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INSTRUCTIONS:
A. Re-arrange the following vocabularies in alphabetical order.
B. Cite the source / authority of the definition or meaning of your vocabulary.
C. Submission of your work-paper shall be not later than September 30, 2015.
D. Your work-paper must bear the date of submission duly signed by the receiving in-charge of the
School of Law.
E. No grade for late submission.
VOCABULARIES
1. Rules of Court -These are the regulations that govern the conduct of business by a court and
the presiding judge carries rules of the court as the needs arise.
2. Ordinary Action -
4. Special Proceedings This phrase has been used in the New York and other codes of procedure
as a generic term for all civil remedies which are not ordinary actions.
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5. Liberal Construction
6. Cause of Action matter for which an action may be brought. The ground on which an action must
be sustained. The right to bring suit. It sometimes means a person having a right of action.
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7. Right of Action The right to bring suit.; a legal right to maintain an action, growing out of a given
transaction or state of facts and based thereon.
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8. Complaint In civil practice. In those states having a Code of Civil Procedure, the complaint is the
first or initiatory pleading on the part of the plaintiff in a civil action.
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9. Answer
10. Plaintiff
11. Defendant
12. Petitioner
13. Respondent
30. Counterclaim
32. Reply
33. Verification
35. Pleadings
38. Default
40. Motion
41. Interlocutory Order an order which decides not the cause, but only settles some intervening
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42. Judgment
43. Pre-trial
44. Trial
47. Summons
49. Subpoena
53. Certiorari
54. Mandamus
55. Prohibition
57. Injunction
58. Attachment
59. Quo Warranto In an old English practice. A writ, in the nature of the writ of right for the king,
against him who claimed or usurped an office, franchise or liberty to inquire by what authority he
supported his claim, in order to determine the right.
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60. Contempt