Share and Learn Jan 2024
Legal Words:
- Consonance: Agreement or compatibility, between opinions or actions.
- Demarcate: Set the boundaries or limits of.
- Promulgation: to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation.
- Scienter: knowledge; an allegation in a pleading that the thing has been done knowingly.
- Erudite: learned
- Treacherous: Guilty of or involving betrayal.
- Cavil: Argument by which a conclusion evidently false, is drawn from a principle evidently true.
- Oblivious: Aware.
- Unfettered: not confined or restricted
- Accentuating: More noticeable.
Legal Maxim
- Actionable per se: The very act is punishable and no proof of damage is required.
- Cusjus est dare ejus est disponere: He who has a right to give has a right to dispose of the gift.
- Doli incapax:Incapable of crime.
- De Minimis Non-Curat Lex:The law does not govern trifles i.e unimportant things or the law ignores insignificant details.
- Fraus est celare fraudem: It is a fraud to conceal a fraud.
- Innuendo:Spoken words which are defamatory because they have a double meaning.
- Jura na turae sunt immutabilia: The laws of natural justice is immutable.
- Onus probandi:Burden of proof.
- Qui non improbat, approbat: He who does not disapprove, approves.
- Suggestio falsi:The suggestion of something which is false.