Check your english vocabulary for

parties to some types of legal relationship.
25. A real agreement to a contract by both parties.
26. A situation where the legal title is clear.
27. Referring to the case at law.
28. Mad, or not completely sane.
29. With no owner, or no obvious owner.
30. The mental state required to be guilty of committing a
crime.
31. An action done in return for something done or
promised.
32. From the beginning.
33. Legal action against a thing (for example, one party
claims property or goods in the possession of another).
34. An act forbidden by criminal law.
35. Not capable of committing a crime.
36. The real proof that a crime has been committed.
37. An act which is not a crime, but is forbidden.
38. In good faith.
39. Acting in a way which exceeds your legal powers.
ab initio
actus reus
ad litem
bona fide(s)
bona vacantia
consensus ad idem
corpus delicti
de facto
de jure
de novo
doli capax
doli incapax
ex gratia
ex parte
ex post facto
habeas corpus 
in flagrante delicto
in loco parentis
in personam
in rem
inter alia
in terrorem
ipso facto
ipso jure
locus standi
mala in se
mala prohibita
mens rea
non compos mentis
onus probandi
pari passu
per curiam 
per se
prima facie
pro tempore
quid pro quo 
res judicata
uberrimae fidei
ultra vires

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Unit 0000
For reference see Dictionary of Law 4th edition (A & C Black 0-7475-6636-4).
Contracts, formal letters and other legal documents frequently contain 'reference' words
that are not often used in other areas of English. These words refer to time, place, result,
etc, in connection with the documents they appear in.
Complete sentences 1 – 14 with appropriate words from the box. To help you, each
sentence is followed by an explanation in italics of the function of the missing word.
Legal referencing
aforementioned hereafter hereby herein hereinafter hereof hereto (x2)
heretofore hereunder herewith thereafter therein thereinafter thereinbefore
1.
We are somewhat confused, as the contract we received named the company as The Sophos