Share and Learn May 2024
Legal Words:
- Foreclosure – When a borrower cannot repay a loan and the lender seeks to sell the property.
- Quash – To nullify or declare invalid.
- Slander – Defamatory oral statements and gestures.
- Subpoena – An order compelling a person to appear in court or produce documents.
- Pro se – A person who represents himself in court alone without the help of the lawyer.
- Brief – A written statement submitted in a trial or appellate proceeding that explains one side’s legal and factual arguments.
- Capital offense – A crime punishable by death.
- Class action – A lawsuit in which one or more members of a large group, or class, of individuals or other entities sue on behalf of the entire class.
- Collateral – Property that is promised as security for the satisfaction of a debt.
- Deposition – An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths.
Legal Maxim:
- Actio personalis moritur cum persona: A personal right of action dies with the person.
- Ante Litem Motam: Before suit brought; before controversy instituted, or spoken before a lawsuit is brought.
- Bona vacantia: Goods without an owner.
- Communis hostis omnium: They are common enemies of all.
- Doli capax: Capable of forming necessary intent to commit a crime.
- Factum probandum: It means the facts that need to be proved.
- Furiosis furore suo punier: A madman is best punished by his own madness.
- Inter vivos: Between living people.
- Justitia nemini neganda est: Justice is to be denied to nobody.
- Jus soli: Right of soil.