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• adverse inference

  A legal inference, adverse to the concerned party, drawn from silence or absence of requested evidence
• adverse user

  Use of property as the owner himself would exercise, entirely disregarding the claims of others, asking permission from knowone.
• advice

  The opinion given by counsel to their client
• adviser

  One that advises
• adjective law

  The aggregate of rules if procedure or practice
• adopt (a)

  To take on the relationship of a parent to the child of another person
• adopt (b)

  To pass legislation / law
• advocate

  A person (lawyer) who presents or argues another person’s case
• adultery

  Voluntary sexual relations between someone who is married and someone who is not the individual’s spouse
• affairs

  Personal or business matters / a concern
• affidavit

  A written declaration made under oath before a notary or other authorized person
• affirmation

  The act of affirming / ascertaining as true
• affixing

  To secure to something / attach
• afford

  To have the financial means for
• affinity

  A natural attraction, liking or feeling of kinship
• afresh

  Anew
• african

  A native or inhabitant of Africa / A person of African ancestry
• agency

  The performance of a juristic act on behalf or in the name of another
• agent

  One that acts as a representative
• agree

  Be in accord / express consent / concur
• agreement

  The act of agreeing / a properly executed and legally binding contract
• agonistic

  One who is doubtful or noncommittal about something
• aid

  Assist
• alien

  Foreign
• allegations

  An assertion that someone has engaged in an unlawful act