Legal Glossary

Term

a city municipal council

A wise man does not care about what

he cannot have

Abdeen inheritance cases

Accountability

Accruals

Acknowledgements

act

Acts of Administration

Acts of conveyance

Acts of disposal

Acts of Disposal

ad hoc committee: specially made for

that purpose

Administrative agencies

administrative council

Admit

Admit admition

Admit admittance

advocate general

Aerodrome

Affidavits

affiliate

After reading it out

Against a recompense

Agencies

agrarian reform law

aid to prosecution

Ain Shams faculty of language (Alalson)

Air port

airline

All actions brought by them or against

them

--- ---

All four in their capacity as,

All kinds and makes of cars

All kinds of contracts

All that in respect of the share of the

inheritance to which the principals are
entitled from their inheritor the late
Mr. --- including collection of the
money and accruals of the inheritor in
Egyptian and Foreign banks

---/

Allegation of forgery

Alteration invalidates

amended by

an aid to the president/ president aid

Annually renew licenses

Anti-Narcotic General Administration

(ANGA)

Any administrative authority

Any court whatever kind in all lawsuits

Any entity or person

Any government department

Any other department or agency

concerned

Any paper(s)

Apostille

Apostille

Appeal

Appeal committee

Appear

APPEARED

Apply for and receive licenses thereof

Apply for licenses

Appointment of experts

Apportionment

Appraisements

appropriate authority

appropriate minister

Arab

arabesque

Arabic

Arabicize

Arabize: to make Arab in thinking and

attitude

article

articled clerk

As a whole --- do hereby give and grant

unto --- full power and authority to
authorize another or renunaciate such
power in all or part of the hereinbefore
mentioned, generally giving and
granting unto --- full power of
attorney, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that --- shall lawfully do
or cause to be done by virtue thereof

As per

Ask for

Assessing Taxes

assistance director

( )

assistance lecturer

assistance professor

assistance prosecution

assistance to the dean

( )

assistance to the director

( )

association

association

association of capital

associations of capital

associations of persons

Attorney

Attorney General

Attorney-in-fact

audit

auditor

authentic

Authentic translation at the American

University in Cairo Egypt

authentity: it is true

authorities

authorization

BA

bachelor

Bank

Bartering

Be given

Before and through me

Before any court of law

Being two qualified witnesses

Binding papers

Bis: the number is repeated but the

content is not.

Branches

Briefs

) (

business

Cadastral board

Cadastral boards

Cadastral map

Cadastral survey

Cadastre

Cairo security directorate

Calling tenants to account

Cancellation

Casablanca

case law

Cashing checks

cassation

Central agency for management and

)organization (CAMA

chairman

chairmanship of

)(

Challenging

Change

chapter

Charge sheet

Charges

Circumstances alter cases

Civil case

Civil Registration

Civil registration

Clause

Clearances

Clearances

Co-inheritors of the late

Collect or sell

Collecting or paying of rents

commerce

commercial company

commitmence

committee on Foreign Relation

common words

common-law

) (

Companies

company

/ /

competence

competent/ adequate/ appropriate

committee

concerned with

Conciliation committee

Conciliation Committees

Conciliations

Concluding

Constructing buildings and removing

such

Contract of sale

Contract with building contractors

Contracts

Contracts of cancellation

Contracts of Tenancy

Contractual purposes

Copies of court rulings and execution

thereof

Corporate law

corporation (corporation aggregate)

- ( ) - )(

Corporation of Insurance Brokers

corporation sole

corporeal right

Cotton cultivation

country road

country/ country side

Coupons

Court of cassation

court of law

Courts of personal status

Courts of probate

Craftsmanship

Criminal case

Customs/ custom

Dated

Declarations

Decree of distribution #

Decrees of distribution

deed

defendant

Delivering

Delivery confinement

Demand

Demand

Demand and give

Demanding solemn oath to be taken

Denials

department of modern vehicle (DMV)

Department of motor vehicles

Deposit

Depositions in trust

desert road

Deviate: deviate from the slandered

/ /

Diplomatic bag (American) / pouch

(British)

Director General/ general manager

Disposals

Disputing such

Distribution

district

District Attorney (D.A.)

district chief office

Division

Do hereby make, constitute and

appoint said attorney true and lawful
representative for --- and in --- name,

---

place and stead in

Documents

DOD department of defense

Does hereby grant, sell, assign, transfer

and deliver unto

Donation

duty free

duty stamp

easement

economic: related to economy

economical: saving money

Egyptianize

Elements of crime

enactment clauses

Enactment of laws

Entitled

Entitled to

Established rights

Exchange securities

Execution complications

Exonerations

Exporting

external student

fact

Farm land/ agricultural

Farm lands

Farm lands

Fees

Feudalism

Feudalist

Final

Finalize any measures

finance inspection

financial directorates

Financialization of capitals

financing company

firm

FIRST

fixed tax/ direct tax

Foreign Relation committee

Full Power of Attorney

Full-time

Giving and granting unto --- full power

and authority to authorize another
in--- name, place and stead as fully or
for some of the above mentioned

Goal

Goods

Government departments

Governmental entity

graded (marked "British")

grant rights

Harbor

Harbor authorities

Harbor authority

He is a tough grader

heavenly-law

Herewith enclosed #

Hiring

historic: very important

historical: related to history

historicity

holding company

I.D. #

If you deem it appropriate = if you

considered it suitable

illegal

Immovable

Importing

In addition

In all of the above-mentioned

In any other case

In general

in respect of

in the name of toiling masses/ masses of

the people

In the presence of

in view of/ considering

In witness whereof

In witness whereof

In:

