buzzie

Dredging wasn't mining. A man had to know something about lode mining, and could Andy name a man working on the boat who knew a muckstick from a buzzie?

1950, Helen Rich, The Willow-bender: A Novel, page 236:

Both buzzies were broke down. Burke left me alone to do my work. I disconnected teh compressed-air lines, opened my tool box and got at it.

1980, Donald McCaig, The Butte Polka: A Novel, page 114:

Technology such as steam-powered hoists and "buzzies," hand-held, two-man air drills, speeded up production but did nothing to improve working conditions. The buzzies, in fact, produced so much fine dust that they led to a higher rate of silicosis, a debilitating respiratory disease, and were soon dubbed "widowmakers."

2006, Clemens P. Work, Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West, →ISBN:

(mining, slang) A hand-held pneumatic drill used in mining.


put in the ground

en-verb

put in the ground (third-person singular simple present puts in the ground, present participle putting in the ground, simple past and past participle put in the ground)

puts in the ground (present singular third-person)
putting in the ground (participle present)
put in the ground (participle past)
put in the ground (past)


tax cut

(taxation) A reduction in the rate of tax charged by a government.


rebail

rebail (third-person singular simple present rebails, present participle rebailing, simple past and past participle rebailed)

rebails (present singular third-person)
rebailing (participle present)
rebailed (participle past)
rebailed (past)


habit and repute

marriage by habit and repute

(Scots law) The condition of being notorious enough to afford strong and generally conclusive evidence of something.


GDPR

General Data Protection Regulation
w:General Data Protection Regulation

European Economic Area
European Economic Area

(European Union law) Initialism of General Data Protection Regulation: a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA).

General Data Protection Regulation

2018 EU regulation concerning personal data

Obecné nařízení o ochraně osobních údajů


UPL

(law) Initialism of unauthorized practice of law.


Eisenstadt

en-proper-noun

Eisenstadt (countable and uncountable, plural Eisenstadts)

(US, law, sexuality, US politics, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of Eisenstadt v. Baird. A 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case that expanded legalized contraception, expanding access to contraceptives to unmarried couples, and effectively legalized premarital sex, under the Equal Protection Clause following the Griswold ruling; and reaffirmed the existence of a right to privacy under due process following the 14th Amendment.


Judas-hole

A moment, and an iron-grated Judas-hole in the door slid open, and a servant, an elderly man, sleek and respectable, looked out at him.

1922 [1901], Stanley J. Weyman, Count Hannibal: A Romance of the Court of France:

A small hole in a door through which a person can spy without being seen from the other side, used especially in prisons.


entailer

Now, I hold that the devolvee is an heir of entail, and that he is not a direct conveyee of the entailer.

1847, Scotland. Court of Session, Second Series. Cases Decided in the Court of Session..., page 1183:


heir by custom

(law) One whose right to inherit as heir is determined by customary modes of descent, such as gavelkind.


testing clause

(Scots law) The last clause in a Scottish deed, which narrates when and where the parties signed the deed, before what witnesses, by whose hand written, etc.


indictably

Counsel for the accused opposed the application submitting that such an application could be made only where a defendant had either been proceeded against summarily and elected trial by jury, or where proceedings had been laid indictably and a defendant had been committed for trial.

2003, The Abridgement of New Zealand Case Law, number 5, page 358:


forced heir

(law) A person who, under the laws of a particular jurisdiction, can not be disinherited, even by a will.


forced heirship

en-noun

forced heirship (plural forced heirships)

(law) The circumstance of a forced heir existing.


SPA

SPA (countable and uncountable, plural SPAs)

special power of attorney
w:special power of attorney

(law) Initialism of special power of attorney.


VOP

VOP (countable and uncountable, plural VOPs)

(law) Initialism of violation of probation.


decorporate

en-verb

decorporate (third-person singular simple present decorporates, present participle decorporating, simple past and past participle decorporated)

decorporates (present singular third-person)
decorporating (participle present)
decorporated (participle past)
decorporated (past)

The company was decorporated in 2000.

(law) To legally revoke the registration or charter of a corporate entity.


strict construction

en-noun

strict construction (plural strict constructions)

(US, law) A narrow interpretation of a law, especially a law that contains ambiguity


OPCW

w:Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

(law, military) Initialism of Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.


paper book

(law, England), A document prepared in English legal practice containing a record or summary of the pleadings.


school resource officer

school resource officer (plural school resource officers)

(US, law enforcement) A police officer stationed at a school, such as a high school.


bunkerer

The JTF security report signed by Briagier General Lawrence Ngubare, former commander of the task force further stated that BoyLoaf was bent on becoming an illegal oil bunkerer and is known to have a violent disposition.

2008, Newswatch: Nigeria's Weekly Magazine, page 15:

Bunkering is comprised of a complex network of engineers, welders, intelligence and armed security operatives, boat and ship captains, pumpers, handlers, and traders. One bunkerer describes the process as “pipeline vandalization to steal refined or crude oil products and transportation of these products in various vessels such as barges and tankers to sell locally and internationally”.

2015, Hannah Appel, Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas, page 79:


contrectation

contrectation (countable and uncountable, plural contrectations)

Learned borrowing from Latin contrectātio, from contrectō (“to touch”).

lbor

Most animals have no desire for contrectation. In man the impulse of contrectation is the more important. If the individual practises total abstinence, i. e., if he abstains even from the gratification of the impulse of contrectation, then ...

1915, Bernard Simon Talmey, Love, a Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction, page 107:

Not to spoil his pleasure she allowed him the most intimate contrectations, stopping short only at cunnilingus. At the same time she herself did not experience the least trace of erotic libido.

1916, American journal of urology and sexology, volume 12, page 165:

(medicine, law) The initial stage of the sexual act involving manual contact and tumescence; sexual foreplay.


break and enter

en-noun

break and enter (plural break and enters)

For example, an offender convicted of two crimes, such as break and enter and possession of burglary instruments, is sentenced to a one-year term of imprisonment. It is not clear, however, what portion of the sentence was imposed for the break and enter and what portion for the possession of burglary instruments. This makes it impossible to determine the average sentence for a specific offence such as break and enter.

1999, Julian V. Roberts, David P. Cole, Making Sense of Sentencing, →ISBN, page 139:

In the anti-social peer group, if one member suggests a break and enter, or car theft, as a way to pass an evening, the others are likely to agree without thinking of alternatives or possible consequences.

2006, Katherine Covell, R. Brian Howe, The Challenge of Children’s Rights for Canada, →ISBN, page 98:

The resulting data-set includes 11,991 violent crimes, 23,262 break and enters, and 36,720 automotive thefts.

2017, Jeffery T. Walker, Social, Ecological and Environmental Theories of Crime, →ISBN:

breaking and entering
breaking and entering


Federal

(chiefly US, law) Alternative form of federal


petit treason

(law, archaic) The crime of a subordinate killing a superior (other than the sovereign, which would constitute high treason): a servant killing his master, a wife killing her husband, etc.; and, earlier, certain lesser crimes of subordinates against superiors.


disapplication

disapplication (countable and uncountable, plural disapplications)

(law) exemption from a legal requirement


super recogniser

super recogniser (plural super recognisers)

(law enforcement) A person whose face recognition ability is significantly better than average.


black jail

A facility in which individuals are detained by the state without access to legal process or representation.


right of drip

(law) The legal right to allow the drips from one's roof to fall on another person's land.


dittay

From Old French ditté, from Latin dictatum.


canonical obedience

(Christianity) The obedience, as regulated by the canons, of one ecclesiastic to another of higher rank.


ICTY

(law) Initialism of International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (abbreviation of the shorter name of the ʺInternational Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991ʺ)


delictuous

en-adj

delictuous (comparative more delictuous, superlative most delictuous)

more delictuous (comparative)
most delictuous (superlative)

From Latin dēlictum (“crime”), from neuter of delictus, past participle of delinquo (“to be lacking; to fail; to transgress”).


RMU

Three principal types of emission credits may also be traded under this regime: (a) the “emission reduction unit” (ERU); (b) the “certified emission reduction” (CER); and (c) the “removal unit” (RMU). Each ERU, CER, and RMU is an entitlement to emit the equivalent of one metric ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. […] Finally, RMUs are generated by certain land use and forestry activities that increase sink capacity.

2014, John G Sprankling, “Rights in Airspace and Outer Space”, in The International Law of Property, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 174:


ERU

Three principal types of emission credits may also be traded under this regime: (a) the “emission reduction unit” (ERU); (b) the “certified emission reduction” (CER); and (c) the “removal unit” (RMU). Each ERU, CER, and RMU is an entitlement to emit the equivalent of one metric ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. […] ERUs stem from “joint implementation” measures undertaken pursuant to Article 6 of the Kyoto Protocol.¹²

emission reduction unit
emission reduction unit#English

(law) Initialism of emission reduction unit.


queen for a day

In reference to the US radio and television show Queen for a Day, in which female contestants described their recent hardships.

(US, law, attributive) Describing a proffer letter agreement.


proffer letter

(US, law) A written agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant or prospective witness, allowing the latter to give the prosecutor information about an alleged crime, while limiting the prosecutor's ability to use that information against them.


mistry

en-verb

mistry (third-person singular simple present mistries, present participle mistrying, simple past and past participle mistried)

mistries (present singular third-person)
mistrying (participle present)
mistried (participle past)
mistried (past)

From mis- + try, as a back-formation from mistrial.

Having considered the aforementioned general principles and measured the improprieties of the Crown’s opening against those of the other cases noted above, I decided not to mistry this case, but, rather, to issue a corrective instruction.

2012 October 19, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, R. v. Khairi, retrieved 2018-04-28:

(transitive, law) To declare a mistrial in (a court case).


GFAP

On 21 November 1995, the Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian Presidents initialled a peace agreement in Dayton, Ohio often referred to as the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA) or Dayton Accords, although known officially as the ‘General Framework Agreement for Peace’ (GFAP). […] The GFAP also called for the deployment of an international armed force, under NATO leadership, of sixty thousand troops to supervise the cessation of hostilities and to provide framework security to enable civilian peace implementation.

2005, Ian Oliver, “The Road to Dayton Ohio”, in War & Peace in the Balkans: The Diplomacy of Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia, I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 91:

w:General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina

(law) Initialism of General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina: a peace agreement that put an end to the Bosnian War, reached in November 1995.


repeat offend

repeat offend (third-person singular simple present repeat offends, present participle repeat offending, simple past and past participle repeat offended)

repeat offends (present singular third-person)
repeat offending (participle present)
repeat offended (participle past)
repeat offended (past)

law enforcement is not a significant way to deter their offending, though it is a significant way to identify who is offending after they have repeat-offended.

