Abandonment

:

Complete surrender, renunciation

Abatement

:

Termination

Abdication

:

To renounce, discard

Abduction

:

Illegally taking away a child, ward, voter, or woman

Abetment

:

To support or instigate

Abrogate

:

Cancel

Abscond

:

Withdraw, decamp

Absolute

:

Complete

Abuse

:

Misuse

Access

:

Means of approach

Accident

:

Happening by chance

Accomplice

:

Companion in evil deeds

Accusation

:

Blame

Accusatorial procedure or adversary procedure

:

Process of prosecution and defence

Accused

:

One who charged with wrong doing

Acquit

:

Discharge

Acquittal

:

Act of declaring innocent in a Court

Act

:

Enactment

Act of God

:

Natural calamity

Action

:

Law suit

Actus reus

:

Wrongful act

Ad hoc

:

Temporary

Ad idem

:

Towards the same

Ad Iitem

:

During the litigation

Adduce

:

Bring forward, cite

Adjective law

:

Procedural Law

Adjournment

:

Putt off, Postpone

Adjudge

:

Decide, award

Administrative of justice

:

System of delivering justice through Courts

Administrative Law

:

Rules of administration

Admiralty court

:

Court of Law, where disputes concerning Navy are tried

Admissibility

:

Things that can be allowed by court

Adoption

:

To take as one’s own child

Adult

:

Grown up, mature

Adult franchise suffrage

:

Right to vote

Adulterer

:

Male partner in adultery

Adultery

:

Sexual intercourse of two person either of whom is married to a third

Adultress

:

Female partner in adultery

Advisory jurisdiction

:

Power of court to render advise

Advocate

:

Lawyer

Affidavit

:

Sworn Statement

Affray

:

Fight between two person in a public street

Agent

:

Authorized representative

Aggression

:

An attack

Aggrieved

:

Injured

Agreement

:

Concord , conformity, contract

Alias

:

Otherwise called

Alibi

:

Elsewhere

Alien

:

Foreign, belonging to something else

Alimony

:

Provision for maintenance

Allegation

:

Charge

Amendment

:

Correction, improvement, alteration

Amnesty

:

A general pardon

Ancestral property

:

Property inherited from forefathers

Anticipatory bail

:

Bail in anticipation of arrest

Appeal

:

Request to review the lower court’s judgment

Appellate jurisdiction

:

Power of court to hear appeals

Approbate and reprobate

:

Changing the words, at one to accept and reject the same

Arbitration

:

A method of setting a dispute by referring to an independent body

Ascend

:

To go up, mount, rise

Assault

:

A sudden attack creating an apprehension of injury

Assent

:

To express agreement

Assignee

:

A person to whom any right or property assigned

Attachment

:

Seizure of goods be legal process

Attack

:

To act against with violence

Attempt

:

To try, to endeavour

Attest

:

To testify or bear witness to

Attribute

:

To ascribe to assign, inseparable form

Auctioneer

:

A person licenced to sell in auction

Audience

:

The act of hearing

Authorization

:

To give authority to

Autonomous

:

Self governing or independent

Autonomy

:

Power of self government

Autopsy

:

Post mortem examination

Averment

:

Positive assertion

Award

:

To adjudge, final decision