears –
Arrest –
Arrest warrant –
Arson –
Article I and Article III tribunals
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Articles of Association
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Articles of impeachment
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Articles of Incorporation
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Articles of War –
As is –
Asharite
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Assault –
Asset –
Assignment (law) –
Assigned risk –
Assignee
–
Assignment for benefit of creditors
–
Assigns
–
Assisted person –
Assize Court
–
Associate justice –
Association –
Assumption of risk –
Asylum and Immigration Tribunal –
Asylum seeker –
At will
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At will employment
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Attachment –
Attachment of earnings –
Attempt –
Attestation clause –
attorney-at-law
) –
Attorney general –
Attorney of record –
Attorney's advertising
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Attorney's fee –
Attorney's work product
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Attorney–client privilege –
Attorney-in-fact
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Attractive nuisance doctrine –
Audit –
Auditor –
Australian Constitution
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Australian Constitutional history
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Australian copyright law
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Authorised share capital
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Authoritarianism –
Authority –
Authorize
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Automatic stay –
Autrefois acquit
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Avulsion
–
Ayatollah
B
B.C.L.
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Babylonian law –
Bachelor of Civil Law –
Bachelor of Laws –
Bachelor of Legal Letters
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Back-to-back life sentences –
Bad debt –
Bad faith –
Bail –
Bail bond
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Bail bondsman –
Bail schedule
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Bailee
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Bailiff –
Bailment –
Bailor
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Bait and switch
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Balance due
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Balance sheet –
Ban
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Bank –
Bankrupt
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Bankruptcy –
Bankruptcy court
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Bankruptcy proceedings
–
Bankruptcy remote –
Bar –
Bar association –
Bar council –
Bar examination –
Bare trust –
Bargain and sale deed –
Barratry (admiralty law) –
Barratry (common law) –
Barrister –
Basic Law of various jurisdictions
–
Battery –
Beach bum trust provision –
Bearer paper
–
Belief –
Bench –
Bench memorandum –
Bench trial –
Bench warrant
–
Beneficial interest –
Beneficial use –
Beneficiary –
Beneficiary (trust) –
Benefit of counsel
–
Bequeath
–
Bequest
–
Berne three-step test –
Best evidence rule –
Best Interests of the Child –
Bestiality
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Beyond a reasonable doubt
–
BFP –
Bias –
Bifurcate –
Bifurcation –
Bigamy –
Bilateral contract
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Bill
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Bill of attainder –
Bill of costs –
Bill of exchange
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Bill of indictment
–
Bill of lading –
Bill of particulars –
Bill of rights –
Bill of sale –
Bind over
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Bind over for sentence
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Binding arbitration
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Bioethics –
Black's Law Dictionary –
Blackmail –
Blank endorsement –
Blood libel –
Blue law –
Blue laws
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Blue ribbon jury
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Blue Sky Laws
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Bluebook –
Board of directors –
bona fide
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Bona fide purchaser –
bona vacantia
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Bond
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Bond for deed
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Booby trap –
Book account
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Book value –
Bootleg recording –
Border control –
Bottomry –
Boycott –
Breach of contract –
Breach of promise –
Breach of the peace –
Breach of warranty
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Breaking and entering –
Bribery –
Bride price –
Brief –
British constitution
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British constitutional law
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British nationality law –
Broker –
Brought to trial –
Building and loan
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Bulk sale –
Bulk sales acts
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Bulk transfer –
Burden
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Burden of proof
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Burgage –
Burglary –
Business –
Business ethics –
Business invitee
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But for rule
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Buy-sell agreement
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Bylaw
–
Bylaws
–
Bypass trust
C
Cadastral map
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cadit quaestio –
Calendar call –
Caliphate –
Call to the bar –
Calumny
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Campaign finance reform in the United States –
Canadian Bill of Rights –
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms –
Caning –
Cannabis: Legal issues
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Canon –
Canon law –
Cape (writ) –
capital –
Capital account –
Capital assets
–
Capital expenditure –
Capital gain –
Capital gain tax
–
Capital gains
–
Capital investment
–
Capital loss –
Capital offense
–
Capital punishment –
Capital punishment in the United States –
Capital stock
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Capitalized value
–
Capricious
–
Carjacking –
Carnal knowledge –
Carrier –
Carrying for hire
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Cartel –
Case –
Case conference
–
Case law –
Case law in the United States
–
Case number
–
Case of first impression
–
Case-based reasoning –
Cashier's check –
Casualty insurance –
Casualty loss –
Casuistry –
Catechism –
Categorical Imperative
–
Catholic Emancipation
–
cause
–
Cause of action –
caveat emptor –
Cease and desist order
–
Censorship –
Certificate of deposit –
Certificate of incorporation –
Certificate of legal aid costs –
Certificate of title
–
Certified check –
certiorari –
Writ of Certiorari –
Cessate
–
Cestui que trust
–
Cestui que use
–
ceteris paribus –
Chain of title –
Chairman
–
Challenge for cause
–
Champerty
–
Chancellor –
Chancery –
Chancery division
–
Change of venue –
Character witness
–
Charge –
Charging lien
–
Charging order –
Charitable contribution –
Charitable organization –
Charitable remainder trust
–
Charitable trust –
Charter –
Chattel –
Checks and balances
–
Cheque –
Chief Justice
–
Chief Justice of Canada –
Chief Justice of the United States –
Child –
Child abandonment –
Child abuse –
Child custody –
Child endangerment
–
Child neglect –
Child pornography –
Child sexual abuse –
Child support –
Chinese law –
Churning
–
Circuit courts
–
Circumcision –
Circumstantial evidence –
Citation –
Cite
–
Citizen
–
Citizen's dividend –
Citizenship –
Civil action
–
Civil and social disobedience
–
Civil calendar –
Civil code –
Civil Code of Quebec –
Civil commitment
–
Civil death –
Civil disobedience –
Civil disorder –
Civil justice reforms
–
civil law –
Civil law notary –
Civil liability
–
Civil liberties –
Civil penalties
–
Civil procedure –
Civil rights
–
Civil union –
Claim against a governmental agency
–
Claim against an estate
–
Claim form
–
Claim in bankruptcy –
Claimant
–
Class –
Class action –
Class action suit
–
Clean hands doctrine
–
Cleanup clause –
Clear and convincing evidence
–
Clear and present danger –
Clear title –
Clerk –
Close corporation
–
Closed shop –
Closing
–
Closing argument –
Cloud on title –
Co-trustee
–
Code
–
Code of Hammurabi –
Code of professional responsibility
–
Codefendant
–
Codex –
Codicil –
Codification –
Codify –
Coercion –
Cohabitation –
Cohabitation agreement –
Coinsurance
–
Collateral –
Collateral attack
–
Collateral descendant
–
Collateral estoppel –
Collateral Warranty
–
Collective agreement –
Collective bargaining agreement
–
Collective rights
–
Collective trade marks
– –
Collusion –
Collusive action
–
Color of law
–
Color of title
–
Comaker
–
Comity –
Commencement of action –
Commentaries on the Laws of England –
Commercial frustration
–
Commercial law –
Commingling –
Commission of rebellion -
Commissioner of oaths
–
Committal
–
Commodity status of animals –
Common area –
Common carrier –
Common counts
–
Common law –
Common property
–
Common purpose –
Common stock –
Common-law marriage –
Commons –
Community patent
–
Community property –
Commutation –
Company
–
Company seal –
Comparative law –
Comparative negligence –
Comparative responsibility –
Compensatory damages
–
Competence –
Complainant
–
Complaint –
Complete contract –
Compound interest –
Compound question
–
Compounding a felony –
Compounding treason –
Compromise –
Compromise verdict
–
Concealed weapon
–
Conciliation –
Conclusion of fact
–
Conclusion of law
–
Concubinage –
Concurrent sentence
–
Concurrent sentences
–
Concurrent writ
–
Condemnation action
–
Condition precedent –
Condition subsequent –
Conditional bequest
–
Conditional discharge
–
Conditional dismissal –
Conditional sale –
Condominium
–
Conduct money –
Confession (law) –
Confession and avoidance –
Confession of judgment –
Confidence game
–
Confidential communication
–
Confidential information
–
Confidentiality –
Confiscate
–
Conflict of interest –
Conflict of law
–
Conflict of laws –
Confucianism –
Confusingly similar
–
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
–
Congressional-executive agreement
–
Conscientious objector –
Conscious parallelism
–
Conscription –
Consecutive sentence
–
Consecutive sentences
–
Counsul of Force
–
Countries banning non-human ape experimentation –
Consensu
–
Consensual crime –
Consensus ad idem
–
Consensus decision-making –
Consensus gentium –
Consent –
Consent decree –
Consent judgment
