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LATIN EXPRESSIONS USED IN LAW

Meaning of LEGAL TERMS

Cancel	:	To revoke, or discontinue or call of
Capital punishment	:	Death penalty
Capricious	:	freak, whim
Cardinal point	:	Principal point
Case law	:	Law laid down by Judges in cases
Cause	:	Reason
Cause of action	:	Basis for filing a case
Caveat emptor	:	The buyer’s responsibility
Cease	:	Stop, discontinue
Ceded	:	Yielded, gave up territory
Censure	:	Blame, reproof
Cess	:	A tax
Challenge	:	Call to fight, dispute, object to
Chancery	:	Equity Court
Charge	:	Bring an accusation against
Charge	:	To accuse or blame
Charge sheet	:	Record of accusations to be proved by prosecution
Charitable	:	Something relating to do good to others
Chattels	:	Goods, movable property
Cheat	:	Defraud, deprive of by deceit
Chief justice	:	Head of Judiciary
Child labour	:	Working children
Child marriage	:	Marriage between children
Circumstantial evidence	:	Details which strongly suggest, but do not prove directly
Cite	:	Give or mention
Citizenship	:	Membership of a State
Civic rights	:	Rights pertaining to citizen
Civil code	:	Code concerning rights of civilians
Civil law	:	Law concerning civil rights
Civil liberty	:	Freedom and rights of citizen
Civil procedure	:	Procedure for adjudication of civil disputes
Claim	:	Demand as a right
Class	:	Rank of society ; quality, division
Clause	:	Part of a Section or article
Client	:	Customer, one who employs a professional man
Co-accused	:	A person charged with, along with another accused
Code	:	An enactment
Co-defendant	:	A person against whom a legal action is brought along with others
Codicil	:	Addition to a will
Codification	:	Making an enactment
Coercion	:	Forcing
Cognizable offence	:	An offence that can be dealt legally without an formal complaint
Cognizance	:	Taking note of
Cohabitation	:	Living together
Co-heir	:	A person inheriting along with other
Collateral guarantee	:	A guarantor who undertakes to pay if principal fails
Collateral heir	:	Heirs who are collaterals, as distinguished from those in the direct line
Come into operation	:	Beginning of application of
Commercial law	:	Law concerning commercial, trade transaction
Commit offence	:	Doing an offence
Commodity	:	Goods of any kind
Common intention	:	Pre-arranged plan to commit a crime
Common law	:	The law of England based on custom and precedent
Common right	:	A right of more persons
Commutation of sentence	:	Alteration/reduction of sentence
Compensation	:	Payment to a party, who is entitled to claim on account of loss out of breach of contract
Complaint	:	An allegation of wrong
Compliance with the laws	:	Acting in accordance with law
Compoundable offence	:	An offence which can be condoned by money
Comprehension	:	Understand, comprise
Compromise	:	To adjust by mutual concession
Compulsion	:	Obligatory
Conceal	:	To hide
Concensus	:	Agreement of opinion
Conciliation	:	Bringing opposite parties into harmony
Conclude	:	Bring about, peace or bargain
Conclusive evidence	:	Absolute evidence of a fact
Conclusive proof	:	Clear and positive proof
Concocted evidence	:	Fabricated evidence
Concurrence	:	Agreeing
Condone	:	To pardon, to forgive
Conducive	:	Helpful, contributive
Confess	:	To own, or admit as a fault
Confinement	:	Imprisonment
Conflict	:	Combat, contest
Conjugal right	:	Right of married persons
Consent	:	Concurrence, agreement
Consideration	:	Material cause of contract, reasonable equivalent benefit
Conspiracy	:	Agreement between persons to do wrong
Constituent Assembly	:	A forum which prepared constitution
Constitution	:	From in which a State is organized
Constrain	:	To force, to compel
Constructive	:	Derivative, inferential
Construe	:	To give the sense of, to interpret
Consumer	:	Anyone who consumes, purchaser of goods or recipient of services
Contempt	:	A willful disregard
Contempt of court	:	Disrespect of Court
Contravene	:	Otherwise than in accordance with
Contrive	:	To plan, to scheme, to invent
Copy right	:	Exclusive right to printing and publishing or literary performance, music, engraving etc.
Corporal punishment	:	Punishment upon body, including imprisonment
Corporation	:	An institution, artificial person
Corrective punishment	:	Reformatory punishment
Corresponding law	:	A law having the same purpose and objects
Counter	:	Contrary to
Counter-affidavit	:	An affidavit contradicting another
Counter-fiet coin	:	Coin – not genuine
Court Martial	:	Court to try offences committed by persons subject to Military law
Court of Record	:	A Court where judicial proceedings are recorded, which has power to punish for contempt of its authority, e.g. ; Supreme Court and High Courts
Court-fee	:	A fee received on plaints/petitions
Criminal Misappropriation	:	Dishonest misappropriation of property
Cross examination	:	Examination of a witness by opposite party
Culpable homicide	:	Murder
Culprit	:	An accused
Custody	:	Imprisonment, judicial custody, physical holding
Custom	:	Unwritten law established by language
Customs	:	Duties charged on goods imported and exported




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