Glossary of Legal Terms and Translations – English to Spanish
Glossary
- Abandonment
- abide by
- above captioned case above-styled action
- Abrogate
- Abstract
- Abstract of judgment
- Accessory
- Accomplice
- account fully for
- Accountability Court accountability courts
- Accountings (Returns) annual return final return
- Accrual
- Accrued interest
- Accused
- acknowledge service acknowledgement acknowledge
- Acknowledgement of Amended Accusation
- acknowledgement of service acknowledge
- acknowledgment acknowledge
- Acknowledgment of satisfaction of judgment
- Acquittal
- Acquitted
- Action
- actions regarding abandoned motor vehicles
- Active status
- ad valorem taxes
- Adjournment
- Adjudicate
- Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC)
- administrative probation
- administrator (estate)
- admissibility of evidence
- admissible
- Admissible evidence
- Admission
- admitted into evidence
- admitted to practice in the State
- admitting or denying the allegations in the statement of claim
- Admonition to jury
- adversarial legal proceeding
- Adversary system
- Adverse witness
- advertising costs
- Advocate
- Affidavit Affidavit Prior to Entering Plea form
- Affidavit
- Affirm
- Affirmative defense
- aforementioned
- aftercare
- Agent
- agent or attorney-in-fact
- aggravation (increase) mitigation (decrease)
- aggressive driving
- agreement disposing of the entire estate
- Aid to Families With Dependent Children
- alcohol (beverage) alcohol (blood content)
- alcohol monitoring device
- alcohol offenses by persons under 21
- Alibi
- Alimony
- Allegation
- allegations
- allegations set forth
- alternative dispute resolution
- Amend
- amendment to accusation
- Amount
- and/or
- anger management
- Annulment (nullity of marriage)
- Anonymous
- Answer
- anything seized
- appeal appeal rights appeal requirements
- Appeal
- appeal “de novo”
- Appear in court
- Appearance
- Appellant
- Appellate
- Appellate Courts
- Application number
- appraisal of property
- approved in advance
- approved method of sale
- Arbitration
- arraignment
- arrangements (financial)
- Arrearage
- arrest warrant
- as defined in defined by the Court
- as is
- as much as
- as required by law, and as ordered
- Ascertained
- Assault
- Assent to Devise
- assess points (on driver’s license)
- assets marshalling the assets securing assets
- Assets
- assets and liabilities
- assets or property
- Assignee
- Assignment of support rights
- Assignment order
- assist (v)
- Assistance
- At your own risk
- at your own risk (self- representation)
- Athens-Clarke County Municipal Code, ACC Code
- Attachment
- Attempt
- Attendance
- attested under oath
- attorney at law
- attorney of record
- Attorney’s fees
- Audit
- authority
- authority to sell property granted under the terms of a Will
- automatic transmittal
- award compensatory damages
- Backlog
- Bail bond
- Bail bondsman
- Bail exoneration
- Bail forfeiture
- Bail notice
- Bail receipt
- Bailiff
- balance (of the sentence)
- balance due
- bank accounts estate bank account
- Bank levy
- Bankruptcy
- Bar
- barred from County or Judicial Circuit bar order
- batterer intervention programs
- Battery
- bear the burden of proof
- bench trial
- Bench warrant
- beneficiary named beneficiary heir recipient
- benefit claims
- beyond the scope
- bills
- Bind
- bind over
- binding
- Binding precedent
- Blood test
- bodily injury
- Bona fide
- Bond
- bond surety surety bond premiums surety on the PR’s bond
- bond surety
- bonds
- Book (booking)
- bound over for trial
- Breath test
- Brief
- brokerage accounts estate brokerage account
- bulletin board forum
- burden of proof
- Burglary
- burial instructions
- burial plot
- business days
- business interests, whether active or passive
- business organization
- by operation of law
- Calendar
- Call in to question
- call witnesses (to testify)
- Capital case
- Capital offense
- carry out the provisions of (the will)
- case
- Case file
- Case law
- case monitoring
- Case number
- Caseload
- caseload reports
- cases for injuries to persons or damage to property
- cases involving contract disputes
- cash bond
- cash match for grants J4C
- Cause of action
- caveat caveat to will
- CDL violation
- certificate of financial resources
- certification and signature
- Certified copy
- Challenge
- challenge (a will)
- Chambers
- Change of venue
- Charge
- charged/accused
- charges pending
- chat room
- Chattel
- checklist
- Chief Magistrate
- child care facility
- child custody
- child support
- Child Support Collaborative Project
- Child Support Commission
- Child Support E-Filing Program
- Child support enforcement agency Office of Recovery Services (ORS)
- Child Support Problem Solving Courts (AKA Parental Accountability Court)
- child support/parental
- child under 18 minor
- Children (under 18)
- children discharged to legal permanency
- children living at home
- circuit court of appeal
- Circumstancial evidence
- citation
- Cited
- Citing authority or agency
- citizen warrant
- City
- city courts
- City Ordinance Violation
- City Solicitor
- civil action
- civil and courteous
- civil claims
- Civil jurisdiction
- civil trial calendar
- civil trial procedures
- claim for damages
- Claim of exemption
- Claim splitting
- clerical tasks
- Clerk of the Court
- Clerk’s Office
- clinical evaluation
- close the estate
- closely held business interests or partnership interests
- closely held businesses or partnerships
- closing argument
- co-occurring disorders
- co-owner
- Codicil
- cognitive skills training
- cold case
- collect a judgment