–
Consequential damages –
Consequentialism –
Conservatee
–
Conservative Judaism –
Conservator (law)
–
Consideration –
Consign
–
Consignee –
Consignment –
Consortium –
Conspiracy
–
Conspirator
–
Constable –
Constitution –
Constitution of the Confederate States –
Constitution of France –
Constitution of Spain –
Constitutional amendment –
Constitutional charter
–
Constitutional Convention (Australia) –
Constitutional Convention (United States) –
Constitutional law –
Constitutional monarchy –
Constitutional rights
–
Construction –
Constructive dismissal –
Constructive eviction –
Constructive fraud –
Constructive notice –
Constructive possession –
Constructive trust –
Construe
–
Consuetudinary –
Consultancy
–
Consultant –
Consumer protection –
Contact –
Contemplation of death
–
Contempt of court –
Contingency
–
Contingency fee
–
Contingent beneficiary –
Contingent fee –
Contingent interest –
Contingent remainder
–
Continuance –
Continuing objection
–
Continuing trespass –
contra bonos mores
–
contra legem
–
Contraband –
Contract –
Contract (canon law)
–
Contract of adhesion
–
Contract of sale –
Contract theory –
Contractor –
Contramandatio placiti -
Contributory negligence –
Controlled substance –
Controlling law –
Controversy –
Conversion –
Conveyancing –
Convict –
Conviction
–
Cooperative –
Cooperative housing
–
Cop a plea
–
Copartner
–
Copyhold –
Copyleft –
Copyright –
Copyright infringement –
Copyright law of the European Union –
Copyright misuse –
coram nobis –
coram non judice –
Coroner –
Corporate governance –
Corporate haven –
Corporate opportunity –
Corporate personhood
–
Corporate state
–
Corporation –
Corporations law
–
corpus delicti –
corpus juris
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corpus juris civilis
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corpus juris secundum
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Correlative rights doctrine –
Corroborate
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Corroborating evidence –
Corroboration
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Cost bill
–
Cotenancy
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Cotenant
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Council Tax –
Counsel –
Counsellor –
Count –
Counter offer
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Counterclaim –
Counterfeit –
County court –
Coup d'état –
Cour de cassation –
Course of employment –
Court –
Court calendar
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Court costs –
Court docket
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Court of appeal
–
Court of Appeal of England and Wales
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Court of Appeal (France)
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Court of Appeals
–
Court of customs and patent appeals
–
Court of equity –
Court of last resort
–
Court of law
–
Court of protection
–
Court of record –
Court of Session –
Court order –
Court trial
–
Court-martial –
Courtesy –
Courtroom –
Courts of England and Wales –
Courts of the United Kingdom
–
Covenant (law) –
Covenant not to compete
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Covenant that runs with the land
–
Covenants, conditions and restrictions
–
Creature of statute –
Credibility –
Credible witness
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Creditor –
Creditor's claim
–
Creditor's rights
–
Crime –
Crime against humanity
–
Crime against nature –
Crime against peace
–
Crime of passion –
Criminal
–
Criminal attorney
–
Criminal calendar
–
Criminal conversion –
Criminal justice –
Criminal law –
Criminal negligence –
Criminal procedure –
Critical legal studies –
Cross examination
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Cross-complaint
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Cross-examination –
Crown copyright –
Crown corporation
–
Crown Court –
Crown entity –
Crown land –
Cruel and unusual punishment –
Cruelty –
Cruelty to animals –
cui bono
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cuius regio, eius religio –
Culpability –
Cumis counsel –
Cumulative sentence (disambiguation) –
Cumulative voting –
Curfew –
Customary estate
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Customary law
–
Customs –
custos morum
–
Cut a check
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Cy pres doctrine
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Cyber law
–
Cybersquatting
D
D.A.
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D.B.A.
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D.U.I.
–
D.W.I.
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Damages –
Damnation –
Dangerous weapon
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Data protection
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Date rape –
Daubert standard –
Day in court
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de bonis asportatis
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de bonis non administratis –
de facto –
De facto corporation
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de futuro
–
de integro
–
de jure –
De jure corporation
–
de lege ferenda
–
de lege lata
–
de minimis –
de novo –
Deadlock –
Deadlock provision –
Deadly weapon –
Death tax –
Death penalty
–
Death row –
Death duty –
Debenture –
Debt –
Debt bondage –
Debtor –
Debtor in possession –
Decapitation –
Deceased
–
Deceit
–
Deception –
Decide! –
Decision –
Decisory oath -
Declarant –
Declaration of Arbroath –
Declaration of independence –
Declaration of mailing –
Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand –
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen –
Declaration of trust
–
Declaration of war –
Declaration of war by the United States –
Declaratory judgment –
Declaratory relief
–
Declared death in absentia
–
Decree –
Decree absolute
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Decree nisi –
Decriminalization –
Dedication –
Deduction –
Deed –
Deed poll –
defalcation –
Defamation –
Default (law) –
Default judgment –
Default rule –
Defeasance –
Defective title
–
Defendant –
Defense –
Defense attorney
– –
Defense of infancy
–
Deficiency judgment –
Defined benefit plan
–
Defined contribution plan –
Deforce –
Defraud
–
Degree of kinship
–
Deliberate
–
Deliberation –
Deliberative body
–
Delict –
Demand –
Demand note
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Demesne –
Demise –
Democracy –
Demonstrative evidence –
Demurrer –
Denial –
Deobandi
–
Deontology –
Department for Constitutional Affairs –
Dependent
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Deportation –
Deposition –
Depreciate
–
Depreciation –
Depreciation reserve
–
Derivative action
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Derivative work –
Derivatives law -
Descent and distribution
–
Desert –
Desertion –
Destructibility of contingent remainders –
Detailed Assessment
–
Devi –
Devil's Advocate
–
Devisee
–
Devolution –
Devolve
–
Devolved government
–
dicta
–
dictum –
Digital signature –
Diligence –
Diminished capacity
–
Diminished responsibility –
Diminished responsibility in English law –
Diminution in value –
Diplomatic immunity –
Diplomatic recognition –
Direct and proximate cause
–
Direct evidence –
Direct examination –
Directed verdict
–
Directors register –
Disability –
Disbar –
Disbarment –
Discharge in bankruptcy
–
Disciplinary procedure –
Disclaimer –
Discovery –
Discovery of documents
–
Discretion –
Discretionary trust –
Discrimination –
Disembowelment –
Disfigure
–
Dishonor
–
Disinheritance
–
Disjunctive allegations
–
Dismissal –
Dismissal with prejudice
–
Dismissal without prejudice
–
Disobbedienti
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Disorderly conduct –
Disorderly house – –
Disposing mind and memory
–
Disposition –
Dispossess
–
Dispute resolution –
Dissent –
Dissenting opinion –
Dissolution (law) –
Dissolution of corporation
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Dissolution of the Monasteries
–
Distinguish
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Distribute –
Distribution of property
–
Distributive justice –
District attorney –
District court –
Diversity of citizenship
–
Divestiture
–
Divestment –
Dividend –
Dividend tax –
Divine Right of Kings
–
Division of property –
Divisional court (disambiguation) –
Divorce –
DNA –
Document –
Documentary evidence –
Doctrine of exoneration of liens –
doli incapax
–
Domestic partner
–
Domestic partners
–
Domestic relations –
Domestic violence –
Dominant estate –
Dominant tenement
–
Donatio mortis causa
–
Donation –
Donative intent
–
Donee
–
Doom book –
Double jeopardy –
Double taxation –
Dower –
Dowry –
Draft document –
Drainage law –
Dram shop rule
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Drawer
–
Drawing and quartering
–
Dreyfus affair –
Driver's license –
Driving under the influence –
Driving while intoxicated
–
Droit du seigneur –
Drop dead date –
Drug –
Dual state (model) –
Dubitante –
duces tecum
–
Due and owing
–
Due care
–
Due diligence –
Due process –
Due process of law
–
Due, owing and unpaid
–
Duress
–
Duress in English law –
Duty –
Duty of care –
Duty of care in English law –
Duty to warn –
Dying declaration
E
Early Muslim philosophy
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Earned income tax credit –
Earnest payment –
Easement –
Ecclesia
–
Ecclesiastical court –
Ecumenical council –
Edict –
Edict of Fontainebleau –
Edict of Milan –
Edict of Nantes –
Edict of Worms
–
ei incumbit probatio qui –
Either –
Ejectment –
ejusdem generis
–
Elder law
–
Election of remedies –
Election under the will
–
Elective share –
Electoral reform –
Electric chair –
Emancipation –
Emancipation Proclamation –
Embezzlement –
Embezzler
–
Emblements –
Emergency –
Eminent domain –
Emolument –
Employee
–
Employer
–
Employers' liability
–
Employment –
Employment contract –
Employment law
–
En banc –
Enabling clause –
Enclosure
–
Encumbrance –
End user license agreement
–
Endowment –
Enfeoff
–
Enfeoffment
–
Enforcement –
English Bill of Rights
–
English law –
Enjoin
–
Enjoyment
–
Enrolled Bill doctrine
–
Entail
–
Enter a judgment
–
Entertainment law –
Entity
–
Entrapment –
Entry of judgment
–
Environmental Impact Report
–
Environmental impact statement –
Environmental law –
Ephebophilia –
Equal Access Act –
Equal opportunity –
Equal Protection Clause –
Equitable distribution
–
Equitable estoppel
–
Equitable lien
–
Equitable remedy –
Equity (law) –
Equity of redemption –
Equivalent –
erga omnes –
erratum –
Error –
Escalator clause
–
Escape clause –
Escheat –
Escrow –
Escrow account
–
Escrow agent
–
Escrow instructions
–
Espionage –
Esquire –
Essential facilities doctrine –
Establishment clause
–
Estate –
Estate by entirety
–
Estate in land –
Inheritance tax
–
estoppel –
et al.
