Glossary
Legal terms from the TU LL.B. entrance syllabus, each defined in plain words for quick revision.
- Pacta sunt servanda — Public International Law
- Parens patriae — Media / Juvenile / Misc
- Parliamentary privileges — Constitutional Law
- Parliamentary system — Constitutional Law
- Partition — Family Law
- Party autonomy — Trade / Fiscal / Tax
- Past consideration — Law of Contract
- Pawn — Law of Contract
- Pecuniary jurisdiction — Procedural / Evidence
- Penalty — Law of Contract
- Perfect right — General / Jurisprudence
- Plaint — Procedural / Evidence
- Pleadings — Procedural / Evidence
- Pledge — Law of Contract
- Pledgee — Law of Contract
- Pledger — Law of Contract
- Polygamy — Family Law
- Positive right — General / Jurisprudence
- Positivism — General / Jurisprudence
- Possession — General / Jurisprudence
- Preamble — Constitutional Law
- Precedent — General / Jurisprudence
- Presidential system — Constitutional Law
- Press freedom — Media / Juvenile / Misc
- Presumption of innocence — Procedural / Evidence
- Primary right — General / Jurisprudence
- Principal right — General / Jurisprudence
- Privacy — Media / Juvenile / Misc
- Private carrier — Law of Contract
- Private nuisance — Law of Torts
- Privity — Law of Contract
- Privity of contract — Law of Contract
- Probation — Media / Juvenile / Misc
- Proclamation — Constitutional Law
- Progressive tax — Trade / Fiscal / Tax
- Prohibited degrees — Family Law
- Prohibition — Constitutional Law
- Proportionality — Administrative Law
- Proposal — Law of Contract
- Public finance — Trade / Fiscal / Tax
- Public interest litigation — Administrative Law
- Public international law — Public International Law
- Public nuisance — Law of Torts
- Public revenue — Trade / Fiscal / Tax
- Public wrong — Procedural / Evidence
- Pure theory of law — General / Jurisprudence
- Quantum meruit — Law of Contract
- Quasi-contract — Law of Contract
- Quasi-judicial — Administrative Law
- Quasi-judicial powers — Administrative Law