2006, Irvin Waller, Less Law, More Order: The Truth about Reducing Crime, →ISBN, page 23:

This trip into the Jail system was not one that was going to be filled with fun and games. He was headed into hard time with no visible release date. Here this was a repeat offender headed to face criminal prosecution. He repeat offended before the last criminal offense was settled in the courts. This time the boy was without certain mental faculties.

2006, Gary Drewes, The Silent Vow: Volume III, →ISBN:

He had no idea why he repeat offended with Cindy. Yes, he fancied her but no more or less than he fancied a hundred women that he saw walking down the street in one day.

2010, Adele Parks, Men I've loved before, →ISBN:

(law) To offend again, especially after being punished for a first offence; to reoffend, to recidivate.


vakalatnama

(India, law) A document filed by a party in order to appoint a lawyer to plead on their behalf.


crack-hemp

Come hither, crackhempe.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 226, column 2:

Even in the Castle of Avenel thou wert a wild blood enough, but hadst thou been nurtured here, within a flight shot of the court, thou hadst been the veriest crack-hemp of a page that ever wore a feather in thy bonnet or steel by thy side: truly, I wish it may end week with thee.

1820, Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot (Waverley Novels), page 246:

(obsolete) A person who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.


crack-rope

Jack. Master, I handled you not, but who did handle you very handsomely, you can tell.
Carisophus. Handsomely, thou crack-rope?

1564, Richard Edwardes, Damon and Pythias; republished in King, Ros, editor, The Works of Richard Edwards, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001, page 153:

Then let him be led through every ſtreete in yᵉ towne, / That every crackrope, may throw rottē egs at yᵉ clown.

1584, Anthony Munday, edited by Percy Simpson, Fidele and Fortunio, the Two Italian Gentlemen, The Malone Society, published 1909, page [55]:

Hark ye, ye crack-rope padder, born beggar, and bred thief!

1818, Sir Walter Scott, The Heart of Midlothian (Waverley Novels; 7), London: Adam and Charles Black, published 1898, page 307:

(obsolete) A person who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged; a gallows bird.


Columbine

census-designated place
census-designated place

Jefferson County
Jefferson County#English

A census-designated place in Arapahoe County and Jefferson County, Colorado, United States, infamous for the school shooting that happened there in 1999.


rigwoodie

en-adj

rigwoodie (comparative more rigwoodie, superlative most rigwoodie)

more rigwoodie (comparative)
most rigwoodie (superlative)

But wither'd beldams, auld and droll, Rigwoodie hags wad spean a foal, Lowping an flinging on a crummock, I wonder didna turn thy stomach

As for the ither auld rigwoodie f'adge, her heart is as boss as a bourtrce bush.

1827, Christian Isobel Johnstone, Elizabeth de Bruce, by the author of Clan-Albin, page 94:

What fee will ye gie me, ye rigwoodie carlin ?

1875, Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland:

I seem to be less vauntie of mineself To fork out they partnership of yourself and mineself Thy partnership which was so rigwoodie Thy partnership which soon leaked out To cause a sudden blow to our bond.

2011, Sebothoma William, Disclosed Verses, →ISBN, page 37:

(obsolete, Scotland) Fit for the gallows.


coin of the realm

/ˈkɔɪn əv ðə ˈɹɛlm/

The term originally referred to actual coins issued by authority of the British monarch for use within the kingdom or realm: see, for example, the 18th-century quotations.

[I]t was thought expedient by ſtatute 1 Mar. ſt. 2. c. 6. to revive ſpecies thereof; viz. 1. That if any perſon falſely forge or counterfeit any ſuch kind of coin of gold or ſilver, as is not the proper coin of this realm, [...] ſuch offences ſhall be deemed high treaſon.

[1769, William Blackstone, “Of High Treason”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book IV (Of Public Wrongs), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 89:

The late Proclamation for regulating the Gold Coin refers to the Reſolution or Order of the Lords of the Treaſury, dated July 24, 1773; [...] [T]he third Claſs in the above Table is ultimately to be the only ſtandard Gold Coin of the Realm.

[1774 July, “Remarks on the Late Proclamation Concerning the Gold Coin”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume XLIV, London: Printed […], for D[avid] Henry, and sold by F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 309:

In the year 1819, Sir Robert Peel brought in a bill, and which finally passed both houses, and received the royal assent on the 2nd July, for continuing the restrictions contained in several acts of parliament, on payments in cash by the bank of England, until the 1st day of May, 1823, and to provide for the gradual resumption of cash payments: [...] VIII. After the first day of May, 1822, the bank of England, if they shall think fit, may pay or exchange the lawful coin of the realm, for any of their own notes, payable on demand.

1835, Thomas Stephen, “The Rise, Progress, and Gradual Improvement of the Laws of England”, in The Book of the Constitution of Great Britain: […], Glasgow, Edinburgh: Blackie & Son, […]; Dublin: W. Curry, Jun., & Co.; London: Simpkin & Marshall, →OCLC, pages 275–276:

Upon an indictment under the statute, it must be proved that the coin was counterfeit, in the same manner as in cases of counterfeiting the coin of the realm, [...]

1840, Henry Roscoe, T[homas] C[olpitts] Granger, “Coining”, in A Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal Cases, 2nd edition, London: Saunders and Benning, […], (successors to J[oseph] Butterworth and Son,) […], →OCLC, page 357:

An American traveler, let us say, lands at Calais with a pocket full of American money; his purse may fairly bulge. But he cannot buy so much as a newspaper or a breakfast roll with it. As far as his ability to purchase the very necessities of life is concerned, he might as well be penniless. His American money is worthless to him on that other shore until he has exchanged it for the coin of the realm.

1930 September, Jay T. Stocking, “Immortal Money”, in Samuel McCrea Cavert, editor, Federal Council Bulletin: A Journal of Religious Cooperation and Interchurch Activities, volume XIII, number 7, New York, N.Y.: Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 1:

Early in the second millennium, the spread of the money economy eroded and eventually destroyed feudalism. The moment that a peasant could sell his labor to the highest bidder, the ties that bound servant and master dissolved. [...] Not only were individuals able to buy their freedom with coin of the realm; at times, entire villages did so, as when the northern French city of Coucy-le-Château bought its charter of liberties from the penniless widow of the lord for 140 livres in 1197.

2004, William J. Bernstein, “A Hypothesis of Wealth”, in The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 29:

(law, dated) The legal money of a country.


tenant-right

(law) The right to compensation which a tenant has, either by custom or by law, against the landlord for improvements at the termination of the tenancy.


work the oracle

en-verb

work the oracle (third-person singular simple present works the oracle, present participle working the oracle, simple past and past participle worked the oracle)

works the oracle (present singular third-person)
working the oracle (participle present)
worked the oracle (participle past)
worked the oracle (past)

Holdaway reports that procedural rules are often considered irrelevant by the British police as they go about their daily duties. The occupational culture of the British police condones the use of “verbals” or “working the oracle.”

2006, Thomas Barker, Police Ethics: Crisis in Law Enforcement, page 90:

(UK, law enforcement slang) To fabricate a suspect's verbal statement.


nulla bona

(law) No goods; used to indicate that a search has found no seizable property.


fiduciary duty

en-noun

fiduciary duty (plural fiduciary duties)

The company’s charter bluntly states that OpenAI’s “primary fiduciary duty is to humanity,” not to investors or even employees.

2023 November 20, Karen Hao, Charlie Warzel, “Inside the Chaos at OpenAI”, in The Atlantic:

(law) The legal obligation of loyalty under which a fiduciary may have no conflict of duty between themselves and their principal, and must not profit from their position as a fiduciary.


breach of trust

breach of trust (plural breaches of trust)

It is the first time a train operator has been renationalised over a breach of trust.

2021 October 20, “Network News: Leadership changes at Govia Thameslink Railway and Southeastern”, in RAIL, number 942, page 8:

(law) An act, omission or concealment, by which a person who has a fiduciary duty to act in the interest of another instead uses their position for their own benefit.


statutorize

en-verb

statutorize (third-person singular simple present statutorizes, present participle statutorizing, simple past and past participle statutorized)

statutorizes (present singular third-person)
statutorizing (participle present)
statutorized (participle past)
statutorized (past)

(law, transitive, rare) To make statutory.


resiliation

From French résiliation, or resiliate + -ion.

(Canada law) The act of cancelling, annulling or drawing back from (a contract).


parawise

(India, law) Of a reply: prepared in paragraphs.


malafide

Soutik Banerjee, an advocate assisting Mr. Shah’s legal team, describes the ruling as a positive development, writing in a statement that it “exemplifies that there has been arbitrary and malafide use of extraordinary laws against Fahad. … Only time will tell if UAPA charges will also apply.”

2023, Srishti Jaswal, Monitor reporter’s trial opens: Why India treats journalists as terrorists, in: The Christian Science Monitor, April 19 2023


malafide

(India, law) Something done in bad faith.


statutorization

(law) The process of making something statutory.


forensic accounting

Specialist accounting for the purpose of engaging in a legal dispute over insurance, fraud, etc.


fair dealing

Coordinate term: fair use (counterpart in US, broader but akin)

Fair dealing with a work for the purpose of criticism or review, of that or another work or of a performance of a work, does not infringe any copyright in the work provided that it is accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement.

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Section 30(1)

intellectual property
intellectual property

(law) a rule of intellectual property law, such as in the United Kingdom and various Commonwealth countries, that permits one party to make use of another party's copyright-protected work under narrowly defined circumstances.


shark-gull

From shark (“to swindle; to trick”) + gull (“dupe; mark; sucker”).

compound

Complainest thou of bad doings, when there are harlots of all trades, and knaves of all languages? Knowest thou not that sin may be committed either in French, Dutch, Italian, or Spanish, and all after the English fashion? But thou excusest the negligence of thy practice by the last summer's pestilence: alas, poor shark-gull, that put-off is idle! for sergeant Carbuncle, one of the plague's chief officers, dares not venture within three yards of an harlot, because monsieur Drybone, the Frenchman, is a leiger before him.

