The following legal glossary equips students with easily digestible definitions of complex legal terminology. It defines many of the legal terms found in the book as well as some of the terminology used in the Case Summaries section of this site. Students can search the glossary for a particular term mentioned in the text.
Legal Glossary List of Terms
Acceptance
Actionable
Adhesion Contract
Age of Majority
Agency
Agency Law
Agent
Agreement
Assignment of Copyright
Breach of Contract
Categorical Imperative
Clean Room Defense
Common Law
Confidentiality Agreement
Consideration
Constructive Condition
Contract
Contractual Capacity
Contractual Condition
Copyright
Copyright Protection Measure
Corporation
Counteroffer
Derivative Work
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
Disclosed Principal
Employee
Encryption
Exclusive License
Express Condition
Fair Use
Fiduciary Relationship
Fixed Work
Frustration
General Partnership
Impracticability
Independent Contractor
Infringement
Internet Service Provider
Joint Work
Lanham Act
License
Limited Liability Corporation
Merger
Non-exclusive License
Offer
Originality
Partially Disclosed Principal
Partnership Agreement
Patent
Performance
Personal Property
Promissory Estoppel
Publication
Public Domain
Real Property
Reverse Engineering
S Corporation
Safe Harbor Act
Servicemark
Sole Proprietorship
Subagent
Substantial Similarity
Tangibility
Trademark
Trade Secret
Undisclosed Principal
Unilateral Mistake
Vicarious Liability
Work Made for Hire
Work of Visual Art
