(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.