- collect the proceeds or benefits
- Collect your judgment
- collecting and preserving the assets
- Collection agency
- collective assets
- colloquy
- commercial interests
- Commitment order
- Committee on Justice for Children
- common form probate
- common interest
- Common law
- community service
- Community Supervision Office Community Supervision Officer
- compel witnesses
- Compensatory
- Competence order
- Complainant
- complaint
- comply with all terms and conditions
- comprehensive statement of the law
- Compulsory
- Concurrent sentence
- conditions hereby incorporated into the defendant’s sentence by reference
- Confidential record
- confinement
- Confiscate
- congregate
- Consecutive sentences
- consent
- conservator
- Conservator of the estate
- Conservator of the person
- Conservatorship
- Consolidation of actions
- contact directly in person indirectly through any means of communication
- Contact Us
- Contempt
- Contempt of Court—Failure to Appear contempt failure to appear
- content accessed
- contest (to) contested contested case
- Contested
- continuance re-set
- Continuance
- contraband
- controlled substance
- Convey
- convicted at trial
- convicted or acquitted
- conviction
- copy of the summons and complaint
- copyrights
- correct and true true and correct true and complete
- Costs after judgment
- costs of sale
- Council of Magistrate Court Judges Violence in Georgia Committee
- Council of Probate Court Judges of Georgia
- Counsel
- Counseling
- countdown clock
- Counterclaim
- countersuit or counterclaim
- Counts
- County ordinance violation
- County recorder
- Court
- court appearance
- Court calendar
- Court clerk
- court costs
- court costs awarded
- court filing fees
- court innovation
- Court Process Reporting System (CPRS)
- court process servers process servers private process server
- Court referee
- Court reporter
- court reporters
- court services
- Court stamp
- Court trial
- Court, Judge
- Court’s findings and record
- Courtesy notice
- courthouse
- Credit union
- creditor notices
- creditor’s claims
- Crime (violent crime)
- Crime Lab Report(s)
- criminal action
- criminal arrest warrants
- criminal gang activity
- criminal history
- Criminal Justice Proceedings
- criminal offense
- criminal offense against a minor
- criminal street gang
- criminal street gang activity
- Cross complaint
- Cross examination
- cross-examine witnesses
- curfew
- current stock exchange price published bid price
- custodial account
- Custodial parent
- Custody (noun), to be in custody
- cyberstalker
- cyberstalking cyberharassment cyberbullying electronic stalking electronic harassment
- damages
- damages sought
- damages to be awarded
- dangerous drugs
- dangerous sexual offense
- date or marry
- Day Reporting Center
- dealings
- debtor demands
- Debtor’s examination
- decedent
- Decedent (deceased)
- Declarant
- declination
- Decree
- Defamation
- Default
- default judgment
- defaulting defendant
- defendant
- defendant is hereby ordered to appear
- DEFENDANT’S GUILTY/ NOLO CONTENDERE PLEA STATEMENT AND WAIVER OF RIGHTS
- Defense attorney
- Defensive Driving course
- deferred compensation benefits
- deliver
- Demurrer
- Department of Motor Vehicle Safety (DMVS)
- dependents
- deposit account fraud
- Deposition
- Detention
- Detention Center
- Detention Center Diversion Center Boot Camp
- determined necessary
- device that accesses the Internet
- Dictum
- digital imagery
- Direct examination
- Direct income withholding
- Directory
- disability
- Disbursment
- discharge
- discharge from office and all liability
- discharged from liability
- discharged from office
- disclaimer
- discovery
- discretionary plea
- dismiss
- Dismiss with prejudice
- Dismiss without prejudice
- Dismissal
- Disposable income
- Disposition
- disposition (of the case)
- disposition by will
- dispossessory or “landlord- tenant” actions
- dispossessory/eviction cases
- Disqualification
- disqualified
- Dissolution
- distress warrant
- distribution rules of descent and distribution
- District Court
- Diversion
- divested
- Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS)
- Divorce Decree
- DNA sample
- Docket
- domestic violence family violence
- domestic violence family violence spousal violence
- domestic violence task forces
- Drive!s license
- driving history
- driving log
- driving privileges
- Driving under the influence of Alcohol or Drugs
- driving with suspended license
- driving without insurance
- drug
- drug offense
- Drugs (Illicit)
- Drunk Driving
- Due process
- DUI
- duly served (be)
- Earnings withholding order
- electronic citations
- Electronic surveillance
- Elementary School
- elements of the charge
- Eligible
- Eminent domain
- emotional or mental limitations
- empanel jurors
- enacted legislations
- encrypt
- Endorse
- Enforce
- Enforcement
- engage in conduct
- Enjoin
- Enter a plea
- enter a plea (if you)
- enter or remain (in premises)
- enter premises travel past loiter
- entertainment
- entries
- entry of the final order
- equal distribution
- Equitable
- equity
- equity claims
- errors of law
- estate
- estate assets probate assets non-probate assets
- estate debts and expenses
- estate examination period
- estate lawyer estate’s attorney
- estimates
- Estoppel
- Eviction
- evidence
- evidencing
- evidentiary hearing
- evidentiary issues
- ex parte communications
- exclude evidence suppress evidence
- execute
- execution of the will
- executor co-executor
- Executor
- Exemplary
- Exempt assets
- Exhibit
- Exonerate bail
- expenditures or disbursements