Legal Terms and Maxims

What is in this deck

With this deck you learn legal vocabulary and the Latin maxims behind it: what each one does, and where the legal meaning differs from the everyday one.

Legal English is two languages: ordinary words used precisely, and Latin used as shorthand for an idea that would otherwise take a paragraph.

100 cards on both. The maxims with what they actually do: habeas corpus compels a custodian to justify a detention, res ipsa loquitur infers negligence from the event itself, respondeat superior is why the employer is sued. Then the vocabulary by area: the five elements of a contract, the four of negligence, the difference between assault and battery, and what hearsay is before its dozens of exceptions.

Where an everyday meaning differs from the legal one, the card says so. Assault requires no touching. Consideration is not thoughtfulness. This is vocabulary, not advice, and no bar examination's questions are reproduced.

The categories decide what comes up: start with “Contracts” alone and add the rest when you are ready.

What you learn

• Thirty Latin maxims and what each one does
• Contract: the five elements and the statute of frauds
• Tort: negligence, strict liability, defamation
• Criminal: mens rea, the common law offences, Miranda
• Procedure and evidence: standing, privilege, hearsay

The categories

9 categories sort the 100 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.

1. Contracts
2. Courts
3. Criminal
4. Evidence
5. Foundations
6. Latin maxims
7. Procedure
8. Standards
9. Torts

Learning with Qardbox

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