Legal Dictionary

Mojo Law's Dictionary of Legal Terms & Phrases

Mojo Law's Legal Dictionary consists of thousands of important law terms & phrases defined & explained, often including historical use & case citations.

• A - Acc - A to Accouple
• Acc - Adj - Accredit to Adjournment
• Adj - Aff - Adjudication to Affidatio Dominorum
• Aff - All - Affidavit to Allegata and Probata
• All - Ano - Allegation to Anonymous
• Ans - Arg - Answer to Argumentum Ab Inconvenienti
• Ari - Att - Aristocracy to Attesting Witness
• Att - Ay - Attorney to Ayuntamiento

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• Ba - Bachelor to Bay-Warden
• Be - Bi - Beach to Bishoprick
• Bl - By - Black Book to By-Laws

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• Ca - Cav - Caballeria to Cavil
• Ce - Ch - Ceterorum to Church-Warden
• Ci - Cod - Cipher to Codicil
• Coe - Com - Coercion to Commute
• Comp - Cond - Compact to Conduct Money
• Conf - Cons - Confederacy to Consummation
• Cont - Cor - Contagious Disorders to Coroner
• Cor - Cov - Corporal to Covin
• Cow - Cz - Cow to Czarowitz

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• Da - Dea - Dam to Death's Part
• Deb - Deg - Debate to Degree
• Deh - Dep - Dehors to Deputy District Attorneys
• Der - Dim - Derelict to Diminution
• Dip - Div - Diploma to Divorce
• Do - Dy - Docket to Dyvour's Habit

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• Ea - Em - Eagle to Emptor
• En - Ew - En Demeure to Ewage
• Ex - Ey - Ex Contractu to Eyre

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• F - Fe - F to Feudal
• Fi - Foo - Fiar to Forcible Entry
• For - Fu - Foreclosure to Full Defense

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• Ga - Go - Gabel to Governor
• Gr - Gu - Grace to Guilty

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• Ha - Habeas Corpus to Hazardous Contract
• He - Hy - Head Borough to Hypotheque

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• Ib - Im - Ibidem to Imputation
• Ina - Inc - In Alio Loco to Incumbrance
• Ind - Inn - Indebitatus Assumpsit to Innuendo
• Ino - Ins - Inofficious to Insurrection
• Int - It - Intakers to Itinerant

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• Ja - Jur - Jactitation of Marriage to Jury
• Jus - Jus to Justifying Bail

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• K - Keelage to Knowingly

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• La - Len - Label to Lender
• Les - Lie - Lesion to Lien
• Lif - Ly - Life to Lynch-Law

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• M - Man - Macedonian Decree to Manuscript
• Mar - May - Marauder to Mayor's Court
• Mea - Mil - Measure to Mil-Reis
• Min - Mol - Mind & Memory to Molitura
• Mon - My - Monarchy to Mystic

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• Na - Ne -Nail to New
• Ni - Nos - Niece to Nosocomi
• Not - Nu - Not Guilty to Nurus

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• Oa - Opi - Oath to Opinion
• Opp - Oy - Opposition to Oyez

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• Pa - Pas - Pace to Pastures
• Pat - Peo - Patent to People
• Per - Pi - Per Capita to Pit
• Pl - Por - Place to Portsales
• Pos - Pra - Positive to Prayer
• Pre - Pri - Preamble to Prize
• Pro - Prol - Pro to Prolongation
• Prom - Prox - Promatertera to Proxy
• Pu - Public to Putative

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• Q - Quack to Quousque

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• Ra - Rec - Rack to Recusation
• Red - Rel Reddendo Singula Singulis to Relocation
• Rem - Req - Remainder to Requisition
• Res - Rh - Res to Rhodian Law
• Ri - Ru - Rial Of Plate to Ruta

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• Sa - Sc - Sabbath to Scyregemote
• Se - Sen - Se Defendendo to Sentence
• Sep - Sh - Separate Estate to Short Entry
• Si - So - Si Facerit Te Securem to Sovereignty
• Sp - Sq - Spadones to Squatter
• St - Stakeholder to Stuprum
• Su - Sum - Sub-Agent to Sumptuary Laws
• Sun - Sy - Sunday to Synod

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• Ta - Te - Tabellio to Testimony
• Th - To - Theft to Town
• Tr - Ty - Trade to Tyrant

• U - Uberrima Fides to Utter Barrister

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• Va - Ve - Vacancy to Vexatious Suits
• Vi - Vo - Vi Et Armis to Voyage

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• Wa - Wh - Wadset to Wholesale
• Wi - Wr - Widow to Wrongfully Intending

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• Y - Yard to Young Animals