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Legal Terminology & Latin Maxims

The Latin maxims and terms of art that run through the common law, with the literal translation and the legal sense given separately. Jurisdiction-neutral wherever the law allows, and explicit about the split when England and Wales, the United States or other systems part company. For law students anywhere, and for anyone who has to read a contract.

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Latin Maxims Every First-Year Encounters
The maxims that appear in the first term and never stop appearing: what each phrase literally says, and the legal work it actually does.
MCQ: 18
Fill-in: 16
Flashcards: 24
Pair match: 22
80 total questions
Civil Procedure Vocabulary
How a civil claim is named, pleaded, proved and disposed of — with the England-and-Wales and United States labels for the same thing set side by side.
MCQ: 16
Fill-in: 14
Flashcards: 22
Pair match: 20
72 total questions
Criminal Law Vocabulary and States of Mind
The mental elements, the inchoate offences and the classic defences — with the English and Model Penal Code vocabularies kept apart rather than blended.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 10
Locked · 40 questions inside
Contract and Property Terms of Art
The formation, failure and remedying of contracts, and the vocabulary of what people own — real and personal property, estates, easements and security.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 10
Locked · 40 questions inside
Court Structure, Appeals and Precedent
How courts are stacked, what an appeal can and cannot do, and the machinery by which one judgment binds — or fails to bind — the next.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 10
Locked · 40 questions inside
Words with a Legal Meaning Different from Ordinary English
The false friends: everyday words that mean something else entirely once a lawyer uses them. Each card gives the ordinary sense first, then the legal one.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 10
Locked · 40 questions inside
Tort Vocabulary and the Negligence Action
The language of civil wrongs: the four elements of negligence, causation and remoteness, the defences, vicarious liability, and the distinction between trespass and nuisance.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 10
Locked · 40 questions inside
Evidence and the Language of the Trial
How evidence is described and controlled: relevance and admissibility, hearsay, privilege, the stages of examination, burdens and presumptions, and expert opinion.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 10
Locked · 40 questions inside
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