Legal Doctrines and Principles

"Legal doctrines and principles"

· Justice delayed is justice denied

· Legal doctrine

· Legal maxim

A

· Abatement ab initio

· Abstention doctrine

· Abstraction principle (law)

· Acquiescence

· Act of state doctrine

· Actio libera in causa

· Administration of justice

· Agent of record

· Alternative liability

· Assignment of income doctrine

· Assumption of risk

· Assured clear distance ahead

· Attractive nuisance doctrine

· Attribution (law)

· Audi alteram partem

B

· Basic structure doctrine

· Beneficium inventarii

· Benefit of the inventory

· Best interests

· Blue pencil doctrine

· Boulevard rule

· Brady disclosure

· Burden of proof (law)

C

· Calculus of negligence

· Capacity (law)

· Carltona doctrine

· Castle doctrine

· Caveat emptor

· Caveat venditor

· Child migration

· Clausula rebus sic stantibus

· Clean hands

· Collateral source rule

· Command responsibility

· Commanding precedent

· Common employment

· Comparative negligence

· Condemned property

· Consideration

· Constitutional convention (political custom)

· Contra principia negantem non est disputandum

· Contra proferentem

· Contributory negligence

· Corporate opportunity

· Correlative rights doctrine

· Crumbling skull rule

D

· Dangerous proximity doctrine

· Desuetude

· Discovery doctrine

· Doctrine of cash equivalence

· Doctrine of chances

· Doctrine of colourability

· Doctrine of equivalents

· Doctrine of exoneration of liens

· Doctrine of foreign equivalents

· Doctrine of indivisibility

· Doctrine of inherency

· Doctrine of international exhaustion

· Doctrine of laches

· Doctrine of merger

· Doctrine of necessity

· Doctrine of non-derogation from grants

· Doctrine of privity

· Doctrine of repair and reconstruction

· Doctrine of res judicata

· Doctrine of tenure

· Due process

· Duty of care

· Duty to rescue

· Duty to retreat

E

· Economic substance

· Eggshell skull

· Emergency

· Eminent domain

· Enrolled bill rule

· Enterprise liability

· Equal authenticity rule

· Equity (law)

· Erga omnes

· Erie doctrine

· Essential facilities doctrine

· Estoppel

· Evasion (law)

· Everything which is not forbidden is allowed

· Ex turpi causa non oritur actio

· Exceptional circumstances

· Exclusionary rule

· Executive privilege

· Exhausted combination doctrine

· Exhaustion doctrine under U.S. law

· Exhaustion of intellectual property rights

· Exhaustion of remedies

F

· Fair use

· Faithless servant

· FCC fairness doctrine

· Finality (law)

· Firm offer

· First-sale doctrine

· Fleeing felon rule

· Floodgates principle

· Forum non conveniens

· Fruit of the poisonous tree

· Frustration of purpose

· FTC v. Dean Foods Co.

· Functionality doctrine

· Fundamental breach

G

· Good faith

· Good-faith exception

· Gravi de pugna

· Greenhouse effect (United States Supreme Court)

H

· Habitability

· Homestead principle

· Hub-and-spoke conspiracy

· Human rights

I

· Idea–expression distinction

· Ignorantia juris non excusat

· Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois

· Imminent peril

· Implied license

· Implied powers

· Implied repeal

· Implied terms

· Imputation (law)

· In loco parentis

· In pari delicto

· Incorporation of international law

· Independent source doctrine

· Index of children's rights articles

· Inequality of bargaining power

· Inevitable disclosure

· Inevitable discovery

· Inherent jurisdiction

· Inherent powers (United States)

· Internal affairs doctrine

· Invitation to treat

J

· Judicial deference

· Judicial discretion

· Jurisprudence constante

· Just war theory

K

· Ker–Frisbie doctrine

· Knock and talk

L

· Laches (equity)

· Last clear chance

· Last injurious exposure rule

· Law of the case

· Learned intermediary

· Legal certainty

· Legal immunity

· List of Latin legal terms

· Legal transplant

· Legality

· Legality of the War on Drugs

· List of international and European laws on child protection and migration

· Living tree doctrine

· Loss of chance in English law

M

· Mailbox rule

· Male captus bene detentus

· Margin of appreciation

· María Clara doctrine

· Market share liability

· Mater semper certa est

· Maxims of equity

· Maxwellisation

· John K. McNulty

· Medical necessity

· Meeting of the minds

· Merger doctrine

· Merger doctrine (civil procedure)

· Merger doctrine (copyright law)

· Merger doctrine (family law)

· Merger doctrine (property law)

· Merger doctrine (trust law)

· Mirror image rule

· Mistake (contract law)

· Mootness

· Moral certainty

· Mount Laurel doctrine

N

· Natural justice

· Natural rights and legal rights

· Necessity (criminal law)

· Negligence

· Nemo iudex in causa sua

· Nolle prosequi

· Nominative use

· Non bis in idem

· Non prosequitur

· Nonacquiescence

· Nondelegation doctrine

· Nulla poena sine culpa

· Nulla poena sine lege

· Nuremberg principles

O

· Obiter dictum

· Odious debt

· Open court principle

· Open-fields doctrine

· Open justice

· Open mines doctrine

P

· Pacta sunt servanda

· Paraphrasing of copyrighted material

· Parker immunity doctrine

· Parol evidence rule

· Peremptory norm

· Physical proximity doctrine

· Pith and substance

· Plain meaning rule

· Police power (United States constitutional law)

· Political question

· Posting rule

· Pre-existing duty rule

· Precautionary principle

· Precedent

· Preparation and attempt

· Presumption

· Presumption (canon law)

· Presumption of constitutionality

· Presumption of guilt

· Presumption of innocence

· Principle of conferral

· Principle of opportunity

· Privity

· Privity of contract

· Proper law

· Proportionality (law)

· Proximate cause

· Public policy doctrine

· Public trust doctrine

Q

· Qualified immunity

· Quantum meruit

· Qui facit per alium facit per se

R

· Reasonable doubt

· Reasonable person

· Remoteness in English law

· Res ipsa loquitur

· Res judicata

· Rescue doctrine

· Respondeat superior

· Reverse doctrine of equivalents

· Rights

· Ripeness

· Rule according to higher law

· Rule against foreign revenue enforcement

· Rylands v Fletcher

S

· Safe harbor (law)

· Scènes à faire

· Scrivener's error

· Slippery slope

· Byron David Smith killings

· Spider in the web doctrine

· Staatenverbund

· Stadtluft macht frei

· Stand-your-ground law

· Standard of care

· Standing (law)

· State actor

· Step transaction doctrine

· Stopping the clock

· Subsidiarity

· Substance over form

· Substantial certainty doctrine

· Substantial performance

· Substantial truth

· Sufficient similarity

· Suspect classification

T

· Taint (legal)

· Tea Rose – Rectanus doctrine

· Tender years doctrine

· Terra nullius

· Territorial principle

· Tipsy Coachman

· Tolling (law)

· Totality principle

· Transnational child protection

U

· Unaccompanied minor

· Unconscionability

· Unconscionability in English law

· Undue hardship

· Undue influence

· Undue influence in English law

· Uninsured employer

· United States v. American Bell Telephone Co.

· United States v. Glaxo Group Ltd.

· Universal jurisdiction

· Unjust enrichment

V

· Vicarious liability

· Violation of law

· Volenti non fit injuria

W

· Wahkohtowin

· Warranty tolling

· Workers' compensation employer defense

· Wrongdoing