Legal terms and foreign words: parties, documents, people
LUG-105 English and Legal Language, Unit IV: Legal terms and foreign words. · LLB · 60 min
The technical vocabulary of a case: who the parties are (plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, respondent, appellant, applicant, deponent, complainant, accused, prosecutrix), the documents that move a case (plaint, written statement, affidavit, vakalatnama, decree, order, judgment, injunction, summons, warrant, notice, FIR, charge sheet, bail, writ, appeal, revision, review), the people (advocate, counsel, solicitor, attorney, judge, magistrate, registrar) and the words the papers have defined. Each term gets a definition, its statutory home and a sentence, and the lecture explains what makes a word a legal term.
Objectives
- Explain what a legal term (term of art) is and how it differs from an ordinary legal word, with examples.
- Define the parties to civil, writ and criminal proceedings and match each to the document he files.
- Define the principal documents of civil and criminal procedure with their sections.
- Distinguish advocate, counsel, solicitor and attorney; judge and magistrate; appeal, revision and review.
- Answer the papers' "define the legal word" and matching questions in a sentence each.
Slides
- Legal word, legal term, term of art
- The parties in a civil case: who files what
- The parties in a criminal case
- Civil documents: plaint, written statement, affidavit, vakalatnama, decree, order, judgment, injunction
- Process and criminal documents: summons, warrant, legal notice, FIR, charge sheet, bail
- Remedies up the ladder: writ, appeal, revision, review
- The people: advocate, counsel, solicitor, attorney, judge, magistrate, registrar
- Words the papers have defined: suo motu, appeal, ex gratia, waiver, intestate, defamation
- Foreign words in court: French, Latin, Persian-Urdu, and the one-word substitutions
- How the examiner asks it
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