SCHOOL OF LAW AND POLITICAL

SCIENCE

Professional School of Law

ACADEMIC WORK

DOSSIER OF TERMINOLOGY
LEGAL

PRESENTED BY

CAPCHA MARTINEZ CLAUDIA MARISOL

COURSE

ENGLISH III

TEACHER

SANDRA PATRICIA REY SANCHEZ

SECTION

II

CYCLE

VI

CODE

2018210717

PUCALLPA

2021
 DOSSIER OF
TERMINOLOGY
LEGAL
 LEGAL TERMINOLOGY

 ABSOLUTION: Sentence that ends to the process and declares the

defendant free from demand; or to the prisoner, free of the accusation made
in his against.

 APPEARANCE: To physically appear before the Judge or Court to carry out

a procedural act, either spontaneously or at the Judge's request. Procedural
act, either spontaneously or at the Judge's request.

 ADVOCATE: Defend in court, orally or in writing. Intercede, speak for

someone.

 ABOLITION: The annulment, extinction, abrogation or annulment of a thing,

especially of a law, use or custom.

 ABSOLVE: Grant, resolve or admit the acquittal of guilt, charge or burden.

Release the defendant or the civil defendant.

 ABSTENTION: It is the obligation that a judge or magistrate has on his own

initiative to inhibit the knowledge of a litigation because he understands that
he lacks impartiality to judge.

 ACQUITTED: (Criminal Law) Accused that the Judge declares not guilty of
the charges and therefore of criminal sanction.

 ABUSE OF AUTHORITY: Arbitrariness committed in the exercise of

functional, administrative or hierarchical attributions by refusing to do, delay
or exceed the power attributed to their position or function, harming those
subject to their authority.

 ABUSE OF RIGHT: Figure by which a right is exercised outside the social

economic purpose for which it was conceived, trampling over a legitimate
interest, not yet legally protected. When the owner of a right exercises it in
order to harm another, not in order to benefit. The name of the figure is
wrongly given, since the right does not abuse, but the abuse is configured
by its abusive exercise.
 BELLIGERENCE: Right to wage war with the same international guarantees
as those against whom it is contracted. The essential condition is that the
laws of war be respected.

 BENEFICIARY: Person in whose favor an insurance has been contracted.

It is also said like this to any person who receives a right or benefit.

 BAD FAITH: Acting with intent to harm against the rules of good faith.
Conviction that one does not act in accordance with the law.

 BIGAMY. State of man married at the same time with two women; or of the
woman with two simultaneous men. In Criminal Law, the A crime committed
by a person when he or she contracts a new marriage without the previous
one having been dissolved.
 COERCION: It is the compulsive force of an individual or the State to enforce
a mandate. / Force or violence used against a person to force him to do or
say something.

 COMPLAINT: (Criminal Procedural Law) Denomination given to the

exercise of the criminal action when the law provides, in the case of crimes
or misdemeanors that do not carry greater gravity, that the offended party is
the sole holder; it is called, therefore, private action.

 COUNTERFEIT: To forge, to copy or imitate, without authority or right, and

with the purpose to deceive by passing off the copy as genuine.

 CIVIL CASE: A lawsuit to get property back, to force someone to complete

a contract, or to protect someone's civil rights.

 CRIMINAL PROCESS: It is the set of activities, forms and formalities of a

legal nature, which are previously established by the legislative body of the
State, and carried out by the persons who intervene in a legal relationship of
criminal law, with the purpose that an organ of the same State, with
jurisdictional powers, determine the application of criminal law to a specific
case.
 DEFENSE: Set of acts aimed at safeguarding the legitimate interests
involved in a process.

 DECREE: It is a judicial resolution used to give impetus to the development

of the process, providing for simple procedural acts.

 DILIGENCE:
Procedural acts in which the court clerk complies with the orders or orders
of the judge. / Judicial action carried out by the court clerks.

 DILATORY: Action that seeks to postpone or defer a procedure or resolution

 DISPOSSESSION: (Civil Law) to deprive someone of the possession of a

thing, without a court order. Who despoils a property or furniture becomes
a usurper. Who has been stripped, is legally assisted by the right of
restitution of possession of it.

