RunSensible’s Legal Dictionary

• Bond forfeiture
• Motion Hearing
• Romeo and Juliet Law
• Impartial
• Suo Moto
• Yellow Dog Contract
• Detrimental reliance
• Corroborate
• Capricious
• Procedural law
• Uninhabitable living conditions
• Eyewitness
• Extrinsic Motivation
• Extrinsic Fraud
• Equity of Redemption
• Equitable Distribution
• DICTA
• Disclosure Statement
• Fabricate
• Facies
• Family Law
• Finance Company
• Fraudulent Inducement
• Abandonment
• Abandonment Value
• Abandonment Of Trademark
• Abandonment Clause
• Abandoned Property
• A Priori
• Ab Initio
• A fortiori
• Ballot Rigging
• Bankruptcy
• Breach of Fiduciary Duty
• Bankruptcy Petition
• Bankruptcy Judge
• Bankruptcy Estate
• Bankruptcy Administrator
• Banking Day
• Banking Act of 1933
• Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act
• Concealed Weapons
• Collateral Estoppel
• Cause of Action
• D Ratio
• Dismissal for Want of Prosecution (DWOP)
• Debt Validation Notice
• Discharge
• Defendant
• Death Penalty Law
• Dying Without Issue
• Dismissed with Prejudice
• Descendant
• Debt Service
• Immigration Law
• Hearsay Exceptions
• GBMI
• Gain Contingency
• Hearing on the Merits
• Harassment
• Gap Creditor
• Guardianship
• Garnishment
• Gaia Hypothesis
• Rules of Evidence
• Financial Institution
• Financial Accounting Standards Board
• Face Value
• Facio Ut Des
• Fact
• Factoring Process
• Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
• Ubi Jus Ibi Remedium
• Undisclosed Principal
• Unjust Enrichment
• Return of Service
• Territorial Jurisdiction
• Recess
• Subpoena
• Request For Admissions
• Request for Production
• Temporary Restraining Order
• Suspended Imposition Sentence (SIS)
• Sealed Indictment
• Tort
• Summons
• Squatters Rights
• Qui tam
• Question of Law
• Question of Fact
• Preliminary Injunction
• Prosecution
• Persuasive Authority
• Provisional Remedy
• Proof
• Payment in Court
• Public Auction
• Bail Bond
• Process Server
• Preponderance
• Delictum
• De novo
• Decretum
• De mortuis nil nisi bonum
• De die in diem
• Deo volente
• Deo gratias
• De bonis asportatis
• Delegatus non potest delegare
• Deus ex machina
• De minimis non curat lex
• Deprehendi miserum est
• De bene esse
• De facto and De jure
• Devastavit
• Deus vult
• Excerpta
• Ex curia
• Ergo
• E.g.
• Et converso
• Ex adverso
• Erratum
• Ejusdem generis
• Et al.
• Excelsior
• Ex debito justitiae
• Ex aequo et bono
• Ex abundanti cautela
• Exceptio probat regulam
• Ex contractu
• Exacta diligentia
• Et cetera
• Est aliquid quod non oporteat etiamsi licet
• Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
• Dubitante
• Dona clandestina sunt semper suspiciosa
• Dum sola
• Domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium
• Doli capax
• Discite justitiam moniti
• Dum casta vixerit
• Durante beneplacito
• Dolus
• Dextra manu
• Dictum factum
• Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude
• Dissentiente
• Cui licitus est finis, etiam licent media
• Contra bonos mores
• Cui bono
• Contra
• Corpus Juris
• Damnum sine injuria
• Contra mundum
• Curia advisari vult
• Contemporanea expositio est optima et fortissima in lege
• Coram judice
• Corpus delicti
• Contra proferentem
• Corrigendum
• Contra pacem
• Cuius est solum, ejus est usque ad caelum et usque ad inferos
• Contra verbosos noli contendere verbis; sermo datur cunctis, animi sapiential paucis
• Imperium
• Ignorantia juris neminem excusa
• Inter partes
• Imprimatur
• Idem
• I.d. es
• Imperitia culpae adnumeratur
• Ibid
• Falsa demonstratio non nocet (cum de corpore constat)
• Fas est ab hoste doceri
• Guardian as litem
• Gaius
• Fas simile
• Gravitas
• Fellatio
• Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus
• Gradatim
• Gratis
• Generalia specialibus non derogant
• Ad hoc
• Ad nauseam
