Glossary
Legal terms used across the course, defined in plain words.
- Cause of action — Procedural / Evidence
- Caveat emptor — Law of Contract
- Censorship — Media / Juvenile / Misc
- Certiorari — Constitutional Law
- Cession — Public International Law
- Checks and balances — Constitutional Law
- Child in conflict with law — Media / Juvenile / Misc
- Child marriage — Family Law
- Circumstances precluding wrongfulness — Public International Law
- Civil contempt — Constitutional Law
- Civil wrong — Procedural / Evidence
- Code of conduct for journalists — Media / Juvenile / Misc
- Codification — General / Jurisprudence
- Coercion — Law of Contract
- Command theory — General / Jurisprudence
- Common carrier — Law of Contract
- Completed gift — Law of Contract
- Condition — Law of Contract
- Condition precedent — Law of Contract
- Confession — Procedural / Evidence
- Confidentiality of source — Media / Juvenile / Misc
- Consanguinity — Family Law
- Consensus ad idem — Law of Contract
- Consideration — Law of Contract
- Consolidated fund — Trade / Fiscal / Tax
- Constitutional conventions — Constitutional Law
- Constitutional council — Constitutional Law
- Constitutionalism — Constitutional Law
- Constitutional monarchy — Constitutional Law
- Constructive possession — General / Jurisprudence
- Contempt of court — Media / Juvenile / Misc
- Continental shelf — Public International Law
- Contingent contract — Law of Contract
- Contingent right — General / Jurisprudence
- Continuing guarantee — Law of Contract
- Contract of agency — Law of Contract
- Contract of carriage — Law of Contract
- Contract of guarantee — Law of Contract
- Contract of indemnity — Law of Contract
- Contract of sale of goods — Law of Contract
- Contributory negligence — Law of Torts
- Coparcenary — Family Law
- Coparcener — Family Law
- Corporate personality — General / Jurisprudence
- Corporeal — General / Jurisprudence
- Corpus possessionis — General / Jurisprudence
- Corrective justice — General / Jurisprudence
- Correlative duty — General / Jurisprudence
- Counter-offer — Law of Contract
- Court marriage — Family Law