#jurisprudence

• Abrogation — The action of abrogating and its result; the official, total or partial annulment of the legal validity of a regulatory act (law, decree, regulation) by a subsequent legal provision.
• Adhuc sub iudice lis est — A legal and literary aphorism of Latin origin, extracted from Horace's 'Ars Poetica', literally translated as 'The lawsuit is still before the judge' or 'The dispute has not yet been resolved'. In a structural and conceptual sense, the phrase is used in contemporary legal and journalistic terminology to designate a case pending before a court, upon which a final judgment has not yet been rendered, forbidding public speculation.
• Adulterine — Originating from or relating to adultery; born from an extramarital relationship where at least one parent was legally married to another person. In historical civil codes, the term defined a restrictive legal status for children (adulterous child), limiting their inheritance rights. Under modern family law, these legal discriminations have been completely eradicated, though the word retains ethical, religious, or sociological values.
• Adulterine — The feminine singular form of the adjective 'adulterin'; originating from or relating to an act of adultery or marital infidelity where at least one partner is legally married to another person. In the history of civil law, the term qualified a relationship, filiation, or descent (adulterous bond) subject to severe legal and inheritance restrictions, inequities that have been completely eradicated under contemporary modern legislation.
• Alienability — The quality or legal character of being alienable; the lawful capability of an asset, right, or property title to be validly transferred, sold, donated, or assigned from one patrimony to another. This structural characteristic constitutes the baseline rule of the private civil circuit, fully guaranteeing the freedom of disposition for economic rights holders.
• Antichresis — A convention or real security contract whereby a debtor yields the use of an immovable property to their creditor, granting them the structural right to collect its fruits or income toward the satisfaction of interest or principal owed. This legal mechanism of Romano-Byzantine origin represents an immovable pledge historically used in civil law.
• Illegal — Opposing the law, the legal order, or the structural statutes in force; violating a legal provision or countering the constitutional spirit of a state. In a structural sense, it describes an action, an administrative measure, or an illicit behavior that stands outside the normative framework regulated by authorities.
• Appropriator — A physical person or legal entity that appropriates, assumes, or takes possession of an asset, a right, or a property, often exclusively or without explicit authorization from the rightful owner. As an adjective, it describes a behavior, act, or structural mechanism tending toward the acquisition, seizure, or assimilation of material or conceptual resources.
• Appreciation (archaic) — An obsolete, bookish, or legal-archaic variant of the noun 'apreciere' (appreciation / evaluation), used in administrative, legislative, and literary texts of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It represents the official or mental act of evaluating, pricing, or weighing the worth, quality, or importance of an object, fact, or testimony within a trial.
• Apprehension (archaic) — A bookish, longer, or archaic variant of the noun 'aprehensie' (fear / unease); also, in old international law or ancient legal treatises, it denotes the physical or administrative action of capturing, arresting, taking possession of, or seizing an asset or a suspect. In classical philosophy, it represents the intellect's faculty of structurally grasping an idea.
• Appreciation (archaic) — An obsolete, bookish, or legal-archaic variant of the noun 'apreciere' (appreciation / evaluation), used in administrative, legislative, and literary texts of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It represents the official or mental act of evaluating, pricing, or weighing the worth, quality, or importance of an object, fact, or testimony within a trial.
• Appraised (archaic) — A historical legal or administrative term, used in old manuscripts and legal codes to describe an asset, land, or property that has been appraised, valued, or put up for public sale following a financial expertise. In a structural sense, it defines the status of an asset whose official inventory price has been fixed by the authorities.
• Detention (archaic) — A rare archaic or bookish legal variant found in old Romanian legal codes, used as a corrupt form to denote the official detention, seizure, arrest, or sequestration of an asset or a suspect by officials (having a distant etymological link with the concept of apprehension). It represents a niche administrative technical term, preserved exclusively in philological analyses of archival manuscripts.
• Approval (archaic) — An obsolete, bookish, or legal-archaic variant of the noun 'aprobare' (approval / authorization), used in administrative, legislative, and literary texts of the 19th and early 20th centuries. It represents the official act of endorsement, confirmation, authorization, or validation of a request, decree, or document within the bureaucratic circuit.
• Ayatolah — An accepted graphic variant or adapted form in the Romanian lexicon for the Islamic religious title 'ayatollah', designating a high-ranking Shia spiritual leader and theologian recognized as a supreme authority in interpreting sacred texts, Islamic jurisprudence, and Sharia law. This prominent structural status grants him the right to issue fatwas, collect religious taxes, and guide the ethical, social, and political decisions of his community of believers.