• Ad idem
• Ad infinitum
• Ad referendum
• Ad litem
• Amicus curiae
• Alieni generis
• Aliquot
• Alter ego
• Alumnus
• Alma Mater
• Allocatur
• A mens et thoro
• aliquando dormitat bonus Homerus
• Aliter
• Fieri facias
• Ferae naturae
• Functus officio
• Forum non conveniens
• Forum conveniens
• De Laudibus Legum Angliae
• Freezing order
• Felo de se
• Fiat justitia ruat caelum
• Fons justitiae
• Festina lente
• Finis litium
• Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo
• Fructus industriales
• Fructus naturales
• Fiat
• Hostis humani generis
• Hoc sensu
• Habendum et tenendum
• Habendum
• Honorarium
• Habeas corpus
• Non obstantibus
• In prompto
• In pleno
• In pari materia
• In posse
• In futuro
• In personam
• Induciae legales
• In loco parentis
• In limine
• Injuria sine damno
• In gremio legis
• In pari delicto potior est conditio defendentis
• In nuce
• In judicando esto pupillis misericors ut pater et pro viro matri illorum
• Iniquum est aliquem rei sui esse judicem
• Jus tertii
• Legem brevem esse oportet
• Laudator temporis acti
• Justiciarius Regni
• Latine dictum
• Justitia est constans et perpetua voluntas jus suum cuique tribuens
• Latine scriptum
• Lacuna
• Justitia omnibus
• Laesa majestas
• Legum Magister
• Leges fori
• Lex causae
• Legum idcirco servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus
• Legum Baccalaureus
• Lex loci
• Lex fori
• Ex post facto
• Ex improviso
• Extant
• Expressio unius est exclusio alterius
• Ex parte
• Ex officio
• Ex gratia
• Ex hypothesi
• Ex turpi causa non oritur action
• Expressum facit cessare tacitum
• Ex voto
• Ex dolo malo non oritur actio
• Executor
• Ex tempore
• Exempli gratia
• Infra dig
• In esse
• In consimili casu
• In flagrante delicto
• In extenso
• Imprimis
• In extremis
• In forma pauperis
• In curia
• In absentia
• In banco
• In camera
• In arbitrio judicis
• In aeternum
• Objection to Dischargeability
• Motion in Limine
• Motion to Suppress
• Voir dire
• Nondischargeable Debt
• Objection
• Motion
• Iras et verba locant
• In terrorem
• Inter vivos
• Interest reipublicae ut sit finis litium
• Ipse dixit
• Inter pares
• In toto
• Ipso facto
• Inter nos
• In vacuo
• Intra vires
• Ipsissima verba
• In vino veritas
• In utero
• Intra
• Partion
• Motion to Lift the Automatic Stay
• Without Recourse
• Attorney Work Product
• Writ of Coram Nobis
• Wayleave
• Motion to Compel
• Mens rea
• Actus Reus
• Punitive Damages
• Petition for Certiorari
• Coitus interruptus
• Cessante ratione legis, cessat lex ipsa
• Caveat emptor
• Caesaris Caesari
• Caveat
• Brutum fulmen
• Causa causans
• Causa sine qua non
• Causam obtinere
• Brevi manu
• Certiorari
• Caveat lector
• Capax doli
• Certum est quia impossibile est
• Capitis deminutio
• Captator
• Casus belli
• Boni viri arbitrates
• Bona fide
• Cancellarius
• Blandae mendacia linguae
• Bona vacantia
• Consilio et prudential
• Coitus
• Concordat
• Circa
• Ceteris paribus
• Certum est quod certum reddi potest
• Commorientes
• Child
• Citius venit periculum cum contemnitur
• Commune consensu
• Cf
• Commune bonum
• Communis error facit jus
• Consensus
• Consortium
• Clare constat
• Cognoscenti
• Compos mentis
• Malo ánimo
• Magna Carta
• Melior est conditio possidentis
• Mala fide
• Mea culpa
• Magister Juris
• Mareva
• Mala grammatica non vitiat chartam
• Magnum opus
• Malum in se
• Multum in parvo
• Mendacem memorem esse opportet
• Mandamus
• Melus improbos compescit non clementia
• Locus poenitentiae
• Me consule
• Minor
• Minutiae
• Modus operandi
• Mutatis mutandis
• Me judice
• Mansuetae naturae
• Mortis causa
• Modus vivendi
• Mirabile dictu
• Mutuum
• Locus sigilli
• Locus delicti
• Meo periculo
• Locus in quo
• Moratorium
• A posteriori
• Animus possidendi
• Legal System
• Audi alteram partem
• Locus Standi
