ABSP - Law: Process

Law: Process

abatable	capable of being abated; as, an abatable writ or nuisance.
abrogate	to repeal (a law, custom, etc.); to abolish authoritatively or formally.
abrogation	the act of abrogating, formally annulling.
abrogative	relating to annulment.
absolvitor	in Scots law, a judgment favourable to a defender.
accusable	liable to be accused; chargeable with a crime or fault.
accusal	an accusation.
accusation	the act of accusing.
accusatorial	denoting a judicial procedure in which the judge is not the same person as the prosecutor.
accusatory	containing or expressing ACCUSATION.
accusement	an accusation.
acquit	to free or clear from a charge of fault or crime.
addeem addoom	to adjudge, award.
adduce	to cite as proof or instance.
adjudicate	to settle judicially.
adminicle	that which supports or aids, especially evidence.
advocacy	the act of advocating.
affeer	to assess; to reduce to a certain fixed sum.
afforce	to strengthen a jury by adding skilled people.
afforcement	the act of AFFORCING, strengthening a jury by adding skilled people.
alibi	to give an alibi to > ALIBIS, ALIBIING, ALIBIED.
alienage	the state or legal condition of being an alien.
aliunde	from another source; from elsewhere; as, a case proved aliunde; evidence aliunde.
antitrust	of legislation etc., directed against the adverse effect of trusts and other monopolies on commerce.
appeach	to accuse, impeach.
appealable	capable of being appealed against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable.
appellate	pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, (legal) appeals.
apprise apprize	in Scots law, to put a selling price on.
apprising apprizing	the sheriff's sentence directing property to be apprized.
arbitrage	to subject to judgment by an arbiter.
arbitral	of or relating to an arbiter or an arbitration.
arbitrium	a power of decision > ARBITRIUMS.
arraign	to call before a court of law to answer an indictment.
arrestation	the act of arresting.
arret	a decision; the judgment of a tribunal.
article	(verb) to charge with specific offenses.
assize	a legislative session, dealing e.g. with weights, measures, and prices; (verb, obs.) to assess, to fix the quantity of.
assoilzie	to absolve, to clear a defendant of a charge > ASSOILZIES, ASSOILZIEING, ASSOILZIED.
assythment	in Scots law, indemnification for injury; satisfaction.
attentat	an (esp unsuccessful) attempt at an (esp political) crime of violence.
autoptic	based on personal observation, as autoptic testimony.
avisandum avizandum	a private consideration of a case by a judge.
bailiwick	the region in which a sheriff (BAILIE) has legal powers.
bailliage	the jurisdiction of a BAILLI.
banns	notice given in church etc. of an intended marriage, read on three Sundays to give an opportunity for objections to be made. N.B. no BANN*.
barrat	deceit, strife.
bertillonage	a system of criminal identification by detailed measurements, worked out by Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914), a Paris police officer.
billable	that can be billed, e.g. of a lawyer's hours.
bipartite	being in two parts e.g. of a document > BIPARTITELY.
bona	goods. No —S.
bote	compensation for injury or damage to property.
bountied	with a BOUNTY on one's head.
cassation	annulment; in French law, the quashing of a decision of a court.
causa	a (legal) cause > CAUSAE.
cautionry	in Scots law, the act of giving security for another.
chargesheet	a police document listing details of an accused person and the charges against him or her.
circumduce	to declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence.
citable citeable	able to be cited.
citatory	having the power or form of a citation; as, letters citatory.
clergiable clergyable	entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony.
coattest	to attest together with.
cognosce	to examine; to give judgment on.
comitial	relating to the COMITIA, or popular assemblies of the Romans for electing officers and passing laws.
committal	the act of committing e.g. to trial.
compulsitor	in Scots law, a means of compelling.
compurgation	the exoneration of an accused person on the basis of oaths sworn by other persons.
compurgatorial	relating to COMPURGATION, the clearing of an accused person by means of oaths.
compurgatory	relating to COMPURGATION, the clearing of an accused person by means of oaths.
convict	to prove guilty.
conviction	the act of convicting of a crime especially in a court of law.
corsned	a medieval trial in which the accused had to swallow consecrated bread.
countersue	to sue someone who is suing one.
countersuit	a suit in retaliation.
crossclaim	a claim made by a defendant against a plaintiff.
custody	the codition of being held by the police.
damageable	capable of being damaged; as, a damageable cargo.
defeasance	a condition which, if fulfilled, renders an agreement or instrument null and void; a document setting out such a condition.
defeasanced	liable to be forfeited.
defeasible	that may be annulled.
deforce	to keep out of possession by force.
deforcement	the act of DEFORCING.
deforciation	a legal distress.
