Law lexicon
Domicile - The place where a person has his permanent home to which he intends to return.
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Double jeopardy - Putting a person on trial more than once for the same crime. It is forbidden by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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Due process of law - The right of all persons to receive the guarantees and safeguards of the law and the judicial process. It includes such constitutional requirements as adequate notice, assistance of counsel, and the rights to remain silent, to a speedy and public trial, to an impartial jury, and to confront and secure witnesses.
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Elements of a crime - Specific factors that define a crime which the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt in order to obtain a conviction: (1) that a crime has actually occurred, (2) that the accused intended the crime to happen, and (3) a timely relationship between the first two factors.
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Embezzlement - The fraudulent appropriation by a person to his own use or benefit or property or money entrusted to him by another.
Eminent Domain - The power of the government to take private property for public use through condemnation.
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En Banc - All the judges of a court sitting together. Appellate courts can consist of a dozen or more judges, but often they hear cases in panels of three judges. If a case is heard or reheard by the full court, it is heard en banc.
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Encyclopedia - A book or series of books arranged alphabetically by topics containing information on areas of law, including citations to support the information.
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Enjoin - To order a person to perform, or to abstain and desist from performing a specified act or course of conduct. See injunction.
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Entity - A person or legally recognized organization.
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Entrapment - The act of inducing a person to commit a crime so that a criminal charge will be brought against him.
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Entry - A statement of conclusion reached by the court and placed in the court record.
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Environment - The conditions, influences, or forces which affect the desirability and value of property, as well as the effect on people's lives.
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - A federal agency created to permit coordinatedand environment effective governmental action to preserve the quality of the environment.
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Environmental Litigation- Action relating to environment issues. These litigations are filed in order to establish right relating to environment under statutory law and international environmental conventions. Some countries have separate environmental courts to deal with such cases. The recent trend of jurisprudence is that a kind of public interest environmental litigation has developed to promote and protect the environment. Right to environment has been regarded as a corollary of right to life.
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Fortiori- The Latin phrase argumentum a fortiori denotes "argument 'from the stronger reason'." For example, if it has been established that a person is deceased, then one can, with equal or greater certainty, argue that the person is not breathing.
Source: Jurist International.
