Legal terms, Phrases and Maxims for Cseet - Part 2
Legal terms, Phrases and Maxims are usually precise shorter words or sentences which can provide larger meanings. Some of the words mentioned in different places denotes entirely different meanings.
In this series we are trying to provide such legal terms, phrases and maxims and for more you can always be in touch with me.
• Bailee - A person who receives personal property from another as a bailment.
• Bailiff - A court officer who maintains order during court proceedings.
• Bailment - When goods are left by one person with another to hold in accordance with instructions. For example, leaving luggage at railway luggage office.
• Bailment - When good are left by one person with another as a bailment.
• Bailiff - A court officer who maintains order during court proceedings.
• Bailment - When goods are left by one person with another to hold in accordance with instructions. Fr example, leaving luggage at railway luggage office.
• Barratry - Vexacious incitement to litigation, especially by soliciting potential legal client.
• Barrister - in England, a lawyer who is admitted to plead at the Bar and who may argue case in superior courts.
• Battery - Crime of actual or intended use of physical force on a person.
• Bear - one who sells stocks or shares "short,"ie. Without possessing what he sells, but intending to buy in later when the price has fallen and make a profit of the difference.
• Below - In a lower court.
• Bench - Another name for Judge (s) sitting in the Court or the Court considered in its official capacity, Judges collectively.
• Beneficiary - A person who receives something under a Will, or for whose benefit a property is held in trust.
• Bequeath - To dispose of personal property by will.
• Bequest - Act of giving personal property by will.
• Bestiality - It is an act of having intercourse with an animal. It is prohibited and punishable.
• Bias - Inclination; prejudice.
• Bicameral - Having two legislative houses.
• Bottomry - A contract by which a ship-owner pledges the ship as security for a loan to fence a voyage.
• Bound - A limitation or restriction on actin.
• Boycott- An action designed to achieve the social or economic isolation of an adversary.
• Breach - An act of breaking the law, agreement, etc.
• Break- To violate or disobey the law.
• Breaking - Act of entering a building without permission.
• Bribe - A price, reward, gift or favour bestowed or promised with a view to pervert the judgment.
• Brief - An abbreviated statement of the pleading, proofs and affidavits in any legal proceeding, with a concise narrative
of the facts and merits of the plaintiff's case, or the defendant’s defence, for the instruction of counsel at the trial or hearing; or it is statement of a client’s case, presented by a layer before the court of law.
• Broker - A mercantile agent for the purchase and sale of goods, stocks and shares, policies of insurance, etc.
• Buggery - Act consisting of having intercourse per anus. It is prohibited by law, as an unnatural offence.
• Bull - one who buys stocks or shares not intending to take delivery but to resell at a higher price.
• Bullpen - An area in a prison where inmates are kept in close confinement.
• Burglary - Regulation made by the local authority or corporation or company or society for its members for their day to day operation. They are provided in their principle Acts.
• Bona mob ilia - Movable goods.
• Bona vacantia - Goods that do not have an owner.
• Bona fide - In good faith, honestly.
• Be die in diem - Form day to day.
• Be hors Outside - the scope of
• Be novo .-Afresh.
• Bankruptcy: The state of a person who has been adjudged by a court to be insolvent.
• Battery: The international or reckless application of physical force to another person.
• Benami: Nameless.
• Beneficiary: The act of going through a marriage ceremony with someone when one is already lawful married to someone else.
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