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31 Legalguide
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A- B- C- D - E- F- G- H- I- J- K - L- M- N- O- P- Q- R
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A
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Abandonment
Abatement
Abduction
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Ab initio
Abovementioned
Abscond
Absolute
Absolute discharge
Absolute owner
Absolute privilege
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made in Parliament;
in fair and accurate news reporting of court
proceedings; or
made during court proceedings.
Abstract of title
Abuse of process
Abuttals
Acceptance
Accessory
Accomplice
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Accordingly
Accounts
Accumulation
Accused
Acknowledgement
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Acknowledgement of
service
when a defendant agrees that a writ or originating
summons ('claim form' since April 1999) has been
received. The defendant fills in, signs and sends
back the acknowledgement of service to confirm in
writing that the documents were received.
Acquit
Acquittal
Action
Active trust
Act of bankruptcy
Act of God
Actual loss
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Actuary
Actus reus
Additional voluntary
contribution (AVC)
Ademption
Ad hoc
Ad idem
Ad infinitum
Adjournment
Adjudge/adjudicate
Adjudication order
Administration order
Administrator
Admissibility of
evidence
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Admonition
.
Adoption
Adoptive child
Adoptive parent
Ad valorem
Adverse possession
Adverse witness
Advocate
is:
the lawyer who speaks in court for a client; or
a Scottish lawyer who is the equivalent of a
barrister in England and Wales.
Affidavit
Affirm
to:
solemnly promise to tell the truth in court;
solemnly promise to tell the truth in an affidavit;
confirm a decision made by a lower court; or
allow a contract to continue even though it
could have been cancelled because it was
fundamentally breached.
Affirmation
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Aforementioned
Aforesaid
Agency
Agent
Age of consent
Aggravated assault
Aggravated burglary
Aggravated damages
Aggravated vehicletaking
Agricultural holding
Airspace
Alias
a false name.
Alibi
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Alienation
everybody.
Allegation
Alleviate
to lessen or reduce.
Allocation rate
Allotment
All that
Alternate director
Alternative verdict
Amalgamation
Ambiguity
Ambulatory will
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Ancient lights
Annual accounts
Annual general
meeting
Annual return
Annuitant
Annuity
Annul
to cancel:
an invalid marriage; or
a bankruptcy order.
Ante
Antecedents
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Appeal
Appellant
Appellate jurisdiction
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Appertaining to
Applicant
Appointee
Appointor
Appurtenances
Arbitrage
is:
borrowing money at a low rate of interest to
lend out again at a higher rate; or
buying and selling in different markets to make
profits out of the price differences.
Arbitration
Arbitrator
Arraignment
Arrest
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custody.
Arrestable offence
Arson
Articles
Assent
Asset
Assign
Assignment
Assurance
Assure
Assured
Assured shorthold
tenancy
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Attorney
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Attorney General
Audit
Auditor's report
Authorised share
capital
Authorised
investments
Autopsy
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Bail
Bailee
Bail hostel
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Bailiff
Bailiwick
Bailment
Bailor
Balance sheet
Banker's draft
Bankrupt
Bankruptcy order
Bankruptcy search
Bar
Bare trust
Bare trustee
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Barter
Battery
Bearer
Bench
Bench warrant
Beneficial interest
Beneficial owner
Beneficiary
Bequeath
Bequest
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Bigamy
Bill of costs
Bill of exchange
Bill of lading
Bill of sale
Binding effect
Binding over
Binding precedent
Blackmail
Bodily harm
Bona fide
Bona vacantia
Bond
Bonded goods
Bonded warehouse
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Book value
Bought note
Breach of contract
Breach of duty
Break clause
Bridle way
Brief
Building preservation
notice
Burglary
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Bye-law or bylaw
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Call
Called-up capital
Canon law
Capacity
Capital allowances
Capital gain
the profit you make if you sell or dispose of a longterm asset (such as a building) for more than it cost
you.
Capital punishment
Capital redemption
reserve
Careless driving
Care order
Cartel
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Case law
Case stated
Causation
Cause of action
Causing death by
careless and
inconsiderate driving
Causing death by
dangerous driving
Caution
is:
a warning given by the police to a suspected
criminal when the suspect is arrested;
a warning given by the police when they
release a suspect without prosecution that, if
there are any more offences committed by the
suspect, the first possible offence may be taken
into account; or
a document sent to the Land Registry by
someone who may have a right over land,
which demands that no dealings in the land are
registered until the person with the right has
been told.
Caveat
Caveat emptor
Central Criminal Court the most senior court covering the centre of London.
Certificate of
incorporation
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Certificate of origin
Certiorari
Challenge to a jury
Challenge without
cause
Chambers
Chancery Division
Charge
means:
to formally accuse someone of committing a
crime;
to use property as security for a debt (such as
a mortgage); or
a direction given by a judge to tell the jury what
they must do.
