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• constitution

  A body of fundamental principles according to which a State is to be governed.
• constitutional democracy

  Constitutional democracy
• contract

  An agreement between two or more parties with the purpose to create and bind them in a commitment
• contract of lease

  Contract whereby one party (the lessor) undertakes to grant to the other (the lessee) the temporary use and enjoyment of a thing in return for the latter’s undertaking to pay rent.
• contract of sale

  Contract in which one person (the seller or the vendor) promises to deliver a thing to another (the buyer or emptor), the latter agreeing to pay a certain price
• conveyancer

  An admitted attorney who is specialised in property law and who has passed a special examination in order to be admitted and allowed to practice as a conveyancing attorney. Conveyancing attorneys attend to, amongst others, the registration of the transfer of a property from a seller to a purchaser (often referred to as the “transferring attorney”), or to the registration of a purchaser’s mortgage bond on behalf of the financial institution who finances the purchase price (often referred to as the “bond registration attorney”) or to the cancellation of the seller’s existing bond over the property (often called the “bond cancellation attorney”).
• convictions of the community

  Moral standards of good and evil that are accepted by society
• counsel

  Advocate, lawyer who appears in court
• court a quo

  The court from which an appeal has been taken
• court case

  A dispute that goes to court for the court to decide on or resolve
• court judgement

  A decision made by the court in a case that was heard before it
• court of appeal

  A court that has the jurisdiction to hear and determine an appeal any decision of another court
• court proceedings

  The happenings in a court according to specific rules and procedures
• corporal punishment

  Any punishment in which physical force is used and intended to cause some degree of pain or discomfort, however light
• credit

  When someone is allowed to buy things and pay them off later
• criminal court case

  When the government files a case in court to punish someone (the defendant) for committing a crime
• customary law

  Usages and customs traditionally observed among the indigenous African peoples of South Africa
• customary marriage

  Marriage according to African customary law
• death penalty

  The state-sanctioned punishment of executing an individual for a specific crime.
• date of hearing

  Date on which a matter will heard
• date of judgement

  The day when the judgment is signed by the judge and filed with the clerk of court.
• debit

  The record kept of money owed or spent.
• debtor

  A person or legal entity who owes a sum of money to another person or institution
• defamation

  Making a defamatory statement. A defamatory statement is one which is untrue and which tends either (a) to lower a person in the estimation of right thinking members of society generally / or (b) to expose a person to hatred ridicule or contempt / or (c) to disparage a person in his or her office, profession, calling, trade or business.
• defendant

  A person against whom a claim is brought.