PROMULGATED - To declare or announce publically or STATUTE - a formal written enactment of a legislative
to proclaim. authority that governs the legal entities of a city, state, or
country by way of consent.
ENFORCED - to make people obey a law, or to make a
particular situation happen or be accepted. JUDICIAL - a descriptive term used to indicate that a
thing refers, relates, or pertains to a judge or the court.
RATIONAL - a reason or ground (as for legislation or an
action by a government agency) that is not unreasonable PREVAIL – mananaig
or arbitrary and that bears a rational relationship to a DEPORTATION - the formal removal of a foreign
legitimate state interest. national from another country.
STATE (GOVERNEMNT) - a political division of a body ADJUDICATION - is the legal process by which an
of people that occupies a territory defined by frontiers. arbiter or judge reviews evidence and argumentation.
DIVULGED - to make use of, reveal, make known, DISPUTES / DISPUTABLE - a disagreement, argument,
disclose, make public, release, publish, broadcast, or controversy.
communicate, correspond or any other manners whereby
IMPUNITY - situations in which there are no effective
information can be transmitted.
measures to penalize violations or when such measures
REVELATION - information that has been made known are not enforced.
that was not known before.
BREACH - a violation of law or when a party fails to
BINDING FORCE - A binding promise, agreement, or perform their part of a contractual agreement.
decision must be obeyed or carried out.
CONVICTED - the fact of officially being found to be
ABSOLUTE - final or without limitations. guilty of a particular crime, or the act of officially finding
someone guilty.
CONDEMNED – hinatulan.
OMISSION - failure to perform a legal duty when one has
VOID (IPAWALANG-BISA) – no legal effect.
the capacity to do so is a substitute for the commission of
a defined offense when the harm done is the same.
INDEMNIFICATION - to secure / protect against hurt, STIPULATION - an agreement, a bargain, proviso, or
loss, or damage. condition.
OBLIGED - to force or require (someone or something) MORTGAGE - a legal instrument of the common law
to do something because of a law or rule or because it is which is used to create a security interest in real
necessary. property
INCUR - becoming liable or subject to an obligation, be it FORBIDDEN - not permitted by order or law
a claim, a loss, an expense, or another legal obligation.
ABSTAIN - to choose not to do or have something
NEGLIGENCE - doing, or failing to do something that a
MALICE - a legal term which refers to a party's intention
reasonable person would, or would not, do and which
to do injury to another party.
causes another person damage, injury or loss as a result.
WAIVER (kasulatan) – written agreements
DELAY - the failure to perform an obligation on time
which failure constitutes a breach of the obligation. VOID (alisin)- Having no legal effect from the start
TENOR - the period of credit or installments given to the USURIOUS (illegal transanctions) - charging an illegally
debtor and must be paid high interest rate on a loan.
IMPUGN OR ATTACK - oppose or attack as false or INFERENCE - a rational conclusion that has been
lacking integrity. deduced, or proved, from the presented facts.
DILIGENCE - the use of care or persistence in TRANMISSIBLE - a right whose identity persists despite
performing duties; thorough attention to a matter the fact that it passes from one person to another
FRAUD (panloloko) - the intentional use of deceit, a trick
or some dishonest means to deprive another of his/her/its
money, property or a legal right.
ARISE – to occur (pag dumating na)