Chargeable event
Chargeable gain
Charge certificate
Charges clause
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Charge sheet
Charges register
Charging clause
Charging order
Charity
Charity Commission
Chattel
Chattels personal
Chattels real
Cheat
Cheque
Cheque card
Chief rent
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Child abuse
Child assessment
order
Children in care
Child Support
Maintenance
Chose
Chose in action
Chose in possession
Circuit
Circuit judge
Circumstantial
evidence
Citation
is:
a summons to appear in court;
quoting from a completed case to support an
argument; or
a notice sent out by someone wanting grant of
probate or letters of administration, asking
people to come forward if they object to it.
Citizen's arrest
Civil court
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means:
to apply for a right;
to demand a remedy; or
an application for something such as a right.
Claimant
Clause
a section in a contract.
Clearing bank
Close company
Closing order
Codicil
Codifying statute
Coercion
Collateral
Commissioner for
oaths
Committal order
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contempt of court.
Committal proceedings a hearing where magistrates work out if there is
enough evidence of a serious crime to justify a trial
by jury.
Committee of
inspection
Common assault
Common seal
Commorientes
Community service
order
Companies House
Company secretary
Compensation
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Completion
Composition with
creditors
Compulsory purchase taking land and giving compensation for it. When
land is needed for a project, such as a road, local
authorities and other public bodies can take the land
off the landowner. Compensation has to be paid to
the landowner.
Compulsory winding
up
Concealment
Concealment of
securities
Conclusive evidence
Concurrent sentence
Condition
Conditional sale
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agreement
Condition precedent
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Consideration
Consignee
Consignor
Consistory Court
Conspiracy
is:
an agreement by two or more people to commit
a crime; or
some people acting together and harming a
third party.
Constructive
Consumer credit
agreement
Contempt of court
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Contingency fee
Contingent legacy
Contract
Contract of exchange
Contract of service
Contributory
negligence
Conversion
is:
exchanging one sort of property for another
(such as exchanging money for goods); or
acting unlawfully to deprive someone of their
ownership of goods.
Convey
Conveyance
Conveyancing
Conviction
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Copyright
Coroner
Corporate body(or
corporation)
Corporation tax
Corpus
Corpus delicti
is:
the body of a person who has been killed
unlawfully; or
the facts which make up an offence.(This
phrase is Latin.)
Counsel
Counterclaim
Counterfeit
Counterpart
County court
Coupon
Court of Appeal
Court of Protection
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Creditor
Creditors' voluntary
winding up.
Criminal damage
Criminal responsibility When someone reaches the age when the law says
they are able to commit a criminal offence they have
reached the age of criminal responsibility.
Cross-examine
Crown Court
Culpa
Cum dividend
Cumulative preference
shares
Curfew
Customs duties
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Damages
Dangerous driving
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Debt
money owed.
Debtor
Debt securities
Deceit
Decree
an order by a court.
Decree absolute
Decree nisi
Deed
Deed of arrangement
De facto
Defamation
Default
Defence
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Defendant
De jure
Dependant
Deponent
Deposition
Depreciation
Derogation
Determination
ending an agreement.
Devise
Devisee
Diminished
responsibility
Diocese
Diplomatic immunity
Direction/directing
Director
Disbursement
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Discharge
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release from:
a commitment such as a debt;
a contract because it has finished or the parties
agree to end it; or
a punishment for a crime.
Disclaim/disclaimer
Discovery
Discretionary trust
Distrain/distress
Divorce
Divorce petition
Domicile
Domiciled
Domicile of choice
Domicile of origin
Drawee
Drawer
Duress
Duty
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Easement
Enabling legislation
Endorsement
Endowment policy
Enduring power of
attorney
Engrossment
Equitable mortgage
Escrow
Estate
is:
all a person owns at the date of their death; or
the right to use land for a period of time.
Estimate
Estoppel
Et seq
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Excess of jurisdiction
Exchange of contract
Excise duty
Exclusions
Exclusive licence
Ex dividend
Execute
Executed
Executive director
Executor
Executory
Executrix
Exemplary damages
Ex gratia
Ex parte
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notice'.)
Expert witness
Ex post facto
Extradition
Extraordinary general
meeting
Extraordinary
resolution
Ex works
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Factor
is:
someone buying or selling for a commission; or
an organisation which provides finance for a
business by advancing money on the value of
the invoices the business sends out.
False imprisonment
False pretence
False representation
Family Division
Felony
Feme covert
Feme sole
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Feu
Feu duty
Fiduciary
Final judgement
Fitness to plead
Fixed charge
Floating charge
Forbearance
Force majeure
Foreclosure
Forfeiture
Fostering
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illness.
