Glossary
Legal terms used across the course, defined in plain words.
- Absolute liability — Law of Torts
- Acceptance — Law of Contract
- Accession — Public International Law
- Accessory right — General / Jurisprudence
- Access to justice — Procedural / Evidence
- Actionable per se — Law of Torts
- Act of god — Law of Torts
- Administrative law — Administrative Law
- Administrative tribunal — Administrative Law
- Admission — Procedural / Evidence
- Adoption — Family Law
- Adverse possession — General / Jurisprudence
- Affinity — Family Law
- Agency — Law of Contract
- Aggression — Public International Law
- Agreement to sell — Law of Contract
- Airspace — Public International Law
- Alimony — Family Law
- Amendment — Constitutional Law
- Analytical school — General / Jurisprudence
- Animus possidendi — General / Jurisprudence
- Anticipatory breach — Law of Contract
- Anti-dumping — Trade / Fiscal / Tax
- Appeal — Procedural / Evidence
- Appropriation — Trade / Fiscal / Tax
- Arbitration — Trade / Fiscal / Tax
- Arbitration agreement — Trade / Fiscal / Tax
- Arbitration clause — Trade / Fiscal / Tax
- Assault — Law of Torts
- Assessment — Trade / Fiscal / Tax
- Asylum — Public International Law
- Audi alteram partem — Administrative Law
- Bail — Procedural / Evidence
- Bailee — Law of Contract
- Bailment — Law of Contract
- Bailor — Law of Contract
- Balance of probabilities — Procedural / Evidence
- Basic structure — Constitutional Law
- Battery — Law of Torts
- Best interests of the child — Family Law
- Beyond reasonable doubt — Procedural / Evidence
- Bias — Administrative Law
- Bicameral parliament — Constitutional Law
- Bilateral contract — Law of Contract
- Bill of lading — Trade / Fiscal / Tax
- Breach of contract — Law of Contract
- Bundle of rights — General / Jurisprudence
- Burden of proof — Procedural / Evidence
- Capacity to contract — Law of Contract
- Causation — Law of Torts