Inalienable

Informal and formal

Inheritor

Insurance

Insurance

Integral part of

Inter alios

introduction

it will bite you

item

joint company

joint-stock company, anonymous

company

joint-stock company, stock company

judge-made-law

kill in cold blood

pre-meditated

with malice a fore-thought

Know all men by these presents that

Not translated in Arabic

Laborers

Land port

language dictionary

Lawfully and legally

Lawsuits

Lawyers' law

lecturer

legal drafting

Legal guarantees

legality

legally

Levying Taxes

limited liability company

( )

limited partnership

Litigation Procedures

local council

Loophole

Machinery

Made and signed by

man-made-law

manufacturing

Marketing promotion

master degree

Matters thereof

Metal plates

MOD ministry of defense

Money order

Money orders

Monthly pensions

Mortgage

Movable

Movables

Municipal Council

Municipality

Muslim law

Name

neighborhood

NGOs

Non-governmental entity

nontranslability

Northern boarder

not for sale

notary

Notary public

Notary public

Objections

Objective

obligation

Occupancy of the road

Offices

Offices

On all that

On this Wednesday

One addition regarding collecting

money from banks

one-man company

Opinion ad hoc committee

Orders

organization

organizational structure

organizationally

outfit

(_____ )

Owned by

pacta sund servanda: the contract

make the law of the parts.

Papers

Parcels

Part and parcel

particular partnership

partnership

- -

Part-time

/ /

Pay

Pay the sum of money required

Payable to

Payable to ---

Paying prices and receiving of such

Peoples Assembly

Personal status

petition

petition hired writer

petitioner

( )

Petitions

PhD

Pillars of Islam

Plaintiff

Port

Post-savings

Post-savings authority

Post-savings authority

preamble

preambuler part

precedent

Preliminary

presidency

president

pretext

primarily

Principals

Principals

Printed #

Private sector

Procedure for litigation

Process-server department

Profession

professor

Professorship

Promotion gimmicks

Promotion X Demotion

/ / /( )

Promulgation

:()

prosecution

prosecutor

provided for no exception

province

provision

public prosecution

Public sector

public utility company

Publicity of testament

publicity of testament

Publish

Purchase

Purchaser

Purchasing

Real estate

Real estate

Real Estate Publicity and Registration

Department

Real estate publicity department

Real Estate Tax Department

Real guarantees

Receive building materials

Receive the balance

Receive the sums of money

Receiving and giving receipts

Recompense

Recusing

Reda's troupe for

Refraining or taking such

Registry Office

Regulating

Regulating customs exemption

Reject what is deemed unacceptable

Related

Religion

Remuneration

Remunerations

Renting

repeal

Report for

---

Reporting loss of coupons

Reports

Reports of experts and arbitrators

Requisite

Rescinding

Rescissions

Residence

Respondent

Restrictions

Re-subordinate

Rodue countries

rules of drafting

Rules, procedure, measure, regulation

Said that--- have made, constituted and

appointed and by these presents do
make, constitute and appoint--- true
and lawful attorney for--- and in their
name, place and stead

---

Salaries

sales director

sales manager

sales office

Saving

seal of the republic

Seals

Seasonal employment

See port

Sell

Selling

Senator

settle

settlement

Settling of such

Shall be deemed

Shares

shipbuilding company

Shipment

Shipping

SIC

Signing for them

Signing papers

Signing receipts of such

Signing related papers and contracts

Signing reports for petty offences

social public prosecutor

Solitary confinement

Southern boarder

sovereign

sovereignty minister

sovereignty tax

special committee

specialized committee

Squatter settlement

Squatter Settler

stamp duty

stamp duty petition

State Information Service (SIS)

statehood

Stocks

Submitting and subscribing

applications

subordinate

subpartnership

subsidiary / affiliated company

associate company
Substitute

Substitution

Substitution

sue: take an action against

superior

System

Take any legal measure

Take any necessary measure or

requisite procedure

Taking and quashing liens

Taking any necessary measures

Target

teaching assistance/a junior member of

staff

technical (specialized) dictionary

technical words

Termination of inalienable estate

termination of inalienable estate

Terms and condition

The 17th day of January in the year

One Thousand Nine Hundred and
Ninety Six

The administrative court

The agricultural societies

The American university in Cairo on

January 20, 2000
The balance

The bench

The capacity of dispose

The capacity to contract

The capacity to dispose

The central agency for public

mobilization and statistics (CAPMAS)

The central auditing organization

(CAO)

The Contra Proferentum or

Preferentum Rule

The customs house

The judge

the minister of religious or Islamic

religious endowment/inalienable estate

The principal(s)

(owner)

The process server department

The Said

The state council

The tax department

the text of the law

The translator certifies that he is

proficient in Arabic and English and is
competent to translate the original
document from Arabic into English

)

(

The two parts to the contract

Therefor

For that

Therefrom received

This authorization

This contract has been made and

interred by and between

To apply to

To cash

To conclude a contract

to date= until now

to dispose of

( )

To enact

to make

To promulgate

To quash liens

To receive

To submit

To take liens

To undertake administration

trade in

Transfer

translatability

translatable

Translated by ---

---

Transliterate

Trust fund

Truth

University boar/ council/ senate

Vacant land

Vendor

( )

Waivers

Waiving of such

ward

Whatever is deemed acceptable

When necessary

with a view to/ aiming to

with respect to

Without liability

Without recompense

Specialty

Executed contract

Executory contract

Express contract

Implied contract

Requirements

Two or more competent parties

Legal subject matter

Consideration

Assent of the parties

)(

There cannot be a contract when any

of these are wanting

The form of contract

Party of first part

Party of second part