Best Civil Procedure Term Definitions
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The top 100+ key legal definitions for crushing your civil procedure final exam and the bar exam.
*Updated July 2022
Civil procedure definitions
- 12(b) motion
- abuse of discretion
- accord and satisfaction
- admissions
- affidavit
- affirmative defenses
- alien
- allegation
- amended pleadings
- amend as “matter of course” (or “matter of right”)
- amount in controversy (or jurisdictional amount)
- answer
- appeal
- arbitration
- attachment
- attorney certifications
- attorney fees
- bench trial
- Bulge Rule
- citizenship
- claim preclusion (or res judicata)
- class action
- class certification (or denial)
- clearly erroneous standard
- common law
- complaints
- complete diversity
- compulsory counterclaims
- consolidation
- controlling issues
- counterclaims
- crossclaims
- cross motion
- damages
- declaratory relief
- default judgment
- de novo standard
- depositions
- disclosures
- discovery
- discovery sanctions
- discretionary decisions
- dismissal
- diversity jurisdiction
- domicile
- “election-of-remedies” doctrine
- electronically stored information (ESI)
- Erie doctrine
- equitable relief
- extraordinary writ
- expert disclosures
- failure to state a claim
- federal question
- final judgment
- final judgment rule
- final pretrial conference
- forum non conveniens
- forum selection clause
- general verdict with interrogatories
- harmless error rule
- immunity
- impleader
- initial disclosures
- injunction
- in rem
- insufficient process
- insufficient service
- interlocutory review
- interpleader
- interrogatories
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