• Lien
• Liquidated Claim
• Liquidation
• Ave atque vale
• Ante meridiem
• Anno Domini
• Animus revertendi
• Arbitrium boni
• A vinculo matrimonii
• Anno regni
• Arcana imperii
• Ante cibum
• Audaces alteram juvat
• Assumpsit
• Ardentia verba
• Assoilzie
• Ad rem
• Adverso flumine
• affidavit
• Ad valorem
• Advocatus
• Animus
• Aequitas sequitur legem
• Animo furandi
• Advocatus Diaboli
• Aequo animo
• ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret
• ad lib
• Ad unum omnes
• Alias
• Alea judiciorum
• acerrima proximorum odia
• Ad hominem
• ab alio specta, alteri quod feceris
• Ad horam
• Accedas in curiam
• absens haeres non erit
• Alibi
• aliena negotia curo. Excussus propriis
• a bove majori discit arare minor
• Actio personalis moritur cum persona
• Accusare nemo se debet
• Actus Dei nemini facit injuriam
• Ad captandum vulgus
• Post cibum
• Persona
• Per se
• Plene administravit
• Per quod consortium et servitium amisti
• Placet
• Per procurationem
• Post mortem
• Per subsequens matrimonium
• Per diem
• Post meridiem
• Post hoc, ergo propter hoc
• Per incuriam
• Primo
• Primus inter pares
• Pro
• Per curiam
• Pro patria
• Pro tanto
• Prima facie
• Progressus per peritiam
• Praemunire
• Pro rata
• Pro forma
• Pro tempore
• Praecipe
• Pro hac vice
• Propter
• Pro bono publico
• Próximo
• Post scriptum
• Jus est ars boni et aequi
• Jus cogens
• Jus imperii
• Jurat
• Jus sanguinis
• Judicium parium suorum aut leges terrae
• Jus civile
• Jacta alea est
• Jus quaesitum tertio
• Jus spatiandi
• Jus accrescendi
• Jus naturale
• Jus gladii
• Jus gentium
• Jus primae noctis
• Lex non scripta
• Lex situs
• Locus classicus
• Loco citato
• LLM
• Lex prospicit non respicit
• Litem
• Licet
• Lex non cogit ad impossibilia
• Lex non cogit ad inutilia
• Locus
• Lex scripta
• Lis pendens
• LLB
• Lis alibi pendens
• Locum tenens
• Litigation friend
• Executory Contract or Lease
• Interrogatories
• Invasion of Privacy
• Indemnity Bond
• Insider of Individual Debtor
• Joint Administration
• Joint Petition
• Jury Instructions
• Par in parem non habet imperium
• Pacta tertiis nec nocent nec prosunt
• Per
• Paterfamilias
• Per annum
• Per capita
• Pari ratione
• Participes criminis
• Passim
• Pax
• Pendente lite
• Pacta sunt servanda
• Pari passu
• Paucis verbis
• Quae fuerant vitia mores sunt
• Quaere
• Qua
• Quantum una hora imputas
• Quantum meruit
• Quamdiu se bene gesserint
• Quantum
• Sub rosa
• Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re
• Sui generis
• Sub nomine
• Sub judice
• Scire facias
• Suggestio falsi
• Summa itaque ope et alacri studio has leges nostras accipite vosmet ipsos sic eruditos ostendite ut spes vos pulcherrima foveat, toto legitimo opere perfecto, posse etiam nostram rem publicam in partibus ejus vobis credentia gubernare
• Sui juris
• Summum bonum
• Sum quod eris, fui quod es
• Summa jus saepe summa injuria
• Suppressio veri
• Suspendatur per collum
• Suo periculo
• Supra
• Suspendatur
• Venire de novo
• Vale
• Veritas
• Verba chartarum fortius accipiuntur contra proferentem
• Versus
• Verbatim
• Via
• Vade-mecum
• Vice versa
• Vi et armis
• Vinculum matrimonii
• Vide
• Videlicet
• Vicarius
• Vincit omnia veritas
• Volenti non fit injuria
• Viva voce
• Vivat
• Vigilantibus non dormientibus seviunt leges (or subveniunt leges, subveniunt jura, succurrit lex)
• Simpliciter
• Sine dubio
• Sine qua non
• Sinistra manu
• Solatium
• Sine Mora
• Sine ira et studio
• Socius
• Socius criminis
• Solus
• Status
• Stricto sensu
• Sua sponte
• Sponsor
• Solventur risu tabulae: tu missus abibis
• Spero meliora
• Stet
• Stare decisis
• Solvuntur tabulae
• Sponte sua
• Surety
• Status quo
• Sic
• Sine die
• Sigillum
• Similiter
• Sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas
• Shyster
• Seriatim
• Seq.