–
et cetera –
et seq
–
Eternity clause
Ethical calculus –
Ethical code –
Ethics –
Ethics in religion –
Ethnic cleansing –
EU Directive 2010/63/EU
–
European Convention on Human Rights –
European Court of Human Rights –
European Court of Justice –
European Patent Convention –
European Patent Organisation –
European Union directive
–
Directive (EU)
–
European Union Law
–
European Union regulation
–
Regulation (EU)
–
Euthanasia –
Evasion of tax
–
Evasion of the law –
Eviction –
Evidence –
ex aequo et bono –
ex cathedra
–
ex delicto –
ex facie –
ex gratia –
ex officio
–
ex parte –
ex post facto
–
Ex post facto law –
ex rel
–
Examination –
Exception in deed –
Excessive bail
–
Excise –
Exclusionary rule –
Excommunication –
Exculpatory
–
Excusable neglect
–
Excuse –
Execution
–
Execution
–
Execution warrant –
Executioner –
Executive –
Executive clemency
–
Executive privilege –
Executor –
Executory contract –
Executory interest
–
executrix
–
Exegesis –
Exemplary damages
–
Exempt –
Exempt employees
–
Exempt property –
Exemption –
Exhibit
–
exigent circumstances
–
Exile –
Expectancy
–
Expense –
Expert determination –
Expert testimony
–
Expert witness –
Express contract
–
Express warranty –
Extension –
Extenuating circumstances
–
Extinguishment –
Extortion –
Extradition –
Extrajudicial
–
Extraordinary General Meeting
–
Extraordinary resolution –
Extreme cruelty
–
Extrinsic fraud
F
FOB (shipping) –
Fabricate –
Fabula –
Face –
Facere
–
Facies –
Facile –
Fact –
Facto
–
Factory –
Factum
–
Faculties, Court of
–
Faculty (instrument)
–
Faculty of a college
– –
Faculty of Advocates –
Faggot voter –
Fail
–
Failure –
Failure of consideration –
Failure of issue –
Faint action
–
Fair –
Fair Play Men –
Fair pleader
–
Faith –
Faithless servant –
Falang
–
Falda –
Faldstool –
Falesia
–
Falk-land –
False action
–
False imprisonment –
False pretenses –
False swearing
–
Falsehood –
Falsify
–
Falsing –
Falsum
–
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus –
Familia –
Family –
Famosus
–
Famosus libelus
–
Fanatics
–
Fakir –
Farm –
Farmer –
Faro
–
Farrier –
Fasti –
Father –
Father-in-law
–
Fathom –
Fatuity
–
Fatuus
–
Faubourg –
Fautor –
Fealty –
Fear –
Feciales
–
Federal government
–
Fee –
Fee-simple
–
Fenian –
Feodal
–
Feodal system
–
Feodary –
Feodum
–
Feoffee –
Feoffment –
Feoh
–
Feria –
Feriae
–
Ferling –
Ferry –
Ferryman
–
Feu (land tenure) –
Feud –
Fishing law –
Flag –
Flag of the United States –
Flagrante delicto
–
Fleta –
Flight –
Floating capital –
Floor –
Florin
–
Flotsam
–
Fluctus –
Face amount
–
Face value –
Fact –
Factum
–
Faculty of law
–
Failure of consideration –
Failure of issue –
Fair comment –
Fair dealing –
Fair market value –
Fair trade laws
–
Fair use –
Fairness Doctrine
–
False arrest –
False Claims Law
–
False imprisonment –
False pretenses –
Family –
Family law –
Family court –
Family law –
Family patrimony –
Family purpose doctrine –
Fatwa –
Fault auto insurance system
–
Federal Communications Commission –
Federal Constitutional Court (Germany) –
United States federal courts
–
Federal judge –
Federal jurisdiction (United States) –
Federal law –
Federal question
–
Federal tort claims act
–
Federalism –
Fee –
Fee simple –
Fee tail –
Felicific calculus –
Felony –
Felonious
–
Felony –
Felony murder rule –
Feme covert
–
Feoff
–
Feoffee –
Feoffment –
Fertile octogenarian
–
Feud –
Feudal land tenure
–
Feudal system
–
Feudalism –
Fictitious defendants –
fiduciary –
Fiduciary duty
–
Fiduciary relationship
–
Fief –
Fieri
–
fieri facias –
Fighting words –
File
–
Final judgment
–
Finder of fact
–
Findings of fact
–
Fine –
Fiqh –
Firm offer –
First degree murder
–
First impression
–
First to file and first to invent –
Fixture –
Fixtures –
Flight –
Floating charge –
Floating easement
–
FOB –
Fostering
–
Foujdar
–
Four corners
–
Fourierism –
Fox's Libel Act
–
Frais –
Franc –
Francia –
Francus –
Frank-marriage –
Franking privilege
–
Fraternity –
Fratricide –
Fraud –
Fraus –
Fraxinetum –
Free-bench
–
Free and clear –
Free socage
–
Free warren –
Freedman –
Freedom –
Freedom of speech –
Freedom of the press –
Free on board
–
Freight
–
Freighter –
Frenchman
–
Frequent –
Fresca –
Fresh pursuit
–
Fretum Britannicum
–
Friend of the court
–
Friendly societies
–
Friendly suit
–
Frigidity
–
Frith –
Frontage –
Frontier –
Fructus industriales
–
Fructus naturales –
Fruges –
Fruit –
Folkways
–
For value received
–
Forbearance –
Force majeure –
Forced heirship –
Forced sale
–
Forcible entry –
Foreclosure –
Foreclosure sale
–
Foreign corporation –
Forensic
–
Forensic medicine –
Forensic testimony
–
Forensics
–
Foreseeability
–
Foreseeable risk
–
Forfeit –
Forger
–
Forgery –
Formal contract –
Fornication –
forum conveniens
–
forum non conveniens –
Forum shopping –
Foster child
–
Four Cardinal Virtues
–
Four corners of an instrument
–
Franc-tireur
–
Franchise –
Franchise tax –
Franchising –
Fraud –
Fraud in the inducement
–
Fraudulent conveyance –
Fraudulent trading –
Free and clear –
Free economic zone –
Free on board
–
Free port
–
Free software license
–
Free speech
–
Free will –
Freedom of assembly –
Freedom of association –
Freedom of expression
–
Freedom of Information Act –
Freedom of religion –
Freedom of speech –
Freedom of speech by country –
Freedom of the press –
Freedom of thought –
Freehold
–
French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools –
Fresh pursuit
–
Friendly suit
–
Frisking –
Frivolous lawsuit
–
Fructus naturales –
Fruit of the poisonous tree –
Frustration of purpose –
Fugitive from justice
–
Full faith and credit
–
Fully paid
–
functus officio –
Fundamental justice –
Fundamentalism –
Fungible things
–
Future interest –
Futuwa
–
Fyrd
G
Gag order –
Gallows –
Game law –
Gaps and gores –
Garnish –
Garnishee
–
Garnishment –
Gas chamber –
Gasoline tax
–
Gemara –
Gender bias
–
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade –
General appearance
–
General assignment –
General Counsel
–
General damages
–
General denial –
General meeting
–
General order –
General partnership –
General plan
–
General strike –
General Synod –
Generation skipping
–
Geneva Conventions –
Genocide –
German town law –
Gibbet
–
Gift –
Gift in contemplation of death
–
Gift tax –
Glasnost –
Go bail
–
Going concern –
Good cause –
Good faith –
Good governance –
Good samaritan rule
–
Good title
–
Goods
–
Goseibai Shikimoku –
Government –
Government-granted monopoly –
Governmental immunity
–
Grace period –
Grand Inquisitor –
Grand jury –
Grand larceny
–
Grand theft
–
Grandfather clause –
Grandfathered in
–
Grandparent visitation –
Grant –
Grant deed –
Grantor-grantee index
–
Gratuitous –
gravamen –
Great Ape Project –
Green card
–
Gross income –
Gross negligence –
Grounds for divorce –
Group boycott –
Group litigation order –
Guanxi –
Guarantee –
Guarantees
–
Guarantor
–
Guaranty
–
Guardian –
Guardian ad litem
–
Guest statute –
Guild –
Guillotine –
Guilt –
Guilty
H
Habeas corpus –
Habeas corpus ad deliberandum et recipiendum
–
Habeas corpus ad faciendum et recipiendum
–
Habeas corpus ad prosequendum
–
Habeas corpus ad respondendum