 DEMAND: Appear before a judge or court so that the existence of a right is

recognized. / In a broad sense, it is any request made before the Judiciary.

 DEFENDANT: Person against whom a lawsuit is filed.

 DEFAMATION: When one person hurts another person's character, fame,

or reputation by making false and malicious statements that are not
protected by law.

 DELINQUENCY COURT: The division of the Juvenile Court hearing cases

where juveniles have been charged with committing a crime.

 DENY: Refuse, not grant what was requested or requested.

 EXECUTION: (Procedural law) To comply with the provisions of the
jurisdictional authority in the exercise of its functions. It usually refers to the
sentence. Application of the death penalty.

 EVICTION: Recovery of land or rental property from another by legal

process.

 EMBEZZLEMENT: (Criminal Law) To allocate public, collective or external

funds to expenses different from those to which they

 EMANCIPATION: is equivalent to letting go of the hand or drawing from the

power of someone; and, by extension, alienate, transfer. This voice has a
generic sense, also frequent in Political Law, such as release, redemption or
termination of a subjection.
 FRONT MAN: A person who lends his name in an economic, contractual or
legal event, representing in a hidden manner the interests of another.

 FAILURE: (Criminal Procedural Law) Final consideration of the Judge in a

process that is authorized in the sentence.

 FLAGRANTE DELICTO: The crime that is being highlighted at this moment.

/Current moment of execution of a crime. It is also called "red-handed crime."

 FIGUREHEAD: Subject who lends his name in an economic, contractual or

legal event, concealingly representing the interests of another.

 FORTUITOUS: (Civil Law) Fact that happens by chance and, therefore, was
not foreseeable.

 FISCAL ZONE: Territory subjected by special circumstances to a special

regime and surveillance with object to hinder smuggling.
 GUARANTEE: Responsibility assumed by a person to ensure the enjoyment
of something to another.
 HABEAS CORPUS: (Constitutional Law). Guarantee that safeguards
individual liberty, the right to freedom of movement, the right not to be
detained except for just cause and other related rights, which may be
exercised when the authority violates or threatens them.

 HEIR: Person who has the right, according to the law, to receive the goods
of a person who has dead
 IMPUNITY: Crime not punished. Lack of punishment of an unlawful act,
because the perpetrator has not been discovered, the action, escape,
pardon, judicial corruption or statute of limitations.

 IRRETROACTIVITY: Legislative and legal principle, according to which laws

have no effect on as to the facts prior to its promulgation, unless expressly
provided otherwise. In law Criminal, in favor of the offender constitutes the
principle, unless otherwise determined.

 IRREVOCABLE: What cannot be legally reversed or undone. It is said of the

decision against which there is no resource. Unchangeable, and therefore
executive, or definitely negative. Is named irrevocable a credit when it is
opened in a bank for payment of contracted goods or for the fulfillment of
another obligation, and that cannot be annulled or modified until the purpose
is satisfied constitutive. Resignation or firm resignation.

 INJURIES: It is a general term that refers to damage caused by accidents,

falls, blows, burns, weapons, and other causes. In the United States, millions
of people are injured each year. These injuries can be minor or severe and
can be life-threatening.
 JUDMENT: Is that resolution that pronounces on the litigation of the process,
ending the instance. / Last part of the judicial process, by which the judge
must resolve the conflict of interest with legal relevance, applying with logical
criteria the right that corresponds to each specific case for the resolution of
the controversy.
 JUDGE. Administer justice. Decide on a judicial matter. To exercise
functions of judge or magistrate.

 JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: the justice of the peace is essentially a

conciliation judge. Consequently, he is empowered to propose alternative
solutions to the parties in order to facilitate conciliation.

 JURIST: Person who has devoted himself to the knowledge of law or who
practices it. The one who studies or professes the science of law.
 LEGISLATIVE: Text of laws. It applies to the right or power of make them or
give them. What is authorized by law.

 LEGITIMACY: Quality of legitimate. Legality or conformity with the law,

justice, reason or the established rules. Quality of legitimate child.

