Important Legal Terms/ How To Read Judgments of Courts. (Part-1)

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#Affirm:
Affirms To ratify; to confirm the law or judgment passed by the former court.
#Afortiori:
A fortiori: Literally, a stronger reason; a logic or term which denotes that if one argument is true, then the less improbable and unusual fact analogous to the former argument must also exist.
#Amicus Curiae
Amicus Curiae: Literally, a friend of court; a party not involved in litigation may petition the court to give expert testimony, a rationale consistent with its own views.
#Avermen
Averment: Positive statement of facts in pleading.
Cause: Legal action; Litigation; any question initiating a legal proceeding.
Cause of action: Fact or combination of facts, on which a party initiates a lawsuit.
#Certiorari
Certiorari: Literally, to be informed of; to be made certain in regard to; the name of the writ issued by the appellate court to the inferior court, to convey the record of the proceeding.
#DeclaratoryJudgment
Declaratory Judgment: A judgment defining the rights of the parties or an interpretation of law, without ordering anything to be done. When a party is unclear about a law or about the rights and status of litigants, it can ask for a declaratory judgment.
#Demurrer
Demurrer: Court issuing an order, that the alleged facts are true but they do not form the grounds for civil damages or violation of law.
#DenovoTrial
De novo Trial: Trying a matter anew; a trial or hearing which is being conducted for the second time in the lower court, as if no decision has been previously rendered, on the order of the appellate court.
#Dicta
Dicta: Opinion, observation or remark of a judge, which is not binding on the subsequent cases as legal precedent.