–
Habeas corpus ad satisfaciendum
–
Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
–
Habeas corpus ad testificandum
–
Habeas corpus cum causa
–
Habitant
–
Habitation (see
Dwelling) –
Habitual Criminals Act –
Hable
–
Hacienda –
Habitable
– –
Habitual criminal
–
Hadith –
Hague Convention
–
Hague-Visby Rules
–
Halaal
–
Halakha (Jewish law) –
Jewish law (Halakha) –
Half blood –
Halsbury's Laws of England –
Hanafi
–
Hanbali
–
Hanging –
Haram
–
Harass
–
Harassment –
Harm reduction –
Harmless error –
Hate speech –
Head of household
–
Headnote –
Headright –
Heads of loss -
Health care proxy
–
Hearing –
Hearsay –
Hearsay rule
–
Heat of passion
–
Heir
–
Heir apparent –
Heiress –
Heirs
–
Heirs of the body –
Hell or high water clause –
Hereditament –
Herem (censure) –
Herem (priestly gift) –
Herem (war or property) –
Heresy –
Hidden asset –
High court judge
–
High Court of Australia –
Royal High Court of Bhutan
–
High Court of Justice (England and Wales) –
Court of High Commission (ecclesiastical court in England) –
High Court of Fiji –
High Court (Hong Kong) –
High Courts of India
, several courts –
High Court (Ireland) –
High Court (Isle of Man)
–
High Court of Malaya
–
High Court of New Zealand –
High Court of Cassation and Justice (Romania) –
High Court of Justiciary (Scotland) –
High Court of Sabah and Sarawak
–
High Court of Singapore –
High Court of South Africa –
Highway –
Highwayman –
Hima –
Himalaya clause –
Hit and run
–
Hobby loss
–
Hold harmless
–
Holder in due course –
Holding –
Holding company –
Holdover tenancy
–
Holographic will –
Home Rule
–
Home Secretary –
Homestead Act
–
Homestead exemption –
Homestead principle –
Hometowned –
Homicide –
Hong Kong trademark law
–
Hornbook law
–
Hostile environment sexual harassment
–
Hostile possession
–
Hostile witness –
Hot pursuit –
Hotch-pot
–
House counsel
–
House of Lords –
Household –
Housing tenure –
Human rights –
Human Rights Committee
–
Human rights issues in the United States
–
Humanism –
Hung jury –
Hunting Act 2004 –
Hypothecate
I
Idea-expression divide
–
idem –
ignorantia juris non excusat –
Ijma –
Ijtihad –
Illegal combatant
–
Illegal drug trade –
Illegal immigrant
–
Illegitimacy
–
Illusory promise –
Ilm ar-Rijal
–
Imam –
Immediately –
Immigrant visa
–
Immigration –
Immigration Appellate Authority –
Immunity
–
Impanel
–
Impaneling
–
Impeach
–
Impeachment –
Impleader –
Implied Bill of Rights
–
Implied consent –
Implied contract
–
Implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing
–
Implied terms
–
Implied warranty –
Implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose
–
Implied warranty of habitability
–
Implied warranty of merchantability
–
Importation right –
Impossibility of performance –
Impotence
–
Imputation –
in camera –
In chambers
–
in curia
–
in delicto
–
in esse
–
In fee simple
–
in flagrante delicto –
in forma pauperis –
in haec verba
–
In kind –
In lieu
–
in limine
–
in loco parentis –
in pari delicto –
in personam –
in pro per
–
in prope persona
–
in propria persona
–
in re –
in rem
–
in situ –
in terrorem –
in terrorem clause
–
in toto
–
Incapacity
–
Incest –
Inchoate offense –
Incidental beneficiary
–
Income –
Income tax –
Incompetent evidence
–
Incontrovertible evidence –
Incorporation (business) –
Incorporate by reference
–
Incorporation (business) –
Incorporeal
–
Incriminate –
Incumbrance
–
Indecent exposure –
Indefeasible
–
Indefeasible estate
–
Indemnify
–
Indemnity –
Indenture –
Indentured servant
–
Independent contractor
–
Indeterminacy debate in legal theory –
Indeterminate sentence
–
Indictable offence –
Indictable offense
–
Indictment –
Indigent
–
Indispensable party –
Individual capital –
Individual rights
–
Indorse
–
Industrial design rights
–
Industrial tribunal
–
Infancy
–
Infant –
Infanticide Act –
Inference –
Information –
Information and belief –
Informed consent –
Infraction
–
Infractions
–
Infringement
–
Ingress –
Inherit –
Inheritance –
Inheritance tax –
Injunction –
Injunctive relief
–
Injury –
Inkan
–
Innocence –
Innocent
–
Inns of Court –
innuendo –
Inquest –
Inquisition –
Inquisitor –
Inquisitorial system –
Insanity –
Insanity defense –
Insider trading –
Insolvency –
Insolvent
–
Inspection of documents –
Installment contract
–
Instruction –
Instructional capital –
Insufficient evidence
–
Insurance –
Insured
–
Insurer
–
Intangible property –
Integrated criminal justice information system –
Integration –
Intellectual capital –
Intellectual property –
Intellectual rights
–
Intendant of New France –
Intent
–
inter alia
–
inter se –
inter vivos –
Inter vivos trust
–
Interest –
Interference proceeding –
Interim order –
Interlineation –
interlocutory –
International Business Companies Act –
Interlocutory decree
–
Interlocutory order
–
Intermediate sanctions –
Internal affairs doctrine –
International Business Companies Act –
International constitutional law –
International Court of Justice –
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights –
International crime –
International Criminal Court –
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda –
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
–
International environmental law
–
International human rights instruments –
International human rights law –
International law –
International relations –
International trade –
International trade law –
Internment –
Interpleader –
Interrogation –
Interrogatories –
Interstate commerce
–
Intertemporal Law
–
Intervene –
Intervening cause –
Intervention –
Intestacy –
Intestate
–
Intestate succession
–
Intoxication –
intra fauces terra –
intra vires
–
Intrinsic fraud –
Inure
–
Invasion of privacy
–
Inventor
–
Inventor's notebook –
Inverse condemnation –
Invest
–
Investiture –
Investment –
Invitation to treat –
Invitee –
Involuntary commitment –
ipse dixit –
ipsissima verba –
ipso facto –
Irreconcilable differences –
Irrelevant
–
Irreparable damage or injury
–
Irresistible impulse –
Islamic Law (Sharia)
–
Sharia (Islamic law) –
Islamic philosophy –
Isnad
–
Issue
–
Issue preclusion
–
Issued shares
J
Juris Doctor (J.D.) –
Jafari
–
Jane Doe
–
Jaywalking –
Jeopardy
–
Jewish principles of faith –
Jewish Theological Seminary of America –
Jim Crow laws –
John Doe –
Joinder –
Joinder of issue
–
Joint –
Joint adventure
–
Joint and several
–
Joint and several liability –
Joint custody –
Joint liability
–
Joint property
–
Joint tenancy
–
Joint tortfeasors
–
Joint venture –
Jointure –
Jones act –
Journeyman –
Joyride –
Judge –
Judge advocate
–
Judge Advocate General
–
Judgment
–
Judgment by default
–
Judgment debtor –
Judgment in Berlin –
Judgment non obstante veredicto
–
Judgment notwithstanding the verdict
–
Judgment notwithstanding verdict –
Judicial
–
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council –
Judicial discretion –
Judicial economy –
Judicial foreclosure
–
Judicial functions of the House of Lords –
Judicial independence –
Judicial interference –
Judicial notice –
Judicial review –
Jump bail
–
Junior barrister –
jurat –
Jurisdiction –
Jurisdictional amount