1604, Thomas Middleton, The Black Book; republished in The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 5, London: Edward Lumley, 1840, page 524:

confidence trickster
confidence trickster

(obsolete) A confidence trickster; a person who preys on simpletons.


sue one's livery

en-verb

sue one's livery (third-person singular simple present sues one's livery, present participle suing one's livery, simple past and past participle sued one's livery)

sues one's livery (present singular third-person)
suing one's livery (participle present)
sued one's livery (participle past)
sued one's livery (past)

(law) To ask for the writ delivering a freehold into the possession of its heir.


writ of prohibition

en-noun

writ of prohibition (plural writs of prohibition)

(law) A writ from a superior tribunal staying proceedings in a lower court.

(law, Scotland) A clause in a deed of entail forbidding the heir to sell the estate, contract debt, etc.


coram nobis

A shortening of the Latin quae coram nobis resident ("which [things] remain in our presence").

(law) A kind of legal order allowing a court to correct its original judgment upon discovery of a fundamental error which did not appear in the records of the original judgment's proceedings and would have prevented the judgment from being pronounced.


freedom of navigation

customary international law
customary international law

The principle in customary international law that ships flying the flag of a sovereign state shall not suffer interference from other states, unless when excepted by international law.


summary diligence

(Scots law) The process by which execution may proceed without the need of further application to the court, in the case of bonds and other instruments registered for execution.


rope-ripe

en-adj

rope-ripe (comparative more rope-ripe, superlative most rope-ripe)

more rope-ripe (comparative)
most rope-ripe (superlative)

Sometymes our coyne, could stop a gappe, / And purchace pardon by a traine: / But gallows lucke, and ropripe happe, / At length was gwerdon for our paine.

1579, Thomas Churchyard, “A Pirates Tragedie”, in A General Rehearsall of Warres, called Churchyard's Choise:

As we argued already, Shakespeare's representation of the rope-ripe shrew likely was inspired by abundant accounts of the well-hanged and well-hung shrewmouse.

2016, J. A. Shea, Paul Yachnin, “The Well-Hung Shrew”, in Lynne Bruckner, Dan Brayton, editors, Ecocritical Shakespeare, →ISBN, page 120:

(obsolete, of people) Deserving of being hanged.


rope-worthy

rope-worthy (comparative more rope-worthy, superlative most rope-worthy)

more rope-worthy (comparative)
most rope-worthy (superlative)

To pass over and pretermit the danger of representing the actionds of the others, and mainly of lawyers and churchmen […] canst thou believe it innocent to counterfeit kings and queens? Supposest thou that if the impression of their faces on a farthing be felonious and rope-worthy, the imitation of head and body, voice and bearing, plume and strut, crown and mantle, and everything else that maketh them royal and glorious, be aught less?

1834, Walter Savage Landor, Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, pages 275–276; republished in The Works of Walter Savage Landor, volume 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1846:


broken man

(UK, historical) An outlaw, especially one inhabiting the Highlands and border country.


informed consent

en-noun

informed consent (usually uncountable, plural informed consents)

(law) Consent to an action by another person given based upon a clear appreciation and understanding of the facts, implications, and consequences of the action.


legal representative

legal representative (plural legal representatives)

(law) A lawyer, solicitor, etc, who acts on behalf of a client in legal matters.

A person who is not capable of contracting or who has limited capacity to contract can neither establish nor terminate residence without the consent of his legal representative.

2013 October 1, “German Civil Code BGB”, in Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz, Berlin: Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz, retrieved 2019-05-16:

(law) One who represents or acts on behalf of another under authority recognised by law, such as a parent or guardian of a minor, a manager of a legal person, etc.


right to be forgotten

(law) An individual's legal right to have certain information about themselves deleted, so as to ensure their privacy.


sewer service

A third CORE investigation revealed additional evidence of sewer service.

1992, A. Leon Levin, Cases and materials on civil procedure, page 18:

Ironically, one cause of sewer service is overly stringent requirements that the process server serve the defendant individually, in hand, personally.

2012, David Crump, Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure:

(law) The intentional failure to provide service of process on a named party in a lawsuit, in order to prevent the party from having a chance to respond.


fifty-one fifty

en-verb

fifty-one fifty (third-person singular simple present fifty-one fifties, present participle fifty-one fiftying, simple past and past participle fifty-one fiftied)

fifty-one fifties (present singular third-person)
fifty-one fiftying (participle present)
fifty-one fiftied (participle past)
fifty-one fiftied (past)


fifty-one fifty

en-adj

fifty-one fifty (comparative more fifty-one fifty, superlative most fifty-one fifty)

more fifty-one fifty (comparative)
most fifty-one fifty (superlative)

He acts like he's gone fifty-one fifty.


conscience clause

en-noun

conscience clause (plural conscience clauses)

(law) A clause in a law, affecting religious matters, to relieve persons of conscientious scruples, especially one to prevent their children being compelled to undergo particular religious instruction.


expromissor

The partners are expromissors, who guarantee the responsibility of the company by a joint and several obligation.

1870, George Joseph Bell, Commentaries on the Law of Scotland, and on the Principles of Mercantile Jurisprudence:

(law) The new debtor introduced by expromission.


expromission

(law) The intervention of a new debtor, substituted for the former one, who is consequently discharged by the creditor.


party opponent

party opponent (plural parties opponent)

(Church of England) A party who opposes the grant of a faculty for the alteration of a church.


battered woman syndrome

(law) A legal defense according to which a female murderer had no choice but to kill her violent partner in response to cumulative abuse rather than a single provocation.

battered person syndrome

a more recent, gender-neutral formulation


best evidence rule

(law) A legal principle that holds an original copy of a document as superior evidence.


cementochronology

(anthropology, paleodemography, criminology) A method for assessing age at death and determining season at death based on the annulation (formation of rings) in tooth cementum.


gate money

(slang, law) Money that is given to an inmate upon release from incarceration.


gangbusting

2020 November 1, Alan Young, “In the 1980s a slipping career was revived with The Untouchables (1987), with his role as a tough gangbusting Irish policeman winning him an Academy Award for best supporting actor.”, in The Scotsman:

The disruption by law enforcement of organized crime.


hangman paradox

unexpected hanging paradox
unexpected hanging paradox#English


unexpected hanging paradox

Coordinate term: surprise test paradox

A paradox about a person's expectations about the timing of a future event which they are told will occur at an unexpected time. It is based on the idea that a prisoner, told that he will be hanged on a day unknown to him, concludes that "I cannot be hanged on Friday because if I haven't been hanged by the end of Thursday then it would no longer be a surprise", and so on backwards through the week.


clinicide

clinicide (countable and uncountable, plural clinicides)

LL-Q1860_(eng)-I learned some phrases-clinicide.wav

From clini(cal) (“dealing with the practical management of patients”) + -cide (suffix meaning ‘killing’).

suffix

[page 90, column 1] [Harold] Shipman killed himself in Wakefield prison on 13 January 2004. The Coronial hearing brought to an end a series of inquiries that found he had committed at least 250 murders in a killing career – a clinicide – that went back to internship at Pontefract General Infirmary. [...] [page 92, column 1] The frenetic consulting was a process of constant preparation for the clinicides, familiarizing himself with the killing ground and meticulously preparing for the moment when he could catch the patient alone, swiftly kill them and loot the place for their stock of narcotics, either for his own use or to use on the next victim.

2006 March, Robert [M.] Kaplan, “Harold Shipman: An Awful Sod: Review of Clarkson W., Evil beyond Belief”, in Gary Walter, editor, Australasian Psychiatry, volume 14, number 1, [Thousand Oaks, Calif.]: SAGE Publications for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-17, pages 90 and 92:

Clinicide is the unnatural death of multiple patients in the course of treatment by a doctor. Clinicide occurs in a group that has a high rate of homicide. [H. G.] Kinnell maintains that doctors kill more than any other group (veterinarians, apparently, have never produced a serial killer).

2007 August, Robert [M.] Kaplan, “The Clinicide Phenomenon: An Exploration of Medical Murder”, in Gary Walter, editor, Australasian Psychiatry, volume 15, number 4, [Thousand Oaks, Calif.]: SAGE Publications for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-17, pages 299–300:

The analogies between poisoning patients, forging a will to announce the end of the clinicides and finally, death by hanging seem uncannily close.

2009, Robert M. Kaplan, “Searching for Shipman”, in Medical Murder: Disturbing Cases of Doctors Who Kill, [Sydney, N.S.W.]: Read How You Want, published 2010, →ISBN, page 117:

Clinicide can also be detected by the substantiation of injurious, unnecessary, and potentially lethal medical procedures or treatment.

2010, Joshua A. Perper, Stephen J. Cina, “To Catch a Killer: Investigating Serial Murders”, in When Doctors Kill: Who, Why, and How, New York, N.Y.: Copernicus Books, Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, section 2 (When Doctors Kill), page 50:

The striking aspect of clinicide is the scale of suspicious deaths with which it is associated, which outnumbers proven murders by an order of magnitude (in [Harold] Shipman's case, a factor of (240-15)#x2F;15#x3D;15), a figure that only hints at the enormous interpersonal disruption and family grief which follows in its wake.

2013, Brian Hurwitz, “Healthcare Serial Killings: Was the Case of Dr Harold Shipman Unthinkable?”, in Danielle Griffiths, Andrew Sanders, editors, Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law (Cambridge Bioethics and Law), volumes 2 (Medicine, Crime and Society), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 19:

The deliberate killing of a patient in the course of medical treatment.


breaker-inner

(informal, nonstandard) One who breaks in; a robber or home invader.


home invader

(law, criminology) Someone who commits a home invasion.


deplatform

en-verb

deplatform (third-person singular simple present deplatforms, present participle deplatforming, simple past and past participle deplatformed)

deplatforms (present singular third-person)
deplatforming (participle present)
deplatformed (participle past)
deplatformed (past)

The Western trend to deplatform or disinvite campus speakers, whose views are considered objectionable, is in full swing.

2017, Barry R. Harker, It’s Sunday in America, →ISBN, page 28:

In 2017, The Daily Stormer was at the center of a new effort to deplatform the extreme elements of the Alt-Right from the Internet.

2018, George Hawley, The Alt-Right, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125:

Defame, demonetize, and deplatform is their M.O.

2019, Mark Dice, The Liberal Media Industrial Complex, Mark Dice, →ISBN:

There are only two rules on Parler, the “free-speech” social network: First, nothing criminal. Second, no spam. Other than that, you can post what you want, the site advertises, “without fear of being ‘deplatformed’ for your views.”

