Legal key nouns

2. A court order telling a person or a company to stop doing something, or telling them not to do it in the first place.
5. Somebody who has committed a civil wrong to somebody, entitling the victim to claim damages.
6. A payment made by a person or company to cover the cost of damage or hardship which he / she /it has caused.
9. An official who investigates complaints by the public against government departments or other large organisations (especially banks, travel companies, and electricity, gas, water and telecommunications providers
10. Money claimed by a claimant from a defendant because of harm or damage done, or money warded by a court to a claimant as a result of harm suffered by the claimant.
11. A licence to trade using a brand name and paying a royalty for it.
13. The legal responsibility for paying someone for loss or damage incurred.
14. The notifiable offence of telling lies when you have made an oath to say what is true in court.
15. An attempt by a third party to make the two sides in an argument agree.

1. One of the main conditions of a contract, where one party agrees to what is proposed by the other party. Also the act of signing a bill of exchange to show that you agree to pay for it.
3. A failure to carry out the terms of an agreement, a contract, etc.
4. A failure to give proper care to something, especially a duty or responsibility, with the result that a person or property is harmed.
7. A person who is appointed to deal with financial or other matters on behalf of another person.
8. The good reputation of a business and its contacts with its customers (for example, the name of the product it sells or its popular appeal to customers)
10. A document in which a company acknowledges it owes a debt and gives the company's assets as security
12. Somebody who gives a guarantee.
13. The closing of a company and the selling of its assets.