Search for: legalism
2421 Etymology dictionary, p. cause (n.).3
… "celebrated legal case" is 1763, from French. C ommon cause "a shared object or aim" is by 1620s.
2422 Etymology dictionary, p. caveat (n.).2
… "). The legal meaning "public warning preventing some action" is attested from 1650s.
2423 Etymology dictionary, p. certification (n.).2
… a legal certificate" is from 1881.
2424 Etymology dictionary, p. certorari (n.).2
… case," legal Latin, "to be certified, to be informed or shown," a word figuring in the opening phrase of such writs; passive present infinitive of certorare "to certify …
2425 Etymology dictionary, p. challenge (n.).2
… ," in legal use, "accusation, claim, dispute," from Anglo-French chalengier, Old French chalongier "to accuse, to dispute" (see challenge (v.)). The accusatory connotations …
2426 Etymology dictionary, p. charge (n.).4
The legal sense of "accusation" is late 15c.; earlier "injunction, order" (late 14c.). The meaning "address delivered by a judge to a jury at the close of a trial" is from 1680s. The electrical sense is from 1767.
2427 Etymology dictionary, p. charter (n.).2
… as legal evidence of them," c. 1200, from Old French chartre (12c.) "charter, letter, document, covenant," from Latin chartula / cartula, literally "little paper," diminutive …
2428 Etymology dictionary, p. cheat (v.).2
… ; lapse (legally)," from Late Latin *excadere "fall away, fall out," from Latin ex- "out" (see ex- ) + cadere "to fall" (from PIE root *kad- "to fall").
2429 Etymology dictionary, p. chicanery (n.).2
… . 1610s, "legal quibbling, sophistry, mean or petty tricks," from French chicanerie "trickery," from chicaner "to pettifog, quibble" (15c.), which is of unknown origin …
2430 Etymology dictionary, p. chirography (n.).2
… written legal document" is attested from late 13c. in Anglo-French, from Latin chirographum, from Greek kheirographia "written testimony." Related: Chirographer …
2431 Etymology dictionary, p. choate (adj.).2
… in legal case writing (he said he found choate in a California report), and it is used in a South Carolina Supreme Court case from 1871 (Massey vs. Duren) as the opposite …
2432 Etymology dictionary, p. civil union (n.).2
by 2000, the usual U.S. term for legally recognized same-sex unions short of marriage.
2433 Etymology dictionary, p. clause (n.).2
… a legal document), 12c., from Medieval Latin clausa "conclusion," used in the sense of classical Latin clausula "the end, a closing, termination," also "end of a sentence …
2434 Etymology dictionary, p. clause (n.).3
… . 1300. Legal meaning "distinct condition, stipulation, or proviso" is recorded from late 14c. in English. The sense of "ending" mostly faded from the word between …
2435 Etymology dictionary, p. cognizant (adj.).2
"having knowledge;" in law, "competent to take legal or judicial notice," 1744, back-formation from cognizance .
2436 Etymology dictionary, p. cognizance (n.).3
… in legal use.
2437 Etymology dictionary, p. collateral (adj.).3
… in legal cases; in modern use, a euphemism for "the coincidental killing of civilians," an extended sense from c. 1968, American English, at first generally with …
2438 Etymology dictionary, p. colloquium (n.).2
… a legal term; meaning "a meeting for discussion, assembly, conference, seminar" is attested by 1844.
2439 Etymology dictionary, p. color (n.).7
… and legal discrimination by race in the U.S. is from 1875, originally referring to Southern whites voting in unity and taking back control of state governments …
2440 Etymology dictionary, p. competent (adj.).2
… 1640s. Legal sense "having legal capacity or qualification" is late 15c. Related: Competently .