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Understanding Legal Terminology: Lessons in Complicity, Deploy, and Fidelity

Explore the meanings of legal terms like complicity, deploy, and fidelity, delving into their origins and implications. Gain insight into jurisprudence and the significance of faithfulness in legal matters.

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Understanding Legal Terminology: Lessons in Complicity, Deploy, and Fidelity

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  1. Lessons 23 and 24

  2. Complicity: (noun) Involvement as an accomplice in a crime or wrongdoing From Latin com-, “together” + plic, “fold”

  3. Deploy: (verb) • To position troops or people strategically or systematically • To put into use or action From Latin dis, “apart” + ploy, “fold”

  4. Explicate: (verb) To explain; to make clear the meaning of something

  5. Explicit: (adjective) • Fully and clearly expressed; leaving nothing implied • Readily observable From Latin ex-, “out” + plic, “fold”

  6. Implicate: (verb) • To involve or connect intimately or incriminatingly • To have as a consequence; to entail Latin in-, “in” + plic, “fold”

  7. Implicit:(adjective) • Implied or understood though not directly expressed • Unquestioning; without doubt or reservation

  8. Inexplicable: (adjective) 1. Difficult to explain or account for

  9. Replica: (noun) • A copy or reproduction of a work of art, especially one made by the original artist • A copy or reproduction, especially one that is smaller than the original

  10. Supple: (adjective) • Easily bent; limber; pliant • Changing or yielding readily; compliant; adaptable

  11. Supplicant: (noun) A person who asks, prays, or begs humbly and earnestly From sub-, “under” + plic, “fold”

  12. To deliberately lie or testify falsely under oath Perjure: (verb)

  13. Jurisprudence: (noun) The philosophy and science of law or a division of the law From Latin jur, “law” + prudentia, “knowledge”

  14. Faithfulness to obligations, duties, or vows The degree to which a sound or image is accurately produced From Latin fid, “faith” Fidelity: (noun)

  15. Fiance: (noun) A man to whom a woman is engaged to be married.

  16. Faithfulness; allegiance Fealty: (noun)

  17. Conjure: (verb) • To produce or summon, as if by magic • To call to mind an image or a memory

  18. Infidel: (noun) A person who does not accept a particular faith or religion

  19. Confidant: (noun) A person trusted with secrets or private matters

  20. Affidavit: (noun) A written statement made under oath before an official

  21. Adjudicate: (verb) • To hear and settle a case through a judicial procedure • To settle a dispute

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