English for Law Notes | B.A. LL.B. (Five Years) Semester 2 | SPPU | munotes

Contents

Module 01 Language and Law

1. What Is Language? Its Definition and Nature 1
2. The Meaning of Law 5
3. Law, Custom and Justice 14
4. Language and Law 21
5. Characteristics of Legal Language 30
6. The Languages of Indian Law: The Constitution, the Courts and Translation 38

Module 02 Semantics and Role of Meaning in Law

1. The Concept of Meaning 48
2. The Seven Types of Meaning 51
3. Lexical Relations: Synonymy, Antonymy, Hyponymy, Homophones and Homographs, and Polysemy 54
4. Homophones 58
5. Words Often Confused 66
6. Syntactic Ambiguity: When One Sentence Has Two Meanings 71

Module 03 Communication Skills

1. What Communication Is: Meaning, Definitions, Features and Process 74
2. The Types of Communication, and the Grapevine 79
3. Oral Communication: Its Channels, Merits and Limits 83
4. Written Communication and Its Types 87
5. Body Language and Other Non-Verbal Communication 91

Module 04 Formal Correspondence

1. Notices: the Public Notice and the Legal Notice 95
2. Meetings: Notice, Agenda and Minutes 100
3. Effective Letter Writing 104
4. The Letter of Complaint and Other Official Letters 107
5. The Letter of Application, and the Resume 111
6. Email Correspondence 114
7. Report Writing 118

Module 05 Introduction to Legal Vocabulary

1. Legal Terms, Part 1: Abduction to Defamation 126
2. Legal Terms, Part 2: Defendant to Ownership 129
3. Legal Terms, Part 3: Parole to Will 132
4. Vocabulary for a Law Student 135
5. Ex Parte, Discharge, Acquittal and Conviction 142
6. Judgment, Appeal, Review, Revision and Reference 149
7. Foreign Phrases: The Thirty on SPPU's List 158
8. Foreign Terminology in Law: Latin, French and Other Borrowed Terms 161
9. The Fifteen Legal Maxims on SPPU's List 165
10. Legal Maxims: the First Eight 168
11. Legal Maxims: the Remaining Seven 177