–
Jurisprudence –
Jurist –
Juror
–
Jury –
Jury box
–
Jury charge
–
Jury fees –
Jury instructions –
Jury nullification –
Jury of one's peers
–
Jury panel
–
Jury selection –
Jury stress –
Jury tampering –
Jury trial –
jus ad bellum –
jus ad bellum
–
jus civile
–
jus cogens
–
jus commune –
jus gentium –
jus inter gentes –
jus naturale
–
jus primae noctis
–
jus sanguines
–
jus sanguinis –
jus soli –
Just cause –
Just compensation –
Just war
–
Justice –
Justice of the Peace
–
Justiciable
–
Justifiable homicide –
Justification –
Juvenile
–
Juvenile court –
Juvenile delinquent
K
Kangaroo court –
Karaites –
Karma –
Kosher law –
Kellogg-Briand Pact
–
Kidnapping –
King's Bench –
Kinshasa Declaration on Great Apes –
Know-how
–
Kollel
L
Labor and materials
–
Labor law
–
labor union –
Laches –
lacunae
–
Land use –
Land value tax –
Landlady
–
Landlocked
–
Landlord –
Landlord and tenant
–
Landlord and Tenant Act
–
Landlord's lien –
Lapse
–
Larceny –
Last antecedent rule –
Last clear chance –
Last will and testament
–
Latent defect –
Law –
Law and economics –
Law and literature –
Law and motion calendar –
Law basic topics
–
Law book –
Law dictionary –
Law French –
Law lords
–
Law of admiralty
–
Law of Canada –
Law of costs
–
Law of Ireland –
Law library –
Law of obligations –
Law of the case –
Law of the land –
Law of the Russian Federation
–
Law of the Sea –
Law of the Soviet Union –
Law of the United Kingdom –
Law of the United States –
Law of treaties
–
Law school –
Law Society –
Laws of war
–
Lawsuit –
Lawyer –
Lay a foundation
–
Lay assessor
–
Laïcité
–
Leading question –
Leading the witness
–
Lease –
Lease and release –
Leasehold
–
Legal
–
Legal abuse
–
Legal action
–
Legal advertising –
Legal age –
Legal aid –
Legal Aid Society
–
Legal code
–
Legal consequences of marriage and civil partnership in the United Kingdom
–
Legal custody
–
Legal debate –
Legal entity –
Artificial person
–
Legal fiction –
Legal formalism –
Legal history –
Legal instrument –
Legal Latin
–
Legal lexicography –
Legal personal representative
–
Legal positivism –
Legal pluralism –
Legal realism –
Legal separation –
Legal status of animals in Canada –
Legal technicality –
Legal tender –
Legal translation –
Legalese
–
Legalism (Western philosophy) –
Legalism (Chinese philosophy) –
Legalism (theology) –
Legalization –
Legatee –
Legislation –
Legislature –
Legitimacy (family law) –
Legitimacy (political science)
–
legitime –
Lemon law –
Lessee
–
Lesser crime
–
Lesser included offenses
–
Lesser-included offense
–
Let –
Lethal injection –
Letter of credit –
Letter of marque –
Letter of wishes –
Letters –
Letters of administration
–
Letters patent –
Letters testamentary
–
Leverage –
Leviticus
–
lex lata –
lex scripta –
Liable
–
Libel
–
Libel per se
–
Libertarian theories of law –
Liberty –
Licence
–
License –
Licensee –
Lie detector test
–
Lien –
Lienor
–
Life –
Life estate –
Life without possibility of parole
–
Limitation of actions
–
Limitations clause, Constitution of Canada
–
Limited company –
Limited jurisdiction –
Limited liability –
Limited liability company –
Limited partner
–
Limited partnership –
Line of succession
–
Lineal descendant –
Lineup –
Liquidate
–
Liquidated damages –
Liquidation –
Liquidator (law) –
lis pendens –
List of Roman laws –
Listed building –
Literary property –
Litigant
–
Litigation
–
Litigious
–
Liturgy –
Livery –
Livery of seizin
–
living trust
–
Living will
–
LL.B.
–
LL.M.
–
Loanshark
–
Lockout –
locus delicti
–
locus in quo
–
Loiter (law)
–
Long cause –
Long vacation
–
Long-arm statute
–
Lord Chancellor –
Lord Chancellor's Department –
Lord Chief Justice
–
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales –
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Justice of appeal
–
Lord Keeper of the Great Seal –
Lord President of the Council –
Lord Steward –
Loss of consortium –
Loss of use –
Lost volume seller –
Lower court –
Lübeck law
M
M'Naghten Rules
–
Madhhab –
Madrassa
–
Magdeburg rights –
Magdeburg law –
Magistrate –
Magna Carta –
Mail box rule
–
Maim
–
Maintenance –
Maintenance –
Maintenance
–
Majority –
Mala fides
–
male fide
–
Malfeasance
–
Malice aforethought –
Malicious prosecution –
Maliki
–
Malpractice –
malum in se –
malum prohibitum –
mandamus –
Writ of mandamus –
Mandate (criminal law) –
Mandate (international law) –
Mandate of Heaven –
Mandatory joinder
–
Mandatory sentence
–
Mann act
–
Manorialism –
Manslaughter –
Manslaughter in English law –
Manumission –
Manusmriti –
mare clausum –
mare liberum –
Marital deduction –
Marital life estate –
Marital rights
–
Maritime law
–
Marked for identification
–
Market value –
Marketable title –
Marriage –
Marriageable age –
Marshal –
Martial law –
Mask work
–
Masoretes –
Masoretic Text –
Masorti –
Massachusetts trust
–
Master –
Master and servant –
Master of Laws –
Master of the Rolls –
Master of the Rolls in Ireland
–
Materiality –
Material witness –
Matrimonial regime –
Matter –
Maturity –
Maxims –
Maxims of equity –
Maxims of law
–
May –
Mayhem –
Mechanic's lien –
Mechanics lien
–
Mediation –
Mediator –
Medical directive
–
Medical ethics –
Medieval Inquisition –
Meet and confer
–
Meeting of the minds –
Meforshim
–
Megan's Law –
Memorandum –
Memorandum of Association
–
mens rea –
Mental cruelty
–
Mental health law –
Mental suffering
–
Mercantile law
–
Merchantable
–
Merger
–
Mesne –
mesne assignment –
Mesne profits –
Messuage
–
Metes and bounds –
Military alliance –
Military dictatorship –
Military law
–
Military tribunal
–
Militia –
Mining claim
–
Ministerial act –
minor –
Minutes –
Miranda warning –
Mirror wills
–
Misappropriation –
Mischief –
Misdemeanor –
Misfeasance –
Mishnah Berurah –
Mishnah –
Hebrew law (Mishpat Ivri) –
Mishpat Ivri (Hebrew law) –
Misjoinder –
Misnomer –
Misprision of a felony
–
Misprision of treason –
Misrepresentation –
Mistake of law –
Mistrial
–
Mitigating circumstances
–
Mitigating factors –
Mitzvah –
Mock trial –
Modern Islamic philosophy
–
modus operandi –
Moiety title –
Monarch –
Money laundering –
Monism and dualism in international law –
Monopoly –
Monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force
–
Month-to-month
–
Monument –
Moot court –
Moot point
–
Mootness
–
Mopery –
Moral absolutism –
Moral certainty –
Moral code
–
Moral core
–
Moral relativism –
Moral rights
–
Moral turpitude –
Moral universalism –
Morality –
Moratorium –
Mores –
Morganatic marriage –
Mortgage law –
Mortgagee
–
Mortgagor
–
Motion –
Motion for a summary judgment
–
Motion for more definite statement –
Motion for directed verdict
–
Motion for dismissal
–
Motion for summary judgment
–
motion in limine –
Motion to dismiss
–
Motion to Strike –
Motion to suppress
–
Motion to suppress evidence
–
Motive –
Motor vehicle exception--
Motor vehicle theft –
Movant
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Mujtahid
–
Mullah –
Multiple citizenship –
Multiplicity of suits –
Municipal
–
Muniment of title
–
Murder –
Murder in English law –
Muslim dietary laws
–
Mutation –
mutatis mutandis –
Mutiny –
Mutual wills
N
N.O.V.