delate	to report (an offense), denounce, or accuse.
delation	the action of informing against someone; (an) accusation.
depone	to state, declare, or testify on oath in court; to depose.
dijudicate	to judge, to decide.
diriment	that renders absolutely void; nullifying; diriment impediment: making a marriage null and void from the first. No —S.
disapply	to render (a law) inapplicable.
disbar	to expel from the bar, or the legal profession.
disclaimer	a denial or disavowal of legal claim.
discovert	of a woman: without a husband, not covert.
dispauper	to deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support.
distraint	seizure of goods.
dittay	(Scots) an indictment, a charge.
dowable	capable of being endowed; entitled to dower.
duply	a second reply in Scots law; (verb) to say in duply.
eigne	first born. [Fr. aine].
emendals	funds set apart for repairs, in the accounts of the Inner Temple. N.B. no EMENDAL*.
empanel impanel impannel	to form a list of jurors; a panel.
empanelment	the act of EMPANELLING.
enaction	the passing of a bill into law.
enactive	having power to enact or establish as a law.
enactment	the passing of a bill into law.
enactory	pertaining to the enactment of law.
essoin essoyne	the giving of an excuse for not appearing in court.
estop	to impede or bar by ESTOPPEL, a bar to alleging or denying a fact because of one's own previous contrary actions or words.
estoppage	the condition of being barred by ESTOPPEL.
estoppel	a bar to alleging or denying a fact because of one's own previous contrary actions or words.
estray	a beast found within a manor or lordship, wandering from its owner; (verb) to stray.
estreat	to consult court records in order to enable prosecution.
evidence	to act as evidence.
evident	clear > EVIDENTLY; (noun) that which serves as evidence > EVIDENTS.
excamb	in Scots law, to exchange.
exculpatory	tending or serving to clear from alleged fault or guilt.
executory	pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive.
extradite	to deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice.
extralegal	outside the law.
extrality	the privilege of being outside the jurisdiction of the country one is in.
eyre	a journey in circuit of certain judges called justices in eyre.
factum	a man's own act and deed > FACTUMS, not FACTA*.
fasces	a bundle of rods with an axe used to symbolise authority.
fascial	pertaining to the FASCES.
fascis	a bundle of rods with an axe used to symbolise authority > FASCES.
fiducial	of the nature of trust > FIDUCIALLY.
fiqh	Islamic jurisprudence, an expansion of the Sharia Islamic law.
fixture	that which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage.
frithborh	a surety for keeping the peace, aka FRANKPLEDGE.
frithsoken	sanctuary or asylum.
frogmarch	to carry an uncooperative drunkard or prisoner.
fungible	(things that are) mutually interchangeable > FUNGIBLES.
furthcoming	an action brought by an arrester against the arrestee and the common debtor after an arrestment in order that the arrested money or property be delivered to the arrester.
gravamen	the essence or the most serious part of an accusation > GRAVAMENS or GRAVAMINA. [L. gravare, to burden and ultimately from L. gravis, heavy].
grith	sanctuary, asylum.
guaranty	to guarantee.
guiltiness	the state of being GUILTY.
guilty	worthy of blame for an offense > GUILTIER, GUILTIEST; GUILTILY.
haro	in Channel Islands, a cry announcing legal redress > HAROS.
heteronomous	subject to different or foreign laws.
heteronomy	subordination or subjection to the law of another, as opposed to AUTONOMY.
holdership	the state of being a HOLDER e.g. of a bill.
identikit	a reconstructed picture of a person (esp. a suspect sought by police) assembled from features described by a witness or witnesses.
impanel	see EMPANEL.
impannel	see EMPANEL.
impeach	to make an accusation against (a person); accuse of, charge.
impeachment	the act of impeaching.
implead	to institute and prosecute a suit against, in court > IMPLEADS, IMPLEADING, IMPLEADED or IMPLED.
improbation	an action for the purpose of declaring some instrument false or forged.
inbring	to bring in to court > INBRINGS, INBRINGING, INBROUGHT.
indagate	to search out.
indict	to charge with a crime.
indictable	that can be indicted > INDICTABLY.
indictment	the action or the legal process of indicting.
induciae	in Scots law, the time limit within which (after a citation) the defendant must appear in court or reply. N.B. no INDUCIA*.
injudicial	not judicial.
inquirendo	the authority to inquire into something e.g. for the benefit of the Crown > INQUIRENDOS.
intendment	the true meaning or intention of something, esp a law.
interess interesse	an interest; (verb) to interest.
interplead	to plead against each other, or go to trial between themselves, as the claimants in an interpleader.
irritancy	the state of being null and void.
ish	issue or expiry.
