Abrogate - the cancellation, annulment or repeal of either a law, right or formal agreemen
Assails - criticize
Anomalous - irregular
Apprehensive - anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen.
Disbursement - the payment of money from a fund.
Purported - alleged
Propriety - the details or rules of behavior conventionally considered to be correct.
Adduce - cite as evidence
Certiorari - a writ or order by which a higher court reviews a decision of a lower court.
Omnibus Motion - a request made to a court that asks for multiple things at once. It's like
asking for many different things in one big request.
Vagueness - lack of certainty
Gamut - the complete range or scope of something.
Struck down - to declare (a law) illegal and unenforceable.
“Love child” - a child born to parents who are not married to each other.
Exasperated - intensely irritated and frustrated.
“Pendente lite” - awaiting the litigation
“Cause of action” - the act or omission by which a party violates a right of another.
Ex parte - for one party
Filiation - the fact of being or of being designated the child of a particular parent or parents
Arrears - money that is owed and should have been paid earlier
Alimony - financial support that a person is ordered by a court to give to their spouse during
separation or following divorce.
Avvers - state or assert to be the case
Rationacion - the process of making judgments about something based on sensible thinking or
logic
Impugning - dispute the truth, validity, or honesty of (a statement or motive); call into question.
Putative - generally considered or reputed to be.
Absoluta sententia expositore non indiget - plain language does not need an interpreter
Peremptorily - ​in a way that allows no discussion or possibility of refusing
Indicted - formally accused of or charged with a serious crime.
Stipulate - demand or specify (a requirement), typically as part of a bargain or agreement.
Due course - the fair and just legal proceedings that protect people's rights
Discrepancy - a lack of compatibility or similarity between two or more facts.
Indemnify - compensate (someone) for harm or loss.
Insolvency - inability to pay
Insuperable cause - is a cause which has lawfully, morally or physically prevented a person to
do what the law commands
Preliminary injunction - temporary relief that preserves the status quo until the courts decide
on the merits of the case.
Locus standi - is defined as “a right of appearance in a court of justice on a given question
Judicial legislation - laws held to be created by the pronouncements of a judge who departs
from a strict interpretation of a law according to the manifest intention of the legislature.
Exegesis - critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially of scripture.
Exclusionary right - a judge‐made rule that evidence obtained by the government in violation
of a defendant's constitutional rights can't be used against him or her.
Interregnum - no constitution or Bill of Rights existed, directives and orders issued by
government officers were valid
Sequestration - the seizure of property of an individual by a government, which uses it to its
own benefit.
Corollary - A consequence or result that can be logically drawn from the existence of a set of
facts by the exercise of common sense and reason.
De jure government- is the legal, legitimate government of a state and is so recognized by
other states.
De facto government - is in actual possession of authority and control of the state.