–
Name change –
Named plaintiffs
–
Napoleonic code
–
Narcotic –
National Insurance contributions
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National Labor Relations Board –
National trade union center –
Nationality –
Natural law –
Natural person –
Natural resource law
–
ne exeat –
Necessary party
–
Negative pledge –
Negative pregnant –
Negligence –
Negligence per se –
Negligent
–
Negotiable instrument –
Negotiation –
nemo dat quod non habet –
nemo judex in sua causa
–
Neutral country –
Next friend –
Next of kin –
Night and Fog prisoner
–
nihil dicit –
nisi prius –
No contest –
No fault divorce
–
No fault insurance
–
No-par stock –
Noble Eightfold Path –
nolle prosequi –
nolo contendere –
Nominal damages
–
Nominal party –
Nominal value
–
Nominee
–
non compos mentis –
non constat
–
non est factum –
non liquet –
non obstante verdicto
–
Non-binding arbitration –
Non-conforming use
–
Non-contestability clause
–
Non-disclosure agreement –
Non-executive director –
Non-feasance
–
Non-profit corporation
–
Non-profit organization
–
Non-suit –
Nonimmigrant visa
–
Nonviolence –
Not guilty
–
Not guilty by reason of insanity
–
Not-for-profit corporation
–
nota bene –
Notary public –
Notice –
Notice of appeal
–
Notice of default
–
Notice to quit
–
Notorious possession
–
Notwithstanding clause (Canadian Constitution)
–
Novation –
Nuisance –
nulla bona –
nulla poena sine lege –
Nullity (conflict)
–
nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali
–
nunc pro tunc –
Nuremberg Code –
Nuremberg Trials
O
O.R. –
O.S.C. –
Oath –
–
Object
–
Objectivist philosophy
–
Obligation –
Obligations of confidentiality
–
Obligee
–
Obligor
–
Obscene
–
Obscenity –
Obstruction of justice –
Occupancy –
Occupant
–
Occupational disease –
Occupational hazard –
Occupy the field –
Of counsel –
Offender
–
Offer of proof –
Offeree
–
Offeror
–
Officer of the court –
Officers of a corporation
–
Official –
Official misconduct
–
Official receiver –
Official Solicitor –
Officious intermeddler –
Offshore corporation
–
Ombudsman –
Omission
–
Omnibus clause –
On all fours –
onus probandi
–
Open adoption –
Open court
–
Open-source license –
Opening statement –
Operation of law –
opinio juris sive necessitatis –
Opinion –
Oppression remedy –
Oral argument –
Oral contract –
Oral examination –
Oral law –
Order –
Order in Council –
Order to show cause –
Ordinary (officer)
–
Ordinary course of business –
Ordinary resolution –
Ordinary shares
–
Organized crime –
Original jurisdiction –
Original sin –
Originating application –
Orphan –
Ostensible agent
–
Ostensible authority
–
Out of court
–
Out-of-pocket expenses
–
Outlaw –
Output contract –
Over-the-counter drug –
Overcharge –
Overt act –
Owe –
Own
–
Own recognizance
–
Owner
–
Owner-occupier
–
Ownership
P
pacta sunt servanda –
Pain and suffering –
Palimony
–
Panderer
–
par delictum
–
Paralegal –
Paramount title
–
Paraphilia –
Pardon –
parens patriae –
Parent –
Parent company
–
Pari delicto
–
Pari passu –
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property –
Parish –
Parliament –
Parliamentary procedure –
Parliamentary supremacy
–
Parliamentary system –
Parody –
Parol –
Parol evidence rule –
Parole –
Parquet –
Partial breach
–
Partial verdict –
Particulars
–
Partition –
Partner –
Partnership –
Party –
Party of the first part
–
Party of the second part
–
Party wall –
Passenger –
Passing off
–
Patent –
Patent ambiguity
–
Patent Cooperation Treaty –
Patent infringement –
Patent pending –
Patentability –
Patently unreasonable –
Paternity
–
Paternity suit
–
Patient –
Patrimony of affectation –
Patronage –
Pay as you earn (paye)
–
Payable
–
Payee
–
Payor
–
Peace bond –
Peaceable possession –
Peculation
–
Pecuniary –
Pedophilia –
Peeping tom –
Peer group –
Peerage –
Peer review –
Penal code
–
Penal colony –
Penal law
–
Penal notice –
Penal transportation –
Penalty phase
–
Penance –
Pendent jurisdiction
–
pendente lite –
Pension plan
–
Pension scheme
–
People's Republic of China's trademark law
–
per capita –
per curiam
–
per diem –
per minas –
per pro
–
per quod –
per stirpes –
Peremptory challenge –
Peremptory challenges
–
Peremptory norm –
Peremptory writ of mandate
–
Perfect –
Perfection (law) –
Perform
–
Performance –
Perjurer
–
Perjury –
Permanent Court of Arbitration –
Permanent injunction
–
Permissive –
Perpetuity –
Person –
Person having ordinary skill in the art –
persona non grata –
Personal effects
–
Personal jurisdiction –
Personal property –
Personal recognizance
–
Personal representative –
Personal service –
Personality rights –
Personalty
–
Perversion –
Petit jury –
Petition –
Petition for probate
–
Petition to make special –
Petitioner –
Petty larceny
–
Petty offenses
–
Philosophy of law –
Physical custody
–
Physician-patient privilege
–
Picketing
–
Pierce the corporate veil
–
Piercing the corporate veil –
Pilferage
–
Pillory –
Pimp
–
Piracy –
Plagiarism –
Plain error
–
Plain view doctrine –
Plaint note –
Plaint number –
Plaintiff –
Plc –
Plea –
Plea bargain –
Plea in abatement
–
Plead
–
Pleading –
Pleadings
–
Plenary authority
–
Police –
Police brutality –
Police oppression
–
Police powers (United States constitutional law)
–
Police state –
Corruption –
Political prisoner –
Political question –
Political science –
Poll tax (disambiguation) –
Polyandry –
Polygamy –
Bigamy –
Polygraph –
Pornography –
Port of entry –
Positive law –
Possession –
Possession of stolen goods –
Possession proceedings –
Possessory –
Possessory interest
–
Possibility of a reverter
–
post mortem
–
Postdated check
–
Pot –
Pour over will
–
Poverty law –
Power
–
Power of appointment –
Power of arrest –
Power of attorney –
Practice –
Practice Direction
–
Practice of law –
Praemunire –
praetor peregrinus
–
Pre-emption rights
–
Precedent –
Preemption of state and local laws in the United States
–
Preemptive right
–
Preference –
Preferential creditor –
Preferred dividend
–
Preferred stock –
Pregnant denial
–
Preliminary hearing –
Preliminary injunction
–
Premeditation
–
Premises –
Prenuptial agreement –
Preponderance of the evidence
–
Prerogative writ –
Prescription drug –
Prescriptive easement
–
President of the family division
–
Presiding judge
–
Presumption –
Presumption of innocence –
Pretermitted heir –
Pretrial discovery
–
Price fixing –
prima facie –
Prima facie case
–
Prima impressionis
–
Prime suspect –
primogeniture –
Prior restraint –
Prison –
Prisoner of war –
Privacy –
Private bill
–
Private carrier –
Private company
–
Private Express Statutes –
Private international law
–
Private law –
Private nuisance
–
Private parts –
Private property –
Private road –
Privateer –
Privilege (evidence) –
Privilege (legal ethics)
–
Privilege against self incrimination
–
Privileged communication
–
Privity –
Privy Council
–
Privy Council of Sweden –
pro bono –
pro bono publico
–
pro forma –
pro hac vice –
pro per
–
pro se
–
pro tanto
–
pro tem
–
pro tempore –
Probable cause –
Probate –
Probation –
Probative
–
Probative value
–
Procedendo –
Procedural defense –
Procedural justice –
Procedural law –
Procedure –
Proceeding
–
Process –
Process server
–
Proctor –
Product liability –
Professional corporation –
Professional negligence
–
Proffer –
Prohibition –
Writ of prohibition
–
Promise –
Promissory estoppel
–
Promissory note –
Property –
Property damage –
Property law –
Property tax –
propria persona
–
Proprietary rights –
Proprietor
–
Prosecute
–
Prosecution
–
Prosecutor –
Prostitute
–
Prostitution –
Protective custody –
Protective order –
Protest –
Protocol
–
Provisional remedy –
Proximate cause –
Prudent man rule –
Public –
Public administrator
–
Public benefit corporation –
Public company –
Public corporation (disambiguation) –
Public defender –
Public domain –
Public figure –
Public limited company –
Public nuisance –
Public order
–
Public property –
Public record
–
Public trust doctrine –
Public trustee –
Public use –
Public utility –
Publication –
Publici juris –
Publish
–
Puffery –
Puisne judge –
Punitive damages –
Putative father
–
Putative father registry
Q
quaere –
quantum meruit –
Quash
–
Quasi community property
–
Quasi contract
–
Quasi corporation
–
Quasi in rem
–
Quasi-contract –
Quasi-criminal –
Quasi-delict –
Quasi-judicial
–
Queen's bench –
Queen's Privy Council for Canada
–
Queens bench division –
Queen's counsel
–
Question of fact
–
Question of law –
qui tam action
–
quid pro quo –
quid pro quo sexual harassment
–
Quiet enjoyment
–
Quiet title action
–
Quitclaim deed
–
Quitrent
–
quo warranto –
Quorum –
Quotient verdict
–
Qur'an
R
Rabbi –
Rabbinic literature –
Rabbinical Assembly –
Race to the courthouse –
Racial discrimination –
Racial segregation –
Racism –
