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Question	Answer
By itself	Per se
That is	Id est
By that very fact itself	Ipso facto
A lawyer who is qualified to plead on behalf of clients	Barrister
In the UK, a training course which enables people who wish to become barristers and who have registered with the Inns of Court to acquire the skills and knowledge to prepare them for the specialised training of the pupillage	Bar Vocational Course
A ceremony held at the end of this training course, when a candidate enters the profession	Call to the Bar
Organisation regulating the legal profession	Bar association
in the USA, an important test taken by law-school graduates which. when passed, qualifies a person to practise law	Bar examination
Granted entrance to the legal profession	Admitted to the Bar
To compel a lawyer to stop practising law due to an offence committed	To disbar
Civil wrong	Tort
Formal proposal for legislation	Bill
Order from a central authority e.g. The European community	Directive
Municipal law (US)	Ordinance
Written law for contracts (UK)	Ordinance
Municipal law (UK)	Bylaw
Written rules for contracts (US)	Bylaw
Demand for money, property or enforcement of a right	Claim
Official proclamation by a court and results from a petition or a motion	Order
A formal written request which may initiate a court case	Petition
A general term for any formal request during a court case	Motion
Court decision on a case and results from a complaint	Ruling
Court case	Proceeding
A lawyer that mainly works in an office drafting documents and giving legal advice	Solicitor
A lawyer who can appear in higher courts (Scottish Barrister)	Advocate (Scotland)
A general term for a lawyer	Attorney
To draw up a document	To draft
A written statement someone makes after they have sworn to tell the truth	Affidavit
An official order by a court that tells someone to stop doing sth	Injunction
A person appointed by a company to examine the company's accounts and report the shareholders annually on those accounts	Auditor
A person appointed by a company, a court or the company's creditor to wind up the company's affairs	Liquidator
A person engaged in developing or taking the initiative to form a company	Promoter
Doctors are also known as:	Physicians
A doctor who replaces another doctor who is ill or in holiday	Locum
An informal way of saying "unwell"	Off colour / under the weather
Inflation is a sign of an ___ economy (not good)	ailing
Unenthusiastic	Jaundiced
allergy to pollen and spring	Hay fever
Imaginary party	Reasonable prudent person
In contract remedies, the term for compensation agreed upon by the parties and set forth in the contract that must be paid by one or the other in the event that the contract is breached	Liquidated damages
Compensation determined by the amount of benefit unjustly received by the breaching party	Restitution damages
Compensation for losses which are as a result of special facts and circumstances related to a particular transaction which were forseeable by the breaching party at the time of the contract	Consequential damages
Compensation which seeks to put the non-breaching party in the position he would have been had the contract been performed	Expectation damages
Compensation for a loss that is the natural and logical result of the breach of contract.	Actual damages
A contract clause setting out which party is responsible for the payment of costs related to preparation of the agreement and ancillary documents	Payment of costs
A clause expressing the cause, motive, price or impelling motive which induces one party to enter the agreement	Consideration clause
A clause referring to the amount predetermined by the parties as the total amount of compensation a non-breaching party should receive if the other party breaches a part of the contract	Liquidated damages
A clause prohibiting or permitting assigment under certain conditions	Assignment clause
A clause providing that in the event that one or more provisions of the agreement are declared unenforceable, the balance of the agreement remains in force	Severability clause
Defences to contract formation	Lack of legal capacity / duress / fraud / illegality of subject matter
To bring on damages	To incur damages
To agree on damages	To stipulate damages
To determine damages	To ascertain damages
To get back damages	To recover damages
To expect damages	To anticipate damages
When your skin is yellow because of a liver problem	To be jaundiced
The likely course of a medical condition. I.e. how it´s likely to develop	Prognosis
A doctrine of contract law that says contracts are only binding on the parties to a contract and that no third party can enforce the contract or be sued under it.	Privity of contract
An exception to the privity of contract principle where the original contract provides for rights to be conferred on a third party.	Beneficiary contract
A contract clause stating that the written terms of an agreement may not be varied by prior or oral agreement because all such agreements have been consolidated into the written document	Entire agreement clause
A contract clause designed to protect against failures to perform contractual obligations caused by unavoidable events beyond the parties' control such as natural disasters or wars	Force majeure
A contract clause outlining when and under which circumstances a contract may be terminated	Termination clause
A contract clause concerning the treating of information as private and not for distribution beyond specifically identified individuals or organizations nor used other than for specifically identified purposes	Confidentiality clause
Clause in a contract requiring the obligor to pay all or a part of a payable amount sooner than as agreed upon the occurrence of some event or circumstance stated in the contract. Usually failure to make payment	Acceleration clause
The place where a group of specially chosen people examine legal problems of a particular type such as employment disputes	Tribunal
A company's chief administrative officer	Secretary
The number of stock units (shares) that a company can issue as stated in its memorandum of association or its articles of incorporation.	Authorized share capital
A person appointed by a shareholder to attend and vote at a meeting in his place when the shareholder is unable to attend	Proxy
A company director responsible for the day-to-day operation of the company	Managing director
A person elected by the shareholders to manage the company and decide its general policy	Director
A person who sues in a civil lawsuit	Claimant
A person who is sued in a civil lawsuit	Defendant
To bring into effect a law	To enact
To remove a law	To repeal a law
To establish a decision in a court case which must be taken into account in future decisions	To set precedent
A formal written statement setting forth the cause of action or the defence in a case	Pleading
Someone who is a member of a company because they acquired shares in the company	Shareholder
If something is ___ it is interpreted in a particular way because sb or sth implies it	Inferred
To perform one´s duties according to the obligations of the contract	To render performance
Transfer of contractual rights and / or duties from one party to a new party	Assignation / assignment
A person appointed by creditors to oversee the repayment of debts	Receiver
Compensation necessary to reimburse the non-breaching party for efforts expended and expenses incurred in the reasonable belief that the contract will be performed	Reliance damages
aka executor - The person assigned in a will (or testament) to handle the affairs of a person who has died	Personal representative
A person assigned by a court to oversee the finalcial or personal affairs of a person who has become incapacitated	Conservator
If you ___ making a decision, you avoid making it until a later time	Defer
If a contract ___ to confer a right, it claims or attemps to do so, but it does not necessarily confer the right	Purports
Interpretation of a contract. Resolves potential ambiguity	Construction
A parallel contract	Collateral