Glossary Terms

A

Ad Litem
Admissibility
Administratrix
Agreement in Principle
Alimony Pendente Lite
Ancillary Jurisdiction
Appurtenant Easement
Article 2 Uniform Commercial Code
Assent
Atestation

B

Bill of Attainder
Booking Law
Break and Enter
Burden of Persuasion

C

Civil Litigation
Civil Union
Coercion
Common Disaster
Complaint in Law
Conclusive
Contingent Remainder
Corporate Officer
Corpus of a Trust
Counter Offer

D

Demeanor
De Facto Segregation
Depraved Heart Murder
Depraved Mind
Devise Real Estate
Directed Verdict
Due Process
Dying Declaration

E

Easement in Gross
Estate for Years
Excusable Homicide
Executrix
Executrix of the Estate
Extrinsic Evidence

F

Family Record
Fee Simple Defeasible
Firm on Price
Flat Fee
Fully Executed Contract
Fundamental Rights

G

H

Hostile Witness
Hypothetical Question

I

Impartial Jury
Indefeasibility
Inherent Powers
Insufficient Evidence
Inter Vivos
Intervening Cause
Irreconcilable Differences

J

Judicial Power
Justiciable

K

Knowingly

L

Last Clear Chance
Lay Testimony
Leading Question
Legal Definition
Lessor and Lessee
Lineal Descendants
Lost Profit
Lucid

M

Material Evidence
Manufacturing Defect
Meeting of the Minds
Memorandum of Law
Motion to Strike
Mutual Assent

N

Noncustodial Parent
Notice for Contract Termination

O

Objection
Offeree
Overruled

P

Package Mortgage
Pendente Lite Alimony
Physical Abuse
Physical Force
Pleadings
Power of Sale Clause
Preliminary Injunction
Promissory Estoppel
Purchaser
Pursuit of Happiness
Prima Facie
Probative
Production of Documents

Q

Quantum Meruit
Quasi in Rem Jurisdiction

R

Rap Sheet
Rational Basis Test
Real Evidence
Recriminations
Remedy at Law
Residuary Clause
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Reversionary Interest

S

Sale of Business Contract
Serial Killer
Scire Facias
Show Cause Order
Statement Against Interest
Strict Scrutiny
Suspicion
Supremacy Clause
Sustained
Sustain the Objection
Sustained vs Overruled

T

Tangible Evidence
Tender Age
Torts

U

V

Veto Power

W

Wills & Estates
Writ of Mandamus

X

Y

Z