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LEGAL REASONING

Legal Terminology & Phraseology #01

1. Corroborate a) Ones responsibility or duty to do the act.
2. Acquiescence b) A general pardon granted by the state
c) It refers to something which has begun but has
3. Donatio mortis causa not been completed, either an activity or some
object which is incomplete.
4. Lex loci d) Previously acquitted
e) An action or inaction which legally binds
5. Amnesty
someone, even unintentionally.
f) Willing to do anything in return for money
6. De Minimus even such things are dishonest or immoral;
mercenary
g) Substitution of one person or thing for another
by operation of law, without the agreement of
7. Codicil:
the person from whom the rights are
transferred.
h) Latin: gift due to death. Gift made by a dying
person with the intent that the person receiving
8. Inchoate
the gift shall keep it if the donor dies from his
existing complaint.
i) To confirm and sometimes add substantiating
9. Onus (reinforcing) testimony to the testimony of
another witness or a party in a trial.
j) An insider making public the illegal or
10. Redemption
immoral activities of his organisation.
11. Autrefois acquit k) Law of the place (land).
l) Elsewhere; it is derived from a Latin word
meaning 'in another place'; a statement
12. Intestate asserting that the accused person was
somewhere else or with someone else, when the
particular offence was committed.
13. Malefaction m) Wrongdoing; a wrongful act
14. Perjury n) A matter already decided.
o) A person who is not present during the conduct
15. Repudiation of a criminal act but who is implicated in some
way for it.
p) Written amendment or addition to an existing
16. Subrogation
will
q) Latin: of minimum importance or trifling. It
refers to something or a difference that is so
17. Venal
little, small, minuscule or tiny that the law does
not refer to it and will not consider it.
r) The act of redeeming, buying back property by
18. Whistle blower
paying off a loan, interest etc

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 s) Person who dies without making a valid will.
19. Alibi
t) Deliberate lie under oath or in a sworn
20. Resjudicata
affidavit.
u) Friend of the court; a person who offers
21. Amicus curiae information to a court regarding a case before
it.
v) To give power, duty or responsibility to
22. Delegate
somebody else.
w) A sum of money to be paid by one spouse to
23. Doli incapax
the other in case of divorce.
x) Denial of the existence of a contract and/or
24. Accessory
refusal to perform a contract obligation.
25. Alimony y) Incapable of committing crime

Answer Key
1. i 2. e 3. h 4. k 5. b 6. q 7. p 8. c 9. a 10. r
11. d 12. s 13. e 14. t 15. x 16. g 17. f 18. j 19. l 20. n
21. u 22. v 23. y 24. o 25. w

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