Racketeer influenced corrupt organization (RICO) statute –
Racketeering –
Radical transparency –
Ransom –
Rape –
Ratification –
Ratify
–
ratio decidendi –
ratio scripta –
Rational basis
–
Ratum sed non consummatum –
Real estate –
Real estate investment trust –
Real party in interest –
Real property –
Realty
–
Reasonable care
–
Reasonable doubt
–
Reasonable man doctrine –
Reasonable time – –
Reasonableness –
Rebbe –
rebus sic stantibus
–
Rebuttable presumption
–
Rebuttal –
Recapture –
Receipt –
Receivership –
Recharacterisation –
Recidivist
–
Reciprocal discovery –
Reckless –
Reckless disregard
–
Reckless driving –
Recklessness –
Recognisance
–
Reconstructionist Judaism –
Reconveyance
–
Recorder
–
Recording acts
–
Recoupment –
Recover –
Recoverable –
Recusal
–
Rectification (law) –
Recuse
–
Redemption (bonds)
–
Redemption of shares
–
Redemption value –
Redetermination –
Redirect examination –
Redundancy
–
Reentry
–
Referee –
Referendum –
Reform Judaism –
Refugee –
Refundable tax credit
–
Registered office –
Registered trade mark
–
Registration statement –
Registry of deeds
–
Regulation –
Regulations
–
Regulatory taking
–
Rehearing –
Reichstag Fire Decree –
Reid technique –
Release –
Release on one's own recognizance
–
Relevancy
–
Relief –
Religion and heterosexuality
–
Religion and homosexuality
–
Religious law –
Remainder –
Remainderman –
Remand (court procedure) –
Remittitur –
Rent –
Rent control
–
Rental value –
Reorganization
–
Repair
–
Repeal –
Repentance –
Replevin –
Reply brief
–
Reports
–
Repossess
–
Represent –
Representation –
Reprisal –
Reputation –
Requirements contract –
res adjudicata
–
res gestae –
res ipsa loquitur –
res judicata –
res nulis
–
res publica christiana
–
Resale
–
Rescind
–
Rescission –
Rescue doctrine –
Reservation –
Reserved decision
–
Resident
–
Resident alien
–
Residuary bequest
–
Residuary estate –
Residuary legatee
–
Residue
–
Resistance movement –
Resisting arrest –
Resolution –
Resolution of disputes
–
respondeat superior –
Responsa –
Responsibility –
Restatement of the law
–
Restitution
–
Restorative justice –
Restraining order –
Restraint of trade –
Restraint on alienation –
Restrictive covenant
–
Result –
Resulting trust –
Retaining lien
–
Retention of title clause
–
Retire
–
Retraction –
Retrial
–
Retributive justice –
Return of service –
Revenue ruling –
Reversible error –
Reversion –
Review –
Revocable living trust
–
Revocation –
Revoke –
RICO –
Right of audience
–
Right of eminent domain
–
Right of survivorship
–
Right of the first night
–
Right-of-way
–
Right to privacy –
Right to silence –
Right-to-work laws
–
Rights –
Riot –
Riot control agent
–
Riparian
–
Riparian rights
–
Risk –
Risk of loss –
Ritual –
Roadside test
–
Robbery –
Robert's Rules of Order –
Rocket docket –
Rogatory letters
–
Roman Forum –
Roman Inquisition
–
Roman law –
Room
–
Royal assent –
Royal charter –
Royal commission –
Royal Courts of Justice –
Royal prerogative –
Royal Warrant –
Royalties
–
Rule –
Rule against perpetuities –
Rule by decree –
Rule in Allhusen v Whittell
–
Rule in Re Atkinson
–
Rule in Bartlett v Barclays Bank
–
Rule in Clayton's Case
–
Rule in Dearle v Hall –
Rule in Dumpor's Case –
Rule in Howe v Earl of Dartmouth
–
Rule in Saunders v Vautier
–
Rule in Shelley's Case –
Rule in Wild's Case –
Rule of law –
Rulemaking –
Rules of evidence
–
Ruling –
Rum-running –
Running with the land
–
Ruse of war
S
Sabotage –
Sacred text
–
Salafi
–
Sales tax –
Samaritan Pentateuch –
Same-sex marriage –
Sanctions –
Sanhedrin –
Sasine –
Satyagraha –
Save harmless
–
Savings and loan
–
Scapegoat –
School of law
–
Sciens –
scienter –
scire facias –
Scope of employment –
Scots law –
Scrivener –
Scutage –
se defendendo
–
Seal
–
Sealed verdict
–
Sealing of records
–
Search and seizure –
Search warrant –
Second degree murder
–
Secondary boycott
–
Secret police –
Secret rebate –
Secret tribunal
–
Secret trust –
Secretary of State for the Home Department
–
Secularism –
Secured creditor –
Secured transaction –
Security –
Security agreement –
Security deposit –
Security for costs –
Security interest –
Security of tenure –
Sedition –
Seduction –
Seigniorage –
Seised
–
Seisin –
Seized
–
Seizure –
Self-dealing –
Self-defense
–
Self-determination –
Self-help –
Self-incrimination –
Seller
–
Semble –
Semicha
–
Senior lien
–
Sentence (law) –
Separate property
–
Separation –
Separation of church and state –
Separation of powers –
Separatism –
Septuagint –
Serf
–
seriatim –
Servant
–
Service –
Service by fax
–
Service by mail
–
Service by publication
–
Service mark –
Service of process –
Services –
Servient estate –
Set-aside –
Set-off –
Setting
–
Settle
–
Settlement
–
Settlement agreement
–
Settlor –
Seven deadly sins –
Severable contract –
Several liability
–
Sex offender –
Sex offender registries in the United States –
Sex tourism –
Sex worker –
Sex-related court cases
–
Sexual abuse –
Sexual assault –
Sexual discrimination
–
Sexual harassment –
Sexual morality
–
Sexual norm –
Shafi'i
–
Shaikh –
Shall
–
Shame –
Share –
Share capital –
Share certificate
–
Shareholder –
Shareholders agreement
–
Shareholders' agreement –
Shareholders' derivative action
–
Shareholders' meeting
–
–
Shepardize
–
Sheriff –
Sheriff's sale
–
Shield laws
–
Shifting the burden of proof
–
Shoplifting –
Short cause –
Shortening time
–
Show cause order
–
Shulkhan Arukh
–
Sick pay
–
Sidebar –
Sign –
Signature –
Signing bonus –
Silk –
Simple trusts in Australia –
Simple trust (U.S. trust law) –
Simultaneous death act
–
Sin –
Sin-offering
–
sine die
–
sine qua non –
Single life annuity
–
Situated ethics –
Situational ethics –
situs (law) –
Slander
–
Slander of title –
Slavery –
Slavery at common law –
Small claims court –
Small claims track
–
Smuggling –
Socage –
Social capital –
Social control –
Social justice –
Socialist law –
Society for Animal Protective Legislation
–
Sodomy –
Sodomy law –
Software license –
Software patent –
Copyright infringement of software
–
Sole proprietorship –
Solicitation –
Solicitor –
Solitary confinement –
Solvency –
Solvent –
Sound mind and memory
–
Sounds in –
Southern Poverty Law Center –
Sovereign immunity –
Sovereignty –
Spanish Constitution of 1978
–
Spanish Inquisition –
Speaking demurrer –
Special administrator –
Special damages
–
Special master –
Special prosecutor
–
Special resolution
–
Special verdict
–
Specific bequest
–
Specific devise –
Specific finding –
Specific legacy –
Specific performance –
Speculative damages –
Speed limit –
Speed trap
–
Speedy trial –
Spendthrift clause
–
Spendthrift trust –
Spoliation of evidence
–
Spontaneous exclamation
–
Spot zoning –
Spousal abuse
–
Spousal support –
Springing interest
–
Squatter
–
Squatting –
Stakeholder
–
Stamp duty –
Standard form contract –
Standard of care –
Standing –
Star Chamber –
Star chamber proceedings
–
stare decisis
–
State action –
State of domicile
–
State of Emergency
–
State religion –
State-owned enterprise –
Stationhouse bail
–
Statism –
Status conference –
Statute –
Statute of frauds –
Statute of limitations –
Statutes of fraud
–
Statutes of limitations
–
Statutory Instrument
–
Statutory law
–
Statutory offer of settlement
–
Statutory rape –
Stay away order
–
Stay of execution –
Stay of proceedings –
Stipendiary magistrate –
Stipulation –
Stock –
Stock certificate –
Stock in trade
–
Stock option
–
Stockholder
–
Stockholders' derivative action
–
Stoning –
Stop and frisk
–
Strata title –
Strategic lawsuits against public participation
–
Straw deed –
Straw man –
Street –
Strict construction
–
Strict liability –
Strike –
Strike action –
Structure –
sua sponte –
sub judice –
sub modo –
sub nomine
–
sub silentio –
Sub-tenant
–
Subchapter S corporation
–
Subcontractor –
Sublease
–
Sublet
–
Submitted
–
Subordination –
Subordination agreement –
Subornation of perjury –
subpoena –
subpoena ad testificum
–
subpoena duces tecum –
Subrogation –
Subrogee
–
Subrogor
–
Subscribe
–
Subscribers
–
Subsidiary company
–
Substantial performance –
Substantive law –
Substituted service
–
Substitution of attorney –
Succession –
Successive sentences
–
Suffering –
Suffrage –
Suggestion of death -
sui generis –
Suicide –
Suitor
–
Sum certain –
Summary adjudication of issues
–
Summary assessment
–
Summary dismissal
–
Summary judgment –
Summary offence –
Summation
–
Summing –
Summons –
Sunnah –
Superior court –
supersedeas
–
Superseding cause
–
Suppression of evidence –
Supremacy clause
–
Supreme court –
Supreme Court of Canada –
Supreme Court of India –
Supreme Court of judicature
–
Supreme Court of New Zealand –
Surety –
Surplusage –
Surrebutal
–
Surrender –
Surrogate court
–
Survivorship
–
Suspended sentence –
Sustain
–
Syndicate –
Synod –
Synthetic lease
T
T.R.O.