2020 November 12, Arielle Pardes, “Inside Parler, the Right's Favorite 'Free Speech' App”, in Wired, →ISSN:

Consider the decision of Facebook and Twitter to “deplatform” Trump after he helped inspire the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

2022 March 8, Richard L. Hasen, “How Supreme Court Radicalism Could Threaten Democracy Itself”, in Slate:

(transitive, formal) To prevent someone from using a platform to express their opinion.

deplatformeren

to prevent someone from utilizing a platform to express their opinion


EAW

European Arrest Warrant
w:European Arrest Warrant

(law) Initialism of European Arrest Warrant.


deed of assumption

en-noun

deed of assumption (plural deeds of assumption)

(law, Scotland) A deed executed by trustees under a trust-deed assuming a new trustee or settlement.


right of asylum

right of asylum (plural rights of asylum)

(law) The right of a person persecuted by his or her own country to be protected by another sovereign authority.


separate estate

(law, historical) A married woman's property over which her husband has no right of control.


plus factor

Race may therefore not be the only determining factor in the allocation, but race may be considered as a plus factor that may be taken into account.

2001, Johan Rabe, Equality, Affirmative Action and Justice, page 143:

Three white women challenged the admissions system, which gave applicants “plus factors” or "points" for being non-white […]

2005, Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, volume 28, page 225:

These plans can take many forms including outreach, special training programs, race or gender as plus factors, and goals and timetables.

2007, Anderson C. Williams, A Concise Summary of Human Resource Management:

(US, law) Any trait of a person, such as their race, that may give them an advantage under affirmative action.


fideicommissary

(law, ancient Rome) the beneficiary of a fideicommissum.


lootocracy

lootocracy (usually uncountable, plural lootocracies)

Blend of loot + plutocracy, or pluto- + -cracy.

(derogatory) A corrupt political system in which the elite fraudulently help themselves to money or resources intended for other purposes.


benefit of inventory

(Scots law) A legal privilege whereby an heir secured himself against unlimited liability for his ancestor, by giving up within the annus deliberandi an inventory of his heritage or real estate, which then represented the maximum extent to which he was liable.


ODR

(UK, law) Initialism of Ogden discount rate.


customary international law

customary international law (plural customary international laws)

The aspect of international law involving the principle of custom.


professional support lawyer

professional support lawyer (plural professional support lawyers)

(law) A member of a legal organisation that carries out research and other support duties


death by a thousand cuts

death by a thousand cuts (countable and uncountable, plural deaths by a thousand cuts)


strict scrutiny

We mention these matters … merely in emphasis of our view that strict scrutiny of the classification which a State makes in a sterilization law is essential, lest unwittingly, or otherwise, invidious discriminations are made against groups or types of individuals in violation of the constitutional guaranty of just and equal laws.

1942, William O. Douglas, Skinner v. Oklahoma, 316 U.S. 535

(law) A standard for judicial review, according to which a law must have been enacted to further a compelling governmental interest, have been narrowly tailored to achieve that interest, and be the least restrictive means for so doing.


(UK, law enforcement) A person of unknown ethnicity


(UK, law enforcement) A person of white, north European ethnicity


(UK, law enforcement) A person of arab or north African ethnicity


(UK, law enforcement) A person of black ethnicity


(UK, law enforcement) A person of white, south European ethnicity


(UK, law enforcement) A person of asian (Chinese, Japanese) ethnicity


(UK, law enforcement) A person of asian (Indian) ethnicity


IC code

(UK, law enforcement) A code used by British police to identify the apparent ethnicity of a person


unincorporate

en-adj

unincorporate (comparative more unincorporate, superlative most unincorporate)

more unincorporate (comparative)
most unincorporate (superlative)

bodies corporate or unincorporate

(chiefly law, sometimes postpositive) Not incorporated.


cessio bonorum

(Scots law, historical) Before 1880, a debtor's surrender of his estate to his creditors in return for a judicial protection from imprisonment for his debts.


recordal

en-noun

recordal (countable and uncountable, plural recordals)

Judgements declaring the nullity, annulment, dissolution, rescission or revocation of a registered deed must be annotated in the margin of the recordal of the deed to which they refer.

1967, Mario Arrigucci, The Italian Trade Mark Law and Regulations, page 30:

Recordal or registration of trademark licenses is more recently required in a number of countries either with the Trademark Office or with other appointed authority for approval with respect to clauses which may be prohibited as improper or unlawful restraints.

1975, Stephen Pericles Ladas, Patents, Trademarks, and Related Rights, page 1138:

The local recordal administration shall send its recordal comments and filing documents of the parties to the SIPO within 3 days after completion of the recordal procedures.

2005, Ai Hong, China Intellectual Property Law Guide, page 48,802:

(law) The process of recording a document, making a public record; recordation.


fireraising

(Scotland, criminal law) arson; deliberate setting of fires


put to the horn

en-verb

put to the horn (third-person singular simple present puts to the horn, present participle putting to the horn, simple past and past participle put to the horn)

puts to the horn (present singular third-person)
putting to the horn (participle present)
put to the horn (participle past)
put to the horn (past)

(transitive, Scots law, historical) To outlaw (a person) by three blasts of the horn at the Cross of Edinburgh.


UWO

(UK, law) Initialism of unexplained wealth order.


desert the diet

desert the diet (third-person singular simple present deserts the diet, present participle deserting the diet, simple past and past participle deserted the diet)

deserts the diet (present singular third-person)
deserting the diet (participle present)
deserted the diet (participle past)
deserted the diet (past)

(Scots law, historical) To abandon criminal proceedings under a particular libel.


county at large

en-noun

county at large (plural counties at large)

...it shall be lawful for the collector of the district, upon the production of a like certificate of any two sureties of the peace, if within a county of a city, or county of a town, and if within a county at large, upon the production of a like certificate of any two justices of the peace residing in the barony, or half-barony, in which the person applying for such licenses resides, ... to endorse on such certificate a receipt for the said duty

And be it enacted, That wherever the Word "County" occurs in this Act, the same shall be construed to extend to and comprehend a County of a City or a County of a Town, as well as a County at large.

1839 Public Works (Ireland) Act, 1839 (2 & 3 Vict. c.50) s.27

(history, law) A county which is not a county corporate


callover

(Australia, law) A session where trial dates are allocated to upcoming cases.


endowable

From Middle English endowable; equivalent to endow + -able.

By the provisions of the common law, a widow was endowable of all the lands of which her husband was seized during coverture.

1839, Return Jonathan Meigs, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee, volume 19, page 387:

In case of rent charge, she was endowable unless the heir had elected to make it personalty by resorting to her writ of annuity.

1874, Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Mississippi, volume 49, page 203:

If therefore the premises in this case had been sold before they were partially destroyed by fire, the widow would have been endowable in the entire sum that they would have sold for, which in this case it is fair to presume would have been $957.50, the total sum received from the sale and insurance.

1892, The Weekly Law Bulletin and Ohio Law Journal, volume 28, page 333:

(law, historical) Entitled to receive or eligible for dower; dowable.


ultimus haeres

From Latin ultimus haeres (“ultimate heir”).

(Scots law) The process whereby the estate of a deceased person with no will or traceable blood relatives goes to the Crown.


pro indiviso

(law) Of a right: held by two or more persons in common.


cop car

I backed my car into a cop car the other day / Well, he just drove off, sometimes life's okay

2004, Modest Mouse (lyrics and music), “Float On”, in Good News for People Who Love Bad News:


supermandatory

The same priority is also acknowledged to the supermandatory rules of the national laws.

2000, Revue Hellenique de Droit International, Volume 53, page 181:

Also, the parties' choice of foreign applicable law shall not affect the application of the supermandatory provisions of the country with which all elements of the contract are related at the time of the choice of applicable law.

2009, James R. Silkenat, Jeffrey M. Aresty, Jacqueline Klosek, The ABA Guide to International Business Negotiations:

Russian courts and commentators distinguish between “mandatory” rules (that parties can opt out of by choice of law) and “supermandatory” rules not subject to opt out. Rules governing strategic investments are supermandatory.

2015, Peter B. Maggs, Olga Schwartz, William Burnham, Law and Legal System of the Russian Federation: Sixth Edition:

(law) Absolutely mandatory, without any exceptions.


restaur

(law, obsolete) The remedy that assurers have against each other, or a person has against his guarantor.


CVPI

Crown Victoria Police Interceptor#English

(US, automotive, law enforcement) Initialism of Crown Victoria Police Interceptor.


regalia majora

(Scots law) Things that inherently belong to the sovereign and are inseparable from his or her person.


regalia minora

(Scots law) Things that inherently belong to the sovereign but may be conveyed to a subject.


refeoff

en-verb

refeoff (third-person singular simple present refeoffs, present participle refeoffing, simple past and past participle refeoffed)

refeoffs (present singular third-person)
refeoffing (participle present)
refeoffed (participle past)
refeoffed (past)

(law, transitive) To feoff again; to invest with a fee or feud again.


show cause

show cause (third-person singular simple present shows cause, present participle showing cause, simple past showed cause, past participle shown cause)

shows cause (present singular third-person)
showing cause (participle present)
showed cause (past)
shown cause (participle past)

(law, England, Wales) In English law, to argue against the confirmation of a provisional order or judgment.


commutal

en-noun

commutal (countable and uncountable, plural commutals)

Gladys' conviction generated reactions from a cross-section of Nigerians who pleaded for the commutal of the death sentence to a jail-term.

The demand for commutal of sentences was informed by two factors.

1998, The Nigerian Journal of the Social Sciences: NJSS.:

Having earned so much domestic and international respect for the unprecedented commutal of sentences on coup plotters last month, General Sani Abacha is expected to build on this growing goodwill by handling the Ogoni matter […]

2004, Reuben Abati, The Whole Truth: Selected Editorials of the Guardian (1983-2003), →ISBN:

(Nigeria, law) commutation (of a sentence)


defelonize

en-verb

defelonize (third-person singular simple present defelonizes, present participle defelonizing, simple past and past participle defelonized)

defelonizes (present singular third-person)
defelonizing (participle present)
defelonized (participle past)
defelonized (past)

From de- + felon + -ize, apparently on the model of decriminalize.

