Share and Learn Feb 2024
Legal Words:
- Nocumentum: an annoying, unpleasant or obnoxious thing or practice.
- Preclude:prevent from happening; make impossible.
- Plenary:unqualified; absolute
- Curative petition:question arises whether an aggrieved person is entitled to any relief against the final judgment / order of the Supreme Court, after dismissal of a review petition
- Aequitas:Equity i.e., fair or just according to natural law.
- Crescendo:Progressive increase in intensity.
- Transgression:An act that goes against a law, or code of conduct; an offence.
- Legal Luminary: a person who inspire or influences others, especially one prominent in a particular sphere.
- Mesne:middle, intervening or tame by nature.
- Sardonic:grimly mocking or cynical.
Legal Maxim
- Actus Reus:A guilty deed or act
- Impotentia Excusat Legem:Impossibility excuses the law. Inability excuses the non observance of the law.
- Ceteris paribus:Other things being equal
- Functus officio:No longer having power or jurisdiction.
- Justitia nemini neganda est: Justice is to be denied to nobody.
- Leges Posteriores Priores Contrarias Abrogant:Later laws repeal earlier laws inconsistent therewith.
- Sub Silentio:Under silence; without any notice being taken.
- Ubi jus ibi remedium: Where there is a right, there is a remedy.
- Ubi Non-Est Principalis Non Potest Esse Accessorius: Where there is no principal there is no accessory.
- Volenti Non-Fit Injuria: To the consenting, no injury is done.