law term

British  

noun

1. an expression or word used in law

2. any of various periods of time appointed for the sitting of law courts

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Example Sentences

Salmond was suing the government for misfeasance - a civil law term that means the wrongful exercise of lawful authority - when he died in October 2024 while attending a conference in North Macedonia.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

It later emerged that messages had been exchanged between women complainers - a Scots law term for someone alleging that they are a victim of crime - and also between SNP staff members.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2025

The former first minster has sued the government for misfeasance – a civil law term that means the wrongful exercise of lawful authority.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2024

Curtilage, used for the first time in any description, is a law term denoting the fenced-in area adjoining a dwelling house or a courtyard.

From How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation by Hiden, Martha Woodroof

An old law term for a shipping or passage by sea.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir