#procedural law

• To abjudicate — To deprive someone of a right, a property, or a status through a court ruling or an official decision; to legally contest and revoke a title or asset previously held by a person. In modern procedural law, the term is rarely used, being replaced by concepts such as expropriation, forfeiture of rights, or revocation of a title.
• Admissible — That can be admitted, accepted, allowed, or taken into consideration; plausible, tolerable, permitted by law, logic, or social and moral norms. In the legal field, the term characterizes a request, evidence, or action that meets all formal and substantive conditions provided by procedural codes to be analyzed on its merits.
• Admissibility — The quality or state of being admissible; the character of a petition, evidence, or action that meets the legal, logical, or procedural conditions required to be received and analyzed on its merits by a court of law or a competent authority. It represents an essential procedural filter in law, designed to ensure compliance of documents with public policy rules before evaluating their validity.
• Questioning — The act of investigating a person or a situation; the dynamic and procedural process through which suspects, witnesses, or individuals involved in a case are subjected to interrogations and legal verifications to establish their involvement in an unlawful act.
• To prejudge — To express one's legal opinion or conviction publicly or in advance regarding the merits of a pending lawsuit, before the court deliberates and issues an official ruling. In procedural law, the act of a judge prejudging or expressing an opinion beforehand constitutes a severe structural violation of the principles of impartiality and independence, representing a rigorous legal ground for their disqualification or self-recusal.
• Prejudgement — The act or manifestation by which a judge or a member of a judicial panel expresses their intimate conviction or legal opinion on the outcome of a lawsuit before the official opening of deliberations. This procedural phenomenon represents a serious structural deviation from the rules of impartiality, creating a presumption of bias and constituting an imperative legal ground for granting a disqualification motion.
• Arrested — The feminine singular form of the adjective and participle 'arestat'; a female person legally deprived of liberty through apprehension or incarceration based on a judicial warrant. In a structural procedural sense, it describes the current legal status of a female defendant or suspect held under pretrial custody or serving a prison sentence within a detention facility.
• Hearing — The act of hearing or questioning; the official interrogation or listening to an individual (witness, suspect, defendant) by law enforcement or a court of law to obtain testimonies. In administrative and parliamentary law, the term describes the formal procedure of public or private examination of officials or candidates within specialized committees.
• Ex officio notice — The act of taking self-notice and its result; the procedural or administrative act whereby a competent authority observes ex officio the existence of a criminal, civil, or administrative act and initiates an official action without a prior complaint filed by an injured party. It is an essential legal instrument for protecting the public interest and combating institutional corruption or crime.