Glossary
- appellate jurisdiction the right of a court to hear cases previously heard by other, lower courts
- comity legal reciprocity shown between different governments or jurisdictions
- coram non judice a legal term used to describe a legal proceeding without proper venue or jurisdiction
- devisee a person who inherits land through a will
- ejectment a common law term to describe the recovery of land (“real property”)
- escheat the right of a state to take property that has no legal heirs or claimants
- ex industria by industry or labor
- ex post facto operating retroactively
- General Government the federal government of the United States
- in pais performed out of court
- non constat a legal term meaning “it is not certain”; refers to information that is hard to argue in court
- original jurisdiction the right of a court to hear a case for the first time
- quo minus a writ sworn out by a debtor, claiming that he has been injured by his or her creditor and is thus unable to pay his or her debt
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