Legal Dictionary

Tag: Latin

  • Veto

    The right of forbidding or denying without assigning any reasons therefor.

  • Ratio

    An account , a rule of proportion , also, a cause , or giving judgment therein. Reason. Ground of a decision .

  • Forum

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Forum Meaning of Forum The place in which a remedy at law can be sought. Forum Alternative Definition At Common Law. A place; a place of jurisdiction ; […]

  • Bank

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Bank Meaning of Bank An association or corporation whose business it is to receive money on deposit , cash checks or drafts, discount commercial papers, make loans and issue promissory notes payable to […]

  • Interest

    Interest

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Interest Meaning of Interest In relation to being objectively concerned in something, by having a right or title to, a claim upon, or a share in. legal concern in a thing; especially right or title to […]

  • Broker

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Broker Meaning of Broker One who exercises the calling of negotiating between parties ; the business of buying or selling or any other lawful transactions. A person whose business it is to bring a buyer […]

  • Consortium

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Consortium Meaning of Consortium A term generally used in matrimonial law denoting companionship, love, affection, comfort , mutual services, sexual intercourse – all belonging to the married state – […]

  • Quorum

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Quorum Meaning of Quorum That minimum number of persons required to be present in order for any assembly such as a committee , board of directors, shareholders or other body of persons, to legally […]

  • Divorce

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Divorce Meaning of Divorce The judicial dissolution of a marriage releasing the parties from the bonds of matrimony . Divorce Alternative Definition The […]

  • Mortgage

    Mortgage

    Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit (REMIC) Definition (in the Accounting Vocabulary) The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants offers the following definition of Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit (REMIC) in a way that is easy for anybody to understand: An entity […]

  • Recessus

    (Lat. from recedere, to go back). In old English law. A going from; a going off or out of land. Cum libera accessu et recessu, with free access and recess [ingress and egress]. Bracton, fol. 231b. …

  • Recessus

    (Lat. from recedere, to go back). In old English law. A going from; a going off or out of land. Cum libera accessu et recessu, with free access and recess [ingress and egress]. Bracton, fol. 231b. …

  • Impediens

    (Law Lat.) In old practice. One who hinders; an impedient. The defendant or deforciant in a fine was sometimes so called. Cowell; Blount. …

  • Impediens

    (Law Lat.) In old practice. One who hinders; an impedient. The defendant or deforciant in a fine was sometimes so called. Cowell; Blount. …

  • Locare

    To let for hire; to deliver or bail a thing for a certain reward or compensation. Bracton, fol. 62. …