His solution, however, was not to reform sentencing laws or decriminalize or defelonize nonviolent crimes, […]

2011, Elana Zilberg, Space of Detention, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 248:

(transitive) To reduce the status of (a crime) such that it is no longer a felony.


catholic creditor

en-noun

catholic creditor (plural catholic creditors)

(Scots law) A creditor whose debt is secured over several or the whole subjects belonging to the debtor, e.g. over two or more heritable estates.


fugitation

fugitation (countable and uncountable, plural fugitations)

(Scots law) The act of absconding from justice; outlawry.


third-degree murder

third-degree murder (usually uncountable, plural third-degree murders)

(US, law) Murder without intent but during a felony.


police court

(law) A court of justice for trying small cases brought before it by the police.


a quick drop and a sudden stop

a short drop and a sudden stop
a short drop and a sudden stop#English

Alternative form of a short drop and a sudden stop


child molestation

(crime) Sexual abuse of a child by an adult or older child.


footpaddery

The smugglers were a lawless and desperate body, but they did not, as a rule, descend to footpaddery or robbery.

Not just a little footpaddery, but robbery on the grand scale.

2001, Wilbur Smith, The Angels Weep, →ISBN:

Whilst descriptions of 'The West End Fair Gang', and freferences to the 'Captain of the Gan' John Henley, recall models of criminal confederacy evoked in earlier accounts of highway robbery and footpaddery, these events, wrapped as they were in the language of hustling, also reflect some of the newer concerns about public space in this period.

2015, Heather Shore, London's Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720 - c. 1930, →ISBN, page 78:

(historical) The crime of robbing travelers on the road.


mafiocracy

(uncountable) Government by mafiosi; (broadly) government by organized crime.


widow's bench

(law, historical) A widow's share of her husband's estate in addition to her jointure.


pma

(copyright law) Alternative form of p.m.a.


p.m.a.

post mortem auctoris
post mortem auctoris#English

(copyright law) Initialism of post mortem auctoris.


post mortem auctoris

Borrowed from Latin post mortem auctoris.

(chiefly copyright law) After the death date of the author of a work.


special counsel

special counsel (plural special counsels)

Schiff said Republicans have so far declined to assist the special counsel.

2018 November 30, Jon Swaine, The Guardian:

(US politics, law) A special prosecutor.


heliast

From Ancient Greek ἡλιαστής (hēliastḗs).

(historical, Ancient Greece, law) A judge in the supreme court of ancient Athens.


special prosecutor

special prosecutor (plural special prosecutors)

Under the Ford plan, the president—not the courts—would appoint the special prosecutor.

1999, Bob Woodward, Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate:

conflict of interest
conflict of interest

(US, politics, law) A lawyer assigned to investigate, and if necessary prosecute, a case for which there is a conflict of interest for the normal prosecuting authority.


horngeld

horngeld (countable and uncountable, plural horngelds)


special retainer

special retainer (plural special retainers)

(law) A fee paid to counsel for work on a particular case.


general retainer

general retainer (plural general retainers)

(law) A fee paid to secure a priority of claim on a counsel's services.


general issue

(law) A simple denial of the entire charge, such as "not guilty".


special issue

(law) An issue taken by denying a particular part of the allegations.


tenant at will

(law, real estate, property law) One who holds lands at the will of the owner.


porch pirate

After Bohlan's home security system recorded a porch pirate stealing packages from his doorstep, he reported the theft to the police department...and volunteered his own doorstep as a place where police could leave "bait" packages to catch porch pirates.

2018, Uncle John's Actual and Factual Bathroom Reader, page 271:

2019 November 1, Lauren Smiley, “The Porch Pirate of Potrero Hill Can’t Believe It Came to This”, in The Atlantic:

(slang, criminology, neologism) A criminal who steals a delivered package from a porch.


outsucken

(law, Scotland) Pertaining to a district not astricted to a particular mill.


approbate and reprobate

en-verb

approbate and reprobate (third-person singular simple present approbates and reprobates, present participle approbating and reprobating, simple past and past participle approbated and reprobated)

approbates and reprobates (present singular third-person)
approbating and reprobating (participle present)
approbated and reprobated (participle past)
approbated and reprobated (past)

(Scots law) To accept and reject the same deed or instrument (which is not permitted).


bill of complaint

en-noun

bill of complaint (plural bills of complaint)

(law, historical) In the English Court of Chancery, prior to the Judicature Act of 1873, the formal statement of the facts and prayer for relief submitted by a plaintiff to the court.


dead's part

(law, historical, Scotland) The part of a man's movable property which he may bequeath by will, and which is not due to wife and children.


CRLA

California Rural Legal Assistance
w:California Rural Legal Assistance

(US, law) Initialism of California Rural Legal Assistance.


taxing master

(law) An officer of a court of law who examines bills of costs.


summary proceedings

(law) Certain statutory remedies taken without the formal bringing of an action by process and pleading.


Club Fed

A pun on Club Med, a company offering luxurious holidays, and fed (“federal agent”).

(Canada, US, slang) A prison offering greater comfort and more facilities to inmates than is typical.


anaw

Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013 (2013 anaw 5)

w:Act of the National Assembly for Wales

(UK, law, in citation) Initialism of Act of the National Assembly for Wales; now called Acts of Senedd Cymru, but still used for Acts passed prior to the change of name.


royal fish

royal fish (plural royal fishes or royal fish)

royal fishes (plural)
royal fish (plural)

Whales and sturgeons are royal fish.

In the 1681 ordinance on maritime commerce (book V, title 7), dolphin, sturgeon, salmon, and trout are called royal fishes.

2015, The Origins of Corporations: The Mills of Toulouse in the Middle Ages, page 343:

(law) Any fish that, when taken, immediately becomes the personal property of the monarch by royal prerogative, as in the United Kingdom and formerly the Kingdom of France.


SAF

Special Action Force
w:Special Action Force

(Philippines, law enforcement) Initialism of Special Action Force.


Oilgate

A South African political scandal in which the petrol company Imvume Holdings was accused of paying millions of state money to the ruling African National Congress shortly before elections.


oath of calumny

oath of calumny (plural oaths of calumny)

(Scots law, historical) A method for the prevention of calumnious and unnecessary suits, by which both parties at the beginning of a cause swear, either by themselves or their counsel, that the facts set forth by them are true.


space law

The body of law governing space-related activities.


MPC

Metropolitan Police Commissioner
w:Metropolitan Police Commissioner

(law, UK) Initialism of Metropolitan Police Commissioner.


warrant of payment

warrant of payment (plural warrants of payment)

(law) A written order from a first person that instructs a second person to pay a specified recipient a specific amount of money or goods at a specific time.

výzva k zaplacení

written order instructing someone to pay some amount of money at a specific time


parens patriae

From Latin parēns patriae (“parent of the country”).

bor

(law) The government authority to act as the parent of a child or individual to protect them from abusive or negligent parents, legal guardian, or caretaker.


special proceeding

en-noun

special proceeding (plural special proceedings)

(law) A judicial proceeding other than an action, such as a writ of mandamus.


demonstrative legacy

demonstrative legacy (plural demonstrative legacies)

(law) An amount to be paid to an heir out of a particular named fund.


art and part

Art refers to the contrivance of a plan, and part to being involved in carrying it out.

(Scots law) The aiding or abetting in the perpetration of a crime.


adminiculation

adminiculation (usually uncountable, plural adminiculations)


composition of a felony

(law) The act of abstaining from prosecution for some consideration itself punishable by fine and imprisonment.


secular arm

/ˌsɛkjʊlə ˈɑːm/

/ˌsɛkjələɹ ˈɑɹm/

From Late Middle English seculer arm, seculer arme (“civil authority or power”), a calque of Medieval Latin bracchium saeculāre (“(figurative) civil or lay power”), from Latin bracchium (“arm”) + saeculāre (a neuter singular form of saeculāris (“profane, temporal, worldly”)).

calque

The secular arm as a means by which lay power intervenes in ecclesiastical cases had two types: sought and unsought by the Church.

Yet all who reject them are by the Council of Trent and the Papal Church pronounced accursed heretics and excommunicated, and therefore to be given over to the secular arm, as we have just seen that millions have been, to be destroyed or burned;

1812, Gideon Ouseley, A Short Defence of the Old Religion, published 1821, page 239:

1819, "Arm", article in Abraham Rees (editor), The Cyclopædia, Volume 2, unnumbered page,
The church ſheds no blood; even the judges of the inquiſition, after they have found the perſon guilty, ſurrender him to the ſecular arm.

We also understand that when the secular arm has the power it is requirable by the Church to execute those who entertain views opposed to the Papacy; and that the only reason why the Church does not now require it is that the secular arm is not at the Pope's command.

1870 October, D. D. Whedon, editor, Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 52 - 4th Series, Volume 22, page 634:

In the Middle Ages, however, sometimes the assistance of the secular arm was sought, especially in trials for heresy or grave immorality when Church officials felt that sterner punishment was deserved than they could administer.

1980, John A[nthony] Hardon, “SECULAR ARM”, in Modern Catholic Dictionary, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, →ISBN, page 496, column 1:

(Christianity, law, historical) The lay or temporal authority of a secular court to pronounce punishment (particularly capital punishment) of an offender tried by an ecclesiastical court.

maallinen valta

lay or temporal authority of a secular court to pronounce punishment of an offender tried by an ecclesiastical court


subordinate court

en-noun

subordinate court (plural subordinate courts)

(law) A court that is under the control or authority of another


specimen signature

specimen signature (plural specimen signatures)

(law) A document (often authenticated by a notary public or a lawyer) with a sample signature handwritten by a person, kept by a bank or another organization, which lets them verify that other signatures were also written by the same person.

簽字樣本

sample signature kept by an organization to verify other signatures


Eurotort

Employers must comply with the regulations and any breach gives rise to liability in what are emerging as 'Eurotorts'.

2014, Vera Bermingham, Tort Law Directions:

(Europe law) A tort relating to the right to repatriation within a national legal system for breaches of directly applicable European Union law.


hybrid offence

(law) A crime in common-law jurisdictions that may be prosecuted either summarily or as indictment.


identification parade

identification parade (plural identification parades)

He had once in his early days dropped in with his Superintendent at an identification parade. It was not his case, and they were both there on other business, but they lingered in the background and watched while a man and a woman, separately, walked down the line of twelve nondescript men, looking for the one they hoped to recognise.

1951, Josephine Tey, chapter 2, in The Daughter of Time, London: Peter Davies, page 24:

One of the ticket clerks at the Brahmpur Railway Station was going to be asked to try to pick Maan out at an identification parade in the jail. Under these circumstances, he could not let Maan’s head be shaved.

