Asserted declared

Impleaded to bring into a law suit

Adjudication judgment

Controverted contradicted

Cognizable within court jurisdiction

Interpose interrupt

En masse all together as a group

Preliminary injunction true nature

Propriety true nature

Reinvidicatory (Accion Revindecatoria) An ordinary civil proceeding to recover possession based on

ownership

Levied - the imposition or collection of an assessment

De facto in reality

De jure - according to rightful entitlement or claim

Ex parte - an ex parte decision is one decided by a judge without requiring all of the parties to
the controversy to be present.
Alias summon - An alias summons is a second summons served when the first attempt at
serving a summons is unsuccessful.
Certiorari - a writ or order by which a higher court reviews a decision of a lower court.
Legitime - legal right share, of a decedent's estate is that portion of the estate from which the
decedent cannot disinherit his children, or his parents, without sufficient legal cause.
Probate - is the process of proving and registering in the Supreme Court the last Will of a
deceased person.
Administratix - a female administrator of an estate.
Alluvium - a deposit of clay, silt, sand, and gravel left by flowing streams in a river valley or delta,
typically producing fertile soil.
Inofficious - relating to a disposition of property that has the effect of depriving
descendants of the shares of a succession to which they are entitled by law
Accretion - the process of growth or increase, typically by the gradual accumulation of
additional layers or matter.
Aliquot a fraction of the whole
Inchoate - means just beginning to form
Preterition-is the omission in testator's will of one, some or all of the compulsory heirs in the
direct line, whether living at the time of execution of the will or born after the death of the testator
Determinate specific
Indeterminate generic
Juridical relations pertaining to administration by law
Within the commerce of man in other words susceptible of appropriation and transmissible to
one person to another.
Collateral relative is any blood relative who is not your direct ancestor. So your ancestors
are your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc., and your collateral relatives are
cousins, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, siblings.
Engender create; produce
Leave of court - Permission obtained from a court to take some action which, without such
permission, would not be allowable; as, to sue a receiver, to file an amended pleading, to plead
several pleas.