• Sensu stricto
• Semble
• Sed quaer
• Rigor mortis
• Res publica
• Ruat caelum
• Rex nunquam moritur
• Sanctus Ivo erat Brito. Advocatus et non latro. Res miranda populo
• Rex
• Res perit domino
• Restitutio in integrum
• Res sua
• Scienter
• Scintilla
• Res inter alios acta alteri nocere non debet
• Respondeat superior
• Res gestae
• Reductio ad absurdum
• Rem tene
• Res vendita
• Regina
• Satius est impunitum relinqui facinus nocentium quam innocentem damnari
• Res nullius
• Rex non potest peccare
• Res integra
• Rubicon
• Scilicet
• Salus populi suprema lex esto
• Res ipsa loquitur
• Res judicata
• Res extincta
• Nemo debet bis vexari pro una et eadem causa
• Nemo dat quod non habet
• Nemine contradicente
• Nescit vox missa reverti
• Ne sutor ultra crepidam
• Ne exeat regno
• Nexus
• Necessitas non habet leges
• Nil
• Nec clam, nec vi, nec precario
• Nemo judex in causa sua
• The Latin phrase “ne templo deesset monumentum tertii millennii incipientis hoc signum curavit erigendum hoc soc int templi
• Nisi
• Nil desperandum
• Quondam
• Non sequitur
• Nolo contendere
• Op. cit.
• Non constat
• Obit
• Nolite judicare, un non judicemini
• Omnia praesumuntur contra proferentem
• Ope et consilio
• Opere citato
• Opus Magnum
• Optima est lex quae minimum relinquit arbitrio judicis; optimus judex qui minimum sibi
• Nolle prosequi
• Otiose
• Non est factum
• Noscitur a sociis
• Obiter dictum
• Omnia praesumuntur contra spoliatorem
• Odium
• Non compos mentis
• Omnia praesumuntur rite esse acta
• Nisi prius
• Onus probandi
• Quomodo
• Quot homines, tot sententiae
• Qui timide rogat, docet negare
• Ratio decidendi
• Reddite ergo quae sunt Caesaris, Caesari: et quae sunt Dei, Deo
• Quod erat demonstrandum
• Quod vide
• Quod erat faciendum
• Quorum
• Quo animo
• Ratione personae, ratione materiae, ratione loci
• Re
• Quo jure
• Qui tacet consentit
• Novus actus interveniens
• Nota bene
• Notabilia
• Nulla bona
• Noxiae poena esto
• Nulla poena lege
• Nudum pactum
• Nulli vendemus, nulli negabimus aut differemus, rectum aut justiciam
• Nullum crimen sine lege
• Nunc demum redit animus
• Nullus liber homo
• Nulli secundus
• Totidem verbis
• Testis unus, testis nullius
• Tabula rasa
• Toties quoties
• Tantum quantum
• Talis qualis
• Tempus tacendi et tempus loquendi
• Testator
• Terminus ad quem
• Tertius
• Terminus a quo
• Tabula in (ex) naufragio
• Terra nullius
• Quicquid agas, predenter agas et respice finem. Lex plus laudatur, quando ratione probatur
• Una voce
• Quasi
• Ultima ratio
• Ultra vires
• Ultimo
• Ulterior
• Uno animo
• Quare clausum fregit
• Quia emptores
• Quashing order
• Uberrimae fidei
• Ubi jus, ibi remedium
• Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
• Quid faciam? Invenias argentum
• Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• Quicquid plantatur solo, solo cedit
• Qui et idoneos nos tacit ministros novi testamenti non litterae sed Spiritus littera enim occidit Spiritus autem vivicat
• Qui prior est tempore potior est jure
• Qui non negat confitetur
• Quid leges sine moribus vanae proficiunt
• Qui facit per alium facit per se
• Quid pro quo
• Quid faciat leges, ubi sola pecunia regnat
• Direction
• Arrears of Rent
• Annexation
• Affidavit of Spousal Status
• Adversely
• Adverse Possession
• Adjoining Land
• Acknowledgment
• Acceleration Clause
• Accelerate
• Abstracting
• Abstract Book
• Advanced
• Chain of Title
• Certify Title
• Certificate of Action
• Capital Gains Tax
• By-Law
• Bona Fide Purchaser for Value
• Block
• Block Number
• Blended Payment
• Blanket Mortgage
• Binder Letter
• Balloon Payment
• Balance Due on Closing
• Assumed Charge
• Assignment
• Agreement of Purchase and Sale
• Chargee in Possession
• Chargee
• Chargor
• Chattels
• Closed Charge
• Closing Date
• Commencement Date
• Commit Waste
• Committee of Adjustment
• Common Elements
• Common Expense
• Common-Element Condominium (CEC)