1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, Boston: Little, Brown, Chapter 17.26, pp. 1330-1331:

(law enforcement) A process by which a witness confirms the identity of a criminal suspect, by viewing the suspect together with other people who were not involved in the crime.


copaganda

/ˌkɒpəˈɡændə/

/ˌkɑpəˈɡændə/

The movie had a clear example of copaganda when FBI agents were portrayed as good guys when they were clearly in the wrong.

Sick of all these Copaganda shows on TV. Are these the same cops that hide in vans every weekend and take 45 mins to respond to 999 calls?

2009 August 21, William McClymont, Twitter:

That David Simon could tell people with bricks in their hand to “go home,” and have no direct words of condemnation for the violence displayed by the police made me remember my friend Dashon — from Baltimore — who told me he would never watch The Wire because he believed it to be “copaganda,” since it was created not only by Simon but by longtime Baltimore police officer Ed Burns.

2015 May 4, Dave Zirin, “‘The Game Done Changed’: Reconsidering ‘The Wire’ Amidst the Baltimore Uprising”, in The Nation, archived from the original on 2019-02-15:

To counter this, police reform and police abolitionist activists on Twitter have invented a rather useful term: "Copaganda." Copaganda is any news story that uncritically advances a police department's image or helps undermine reform efforts. Here are eight of the most common forms of copaganda.

2016 February 23, Adam Johnson, “The 8 Most Popular Types of ‘Copaganda’: How the Police Play the Media”, in AlterNet, archived from the original on 2019-02-15:

However, while an article about Robert Downey Jr. visiting a child dying of leukemia doesn’t have an impact on the public perception of criminal justice, copaganda does.

2018 July 25, Brendan Gallagher, “Just say no to viral ‘copaganda’ videos”, in The Daily Dot, archived from the original on 2019-02-15:

(derogatory) Media that contains propagandistic pro-police messages.


Home Circuit

(UK, law, historical) The southeastern circuit of assize, including the Home Counties (except Middlesex) and Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk.


fartsovka

In the Soviet Union, the illegal trade of acquiring desirable consumer goods and currency from foreigners.


pass the bar

en-verb

pass the bar (third-person singular simple present passes the bar, present participle passing the bar, simple past and past participle passed the bar)

passes the bar (present singular third-person)
passing the bar (participle present)
passed the bar (participle past)
passed the bar (past)

(law) To be formally referred for trial from a lower court to a higher one.


debt collection

en-noun

debt collection (plural debt collections)

(law) The process of pursuing payments of debts owed by individuals or businesses.

perintä

the process of pursuing payments of debts owed by individuals or businesses


negligence per se

[…] blasting operations by a Swiss mining company in the Swiss Alps cause a snow avalanche in the French Alps injuring a group of English tourists. […] The lex loci damni rule [of the Rome II Regulation] does not produce good results in […] cross-border torts in which the state of conduct prescribes higher standards of conduct for the tortfeasor than the state of injury. Suppose for example that, in the above snow avalanche hypothetical, Switzerland imposes a negligence per se rule on mining operators who engage in blasting activities in certain areas or time periods, while France, in order to protect its mining industry, follows an ordinary negligence standard. In such a case, Article 4(1) calls for the application of French law and specifically excludes Swiss law. In contrast, if this were an environmental tort, Article 7 would allow the victim to opt for Swiss law.

2008, Symeon C. Symeonides, “Rome II and Tort Conflicts: A Missed Opportunity”, in American Journal of Comparative Law, volume 56, number 1, pages 187 and 191:

(US law) An act considered negligent because it violates a statute or regulation.


four corners

If Republicans don't think it's a coup or doesn't fit this definition of a coup in all four corners then I'd love to hear what they would call it.

2020 December 1, Charles Joseph Scarborough, “Morning Joe for December 1, 2020” (1:23:00 from the start), in Morning Joe, via MSNBC:

(law) The face of a document or its contents, considered without reference to any outside information.


on tag

The prisoner was released on tag.

(UK) Under judicial surveillance by means of an electronic tag worn on the ankle etc.


maletote

Inherited from Middle English maltode, from Anglo-Norman maltolt (“unjust tax”), from Medieval Latin malatolta, from mala (“evil”) + tolta (“tax”), the latter from tollīta (“raised”), used in Medieval Latin as past participle of Classical Latin tollō.

Immediately hereupon, even this very yeere, was this complained of in Parliament, and a Petition exibited by the Lords and Cõmons, that it might be enacted, that this Maletolt or Imposition, because it was taken without assent of Parliament, might be taken away, and that a Law might be made, that no such charge might be laid, but by assent of Parliament: […]

1641, William Hakewil[l], The Libertie of the Subject: Against the Pretended Power of Impositions […], page 54:

The occurrence of a Maltolte in history is of necessity limited to a somewhat brief period.

1885, Hubert Hall, A History of the Custom-Revenue in England […], volume 2, page 170:

The king certainly acted illegally in some way or other, for the Parliament of 1339 declared that he was levying a maletote which it had never sanctioned.

1918, Frederic Richard Barnes, “The Taxation of Wool, 1327–1348”, in George Unwin, editor, Finance and Trade Under Edward III, page 143:

[…] Scots soon learned that the maltolte on wool exports and later the new custom on alien merchants were to apply exactly in their country as in England; […]

2000, R. R. Davies, The First English Empire: Power and Identities in the British Isles, 1093–1343, →ISBN, page 28:

A heavy (‘New’) custom or maletolt (5 marks per last of leather, 3 marks per sack of wool or 300 wool fells) was levied and the goods were then consigned to a staple at Dordrecht.

2008 [1996], “Staple”, in Charles Arnold-Baker, edited by Henry von Blumenthal, The Companion to British History, 3rd edition, →ISBN, page 1178:

(historical, originally derogatory) An arbitrary tax; in particular, a levy imposed by the English monarch on a certain good beyond ordinary customs duties.


side letter

(law) A collective bargaining agreement that is not part of the underlying or primary collective bargaining agreement used by the parties to the contract.


poor law

(historical) A law providing for the support of paupers at the public expense.


casualty of superiority

casualty of superiority (plural casualties of superiority)

(Scots law, historical) In the feudal law of Scotland, any emolument arising to the superior depending on uncertain events: those of nonentry, relief or composition, and escheat alone remaining, but considerably modified by the Conveyancing Act of 1874.


retrocess

en-verb

retrocess (third-person singular simple present retrocesses, present participle retrocessing, simple past and past participle retrocessed)

retrocesses (present singular third-person)
retrocessing (participle present)
retrocessed (participle past)
retrocessed (past)

(law, transitive) To retrocede or grant back.


party jury

(historical, law) A jury consisting half of natives and half of aliens.


cancel culture

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With roots in Black Twitter, cancel culture is an unavoidable mainstay of our infotainment age. In an era of too much everything—TV, opinions, news—we’ve come to rely on a vocabulary of consolidation: likes, tweets, emoji. Cancel culture is one of these argots—a governor, a self-regulatory device I have come to wield with pride (if infrequent recklessness). In the collective, the gesture is absolute: we can’t. We’re done. And so we asphyxiate support from a notable cause or figure. Roseanne Barr referred to Valerie Jarrett as an ape? Cancelled. Harvey Weinstein was outed as a sexual predator? Cancelled.

2018 October 5, Jason Parham, “The Devolution of Kanye West and the Case for Cancel Culture”, in Wired:

In the past, we dismissed people and institutionalized doing so as law and unwritten laws. Today, I fear that we are making dismissing people the cool thing to do with “cancel culture.”

2019, Tayo Rockson, Use Your Difference to Make a Difference:

An unfair journalistic hit has now cost a capable attorney his job. It’s absurd. Cancel culture has reared its ugly head ... again.

2019 September 3, David French, “Here’s One Way to Stop Cancel Culture — Stop Canceling”, in National Review:

"[…] Many students have adopted the posture of cancel culture, preventing people they don’t agree with from speaking,” Mr. Finkielkraut told me last month.

2020 February 6, Mattia Ferraresi, “Cancel Culture Comes to France”, in Wall Street Journal:

One of their political weapons is cancel culture, driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees.

2020 July 3, Donald Trump speech at Mount Rushmore transcribed by C-SPANhttps://www.c-span.org/video/?473617-1/president-trumps-remarks-mt-rushmore-salute-america-event&live=&beta=&action=getTranscript&transcriptType=cc&service-url=/common/services/programSpeakers.php&appearance-filter=&personSkip=0&ccSkip=0&transcriptSpeaker=

In a statement condemning “cancel culture,” Stewart warned taking down the monument would set a bad precedent.

2020 December 17, Don Stacom, “Condemning ‘cancel culture,’ New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart vetoes council vote to remove city’s Columbus statue”, in Hartford Courant:

(neologism, often derogatory) The cultural phenomenon of publicly shaming, rejecting, and ceasing to provide support to people, companies, stores, etc. that are deemed unacceptable, and calling on others to boycott them.

kitagadás

“ban, banishment”; only with appropriate context or specification


pascuage

(UK, law, obsolete) The grazing or pasturing of cattle, or a fee paid for this.


AEO

en-noun

AEO (countable and uncountable, plural AEOs)

attachment of earnings
attachment of earnings#English

(countable, law) Initialism of attachment of earnings order.


indicative vote

indicative vote (plural indicative votes)

A vote with no legal implication; a vote to test the prevalent mood in a given body of members


riding interest

riding interest (plural riding interests)

(Scots law) An interest that depends on another interest.


pussy posse

Chosen for the alliteration, with pussy (“female genitalia”) in reference to prostitution.


Special Branch

(UK, Commonwealth) A unit, typically part of the police, that is responsible for matters of national security and intelligence.


independent counsel

independent counsel (plural independent counsels)

(US, law, politics) A special prosecutor


no-bill

(law) The situation where the jury has not found sufficient cause to support the alleged charges.


constructive treason

constructive treason (countable and uncountable, plural constructive treasons)

(law) Anything that may be interpreted as equivalent to actual treason by leading naturally to it.


progressive tax

progressive tax (plural progressive taxes)

(government, taxation) a tax whose percentage increases as a person's wealth increases.


OLC

(US, law, politics, government) Initialism of Office of Legal Counsel. (of the U.S. Justice Department)


wobblette

(law, colloquial) A crime that may be charged as either a misdemeanor or an infraction.


disturb the peace

en-verb

disturb the peace (third-person singular simple present disturbs the peace, present participle disturbing the peace, simple past and past participle disturbed the peace)

disturbs the peace (present singular third-person)
disturbing the peace (participle present)
disturbed the peace (participle past)
disturbed the peace (past)

The bare dozen passengers the station sees in a month do little to disturb the peace.

