Category
page 1English law
corporate law
body of law that applies to the rights, relations, and conduct of persons, companies, organizations and businesses
English law
legal system of England and Wales
Home Office
United Kingdom government ministerial department
Lincoln's Inn
one of the four Inns of Court in London, England
Gray's Inn
one of the four Inns of Court in London, England, UK
Inner Temple
one of the four Inns of Court in London, England
Anglo-Scottish border
96-mile long border between England and Scotland
Middle Temple
one of the four Inns of Court in London, England
Ministry of Justice
United Kingdom government ministerial department
banns of marriage
official announcement of an upcoming marriage in the Catholic Church
time immemorial
phrase meaning time extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition
Companies House
registration authority for companies in the UK
Attorney General's Office
United Kingdom government ministerial department
county palatine
territory or jurisdiction of a count palatine. historical country subdivision, the ruler of which was granted an unusual degree of autonomy

Great Seal of the Realm
seal of the United Kingdom
point system
penalty point or demit system recording traffic and motoring offences
security interest
legal right granted by a debtor to a creditor over the debtor's property
benefit of clergy
in English law, originally a provision by which clergymen were outside the jurisdiction of secular courts; later, a legal fiction through which first-time offenders receive lesser sentences for some crimes
Law French
archaic linguistic form used in English courts after 1066
Operation Paget
2004–06 British police inquiry into Diana's death
amercement
An amercement is a financial penalty in English law, common during the Middle Ages, imposed either by the court or by peers.
Bloody Assizes
series of trials, 1685
title retention clause
provision in a contract for the sale of goods that the title to the goods remains vested in the seller until the buyer fulfils certain obligations
The English Constitution
non-fiction work by Walter Bagehot
Everything which is not forbidden is allowed
legal principle
right of way in England and Wales
overview of the rights of way in England and Wales
England–Wales border
boundary between England and Wales
privy seal
personal seal of a reigning monarch
Commentaries on the Laws of England
Influential 18th-century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone
Rights of Englishmen
Rights of English subjects of the British Crown
freemen on the land
pseudolegal theory and associated movement
subinfeudation
In English law, subinfeudation is the practice by which tenants, holding land under the king or other superior lord, carved out new and distinct tenures in their turn by sub-letting or alienating a part of their lands.
M'Naghten rules
Guideline governing legal pleas of insanity
public nuisance
common law offence
deed poll
legal document binding only to a single person or party
Michaelmas term
first academic term in some English-speaking universities and schools
court hand
style of handwriting used in medieval English law courts
call to the bar
authorization to practice as a barrister