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Important legal terms of Jurisprudence.

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farzanamili:
Res nullius-things without owner

Stare decisis-following case decisions

Per incuriam-through want of care

Sub-silentio-not fully argued

Sententia legis-intention of the legislature

Litera scripta-according to letter

Ratio decidendi-reason of the decision

Obiter Dictum- what the Judge said unwantedly

Opinio necessitatis-ethical conviction that there is an authority behind the custom
Injuria-legal injury or wrong

Damnum-mere loss

Damnum sine injuria-detriment without legal injury

Right in rem-a right available against the whole world

Right in personam-a right available against a particular individual only

Dominum-the right of full ownership in property

Animus possidendi-intent to appropriate to oneself, the exclusive use of the thing possessed
Corpus-actual present exclusion of all alien interference with the thing possessed

De facto-factual or actual

De jure-legally

Mens rea-guilty mind

Dolus-intention

Chose in action-actionable claim

Occupatio-occupation of a thing belonging to nobody as yet

Derelicts-things willfully abandoned

riaduzzaman:
very hard.

farzanamili:
still i forget  :D

anamika.law:
Doesn't matter how much hard the terms are and for how many times we forget those, matter is we will keep learning. :D

farzanamili:
yes, exactly :D

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