1939 July, “Pertinent Paragraphs: Port Victoria”, in Railway Magazine, page 67:

(law) To behave in an inappropriately violent, noisy, or disruptive manner in public.


riot boosting

"‘Riot boosting’ is an unusual and new term. You might be asking yourself what that means, and I think protesters will too," said Vera Eidelman, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who has tracked the bills. "I think it poses a unique threat to speech and appears to be targeted at protests. It uses words like 'encouraging' and 'advising' that are very broad and refer to a category of protected speech."

2019 March 28, Nicholas Kusnetz, “More States Crack Down on Pipeline Protesters, Including Supporters Who Aren’t Even on the Scene”, in Inside Climate News, archived from the original on 2020-06-04:

The law allows state, and local governments to seek civil damages from activists or groups engaging in "riot boosting", a term which the state defines as someone who "does not personally participate in any riot but directs, advises, encourages, or solicits other persons participating in the riot to acts of force of violence."

2019, Larry J. Schweiger, The Climate Crisis and Corrupt Politics, page 109:

A judge found parts of last year’s “riot boosting” laws to be unconstitutional, in part because they were aimed at demonstrations against the Keystone XL pipeline.

2020 February 19, Stephen Groves, “House passes ‘riot boosting’ bill amid protests”, in AP News:

South Dakota has adopted a law that holds a person liable for civil damages if he or she engages in “riot boosting,” defined to include a person who “advises” or “encourages” another to engage in violence, even if the individual did not even participate in the […]

2020, Ashutosh Bhagwat, Our Democratic First Amendment, page 152:

A third banner said “Kristi Noem, we are not a riot” and “We defeated it once, we’ll defeat it again” — a reference to the current “riot boosting” law that was created after a federal judge said parts of the old law were unconstitutional.

2020 August 19, Arielle Zionts, “Group protests Philip KXL pipeline work camp opening in September”, in Rapid City Journal:

(US, neologism, law) Protest activities that encourage rioting.


mobbed-up

en-adj

mobbed-up (comparative more mobbed-up, superlative most mobbed-up)

more mobbed-up (comparative)
most mobbed-up (superlative)

In this way, cartels of mobbed-up outfits drove everyone else out of the business. The impact of organized crime on the union movement was ruinous.

2006, Guy Lawson, William Oldham, The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia:

The following morning a little detective work led me to Spiro's, a mobbed-up social club on Eighteenth Avenue that was Frankie Carbone's hangout.

2005, Lou Eppolito, Bob Drury, Mafia Cop, page 218:


West plea

Named after a seminal case involving plea bargains, People v. West (1970) 3 Cal.3d 595.

(US, California, law) A plea of nolo contendere.


law of nations

Calque of Latin iūs gentium, originally meaning legal principles that are general to humanity. The sense “international law” became standard in the 17th–18th centuries, partly from reanalysis as referring to the law that pertains to nations as distinct entities, and partly from the supposition that any law governing relations between states must transcend the states themselves. See also English jus gentium, directly borrowed.

international law
international law#English

kansainvälinen oikeus

international law — see also international law

And this is the Law, not of the Persians alone (which yet was the Law of a hundred twentie seven Provinces;) nor ours alone (and so may seeme to be the Law of Nations) but, that which strikes it home, by vertue of this enrolement here, is the Law of God; […]

1616 August 5, Lancelot Andrewes, “A Sermon Preached Before the Kings Maiestie at Burleigh neere Okeham […]”, in XCVI. Sermons, 2nd edition, published 1632, page 848:

But this is monstrous, and unchristian, to say, That servants are wholly at their Masters command; and that by the Law of Nations: What? to murder, steal, lye at their commands? So they must, if this assertion of his be generally true; Is there no difference between the servant, and the asse, by the Law of Nations, or Nature?

1652, Daniel Cawdrey, Herbert Palmer, Sabbatum Redivivum: Or the Christian Sabbath Vindicated […], volume 2, page 146:

But for the most part the Law of Nations is nothing else but Equity, and the Law of Nature and Reason, which standeth as the common Rule among men, appointed of God, by which they may know; and crave each from other their Rights […]

1693, James Dalrymple Stair, The Institutions of the Law of Scotland […], 2nd edition, page 6:

(Early Modern, archaic) The shared set of legal principles said to be recognized by most peoples in the world; natural law.


no-crime

en-verb

no-crime (third-person singular simple present no-crimes, present participle no-criming, simple past and past participle no-crimed)

no-crimes (present singular third-person)
no-criming (participle present)
no-crimed (participle past)
no-crimed (past)

Nevertheless, if the recommendations of the Working Party had been strictly observed, no reported cases in 1986 should have been 'no-crimed' on the basis of the victim withdrawing her complaint.

1989, Lorna J. F. Smith, Great Britain. Home Office. Research and Planning Unit, Concerns about rape, HMSO Books

Gregory and Lees (1999) suggest that, in contrast, the high rates of 'no criming' for rape and sexual assault demonstrate the low priority attached by the police to these offences.

2004, J. Jordan, The Word of a Woman?: Police, Rape and Belief, Springer, →ISBN, page 63:

According to these figures, in Lincolnshire, for example, 26% of all reported rapes were no-crimed in 2012–13 and 20% were no-crimed in 2011–12. This contrasts with Merseyside, where 4% reported rape crimes were no-crimed in 2012–13 ...

2014, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee, Caught Red Handed: Why We can't Count on Police Recorded Crime Statistics - HC 760, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, page 16:

Of cases reported, half to two-thirds are “no-crimed” or, in US parlance, “unfounded” or determined to be “baseless” by the police (Brown, 2010; Kelly et al., 2010).

2014, Karen Rich, Interviewing Rape Victims: Practice and Policy Issues in an International Context, Springer, →ISBN:

(chiefly UK) To determine that an alleged crime, especially a sexual assault or rape, should not be prosecuted as a crime (e.g. because the victim has withdrawn their complaint).


law lord

(historical) One of the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, a group of judges appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 to the British House of Lords in order to exercise its judicial function.

(Scotland) A judge of the Court of Session.


Snoopers' Charter

Named for their alleged invasion of privacy by the government.

(UK, informal, derogatory) The Draft Communications Data Bill, proposed legislation that would require ISPs and mobile phone companies to store records of each user's Internet browsing activity.


MMIWG

(Canada, politics, crime) Abbreviation of National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.


MMIWG

(Canada, US, politics, crime) Abbreviation of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

FFADA (Enquête nationale sur les femmes et les filles autochtones disparues et assassinées)

FFADA (les femmes et les filles autochtones disparues et assassinées)


reverse charge

This delivery is subject to reverse charge in the country of receipt.

(taxation) Added to an invoice to indicate that receiver of the goods or services in another member state of European Union is responsible for paying VAT.


LRIP

low rate income pool
low rate income pool#English

(Canada, taxation) Abbreviation of low rate income pool.


poor's roll

(Scots law, historical) The list of poor people who are litigants, but unable to pay the expenses of litigation, and therefore allowed to sue in forma pauperis.


brutum fulmen

From Latin brutum (“stupid”) + fulmen (“lightning”), derived from a 1680 pamphlet by Thomas Barlow of that title, originally from a passage of Pliny's Natural History: "hinc bruta fulmina et vana" ("these senseless and ineffectual thunder-claps", intended as a literal description of lightning).

... it was a question only whether the one hundred and eighty inconsistent canons thus added to the Corpus Juris of the Church would remain a mere brutum fulmen, or whether they would be the source of endless litigation and schism.

1910, William Ainger Wigram, An Introduction to the History of the Assyrian Church, page 112:

Generally speaking the making of an order which will be a brutum fulmen serves no good purpose of justice.

1958, Peter Edward Nygh, Conflict of Laws in Australia, page 149:

The later order of May 8, 1984, purporting also to declare the same declaration of trust void and revoked, accomplished nothing. It was a brutum fulmen.

1987, Cal. Ct. App., Lazzaroni v. Larson:


justifiable homicide

en-noun

justifiable homicide (countable and uncountable, plural justifiable homicides)

(law) A homicide that is allowed by law because it is necessary to prevent death or serious bodily harm.

(law) A homicide that is allowed by law because it is carried out by a public official in the performance of their duties.


joint investigation team

joint investigation team (plural joint investigation teams)

(law) A team formed jointly by national law enforcement agencies to investigate cross-border crime.


paper day

(law) Any of certain days in each term for hearing causes down in the paper or roll of business.


base right

(Scots law, historical) The right which a disposer acquires when disposing of feudal property.


shed blood

en-verb

shed blood (third-person singular simple present sheds blood, present participle shedding blood, simple past and past participle shed blood)

sheds blood (present singular third-person)
shedding blood (participle present)
shed blood (participle past)
shed blood (past)

For he to day that sheds his blood with me, / Shall be my brother:

1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

(idiomatic) To kill or wound, or be wounded or killed, in violence.


popular action

(law) an action in which any person may sue for penalty imposed by statute.


public domainness

(rare, informal) The state or quality of being in the public domain, free of copyright restrictions.


lawburrows

(Scots law) A writ requiring a person to give security against doing violence to another.


psycholegal

(law) Relating to psychological aspects of law enforcement or justice


inland revenue

en-noun

inland revenue (countable and uncountable, plural inland revenues)

Revenue derived from stamps, excise, income tax, etc.


my learned friend

(law, Australia, British, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Canada) A barrister on the opposing side of a dispute; a member of opposing counsel.


personal exception

(Scots law) A ground of objection that applies to an individual and prevents them from doing something which, except for their conduct or situation, they would be allowed to do.


CrASBO

(British, law enforcement) Acronym of criminal antisocial behaviour order: a restriction like an ASBO, but where the forbidden behaviour constitutes a crime.


Lotus principle

After the Lotus case, a criminal trial resulting from a 1926 collision between between French and Turkish ships, in which the applicable jurisdiction was disputed.

(law) The principle, in international law, that sovereign states may act in any way they wish as long as they do not contravene an explicit prohibition.


terms of service

(law) The terms, conditions, or restrictions under which a person, commonly called an end user, may or may not utilize the aspects of a particular service.


fuck 12

From fuck + 12, of uncertain origin. Widespread use of the phrase as an anti-police slogan grew following the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
* Possibly from 1312, an alternative form of ACAB (“all cops are bastards”) in which the letters are substituted with their position in the alphabet.
* Alternatively, from the American police procedural television series Adam-12 (1968–1975), in which 1-Adam-12 refers to a patrol unit and its radio call sign.
Likely popularized by "F*ck 12", a song by American hip hop group Migos from their 2013 mixtape Y.R.N. (Young Rich Niggas), which uses 12 in reference to the police while describing a narcotics raid: “12 kickin' in my front door […] 12 in my home, they won't leave me alone”.

