📄️ Ab Initio
Latin: from the beginning
📄️ Abandonment
Abandonment means leaving something or someone behind and deciding not to come back. It means stopping care, use, or responsibility for something — on purpose.
📄️ Abatement
📄️ Accord and Satisfaction
an affirmative defense
📄️ Action
An action refers to a legal proceeding or lawsuit.
📄️ Admin Judge
The full title is "presiding judge of an administrative judicial region" but often the shorter term "admin judge" is used.
📄️ Administrative Duty
A responsibility imposed by law or by rule, on a public official.
📄️ Admiralty
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📄️ Adverse Possession
📄️ Affidavit
📄️ Affirmative Defense
📄️ Abandonment
📄️ Apostille
📄️ Arbitration
📄️ Extra-territorial Jurisdiction ("ETJ")
Governmental entities have territorial boundaries, and normally, their jurisdiction ends where those boundary lines are drawn. However, there are ways for a governmental entity to extend the territorial aspect of their jurisdiction.