jeofail	an omission or oversight in a law proceeding.
jerque	to search a vessel for smuggled goods.
joinder	a legal uniting or joining.
judicable	capable of being judged; capable of being tried or decided upon.
judicative	having power to judge; as, the judicative faculty.
judicatory	pertaining to the administration of justice; dispensing justice.
judicature	the power of dispensing justice by trial.
judicial	relating to the process of law > JUDICIALLY.
juratory	pertaining to an oath.
juridic juridical	relating to the administration of justice; pertaining to a judge > JURIDICALLY.
juryless	without a JURY.
justiciable	liable to trial.
lagan lagend ligan	cargo jettisoned from ship but marked by buoys for recovery.
latent	hidden > LATENTLY; (noun) a barely visible fingerprint that can be developed for study.
law	low > LAWER, LAWEST; (obs.) to take to court.
lawful	allowed by law (the body of rules governing the affairs of a community) > LAWFULLY.
lawfulness	the state of being LAWFUL.
lawgiving	the giving of law.
lawless	having no system of laws.
lawlessness	the state of being LAWLESS.
lawlike	being like the law.
lawmaking	the process of making law.
lawsuit	a legal action.
legalise legalize	to make legal.
legalism	belief that salvation depends on strict adherence to the law.
legalistic	inclined to LEGALISM.
legality	the condition of being lawful.
legalize	see LEGALISE.
legislate	to make laws; to pass law in the form of an Act of Parliament or by delegated legislation.
legitimist	a person who believes in the right of royal succession according to the principle of heredity and primogeniture.
lenocinium	in Scots law, connivance at one's wife's adultery > LENOCINIUMS.
leviable	fit to be levied; capable of being assessed and collected; as, sums leviable by course of law.
lex	law > LEXES or LEGES.
ligan	see LAGAN.
litigable	such as can be litigated.
litigate	to have recourse to LITIGATION.
litigation	legal dispute esp. by means of a lawsuit.
mainprise	surety for the appearance of a prisoner at trial.
miniment muniment	a means of defence; a record fortifying or proving a claim.
mirandise mirandize	in USA, to inform an accused person of their rights.
misdeem	to misjudge > MISDEEMS, MISDEEMING, MISDEEMED or (Spenser) MISDEMPT.
mise	the issue in a writ of right.
misjoinder	an incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil.
misnomer	the use of a wrong name or designation esp. the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument; (verb) to use a misnomer.
monition	a caution; a warning, especially legal.
moratorium	a legal authorization to a debtor to postpone payment for a certain time; the period of such a postponement > MORATORIA or MORATORIUMS.
moulage	an impression made for use as evidence in a criminal investigation.
naam nam	the action of taking another's goods by distraint; goods so taken.
neckverse	the test of ability to read for those who claimed benefit of clergy, usu. Psalm 51.1.
nimious	overmuch, excessive; inordinate (now chiefly as a Sc. legal term).
nisi	taking effect at a specified date unless cause is shown otherwise. No —S.
nolo	a type of legal plea > NOLOS.
nomistic	based on law or a sacred book.
nomologic	related to NOMOLOGY, the science of the laws; especially of the mind.
nomology	the science of the laws; especially of the mind.
nomothetic	legislative; based on law.
nomothetical	giving laws; legislative.
nonage	legal infancy; minority.
nonaged	having the quality of NONAGE; being a minor.
nonevidence	something that is not EVIDENCE.
nonguilt	the state of not being guilty.
nonjoinder	the omission of some person who ought to have been made a plaintiff or defendant in a suit, or of some cause of action which ought to be joined.
nonjury	not judged by a jury > NONJURIES.
nonlegal	not legal.
nonpros	to enter a judgment against a plaintiff who fails to prosecute > NONPROSSES, NONPROSSING, NONPROSSED.
nonsuit	the stopping of a suit by voluntary withdrawal of the plaintiff, or by the judge when the plaintiff has failed to make out cause of action or to bring evidence; (verb) to execute a nonsuit.
nontenured	not having TENURE.
notarise notarize	to attest to, authenticate.
notour	in Scots law, notorious.
oathable	capable of taking an oath.
objuration	the act of binding by oath; a solemn charge.
objure	to bind by oath; to entreat solemnly.
obligee	the person to whom another is bound, or the person to whom a bond is given.
obtemper obtemperate	to obey (a judgment or decree.
officiality officialty	the charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official.
oyer	a hearing in a lawcourt, an assize.
parol	given by word of mouth, as in parol evidence; (noun) a parole.
parolable	subject to parole.
parole	to release from prison before completion of the imposed sentence.
placitory	of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law.
