(Dictionary of Legal Terms)
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P - Q
R
S
T
U - V
W-X-Y-Z
A
a - absolute discretion
absolute fee-simple - accrue due
accruing - Act of Parliament
act of parties - administrator
Administrator General - affirm
affirmance - allow an appeal
allowance - answer
answer - a priori
aquatic rights - assured
assurer - avowal
avulsion - ayn
B
baby act - balance-sheet
balance to credit - barred debt
barren money - bequeath a legacy
bequest - blank acceptance
blank bill - bond note
bond indebtedness - brief
briefless - buttals
butted and bounded - by-bidding
C
cabal - call money
call to account - capture
cardinal issue - cause
cause - C.F.I.Contract
chain of circumstances - chaste
chaste life - civil post
civil power - co-assignee
coastal trade - commercial agent
commercial broker - co-mortgagor
compact - conduct of business
conduct oneself - consular marriages
consult - coroner's court
corporal - criminal procedure
criminal proceeding - cy-press
D
damage - debit
debit entry - defaulter
defaulting dealer - delimitation of
constituencies
delinquency - derangement
derelict - development
devest divest - disavow
disbursement - dismissal compensation
dismortgage - district jail
district judge - domestic judgments
domestic trade - due admonition
due authority - dying declaration
E
earlier maturity - effect
effective - embroilment
employ - entailment
enter - equity of statute
equivalent - evade
evaluation - execute a contract
execute an order - exhibit
exhibited - ex post facto
ex post facto law - ezardar
F
fabricate - false information
false instrument - fictitious stamp
fidelity - fishery
fishing - forfeited
forfeited property - free
free access - further inquiry
further proceedings - future transaction
G
gain - general indefinite expression
general insurance - good consideration
good credit - greatest common advantage
great granddaughter - guise
H
habeas-corpus - hand-bill
handcuff - hear and determine
hereditary office - holder of power
holder of promissory note - hypothecator
I
ideal - immediately before
immediately below - implied ratification
implied release - inappealable
inapplicable - increase
incredible - individual
individual business - in good faith
ingress - in pendente (in suspense)
in part - insure
insured - intern
internal - invalidity
invalidity pension - iter
J
jactitation - judicial act
judicial admission - kin
K
karte - kin
kind - kutumba
L
laboratory - lawless
law of evidence - legal tender
legatee - life imprisonment
life-insurance - living
living wage - luxury tax
M
machination - maintain
maintainable - malicious motive
malicious prosecution - material loss
materially - memorial
mental capacity - mistake as to matter of fact
mistake of fact - multifarious
multilateral - mystic will
N
naked confession - nearest relations
near of blood - non-compliance
non-compoundable - nutrition
O
oath - officer-in-charge of a police station
officer-in-command - opposed
opposite - outrage
outrage the modesty - owner's risk
P-Q
pact - parricide
part delivery - paternal
paternal aunt - penal
penal action - permissibility
permissible - petty offence
petty officer - plea of release
pledge - possible right or interest
post - pregnant
pregnant uterus - prevail over
prevail up - private transfer
private trust - professional qualification
professional services - proposition
propositus - public Act
public act of settlement - puisne
puisne judge - quasi-judicial
quasi-marital - quote
R
race - rateable property
rateable value - receiver
receiver in the suit - reduction
reduction in rank - relations by affinity
relationship - remote and indirect loss
remote kinsman - repudiate a suit
repudiation - restitution of conjugal rights
restitution of property - reversionary interest
reversionary right - rules as to evidence
rules of procedure - Ryotwari Settlement
S
sabotage - schedule
scheduled areas - self serving evidence
sell - settlement of disputes
settlement of issues - simple trust
simultaneous - special agreement
special appeal - stability
stage - stock of firm
stocks and shares - substantial
substantially - supplementary grant
supplementary provision - system of
proportional representation
T
table - tail male
take accounts - tenant in dower
tenant in tail - thief
thing - transact
transaction - triable
trial - turn over
U - V
uberrima fide - unclassed suit
unconclusive - union
Union of India - use of criminal force
use of force - vernacular language
vernacular newspaper - voyage
W- X - Y - Z
wager - war marriage
warn - without intervention of the court
without jurisdiction - zanana.