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My Glossary

  1. Decree – An official order that has the force of law.
  2. Suit – a civil proceedings initiated in a court of law for redressal of legal injury or enforcement of a civil right,
  3. Application – a request to the court to do something, such as make an order. Applications can be used to keep litigation moving towards a trial, or to request leave to appeal, judicial review, or to quash something. Here are some types of applications: Interim applications: These can be made at any time after a claim is started, but before a trial. Examples include requests for extensions of time, security for costs, injunctions, and amending a statement of case. Original applications: These can be first filings or continuing applications.
  4. Petition – a formal letter to a law court asking for a particular legal action:
  5. Appeal – a proceeding in which a case is brought before a higher court for review of a lower court’s judgment for the purpose of convincing the higher court that the lower court’s judgment was incorrect.
  6. Append – add something to the end of a written document
  7. Condonation – (Condone) to forgive, overlook, or pardon another person’s wrong or illegal action, which makes it appear as if the action is acceptable to the person/entity condoning it.
  8. AIR in case law names is All India Reporter. It’s a law journal and legal reporting service in India that publishes reports on judgments from the Supreme Court and High Courts. AIR is one of India’s most popular law reporters and is used by legal professionals, scholars, and students for legal research and analysis. It is published by LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa
  9. Pre-emption  – The purchase of shares or good by one person or party before the opportunity is offered to others.
  10. Reckoned – to calculate something approximately
  11. Leave to sue” is a legal term that means a person can seek permission from the court to sue as an indigent person, or without sufficient means to pay the court fee:

    Indigent person: A person who is extremely poor, lacks basic resources, or is impoverished.
  12. An appeal as a pauper, also known as in forma pauperis, is a legal term that allows a person who can’t afford the costs of a lawsuit to proceed in court without paying the usual fees. The term comes from Latin and means “in the manner of a pauper”.