capital (adj) crime; capital (adj) punishment

Capital crime means a crime for which the punishment of death may be inflicted.

Capital punishment means the punishment of death.

 

catch-22: (n & adj)

Catch-22 means a situation in which a desired outcome or solu­tion is impossible to attain because of a set of inherently illogical rules or conditions. It also means the rule or conditions that create such a situation.

 

Catch-22 is used to refer to a situation or predicament char­acterized by absurdity or sense­lessness. It is also used to express a contradictory or self-defeating course of action.

The term catch-22 is meant that a tricky or disadvantageous condition.

 

cause célebre (Fr): (n)

Cause célèbre means an issue arousing widespread controversy or heated public debate. It also means a celebrated legal case.

The plural of cause célèbre is causes célèbres.

[French: cause, case + célè­bres, celebrated.]

 

caveat (Lat): (v & n)

(n)

Caveat means a warning or caution: e.g., a final caveat. It is also a term meaning a qualification or explanation.

Caveat as a legal term is used to refer to a formal notice filed by an interested party with a court or officer, requesting the postpone­ment of a proceeding until the filer is heard.

 

(v)

Caveat means to qualify with a warning or clarification:

e.g., The spokesperson ca­veated the statement with a re­minder that certain facts were still unknown.

 

cession: (n); session: (n)

Cession is a giving up, grant­ing, or the act of ceding. It is used often by nations or people who cede land.

 

Session is a meeting or gath­ering, and is used by deliberative bodies: e.g., The Supreme Court of Myanmar is in session.

 

chancery: (n); embassy: (n); legation: (n)

Chancery is used to refer to the building where the head of mis­sion and his staff have their offices.

Embassy is the official resi­dence of an ambassador. It is also the duty and mission of an am­bassador.

Legation means a group of diplomats representing their country in another country. It also means the building in which a group of diplomats work.

 

An embassy is under an am­bassador, and a legation is under a minister, envoy, charge d’affaires, or some other diplomatic agent.

 

chardonnay: (n)

Chardonnay means a dry white table wine, originally from burgundy, French

 

chargé d’affaires (Fr): (n)

By the term chargé d’affaires it is meant that the most senior member of an Embassy is entrust­ed with the task of representing the ambassador when the latter is not around.

The plural of chargé d’affaires is chargés d’affaires.

[French: charge, charged, in charge + de, with, of + affaires, affairs.]

 

chattel: (n)

Chattel as a legal term means an article of personal movable property. It also means a slave.

 

chattel mortgage: (n)

Chattel mortgage means a mortgage using movable personal property rather than real estate as security.

 

chauvinism: (n)

Chauvinism means “militant devotion to and glorification of one’s country; fanatical patriot­ism.”

Chauvinism also means “prej­udiced belief in the superiority of one’s own gender, group, or kind”.

[French Chauvinism, after Nicolas Chauvin, a legendary French soldier famous for his de­votion to Napoleon.]

 

circumstantial (adj) evidence

Circumstantial evidence is the evidence from which the fact-find­er may infer the existence of the fact in issue, but which does not directly prove the existence of the fact: e.g., fingerprints, possession of stolen property or the weapon used, opportunity and motive.

 

client state: (n)

Client state is used to refer to a country that is dependent on the economic or military support of a larger, more powerful country: e.g., each superpower continues to arm its client states.

 

clientèle (Fr): (n)

Clientèle is a term meaning the clients of a professional person or practices considered as a group.

Clientèle also means a body of customers or patrons: e.g., a restaurant clientèle.

[French Clientèle, from Latin clientêla, clientship, from cliêns, client]

 

Code: (n)

Code is a compilation of le­gal principles consolidated into a single enactment and generally having relation to the same subject matter. E.g., a penal code.

 

codification: (n)

Codification means “putting all laws together into a formal legal code.” The effect of a codification is to eliminate archaic expressions, arranges the law in force by sub­ject matter and rewrite unclear and poorly drawn passage.

 

cognizance: (n)

Cognizance is the action of taking judicial notice.

 

comity: (n)

Comity means the courtesy among political entities (as nations or courts of different jurisdictions). This should not be confused with full faith and credit which gener­ally obliges one state to follow the law of the other states.

 

Reference:

(1) Black’s Law Dictionary By Bryan A. Garner

(2) အသက်တစ်ရာမနေရ။

အမှုတစ်ရာမက တွေ့ရတတ်သည်။

(3) Law and custom in Burma and the Burmese Family.

(4) Dr Maung Maung B.L (Ran­goon),

(5) J.S.D (Yale), LL. D (Utrecht), of Lincoln’s Inn,

6) Barrister-at-law.

 

Bibliography

- B. Sen, “A Diplomat’s Hand­book of International Law and Practice”, Third Revised Edition, Martinus Nijhoff Pub­lishers, 1988.

- Bryan A. Garner, “A Diction­ary of Modern Legal Usage”, Oxford University Press, New York, 1987.

- DPO’ Connell, “International Law” London. Stevens and Sons Limited, Dobbs Ferry, New York. Oceana Publica­tions, Inc 1965.

- Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th Edition,

Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc, 1977.

- Harold Nicolson, “Diploma­cy”, Oxford University Press, London, 1969.

- Henry Campbell Black, “Black’s Law Dictionary”, Sixth Edition, St Paul, Minn. West Publishing Co 1990

- L. Oppenheim, “International Law, A Treatise”. ELBS. Edi­tion first published 1966

- Radin, “Law dictionary” sec­ond edition, Oceana Publica­tions, Inc Dobbs Ferry, NY 1970.

- Sir Earnest Satow, “A Guide to Diplomatic Practice”, ed, Sir Neville Bland, Longmans, 1968.

- The American Heritage Dic­tionary of the English Lan­guage, Third Edition is li­cenced from Houghton Mifflin Company. Copyright © 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company.