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Common law

Abortion law by country
Laws that allow, prohibit, or regulate abortion
Assault (tort)
Act causing the reasonable apprehension of an immediate harmful or offensive touching
Authentication (law)
Legal process by which evidence is determined to be genuine
Battery (tort)
Common law act of unconsented harmful or offensive contact with a person
Beneficiary (trust)
In trust law, person or persons who are entitled to the benefit of any trust arrangement
Civil law (common law)
Branch of private law (outside criminal law) that regulates the patrimonial and personal relations between physical or moral persons
Common law
Law created by judges
Constructive trust
Type of legal remedy
Conversion (law)
In law context
Conveyancing
Transfer of legal title of property
Criminal law
Body of law that relates to crimes
Damages
Legal term for compensation awarded for loss or injury
Defamation
Illegal act of harming the reputation of a legal person through false or misleading statement
Defense (legal)
In law, attempt to avoid criminal or civil liability
Discretionary trust
Trust where the beneficiaries and/or their entitlements to the trust fund are not fixed but are determined by the settlor
Economic torts
Torts that provide the common law rules
Element (criminal law)
Fact that must be proven for a criminal conviction
Eminent Domain
Topics referred to by the same term
Entrapment
Legal practice
Equity (law)
Set of legal principles supplementing but distinct from the Common Law
Estate in land
Ownership of land or arable land
Evidence (law)
Body of facts in a legal proceeding
Future interest
Property right that only takes effect in the future instead immediately
Hearsay
Legal term
Inheritance
Practice of passing on property upon the death of individuals
Injunction
A legal order to stop doing something
Intentional infliction of emotional distress
Tort in common law
Intentional tort
Category of torts that describes a civil wrong resulting from an intentional act on the part of the tortfeasor
Land law
Form of law that deals with the rights to use, alienate, or exclude others from land
Legal liability
Legal obligation for any damage, enforceable by either civil law or criminal law
Negligence
Failure to exercise reasonable care
Nuisance
Something that causes inconvenience or damage
Parole
Provisional release of a prisoner who agrees to certain conditions
Private property (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
Property law
Area of law governing ownership of real and personal property
Relevance (law)
Tendency of an item of evidence to prove/disprove one of the legal elements of a case
Tort
Legal claim of civil wrong
Trespass
Legal concept of intentional interference
Trespass to chattels
Legal term for interference to another’s possessions
Trespass to land
Legal concept, type of trespass
Trustee
Person who holds property, authority, or a position of trust or responsibility for the benefit of another