SUBMITTED BY: SUBMITTED TO:

SHUBHAM SINGH ABHAY LEONARD EKKA

SECTION: B ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
B.A. LL.B. (2ND SEM) CENTRE FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE
CUSB1913125100 (ENGLISH)
SCHOOL OF LAW AND GOVERNANCE CUSB, GAYA
CUSB, GAYA
 LEGAL TERM MEANING

(1) AD IDEM Identity of minds

(2) ALIBI Elsewhere

(3) AD VALOREM According to the value

(4) CAVEAT EMPTOR Buyers’ Beware

Quotation of decided cases in legal

(5) CITATION arguments

(6) DAMNUM SINE INJURIA Damage without legal injury

(7) EX GRATIA As a favour

(8) FAUX PAS Tactless mistake

(9) IN TERROREM In order to cause terror

(10) QUO WARRANTO By what authority

(11) PRIMA FACIE On the face of it

(12) INJURIA SINE DAMNUM Legal injury without actual damage

(13) IGNORANTIA JURIS NON

EXCUSAT Ignorance of law is not an excuse

(14) LIS PENDENS A pending suit

(15) LOCUS STANDI Right to be heard in court

(16) SUO MOTO On its own

Higher court ordering an authority

(17) MANDAMUS to a certain duty

(18) IPSO FACTO By this very fact

(19) QUASI Like/Similar

A case which has already been

(20) RES JUDICATA decided
 LEGAL MAXIMS MEANING

(1) ACCESSORIUS SEQUITUR An accessory to the crime cannot be

guilty of a more serious crime than

the principal offender.

(2) ACTORI INCUMBIT ONUS The burden of proof lies on the

PROBANDI plaintiff.

(3) ACTUS NON FACIT REUM NISI A person will not be guilty
MENS SIT REA without criminal intent

(4) ACTUS REUS A guilty deed or act.

(5) AD HOC For this purpose.

(6) AD INFINITUM Forever, without limit, to infinity.

(7) AEQUITAS LEGEM

SEQUITUR Equity follows the law.

(8) ANIMO TESTANDI With an intention of making a will.

(9) ANTE Before.

Hear the other side (A principal of

(10) AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM natural justice)

(11) BONA FIDE Sincere, in good faith

(12) BONA VACANTIA Goods without an owner

(13) CAUSA PROXIMA, NON To determine the cause of an injury,

REMOTA SPECTATUR the
immediate, and not the remote cause is
to be considered.

`(14) CAVEAT VENDITOR Let the seller beware.

(15) CONSENSUS AD IDEM Agreement as to the same things.

(16) CONTEMPORANEA
EXPOSITIO EST A contemporaneous (present)
OPTIMA ET exposition is best and most powerful in
FORTISSIMA IN LEGE law.

(17) CONTRA To the contrary.

(18) CORPUS DELICTI The body, i.e. the body of crime.

(19) AB INITIO From the beginning

(20) DE MINIMIS LEX NON The law does not notice trifling
CURAT matters.