Fraud
Freehold
Free of encumbrances no one else having any rights over something. When
property is owned by someone and nobody else has
any rights over it, it is owned free of encumbrances.
Frustration
Futures contract
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Garnishee order
General damages
General meeting
Grant
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Grant of probate
Guarantee
Guarantee company
Guarantor
Guardian
Guilty
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Habeas corpus
Hearsay evidence
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Hereditament
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High Court (of Justice) part of the Supreme Court. It is split into three
divisions called:
Queen's Bench Division;
Chancery Division; and
Family Division.
Hire
Hire purchase
HM Customs and
Excise
HM Land Registry
Holding company
Hostile witness
a witness who:
refuses to testify in support of the people who
called them; or
testifies in a way which differs from their
previous statement.
House of Lords
Housing associations
Hypothecation
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Indict
Indictable offence
Indictment
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Interest
Interlocutory
judgement
Interlocutory
proceedings
Interrogatories
Intestacy/intestate
Intimidation
Issue
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Joint tenancy
Joint will
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Judge
Judge advocate
Judge Advocate
General
Judge Advocate
General's
Department
(Office of the)Judge
Advocate of the Fleet
Judge in chambers
Judgement
a decision by a court.
Judgement creditor
Judgement debtor
Judgement in default
Judgement summons
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Judicial immunity
Judicial precedent
Judicial separation
Junior barrister
Jurisdiction
is:
the territory in which a court can operate;
the power it has to deal with particular cases;
or
the power it has to issue orders.
Juror
Jury
Jury service
Justification
Justifying bail
Juvenile offender
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Kerb crawling
Kidnap
Know-how
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Land
includes:
the buildings built on the land;
the subsoil;
the airspace above the land necessary for
ordinary use of the land; and
property fixed to the land.
Lawsuit
Leading question
a question which:
suggests the answer to be given; or
assumes things to be true which in fact are
disputed.
Lease
Leasehold
Legacy
Legatee
Lessee
Lessor
Letter of credit
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Liabilities
Liability
a debt or obligation.
Libel
Licence
an authority to do something.
Lien
Life assured
Life imprisonment
Life interest
Life tenant
Limited company
Liquidated damages
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Liquidator
Litigant
Litigation
Loan capital
Loan creditor
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Magistrate
Magistrates' court
Maintenance
Majority
Male issue
Malfeasance
an unlawful act.
Malice
Malice aforethought
Malicious falsehood
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Mandate
Manslaughter
Market overt
Martial law
Material facts
Matricide
Matrimonial causes
Matrimonial home
Mediation
Memorandum and
articles of association
Mens rea
Mercantile law
Merchantable quality
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Mesne profits
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Messuage
Minor
Minority
Minutes
Misadventure
Miscarriage of justice
Misconduct
Misdirection
Misfeasance
when:
something is done badly even though it is still
legal; or
a company officer does something which is a
breach of trust or a breach of duty.
Misrepresentation
Mistrial
Mitigation
Molest/Molestation
Money laundering
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Moratorium
Mortgage
Mortgagee
Mortgagor
Motive
Muniments
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Naked trust
Naturalisation
Negligence
Negligent
Nondisclosure
Non-exclusive licence
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Notary
Not guilty
Notice
Notice to quit
Not negotiable
Novation
Nuisance
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Oath
Objects clause
Obligation
Obligee
Obligor
Obstruction
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Occupation
Occupational pension
scheme
Occupier
Offensive weapon
Offer
Offeree
Offeror
Official receiver
Official secret
Official Solicitor
Omission
a failure to do something.
Oppression
Option
Order
Order in Council
Originating summons
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summons is prepared.
Outlaw
Overt act
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Panel
Pardon
Pari passu
Parole
Party
Passing off
Patent
Patricide
Pawn
Payee
Penalty
is:
a sum of money which has to be paid if the
terms of a contract are broken; or
a punishment given to someone who commits
a crime.
Penalty points
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Performance
Perjury
Perpetuity
Per pro
Per quod
Per se
Personal guarantee
Personal injury
Personal property
Personal
representative
Personalty
Personation
Per stirpes
Plaintiff
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Plea
Plea bargain
Plead
Pleadings
Pledge
Plenipotentiary
Poaching
Polygamy
Possess
Possession
Possessory title
Post-mortem
Power of appointment
Power of attorney
Practising certificate
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Preamble
Precedent
Precept
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Preference
Preference shares
Preferential creditor
Prima facie
Principal
is:
someone who authorises another person to act
for them;
the actual person who committed a crime; or
an amount of money lent or invested, not
including the interest.
