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Legal guide Plain English Campaign The A to z guide to legal phrases Copyright Plain English Campaign The A to Z guide to legal phrases This is only a basic guide If you have any suggestions corrections or improvements please contact us You can contact us

Plain English Campaign The A to z guide to legal phrases Copyright Plain English Campaign The A to Z guide to legal phrases This is only a basic guide If you have any suggestions corrections or improvements please contact us You can contact us at PO Box New Mills High Peak SK QP Phone Fax Email info plainenglish co uk Website www plainenglish co uk Copyright Plain English Campaign owns the copyright to this guide You can save one copy of the guide to disk and print one copy out for your personal use You must not make more than one copy without our permission CIntroduction The language used in law is changing Many lawyers are now adopting a plain English style But there are still legal phrases that ba e nonlawyers This guide is intended to help in two ways ? it should help non-lawyers understand legal phrases and ? it should give lawyers ideas for explaining the legal phrases that they use The explanations in this guide are not intended to be straight alternatives Although we hope the explanations will prompt lawyers to make sure they only use legal jargon where strictly necessary our wording is there to explain ideas and concepts rather than to give strict legal de ?nitions The terms and explanations are for the law in England and Wales This is very much a 'work in progress' and we welcome any corrections clari ?cations or suggested additions Please email us with your comments The copyright on this guide belongs to Plain English Campaign Please contact us if you want to reproduce any part of it A Abandonment Abatement is Abduction Ab initio Abovementioned Abscond giving up a legal right cancelling a writ or action stopping a nuisance reducing the payments to creditors in proportion if there is not enough money to pay them in full or reducing the bequests in a will in proportion when there is not enough money to pay them in full taking someone away by force from the start of something This phrase is Latin describing something which has been referred to before in the document when a person fails to present themselves before the court when required such as when they have been released on bail and not returned to court CAbsolute Absolute discharge Absolute owner Absolute privilege Abstract of title Abuse of process Abuttals Acceptance Acceptance of service Acceptor Accessory Accomplice Accordingly Accounts complete and unconditional someone who has been convicted of an o ?ence being released without any penalty They may still have to pay compensation though the only owner of property such as equipment buildings land or vehicles a defence which can be used in a case of defamation if the statement from which the defamation arose was ? made in Parliament ? in fair and accurate news reporting of court proceedings or ? made during court proceedings a document drawn up by the seller summarising the title deeds to a property such as a house when