–
Table A –
Tacking (law) –
Tainted evidence
–
Taking the fifth
–
Tallage –
Talmud –
Tangible personal property
–
Tangible property –
Taqlid –
Targeting civilians
–
Targum –
Tax –
Tax avoidance –
Tax costs
–
Tax credit –
Tax deduction –
Tax evasion –
Tax haven –
Tax law –
Tax sale –
Tax treaty –
Taxation in the United States –
Taxation of costs –
Temporary injunction
–
Temporary insanity
–
Ten Commandments –
Tenancy
–
Tenancy at sufferance
–
Tenancy at will
–
Tenancy by the entirety
–
Tenancy in common
–
Tenement –
Tentative trust
–
Tenure
–
Terms and conditions of employment
–
Terms and conditions of purchase
–
Terms and conditions of sale
–
Terms of disparagement
–
terra nullius –
Territorial integrity –
Terrorism –
Test Act
–
Testacy
–
Testamentary
–
Testamentary capacity –
Testamentary disposition –
Testamentary trust –
Testate
–
Testator –
Testatrix
–
Testify
–
Testimony –
Texas Declaration of Independence –
Crown –
Old Bailey
–
The problem of evil
–
Theft –
Theocracy –
Third-party beneficiary –
Thirty-day notice
–
Three strikes law
–
Three theological virtues
–
Tide lands
–
Time is of the essence
–
Time served –
Timeshare –
Tipstaff –
Tithe –
Title –
Title abstract
–
Title insurance –
Title report
–
Title search –
Toll –
Toll bridge –
Toll road –
Tontine –
Tools of trade –
Torah –
Torah study –
Torrens title –
Tort –
Tort claims act
–
Tortfeasor
–
Tortious
–
Torture –
Tosafists
–
Tosefta –
Total depravity –
Totalitarian democracy –
Totalitarianism –
Totten doctrine
–
Totten trust –
Tracing (law) –
Trade –
Trade fixture –
Trade name –
Trade secret –
Trade union –
Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property rights
–
Trademark –
Trademarks registry
–
Tragedy of the commons –
Transfer agent
–
Transfer in contemplation of death
–
Transfer of shares
–
Transferred intent –
Transparency
–
Treason –
Treasure trove –
Treasury security
–
Treasury stock –
Treaty –
Treaty of Waitangi –
Treble damages –
Trespass –
Trial
–
Trial advocacy –
Trial by combat –
Trial by ordeal –
Trial court –
Trial de novo –
Trial in absentia –
Tribunal –
Tribute –
Trier of fact –
trinoda necessitas –
Triple net lease
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Truancy –
True bill
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Trust law
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Trust fund
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Trust instrument –
Trustee –
Trustee in bankruptcy –
Trustor –
Trusts and estates
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Truth in Lending Act –
Try title
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Turn state's evidence –
Twelve Tables –
Twinkie defense
U
Uberrima fides –
UCC-1
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Ulema
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Ultimate fact –
ultra vires –
Ultrahazardous activity –
Unclean hands
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Unconscionable
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Unconstitutional –
Under the influence –
Underground Railroad –
Underwrite
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Underwriter
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Underwriting agreement
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Undisclosed principal –
Undivided interest
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Undue influence –
Unfair competition
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Unfair dismissal –
Unfree labour
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Unified estate and gift tax
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Uniform Code of Military Justice –
Uniform Commercial Code –
Uniform reciprocal enforcement of support act
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Unilateral contract
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Uninsured motorist clause –
Unissued stock –
Unitary state –
United Nations Charter
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United Nations Convention Against Torture –
United States bankruptcy court –
United States Bill of Rights –
United States Code –
United States Constitution
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United States constitutional law
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United States court of appeals
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United States Declaration of Independence –
United States Department of Justice –
United States district court –
United States Federal Income Tax Personal Exemption
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United States federal judicial circuit
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United States federal judicial district –
United States Office of the Independent Counsel
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United States Patent and Trademark Office –
United States prison population
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United States Supreme Court
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United States tax reform
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Trademark Law (United States) –
Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare –
Universal Declaration of Human Rights –
Universal jurisdiction –
Unjust enrichment
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Unjust taking
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Unlawful –
Unlawful assembly –
Unlawful detainer
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uno flatu
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Unofficial law
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Unreasonable search and seizure
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Unspecified claim –
Use tax –
Usucaption –
Usufruct –
Usurious
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Usury –
uti possidetis –
Utilitarianism –
Utility (patent)
V
Vacated judgment –
Vacatio legis –
Valid claim –
Valuable consideration
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Variance –
Vehicular homicide –
vel non
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Vendée –
Vendor –
venire
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Venue (law) –
Verdict –
Vesting –
Vested remainder
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Vested right
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Vexatious litigation –
Vicarious liability –
Vice-Chancellor (UK legal system)
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vice versa
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vide
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videlicet
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Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations –
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties –
Vigilantism –
Violence –
Virginia Declaration of Rights –
Virtue ethics –
Virtue jurisprudence –
Visitation right
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viz. –
Void –
Vagueness doctrine –
Void marriage –
Voidable –
Voidable marriage –
Voir dire –
Volens –
Voluntary association –
Voluntary bankruptcy
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Voting trust –
Vulgate
W
Wage execution
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Wahhabism –
Waive
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Waiver –
Walking possession
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Waqf –
War crime –
War Crimes Law (Belgium) –
War on Drugs
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War Powers Resolution –
War reparations –
Ward (legal)
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Ward of court
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Wardship –
Warrant (legal)
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Warrant of committal –
Warrant of delivery –
Warrant of execution –
Warrant of possession –
Warranty –
Warranty deed –
Waste –
Watered stock –
Weimar constitution
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West American Digest System –
Wet reckless
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Whiplash (medicine) –
Whistleblower
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White collar crime
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Widow –
Widow's election
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Widower
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Will
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Will contest –
Willful –
Willfully
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Winding up
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Window tax –
Wiretap
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Witchhunt
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Witness –
Witness stand
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Witness statement –
Words of art
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Work stoppage
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Workers' compensation –
Workers' compensation acts
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Workmen's compensation
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World Declaration on Great Apes –
World Intellectual Property Organization –
World Trade Organization –
Writ –
Writ of attachment –
Writ of coram nobis
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Writ of execution –
Writ of mandate
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Wrongful death
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Wrongful discharge –
Wrongful dismissal –
Wrongful termination –
Wrongful trading
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Y
Yellow Dog contract
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Yeshiva –
Youthful offender
Z
Zoning
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