Privilege
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Privity of contract
Privy Council
Privy Purse
Probate
Probate Registry
Probation
Process
Procurator
Procurator fiscal
Product liability
Promisee
Promisor
Promissory note
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Property
Pro rata
Prosecution
Prosecutor
Prospectus
Prostitution
Protected tenancy
Proviso
Provocation
Proxy
Proxy form
Public mischief
Public nuisance
Putative father
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Qualifying child
Quango
Quarter days
Queen's Bench
Division
Queen's Counsel (QC) a barrister who has been chosen by the Lord
Chancellor to serve as counsel to the Crown. A
Queen's Counsel is more senior than other
barristers.
Queen's evidence
Quiet enjoyment
Quiet possession
Quorum
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Racial discrimination
Rack rent
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Rape
Real
Real estate
Real property
Realty
Reasonable force
Receiver
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Recognisance
Record
Recorder
Recovery
Redemption
Redundancy
Registered land
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Registered office
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Reinsurance
Release
means:
to give up a valid claim against someone;
to free someone from prison; or
a document used to cancel a claim one person
has against another.
Remainder
Remand
Remedy
Renouncing probate
Rent
Repeat offender
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Reply
Repossession or
repossess
Representation
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Reprieve
Rescission
Reservation of title
Reserves
Residence order
Residuary legacy
Residue
Resisting arrest
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Respondent
Restitution
is:
an order for the return of stolen goods to the
victim of the theft or for compensation to be
paid to the victim; or
a writ, following a successful appeal, for the
return of the items lost after the original case.
Restraining order
Restriction
Restriction order
Restrictive covenant
Retainer
Retention of title
Reversion
Revocation
cancellation.
Revoke
to cancel or withdraw.
Revolving credit
agreement
Right of way
Rights issue
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Robbery
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Sale or return
Salvage
Satisfaction
is:
paying a debt;
settling an obligation by an act; or
settling an obligation by substituting something
satisfactory for what was originally required.
Scheme of
arrangement
Scrip
Scrip dividend
Scrip issue
Search
Search warrant
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Securities
Security
Security of tenure
Sedition
Sentence
Separation order
Sequestration
Settle
means:
to create a settlement;
to end a case by agreement; or
to draw up a contract and agree its terms.
Settlement
Settlor
Several
Shadow director
Share capital
Share certificate
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Sheriff
Shoplifting
Shorthold tenancy
Sine die
Slander
Smuggling
Sold note
Soliciting
Solicitor
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Special resolution
Specific performance
Spent conviction
Squatter
Stalking
Stamp duty
Statement of claim
Status
Statute
an Act of Parliament.
Statute book
Statute law
Statute of limitation
Statutory accounts
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Statutory books
Statutory demand
Statutory instrument
Stay of execution
Subduct
to withdraw.
Subject to contract
Sub judice
Subpoena
Subrogation
Subscribers
Subsidiarity
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Subsidiary
Sue
Suicide
Sui generis
Sui juris
Suit
Summary judgement
Summary offence
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a trial by magistrates.
Summing up
Summons
Superior courts
Supervision order
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Supra
Supreme Court
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Surety
Suspended sentence
SWIFT payment
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Tangible asset
Tangible property
TAURUS
Tax
Taxable supply
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Taxation
Taxation of costs
Tax avoidance
Tax evasion
Tax point
Tenant
Tender
Tenure
Term
Terra
Terrorism
Testament
Testamentum
Testator
Testify
to give evidence.
Testimony
Theft
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Title
Title deeds
Toll
Tort
Tortfeasor
Trademark
Transcript
Transferor
Treason
Treasure trove
Treasury
Treasury bill
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Treasury Solicitor
Trespassing
Trial
Tribunal
is:
a body set up to act like a court, but outside the
normal court system;
a forum to hear disputes and with the authority
to settle them;
a body given power by statute to discipline
members of a profession who do not keep to
the high standards of behaviour demanded of
members of the profession; or
a body set up by the members of an
association to police the members' actions.
Trust
Trust corporation
Trust deed
Trustee
Trustee in bankruptcy
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Uberrimae fidei
Ultra vires
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Underlease
Undertaking
Unfair dismissal
Unit trust
Unlawful wounding
wounding someone without the justification of selfdefence or without power given by the law.
Unsecured creditor
Uterine
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Vendee
Vendor
Verdict
Vesting order
Vexatious litigant
Vicarious liability
Violent disorder
Void
Voidable
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Ward of court
Warrant
is:
a certificate which gives the person holding it
the right to buy shares at a given price;
a magistrate's written instruction to arrest
someone; or
a magistrate's written instruction to search a
property.
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Warranty
Wayleave
Will
Winding up
Without prejudice
Witness
someone who:
watches a signature being put on a document,
and then signs as well to verify the signature's
authenticity; or
attends court to testify about events they know
about.
To witness a document is to watch it being
signed and then add your own signature and
name, address and occupation.
Words of art
Writ
Writ of execution
Writ of summons
Wrongful dismissal
Wrongful trading
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Young offender
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