AAERT 2026 EXAMS SCRIPT ALL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔CAVEAT EMPTOR - ✔✔let the buyer beware
✔✔CAVEAT VENDITOR - ✔✔let the seller beware
✔✔COMPOS MENTIS - ✔✔sane; of sound mind
✔✔CORPUS - ✔✔body
✔✔CORPUS DELECTI - ✔✔body of a crime
✔✔CULPA - ✔✔fault
✔✔CUM LAUDE - ✔✔with praise
✔✔CURRICULUM VITAE - ✔✔course of life
✔✔DE FACTO - ✔✔in fact
✔✔DE JURE - ✔✔in law
✔✔DE JURIS - ✔✔of the law
✔✔DE MINIMIS - ✔✔on a tiny amount
✔✔DE NOVO - ✔✔anew; to hear a case from the beginning
✔✔DICTUM - ✔✔comments within a published opinion which do not relate directly to
the facts of the case, but illustrate or explain the courts thinking
, ✔✔DUCES TECUM - ✔✔bring with you
✔✔E.G. [EXEMPLI GRATIA] - ✔✔thus, for example
✔✔EN BANC - ✔✔on the bench
✔✔EN BLOC - ✔✔in a bloc
✔✔ERGO - ✔✔therefore
✔✔ESCHEAT - ✔✔to fall out- reversion of property to state when there are no legal
heirs
✔✔ESTOPPEL - ✔✔legal impediment to brining an action
✔✔ET AL. - ✔✔and another; referring to other parties involved but not names
✔✔ET SEQ - ✔✔and the following
✔✔ET UX. - ✔✔and spouse
✔✔EX CONTRACTU - ✔✔from the contract
✔✔EX CURIA - ✔✔out of court
✔✔EX DELICTO - ✔✔from a crime
✔✔EX PARTE - ✔✔from on part, on one side
✔✔EX POST FACTO - ✔✔after the fact
✔✔FORUM NON CONVENIENS - ✔✔inconvenient forum
✔✔HABEAS CORPUS - ✔✔write issue to release someone from improper
imprisonment
✔✔IDEM - ✔✔same
✔✔I.E. [ID EST] - ✔✔THAT IS
✔✔IN ABSENTIA - ✔✔in the absence of
✔✔IN CAMERA - ✔✔in a room
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔CAVEAT EMPTOR - ✔✔let the buyer beware
✔✔CAVEAT VENDITOR - ✔✔let the seller beware
✔✔COMPOS MENTIS - ✔✔sane; of sound mind
✔✔CORPUS - ✔✔body
✔✔CORPUS DELECTI - ✔✔body of a crime
✔✔CULPA - ✔✔fault
✔✔CUM LAUDE - ✔✔with praise
✔✔CURRICULUM VITAE - ✔✔course of life
✔✔DE FACTO - ✔✔in fact
✔✔DE JURE - ✔✔in law
✔✔DE JURIS - ✔✔of the law
✔✔DE MINIMIS - ✔✔on a tiny amount
✔✔DE NOVO - ✔✔anew; to hear a case from the beginning
✔✔DICTUM - ✔✔comments within a published opinion which do not relate directly to
the facts of the case, but illustrate or explain the courts thinking
, ✔✔DUCES TECUM - ✔✔bring with you
✔✔E.G. [EXEMPLI GRATIA] - ✔✔thus, for example
✔✔EN BANC - ✔✔on the bench
✔✔EN BLOC - ✔✔in a bloc
✔✔ERGO - ✔✔therefore
✔✔ESCHEAT - ✔✔to fall out- reversion of property to state when there are no legal
heirs
✔✔ESTOPPEL - ✔✔legal impediment to brining an action
✔✔ET AL. - ✔✔and another; referring to other parties involved but not names
✔✔ET SEQ - ✔✔and the following
✔✔ET UX. - ✔✔and spouse
✔✔EX CONTRACTU - ✔✔from the contract
✔✔EX CURIA - ✔✔out of court
✔✔EX DELICTO - ✔✔from a crime
✔✔EX PARTE - ✔✔from on part, on one side
✔✔EX POST FACTO - ✔✔after the fact
✔✔FORUM NON CONVENIENS - ✔✔inconvenient forum
✔✔HABEAS CORPUS - ✔✔write issue to release someone from improper
imprisonment
✔✔IDEM - ✔✔same
✔✔I.E. [ID EST] - ✔✔THAT IS
✔✔IN ABSENTIA - ✔✔in the absence of
✔✔IN CAMERA - ✔✔in a room
