Glossary
Legal terms used across the course, defined in plain words.
- Maintenance — Family Law
- Mala fide — Administrative Law
- Malicious prosecution — Law of Torts
- Mandamus — Constitutional Law
- Marriage — Family Law
- Material breach — Law of Contract
- Merchantable quality — Law of Contract
- Minimum age of criminal responsibility — Media / Juvenile / Misc
- Minimum standard of treatment — Public International Law
- Misrepresentation — Law of Contract
- Mistake — Law of Contract
- Mistake of fact — Law of Contract
- Mistake of law — Law of Contract
- Monism — Public International Law
- Monogamy — Family Law
- Moral rights — Media / Juvenile / Misc
- Municipal law — Public International Law
- Nationality — Public International Law
- National treatment — Trade / Fiscal / Tax
- Natural guardian — Family Law
- Natural justice — Administrative Law
- Natural law — General / Jurisprudence
- Natural person — General / Jurisprudence
- Necessaries — Law of Contract
- Negative right — General / Jurisprudence
- Negligence — Law of Torts
- Nemo dat quod non habet — Law of Contract
- Nemo judex in causa sua — Administrative Law
- Nervous shock — Law of Torts
- New york convention — Trade / Fiscal / Tax
- No consideration no contract — Law of Contract
- No-fault divorce — Family Law
- Non-extradition of nationals — Public International Law
- Non-justiciable — Constitutional Law
- Non-refoulement — Public International Law
- Not actionable per se — Law of Torts
- No tax without law — Trade / Fiscal / Tax
- Novation — Law of Contract
- Novus actus interveniens — Law of Torts
- Nuisance — Law of Torts
- Obiter dictum — General / Jurisprudence
- Obligation — General / Jurisprudence
- Obscenity — Media / Juvenile / Misc
- Occupation — Public International Law
- Offer — Law of Contract
- Ombudsman — Administrative Law
- Opinio juris — Public International Law
- Order — Procedural / Evidence
- Ordinance — Constitutional Law
- Ownership — General / Jurisprudence