Legal terms you really love Forum

[vamedic03]

"Taint shopping" in professional responsibility.

[07ggfa5]

Favorite term: Retributivist

Favorite phrase: Put the innocent non-breaching party in the position she would have been in had the contract been performed.

[MisterChase]

Judicial Economy

Such an ominous term, and one that rolls off the tongue like water on ice.

[jrtx027]

Not a legal term, but I couldn't resist:

Marshall: "Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more: it is intercourse." BOW CHICKA WOW WOW

[pre-law]

"Serve him with Process" - Civil Procedure (Personal Jurisdiction)

"What is chicken?" - Contract Law (Frigaliment Importing Co. v. B.N.S. International Sales Corp)

[DeSimone]

Offensive nonmutual collateral estoppel.

[sullidop]

Quid pro quo

"As a matter of law, the house is haunted." Stambovsky v. Ackley, 169 A.D.2d 254

[BriaTharen]

Usufruct

It has a world of incorrect usage possibilities

[schween]

Jus primae noctis

[chicagolaw2013]

"If it were not assize-time, I would not take such language from you." - Tuberville v. Savage (Savs, where you at when I need ya on this one?)

Also a fan of "subpoena duces tecum"...at which point I channel Chris Brown...because I chuck my "duces" up.

[Borhas]

Latin's a shitty language, should be abolished for policy reasons

[ResolutePear]

Latin's a shitty language, should be abolished for policy reasons

but... but... in loco parentis!

[MisterChase]

"As a matter of law, the house is haunted." Stambovsky v. Ackley, 169 A.D.2d 254

That is fucking awesome.

[cantaboot]

rely on .... to one's detriment.

[plum]

dicker

I went through each page of this page thread, hoping nobody had said this yet. But I can't be disappointed that you beat me to it, all I can do is applaud your contribution. It's close to impossible not to at least smirk when your professor says "dickered" without batting an eye.

+1

[Cavalier]

Expelliarmus

[megaTTTron]

"As a matter of law, the house is haunted." Stambovsky v. Ackley, 169 A.D.2d 254

That is fucking awesome.

We had to read this at orientation. killer.

[non sequitur]

Post hoc ergo propter hoc is my favorite.

Best quote from a case:

This case presents the ordinary man-that problem child of the law-in a most bizarre setting. As a lowly chauffeur in defendant's employ he became in a trice the protagonist in a breach-bating drama with a denouement almost tragic. It appears that a man, whose identity it would be indelicate to divulge was feloniously relieved of his portable goods by two nondescript highwaymen in an alley near 26th Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan; they induced him to relinquish his possessions by a strong argument ad hominem couched in the convincing cant of the criminal and pressed at the point of a most persuasive pistol.

[JazzOne]

My favorite legal term is "but for," but I'm also a big fan of "PHOSITA."

Although this isn't technically a legal term, I never heard the word "militate" prior to law school.

[Grizz]

My favorite legal term is "but for," but I'm also a big fan of "PHOSITA."

What's a but for?

[JazzOne]

My favorite legal term is "but for," but I'm also a big fan of "PHOSITA."

What's a but for?

Dude, you're a PHOSITA. You should know.

[BioEBear2010]

Estoppel, because it's a lawyerfied version of stop.

[Grizz]

My favorite legal term is "but for," but I'm also a big fan of "PHOSITA."

What's a but for?

Dude, you're a PHOSITA. You should know.

I now hate myself for chuckling at this exchange.

[DeSimone]

Extrajudicial killing

[Nicholasnickynic]

"Taint shopping" in professional responsibility.

WIN.