• Compliance-With-Law Statement
• Compounding Interest
• Concession
• Condominium Corporation
• Construction Lien
• Construction Pyramid
• Cooling-Off Period
• Counteroffer
• Covenant
• Crown Patent
• Declarant
• Declaration
• Deed
• default
• Deposit
• Description
• Disbursements
• Discharge of Charge
• Discharge of Lien
• Quitclaim Deed
• Security Deposit
• Special Warranty Deed
• Warranty Deed
• Disclosure Statement
• docket
• Document Registration Agreement (DRA)
• Dominant Tenement
• Dower
• Due-On-Sale Clause
• E-Reg
• Easement Implied by Law
• Easement
• encroachment
• encumbrance
• escheat
• Escrow Closing
• Activities of Daily Living – ADL
• Adjuster
• Ambulation
• Aphasia
• Apraxia
• Ataxia
• Atrophy
• Attendant Care
• Case Manager (CM)
• Cerebellum
• Closed Head Injury
• Deductible
• Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI)
• Disorientation
• Electroencephalogram (EEG)
• Medical Malpractice
• Occupational Therapist (OT)
• Post-Traumatic Amnesia (PTA)
• Rehab Support Worker
• Exclusive-Use Common Elements
• Execution
• Express Grant
• Expropriation
• Extinguish
• Fair Market Value
• Fault Grounds
• Fee Simple Estate
• First Charge
• Fixed Interest Rate
• Fixed-Term Tenancy
• Fixtures
• Flip
• Foreclosure
• Forfeit
• Gap Coverage
• Grant
• Guarantor
• High-Ratio Mortgage
• Holdback
• Improvement
• Improvident Sale
• In Escrow
• Institutional Lender
• Insurance Binder
• Interest Adjustment Date
• Interest Differential
• Interest
• Interests
• Interim Occupancy Date
• Joint Tenants
• Judgment Creditor
• Judgment Debtor
• Judicial Sale
• Land Titles Absolute (LT Absolute)
• Large Value Transfer System (LVTS)
• Latent Defect
• Leasehold Estate
• Legal Description
• Legal Non-Conforming Use
• Life Estate
• Matrimonial Home
• Maturity Date
• Metes and Bounds Description
• Minor Variance
• Monthly Tenancy
• Mortgage Commitment
• New Charge
• No-Fault Grounds
• Non-Blended Payment
• Notice of Sale Under Mortgage
• Off-Title Documents
• Offeree
• Offeror
• Official Plan
• Open Charge
• Parcels of Tied Land (POTLs)
• Part Lot Control
• Per Diem
• Perfect
• Periodic Tenancy
• Personal Property
• Personal Undertaking
• Plan of Subdivision
• Plan of Survey
• Possession
• POLARIS
• Power of Attorney (POA)
• Power of Sale
• Pre-Population
• Prepayment Penalty
• Prescription
• Requisition Going to the Root of Title
• Requisition of Conveyance
• Requisition on Matters of Contract
• Requisition on Title
• Reserve Fund
• Restrictive Covenant
• Right of Survivorship
• Right of Way
• Riparian Rights
• Root of Title
• Search Notes
• Search the Title
• Second Charge
• Security of Tenure
• Seller
• Servient Tenement
• Severance
• Sign-Back
• Simultaneous Conveyance
• Specific Performance
• Spousal Consent
• Standard Charge Terms
• Prime Lending Rate
• Principal
• Priority
• Privity of Contract
• Profit à Prendre
• Property Identifier Number (PIN)
• Property Number
• Property
• Proposed Declarant
• Public Utility
• Real Property
• Realizing on the Security
• Recital
• Redeem
• Redemption Period
• Reference Plan (R-Plan)
• Refinancing
• Registry System
• Reporting Letter
• Requisition Date
• Requisition
• Statement of Adjustments
• Statement of Critical Dates
• Status Certificate
• Statutory Declaration
• Subdivision Agreement
• Subdivision Control
• Subletting
• Subsearch
• Subsequent Encumbrance
• Tenancy Agreement
• Tenants in Common
• Tender
• Teraview
• Term
• Termination for Cause
• Title Opinion
• Title Requisition
• Title
• Transfer
• Transmission by Personal Representative
• UFFI
• Unopened Road Allowance
• Zoning By-Laws
• Zoning
• Vacant Possession
• Vacated
• Variable Interest Rate
• Vendor Take Back Charge
• Vest
• Whiteprint
• Will
• Writ of Execution
• Writ of Possession
• Abandonment Of Spouse
• Administration
• Admission on Motion
• Breaking and Entering
• Capacity to Contract
• Case Management Conference