30.LEGAL TERMINOLOGY SIMPLIFIED AND WELL EXPLAINED
Accused - correct answer the person charged with a criminal offence
Acquittal - correct answer discharge of defendant following verdict or direction of not guilty.
Act - correct answer law; act of parliament.
Actus reus - correct answer guilty act (latin)
Ad idem - correct answer of the same mind. (latin)
Adjournment - correct answer temporary suspension of legal proceedings
Advocate - correct answer general term for a barrister or solicitor who represents a party at
court.
Affidavit - correct answer a written statement of evidence confirmed on oath or
By affirmation to be true and taken before someone
Who has authority to do so.
Affirmanti non neganti incumbit probatio - correct answer the burden of proof is on the person
who alleges, and not on the person who denies. (latin)
Affirmation - correct answer declaration by a witness with no religious belief, or with religious
beliefs that prevent him/her taking the oath, that the evidence he/she is giving is the truth.
Affirmed - correct answer indicates that a court has agreed with the decision of a
Lower court in respect of the same case.
, Alternative dispute resolution - correct answer an alternative method to litigation by which
parties
Can resolve their dispute. An example is the adjudication procedure used in construction
disputes.
Amicus curiae - correct answer a friend of the court. A neutral party who does not
Represent any individual party in the case who will be
Asked by the court to make representations from an
Independent viewpoint. (latin)
Appeal - correct answer application to a higher court for review of a decision of
A lower court.
Appellant - correct answer party who appeals.
Applied - correct answer indicates that a court has regarded itself bound by an
Earlier case, and has therefore employed the same
Reasoning in the instant case
Approved - correct answer indicates that a higher court states that another case
Before a lower court was correctly decided.
Attorney-general - correct answer the principal law officer of the crown.
Audi alterem partem - correct answer hear the other side. (latin)
Award - correct answer the amount of damages assessed by the court.
Accused - correct answer the person charged with a criminal offence
Acquittal - correct answer discharge of defendant following verdict or direction of not guilty.
Act - correct answer law; act of parliament.
Actus reus - correct answer guilty act (latin)
Ad idem - correct answer of the same mind. (latin)
Adjournment - correct answer temporary suspension of legal proceedings
Advocate - correct answer general term for a barrister or solicitor who represents a party at
court.
Affidavit - correct answer a written statement of evidence confirmed on oath or
By affirmation to be true and taken before someone
Who has authority to do so.
Affirmanti non neganti incumbit probatio - correct answer the burden of proof is on the person
who alleges, and not on the person who denies. (latin)
Affirmation - correct answer declaration by a witness with no religious belief, or with religious
beliefs that prevent him/her taking the oath, that the evidence he/she is giving is the truth.
Affirmed - correct answer indicates that a court has agreed with the decision of a
Lower court in respect of the same case.
, Alternative dispute resolution - correct answer an alternative method to litigation by which
parties
Can resolve their dispute. An example is the adjudication procedure used in construction
disputes.
Amicus curiae - correct answer a friend of the court. A neutral party who does not
Represent any individual party in the case who will be
Asked by the court to make representations from an
Independent viewpoint. (latin)
Appeal - correct answer application to a higher court for review of a decision of
A lower court.
Appellant - correct answer party who appeals.
Applied - correct answer indicates that a court has regarded itself bound by an
Earlier case, and has therefore employed the same
Reasoning in the instant case
Approved - correct answer indicates that a higher court states that another case
Before a lower court was correctly decided.
Attorney-general - correct answer the principal law officer of the crown.
Audi alterem partem - correct answer hear the other side. (latin)
Award - correct answer the amount of damages assessed by the court.
