Law Case
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1. Accomenda: A contract made by an individual with the master of a vessel, to whom he entrust personal property to be sold for their joint account.
2. Accomplice: One who is a party to a crime, either as a 'principle or as an accessory'
3. Adjournment: The postponement or suspension of the hearing of a case until a future date.
4. Adduce: To put forward in evidence
5. Adoption agency: A local authority or an approved*adoption society. Usually only adoption agencies may make arrangements for adoption.
6. Admonition: A reprimand from a judge to a defendant who has been discharged from the further prosecution of an offence.
7. Basic intent: Any criminal offence for which recklessness or negligence will suffice to establish the element may be considered an offence of basic intent.
8. Bill of sale: A document by which a person transfers the ownership of goods to another.
9. Birth certificate: A certified copy of an entry of birth in the register of births, deaths and marriages, which comprises evidence of the detail there stated.
10. Breach of trust: Any improper act or omission by a trustee or other person in a fiduciary position contrary to the duties imposed upon him by the terms of the trust.
11. Bribery: The common- law offence of making improper payments to judges magistrates, or other judicial offences.
12. Calling the jury: Announcing the names of those selected to serve on a jury as a result of a ballot of the jury panel.
13. Colony: A territory that forms part of the Crowns dominion outside the UK.
14. Database: An organized collection of information held on a computer.
15. Deed poll: A deed to which there is only one party; for example, one declaring a *change of name
16. Deforcement: The withholding of land or tenements from the rightful owner.
17. Delegation: the grant of authority to a person to act on behalf of one or more others, for agreed purposes.
18. Dilapidation: A state of disrepair. The term is usually used in relation to repairs required at the end of a lease or tenancy.
19. Disbursement: A cost incurred by a solicitor or barrister while acting on behalf of a client.
20. Disbar: To expel a barrister from his Inn of Court.
21. Endowment: The provision of a fixed income for the support of a charity.
22. Engross: To prepare a
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