Vehicles with the words "Fuck 12" painted on the sides and windows drove down West Florissant Avenue, honking in support of protesters on the street as others would chant the straight-to-the-point slogan.

2014 August 17, Ray Downs, “Ferguson Protesters Defy State of Emergency Curfew and Fight Tear Gas”, in Riverfront Times:

Kwame Shakur, deputy chairman of the New African Black Panther Party, showed up with a megaphone and led the protesters in chants of "All power to the people" and "Fuck 12."

2020 May 7, Tyler Fenwick, “'We're just trying to get answers': Fatal IMPD shooting captured on Facebook Live”, in Indianapolis Recorder:

(slang, vulgar, derogatory) Fuck the police, an anti-police slogan protesting police behaviour.

Adam-12
Migos
Y.R.N. (Young Rich Niggas)
killing of Michael Brown
murder of George Floyd


trespassory

Section 14C provides the police with a power to stop people from attending at a trespassory assembly before they reach the immediate vicinity of the assembly.

2012, John Beggs, George Thomas, Susanna Rickard, Public Order: Law and Practice, Oxford University Press, page 163:


flash rob

(criminology) A form of organized theft in which a group of people enter a shop en masse and steal merchandise, while the employees are overwhelmed by sheer numbers.


service of an heir

(Scots law) A proceeding before a jury to determine the heir of a deceased person.


inner bar

(UK, law) The legal profession as practised by Queen's Counsel.


outer bar

(UK, law) The legal profession as practised by junior barristers.


legal separation

legal separation (countable and uncountable, plural legal separations)

(law) A legal arrangement in which a married couple live in separate homes while remaining legally married.


letters rogatory

The most common remedies sought by letters rogatory are service of process and taking of evidence.

(law) A formal request from a court to a foreign court for some type of judicial assistance.


premurder

We fail to see, and the State has not indicated, how the premurder statements to one who was not a co-conspirator can be termed in furtherance of the conspiracy.

1981, Illinois Appellate Reports: Official Reports of the Illinois Appellate Court, page 1008:

And in 1997, a grand jury that was grinding away at the case learned of an interesting premurder conversation between Neulander and Myron "Pep" Levin.

2006, Sam Stall, Suburban Legends: True Tales of Murder, Mayhem, and Minivans, Quirk Books, →ISBN, page 67:

Performing a premurder ritual that includes wine, dancing, and the music of Dusty Springfield's hit song “The Look of Love,” Rodriguez asks Frannie, “You ever been in love? All women want love, right?”

2012, Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Karen Randell, Screening the Dark Side of Love: From Euro-Horror to American Cinema, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 56:


junior barrister

junior barrister (plural junior barristers)

(law) A barrister who has not yet attained the rank of Queen's Counsel.


base fee

(law) A qualified fee; a freehold estate of inheritance to which a qualification is annexed.


great fee

(law) The holding of a tenant of the Crown.


conditional fee

conditional fee (plural conditional fees)

(law) A fee granted on condition, or limited to particular heirs; the estate of a mortgagee of land, possession of which is conditional on payment.


try titles

en-verb

try titles (third-person singular simple present tries titles, present participle trying titles, simple past and past participle tried titles)

tries titles (present singular third-person)
trying titles (participle present)
tried titles (participle past)
tried titles (past)

To litigate a claim to property (most often real estate) or a public office.


self-executing

The general rule is that constitutional provisions are self-executing, except when the provisions themselves expressly require legislations to implement them […]

2003, Ruben E. Agpalo, Statutory Construction, page 467:

(law) Needing no legislation to enforce it.


utter barrister

en-noun

utter barrister (plural utter barristers)

From outer, in reference to the outer bar where they practise.


stuff gownsman

From the older sense of stuff (“fabric”), which they wear in contradistinction to the silk gowns of Queen's Counsel.


rules and regulations

(law) legislation or other binding provisions


personal estate

(law) Movable goods or property, as distinguished from freehold or real property, especially in land.


tariff barrier

a barrier to trade between countries in the form of high taxes or duties which may be imposed by a government.


sector principle

The Canadian authorities have also relied upon the sector principle for the purposes of the Inuvialuet Land Claim and the Nunavut boundary.

2001, Alex G. Oude Elferink, editor, The Law of the Sea and Polar Maritime Delimitation and Jurisdiction:

A principle in international law where international boundaries are extended over sea areas in the Arctic towards the North Pole following meridians (lines of longitude). The same principle is used over land in the Antarctic to the South Pole.


corporation tax

(British, taxation) synonym of corporate tax


chargor

[…] the charge was not within the class of charges which the chargor company was authorised to grant by its memorandum.

1979, The New Law Journal, volume 128, page 948:

Article 18 of the Law concerns only chargors which are legal entities or natural persons registered as entrepreneurs.

1996, Donald D. Barry, George Ginsburgs, The Revival of Private Law in Central and Eastern Europe, page 344:

(law) A person or company that owes a charge or right of security.


criminal tool

A device or implement used in the carrying out of a criminal offence.


legal vacuum

legal vacuum (plural legal vacuums or legal vacua)

legal vacuums (plural)
legal vacua (plural)

(law) A state of regulation that is uncomfortable by there being no conspicuous provision for a certain situation.

Rechtsvakuum n (rare, rather translationese)


due and payable

(law) Owed to another party and required to be settled straight away.


COLREGS

The International Regulations for the Prevention of Collision RULE at Sea (COLREGS) apply to all vessels, from kayaks to ocean-liners, on all of the oceans and bodies of water outside the magenta (red) Demarcation Line printed on charts.

1998, Charles Wing, Boating Magazine's One Minute Guide to the Nautical Rules of the Road:

There are no material differences between the COLREGS and Inland Rule.

2005, Craig H. Allen, Farwell's Rules of the Nautical Road, page 14:

The proposed algorithm is based on modified velocity obstacle which applies encounter situation judgment and decision-making of autonomy hazard avoidance of ship, which also take COLREGS into account.

2014, Jing Leng, Jian Liu, Hongli Xu, “Online Collision Avoidance Based on Modified Velocity Obstacle Approach for Unmanned Surface Vehicles”, in International Conference on Electrical, Control and Automation, page 112:

(international law) International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, the rules published by the International Maritime Organization to prevent collisions involving boats.


person unknown

(law, criminology) An individual yet to identified.


on remand

The man was on remand for armed robbery.


on bail

The assailant was released on bail.


judicial remedy

judicial remedy (plural judicial remedies)

(law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong


judicial relief

judicial relief (plural judicial relieves)


anticipatory repudiation

anticipatory repudiation (countable and uncountable, plural anticipatory repudiations)

(law) A declaration by the promising party to a contract that he/she does not intend to live up to the contractual obligations.


cellhouse

Such doorman will work at all times under the direct supervision of the cellhouse keeper and, during his tour of duty, will be responsible for the count of all inmates leaving or entering the cellhouse and for the security of the cellhouse door.

1962, Joseph Edward Ragen, Charles Finston, Inside the World's Toughest Prison, page 582:

65 The correctional officer in charge of the cellhouse, a sergeant, noticed the inmate resisting his transfer enter the cellhouse with five others and then go up a flight of stairs to an upper tier.

1991, Bert Useem, Peter Kimball, States of Siege: U.S. Prison Riots, 1971-1986, page 73:

The two mess halls were inadequate to feed the four thousand convicts from the four cellhouses at the same time, so the North and West honor units ate first.

2013, Edward Bunker, The Animal Factory:

One of the buildings in a prison that contains cells for the inmates; cellblock.


exit clause

Eurosceptic Conservative MPs will still vote down the government’s Brexit deal even if Theresa May negotiates an exit clause from the Irish backstop, the former minister Steve Baker has insisted.

2018 November 8, Heather Stewart, Daniel Boffey, “Tory Brexiters planning to reject deal even with backstop exit clause”, in The Guardian:

(law) A provision in a legal document or lease allowing a signatory or lessee to terminate the contract legally and usually without penalty under certain circumstances.


jury of half-tongue

jury of half-tongue (plural juries of half-tongue)

(law, historical) A jury for the trial of a foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens.


wilful homicide

wilful homicide (plural wilful homicides)

211. (1) Whosoever shall be guilty of wilful homicide shall be punished with imprisonment for life. (2) A person shall be guilty of wilful homicide if, maliciously, with intent to kill another person or to put the life of such other person in manifest jeopardy, he causes the death of such other person.

2019, Criminal Code of the Republic of Malta (English version), article 211, subarticles 1 and 2

(law, Malta) murder; defined similarly as in English law


fingersmith

"What do you call yourself, then?"
"Me? I'm a fingersmith. I'm a professional fingersmith." He spoke the words solemnly and proudly, as though he were telling me he was the President of the Royal College of Surgeons or the Archbishop of Canterbury.
"I've never heard that word before," I said. "Did you invent it?"
"Of course I didn't invent it," he replied. "It's the name given to them who's risen to the very top of the profession. You've 'eard of a goldsmith and a silversmith, for instance. They're experts with gold and silver. I'm an expert with my fingers, so I'm a fingersmith."
"It must be an interesting job."
"It's a marvellous job," he answered. "It's lovely."
"And that's why you go to the races?"
"Race meetings is easy meat," he said. "You just stand around after the race, watchin' for the lucky ones to queue up and draw their money. And when you see someone collectin' a big bundle of notes, you simply follows after 'im and 'elps yourself.

1977, Roald Dahl, The Hitch-Hiker, Atlantic Monthly:

Mr Ibbs was found to have handled stolen goods: he was sent to Pentonville. Of course, he knew many of the men in there, and might be supposed to have had an easy time among them—except that, here was a funny thing: the fingersmiths and cracksmen who had been so grateful to get an extra shilling from him on the outside, now quite turned against him; and I think his time was very miserable.

2002, Sarah Waters, chapter 17, in Fingersmith, London: Virago, →ISBN, part 3, page 510:


MAPPA

w:Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangement

(UK, law) Acronym of Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangement: an arrangement for the management of violent and sexual offenders who pose a serious risk to the public.