 LEGAL SANCTIONS: Legal consequences that are produced by the

violation of the norm and that they are intended to restore legal order or
prevent a future violation of it.

 LITIGATOR: He who defends a case before a court in his own name or on

behalf of others.

 LITIGATION: Controversy or legal dispute.

 MAGISTRATE: Currently, the person invested with the dignity of the judicial
office is designated that empowers him to administer justice on behalf of the
state.
 MORATORY INTERESTS: Interests intended to repair the damage resulting
from the delay in the fulfillment of the obligation.
 NEGLIGENCE: Conscious omission, carelessness due to inexperience or
failure to perform an act required by the functional duty.
 ORDER TO APPEAR: (Criminal Procedural Law) Order of the competent
authority for a person to appear, preserving his freedom, in order to carry out
clarification, diligences and pending proceedings in a judicial process.
 PLAINTIFF: Person who files a claim against another person in court to
claim a right.

 PROSECUTOR: Public official in charge of defending the patrimony of the

State, and consequently is a legitimate party in contentious-administrative.

 PECULATION: Subtraction by the public official of the goods or resources

entrusted in fulfillment of his duties, using them for his own benefit. / In
Peruvian law civil servant or public servant who appropriates or uses, in any
way, for himself or for another, funds or effects whose perception,
administration or custody is entrusted to him by reason of his position, will
be punished with imprisonment.

 PREJUDICE: Prejudging action or effect. Bias. Decision adopted prior to

the facts or arguments that must be known.
 QUORUM: means that there is the required number of participants, votes or
shareholders. This criterion is used by collective entities to make valid
decisions.
 RATE: (Tax Law) Taxes whose taxable event consists of the use of the
public domain or the performance by the administration of an activity that
refers, affects or benefits the taxpayer in a particular way.

 RECEPTION:(Criminal Law) Crime against property for which the agent

helps to circulate an asset of criminal origin, either by saving, hiding, selling,
helping to negotiate or receiving as a donation.

 REPEAL: Abolition, annulment or revocation of a legal norm by a later one

from legitimate authority.

 ROUTES OF FACT: Justice by one's own hand; attack of all kinds against
the rights of others and against people; violence.

 REAL ESTATE: Corporal things that by their nature lend their utility while
remaining fixed (for example, land, buildings); also the things that the
landowner has put in it for your use, cultivation or benefit (for example, farm
animals); and the rights you have for object of real estate (for example,
usufruct rights).
 SOCIETY: Contract by which two or more people are obliged to pool money,
goods or industries, with the intention of working together and dividing the
profits among themselves.

 SECOND INSTANCE: It is the procedure before the court of appeal, in which

the proceedings and acts tending to resolve appeals.

 SECRETARY: Judicial official who is in charge of certifying the acts and

resolutions of the judge, so that they enjoy legal authenticity and
effectiveness.
 THANATOLOGY:Systematic study of death, which involves analyzing
its causes, agony, cadaverous signs, apparent death, etc.

 TAX EVASION: Action by the taxpayer that violates the State's right to
receive taxes in accordance with the law.
 USURPATION:
(Criminal Law) A crime against the patrimony that consists of dispossessing
the holder of the possession of a real estate property, which can be
configured in several ways: a) Destroying or altering the boundaries; b)
Dispossessing the holder of the session by means of deceit, abuse of trust,
violence or intimidation and; c) Disturbing the possession.

 USURY: Borrowing money at excessive interest rates.

 USUFRUCT: Temporary right exercised by someone to take advantage of

and enjoy something that does not it belongs and must be returned to its
owner within a stipulated term.
 Vacancy: Position or responsibility, of a labor or institutional nature that is
not provided.
 WITNESS: Person who directly, by having seen or heard, has had
knowledge of a fact, and who, under protest of telling the truth, declares it in
a trial. // It is the person who testifies in a trial on foreign situations that they
know, which they perceived through the senses and have relation to the
criminal acts under examination.
 XENOPHOBIA: Feeling of hatred towards the foreigner, which manifests
itself in the form of hostility against people, things and institutions.
 ZOOPHILIA: (Criminology) Sexual aberration, consisting of being sexually
satisfied with animals.