Appendix:Legal doctrines
The following is a list of legal concepts and principles, most of which apply under common law jurisdictions.
- absolute liability
- adequate and independent state ground
- acquiescence
- Act of God
- Act of State doctrine
- actus novus interveniens
- actus reus
- assumption of risk
- attractive nuisance
- audi alteram partem
- balance of probabilities
- bona fide purchaser
- bona vacantia
- burden of proof (legal burden of proof)
- calculus of negligence (Hand formula)
- castle doctrine
- caveat venditor
- caveat emptor
- comparative negligence
- consideration
- contributory negligence
- contra proferentem
- contumacy
- correlative rights doctrine
- costs
- damages
- deference (judicial deference)
- doctrine of tenure
- due process
- duty of care
- economic loss
- eggshell skull
- emergency
- eminent domain
- equitable tolling
- essential facilities doctrine
- estoppel by acquiescence
- exclusionary rule
- executive privilege
- exhaustion
- fair use
- felony murder
- firefighter's rule (fireman's rule)
- first-sale
- freedom of contract
- fruit of the poisonous tree
- good-faith exception
- ignorantia juris non excusat
- implied powers
- implied terms of a contract
- in absentia
- inherent jurisdiction
- inherent powers
- internal affairs doctrine
- judicial discretion
- laches
- last clear chance
- law of the case
- learned intermediary
- living tree doctrine
- loss of chance
- mailbox rule (posting rule or deposited acceptance rule)
- market share liability
- mens rea
- merger
- mootness
- mutual mistake
- natural justice
- ne bis in idem
- necessity
- negligence
- nemo dat quod non habet
- nemo iudex in causa sua
- nondelegation doctrine
- nulla poena sine lege
- obiter dictum
- odious debt
- official immunity
- plain view doctrine
- police power
- political question
- preponderance of evidence
- prerogative of judge to deny legal argument before jury
- presumption of constitutionality
- presumption of innocence
- privity (of contract)
- proximate cause
- qualified immunity
- quantum meruit
- quantum valebat
- quid pro quo
- ratio decidendi
- reasonable person, reasonable care
- reasonable doubt
- remoteness
- rebus sic stantibus
- res ipsa loquitur
- res judicata
- respondeat superior
- ripeness
- Rule of Reason
- scrivener's error
- sovereign immunity
- spider in the web doctrine
- standard of care
- standing
- stare decisis or precedence rule
- strict liability
- subsidiarity
- substance over form
- substantial certainty doctrine
- substantial truth
- suspect classification
- terra nullius
- transferred intent (transferred malice)
- unclean hands
- unconscionability
- ultrahazardous activity
- vicarious liability