plea	to dispute in a law-court > PLEAS, PLEAING, PLEAED.
pleadable	capable of being pleaded.
preaudience	the right to be heard before another; precedence at the bar among lawyers.
predication	an act or instance of predicating.
prelegal	occurring before the commencement of studies in law.
prepense	premeditate > PREPENSELY.
prescriptive	serving to prescribe; (law) acquired through uninterrupted possession > PRESCRIPTIVELY.
presentence	to sentence in advance.
presentment	a jury's statement to a court of matters within its knowledge.
pretrial	a preliminary trial.
probation	the act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof.
probative	testing, affording proof > PROBATIVELY.
prochain prochein	next, as in prochein ami, a legal term.
proofless	wanting sufficient evidence to induce belief; not proved.
prosecute	to pursue by law.
provisory	of the nature of a proviso; containing a proviso or condition > PROVISORILY.
quadruply	a reply to a TRIPLY.
quash	to set aside or annul.
rancel ransel ranzel	a search for stolen goods.
reargument	an arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.
recaption	taking back by peaceable means goods, children, etc from someone who has no right to detain them.
recusal	a disqualification of oneself as a judge.
recuse	to refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause.
rehear	to hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a case in Chancery
reindict	to indict again.
rejoinder	a sharp and clever answer; in law, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's reply/replication.
rejudge	to judge again; to reexamine.
remandment	the act of remanding.
remise	to surrender a claim.
replead	to plead again > REPLEADS, REPLEADING, REPLEADED or REPLED.
repleader	a second pleading, or course of pleadings; also, the right of pleading again.
replevin replevy	to recover, or restore to the owner (goods distrained) upon pledge to try the right in legal proceedings.
reprobator	in Scots law, an action to prove a witness perjured or biased.
rescission	the act of rescinding.
resentence	to sentence again.
retestify	to testify again.
retrial	a second trial.
retry	to try (esp. judicially) a second time.
revendication	the action of claiming back or recovering something by a formal claim.
revivor	the revival of a suit which was abated by the death of a party or other cause.
ruleless	destitute of rule; lawless.
seise	an old spelling of SEIZE, still used legally in sense of to put in possession of property.
sequester	to set apart; to seize by authority of a writ.
setoff	the settlement of a debt by a debtor making a counterclaim against his creditor.
sist	to stay, as judicial proceedings; to delay or suspend.
solatium	a compensation (as money) given as solace for suffering, loss, or injured feelings > SOLATIA.
sponsion	the act of becoming surety for another.
stakeout	an ambush, esp. by the police of criminals.
suability	liability to be sued; the state of being subjected by law to civil process.
suable sueable	that may be sued > SUABLY.
subrogate	to substitute for another with regard to a legal right or claim.
subrogation	the act of SUBROGATING.
sue	to prosecute at law.
sueability	the ability to be sued.
sueable	see SUABLE.
summons	to issue with a summons.
sumptuary	relating to or regulating expense; relating to the control or moderation of extravagance.
supersedere	a private agreement among creditors, under a trust-law, to supersede or sist diligence for a certain period.
suretyship	the state of being surety.
surrebut	to reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.
surrebuttal	a plaintiff's evidence or presentation of evidence, in response to a defendant's rebuttal.
surrebutter	in law, a plaintiff's reply to defendant's rebutter.
surrejoin	to reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.
surrejoinder	a law plaintiff's reply to defendant's rejoinder.
surrogation	surrogation.
sus	a suspect > SUSES; (verb) to arrest for suspicious behaviour > SUSSES, SUSSING, SUSSED.
suss	to arrest for suspicious behaviour.
terminer	a determining; as, in OYER and TERMINER.
testation	a witnessing or witness.
teste	on the authority or testimony of (a specified person). [Ablative of L. testis, witness].
testify	to make a declaration of truth under oath.
testimony	evidence; (verb, Shakesp.) to testify.
triable	fit or possible to be tried; liable to be subjected to trial or test.
triply	in Scots law, to reply to a DUPLY.
ultion	revenge; vengeance.
undersign	to write one's name at the foot or end of, as a letter or any legal instrument.
unlaw	to deprive of the authority or character of law.
unproved unproven	not proved.
unpurged	not purged, e.g. of crimes.
vacatur	the act of annulling in law.
vag	to arrest someone for vagrancy
vardy	opinion, verdict.
verbal	in words > VERBALLY; (noun) an oral statement made to the police; (verb) to take such a statement > VERBALS, VERBALLING, VERBALLED.
verdict	the decision of a jury at the end of a legal proceeding.
verdit	verdict.
vitious	vicious in the specific legal sense of impaired, nullified by a flaw.
volens	consenting to the risk of injury.

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