Lawyer
Lawyer
20 terms
This glossary is made to explain some term in my field of study.
- barrister
- noun
- A lawyer entitled to practice in the higher courts of united kingdom
- Example: I need a barrister to defend me in court.
- fr: avocat plaidant
- clerk
- noun
- A person employed in an office or a bank to keep records and accounts and undertake other routine administrative duties.
- Example: I need a clerk for today
- fr: greffier, greffière
- common good
- noun
- the advantage or benefit of all people in the society or in a group
- Example: we should work for the common good.
- fr: bien commun
- debtor
- noun
- A person or commercial entreprise that owes a financial obligation
- Example: IGA is a debtor
- fr: débiteur
- distention
- noun
- The act of distending or the state of being distended
- Example: This seems to be due to the distention of the stomach
- fr: distension
- docket
- noun
- A celendar of the cases awaiting action in a court
- Example: where is the court docket
- fr: dossier
- due process
- noun
- Fair treatment through the normal judicial system , esp. As citizen's entitlement
- Example: this man need a due process
- fr: procédure équitable
- dwelling
- noun
- A shelter ( as a house) in wich people live.
- Example: he need a dwelling
- fr: logement
- enact
- verb (used with object)
- To represent or perform in or as if in a play ; to act out
- fr: promulguer
- expunge
- expunge
- Erase or remove cpmpletely( something unwanted or unpleasant)
- Example: we need to expunge this mistake
- fr: effacer
- grievance
- noun
- A real or imagined wron or other cause for complaint or protest , such as unfair treatment
- fr: grief
- half-way house
- noun
- A place where persons are aided in readjusting to society following a period of imprisonment, hospitalization, etc.
- Example: he is going to be in a half-way house for now.
- fr: maison de transition
- indict
- verb (used with object)
- To make a formal accusation or indictement against ( a party) by the findings of a jury , especially a grand jury.
- Example: The grand jury indicted him for murder.
- fr: inculper
- interlocutory judgement
- noun
- A judgement that determines a preliminary or side issue in the case , but does not finally decide the case.
- Example: The judge issued an interlocutory judgment
- fr: jugement interlocutoire
- loitering
- noun
- Remaining in an area for no obvious reason
- Example: no loitering on this property
- fr: flânerie
- panel
- noun
- To select or impanel ( a jury)
- Example: we should add more panel.
- fr: panneau
- plea
- noun
- An earnest request; an appeal; spoke out in a plea for greater tolerance.
- Example: he pleads guilty
- fr: plaidoyer
- proxy
- noun,
- The agency, function, r power of a person authorized to act as the deputy or subtitute for another.
- Example: i cant be there , but i have given sarah my proxy
- fr: mandataire
- relinquishment
- noun
- To renounce or surrender
- fr: abandon
- remand
- verb
- To send back, remit or consign again
- Example: I remand this
- fr: renvoi
