LEGAL TERMS STARTING WITH "C"
- C.I.F. - Cost, insurance, freight. The cost of goods includes these items.
- Cabinet - Advisory council to an executive officer especially the President.
- Canon - A rule or principle, which is accepted as fundamental.
- Capital - Punishable by execution, involving the death penalty.
- Case - A proceeding, action, suit or controversy at law or in equity.
- Case law - The collection of reported cases that form the body of law within a given jurisdiction.
- Casualty - A serious or fatal accident.
- Cause - Something that produces an effect or result.
- Caveat - A warning or proviso.
- Censure - An official reprimand or condemnation; harsh criticism.
- Cess - An assessment, tax or levy.
- Charge - A formal accusation of a crime made by the police in the charge sheet.
- Charity - Aid given to poor.
- Charter - An instrument by which a governmental entity grants rights, liberties to citizens.
- Chattel - Movable property.
- Cheating - Fraudulent obtaining of another’s property by means of a false symbol or token, or by other illegal practices.
- Citation - The quotation of decided cases in legal argument as authorities. To refer to previously decided cases in the trial in court to support an argument.
- Civil - Relating to private law (example: a dispute between two individuals), as opposed to public law.
- Claim - A challenge of interest of anything which is in another’s possession.
- Code - A systematic, written collection of laws ( e.g., Indian Penal Code, Civil Procedure Code, Criminal Procedure Code).
- Cognates - Relations by the mother side.
- Cognizance - Judicial lmowledge. Thus, to take cognizance of an offence is to bring to the knowledge of law enforcers or to proceed.
- Commutation (conversion) - The change of a penalty or punishment from a greater to a less punishment.
- Compensation - The money awarded as damages in case of breach of civil right of a person by another Person.
- Condonation - The pardoning of an offence.
- Confiscate - To appropriate private property to the public treasury by way of penalty.
- Consanguinity - Relationship by blood.
- Consideration - Price for the promise to do something. Every contract requires consideration to be legally enforceable.
- Conspiracy - An agreement by two or more persons to commit an unlawful act.
- Constitution - This refers to organic instrument under which powers are conferred on various organs of the Government.
- Consumer - A person who buys goods or services for personal, family, or household use, with no intention of resale.
- Consummation - Voluntary sexual intercourse.
- Contempt - Wilful disregard or disobedience of public authority.
- Contraband - Prohibited by law.
- Contract - A legally binding agreement between two or more parties.
- Conversion - A civil wrong, when someone’s title to his movable property is denied or if a bailee negligently allows the bailor’s goods to be damaged.
- Conveyance - A written document transferring ownership of land from one person to another.
- Convict - A person found guilty of an offence and punishments awarded against him.
- Copyright - It is exclusive right by virtue of Copyright Act subject to provisions of other law.
- Coroner - An officer who inquires into any violent or unnatural death.
- Costs - Expenses of proceedings or suit in the Court.
- Court - A person or a group of persons or judges with authority to hear and decide disputes by interpreting and applying law.
- Covenant - An agreement in writing between two persons, whereby, one is agreeing to do or not to do something.
- Crime - An illegal conduct which is harmful to a person or persons or to society as a whole and is punishable by the State by different laws. This is an act of commission or omission entailing punishment by law.
- Criminal - One who has committed a criminal offence; One who has been convicted for a crime.
- Criminology - A science that deals with crimes and criminals.
- Culprit - A person accused or charged with the commission of a crime; A person who is guilty of crime.
- Custom - An unwritten law dating bsck to civilisation. This is a habitual course of conduct which is observed uniformly and voluntarily by the people concerned.
- Cyber Law - Field of law dealing with computers and internet.
- Cybertheft - Act of using an online computer bto steal others property.
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