Legal terms for contract and obligations.pdf

Legal terms for contracts and obligations

1. INTRODUCTION TO LEGAL ASPECTS
IN TOURISM & HOSPITALITY

2. 20 LEGAL
TERMS AND
PHRASES

3. INTRODUCTION
▪The language used in law is dynamic,
evolving and changing. Many lawyers are
now adopting a plain English style in
overseas countries.
▪But there are still legal phrases that baffle
lawyers in making.
▪This video is intended to help in two ways:
▪it should help lawyers in making understand
legal phrases; and
▪it should give lawyers ideas for
explaining the legal phrases that they
use

4. 1. AB INITIO
▪from the start of something. (This phrase
is Latin.)

5. 2. ACT OF GOD
▪an extreme naturally occurring event
(such as an earthquake, avalanche or
flood) that could not have been
anticipated.

6. 3. AD HOC
▪for a particular purpose. For example, a
committee set up to deal with a
particular situation is an ad hoc
committee. (This term is Latin.)

7. 4. ADJOURNED SINE
DIE
▪when a court case has no date fixed for it
to continue.

8. 5. AFFIDAVIT
▪a written statement which is sworn to be
true by the person signing it. It is sworn
before someone authorized by the court

9. 6. ALIBI
▪a claim that a person was elsewhere
when a crime was committed.
▪If someone is accused of a crime their
alibi is:
▪evidence that the person was somewhere
else when the crime was committed; or
▪an attempt to prove that the person was
somewhere else when the crime was
committed.

10. 7. BONA FIDE
▪genuine, sincere or in good faith. (This
term is Latin.)

11. 8. CORPUS DELICTI
▪is:
• the body of a person who has been
killed unlawfully; or
• the facts which make up an offence.(This
phrase is Latin.)

12. 9. DECREE NISI
▪a provisional court order which orders
that a marriage should be dissolved.

13. 10. DE FACTO ▪in fact or in reality. (This term is Latin.)

14. 11. DE JURE ▪Rightfully/legally (This term is Latin.)

15. 12. ESTOPPEL
▪a rule of law that a person cannot deny
something they previously said, if
someone else acted on what was said
and their position was changed, possibly
for the worse, as a result.

16. 13. EX GRATIA
▪describing something done or given as
a favourrather than a legal obligation.
(This term is Latin.)

17. 14. EX PARTE
▪done by one side only in a case. (This
term is Latin. Since April 1999, it is often
replaced with 'without notice'.)

18. 15. EX POST FACTO
▪describing a law which is retrospective
(it affects past acts as well as future
ones). (This term is Latin.)

19. 16. FORCE
MAJEURE
▪an event which cannot be controlled and
which stops duties under an agreement
from being carried out. (This phrase is
French.)

20. 17. HABEAS
CORPUS
▪a writ which can be applied for to order
a person's release if they have been
imprisoned unlawfully.

21. 18. INJUNCTION
▪an injunction is an order by a court
requiring:
▪someone to do something; or
▪not to do something.

22. 20. LIBEL
▪a false statement made in writing or in
some other permanent record (such as a
film).
▪While slander is in oral nature

23. CONCLUSION
▪Legal Terms have definitive and precise
meanings. So must be paid all attention to
learn their usage apart from their
meanings.