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Lesson 1 Basic Concept of Legal Forms

This course focuses on familiarizing students of criminology with legal forms used in judicial proceedings and law enforcement. It aims to acquaint students with the parts and contents of legally binding documents like affidavits, sales contracts, mortgages, powers of attorney, complaints, and official notices. The course emphasizes that legal forms provide clear guidelines and evidence for agreements to avoid future disputes, and allow parties to comply with requirements for valid, enforceable, and provable contracts according to law.

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Lesson 1 Basic Concept of Legal Forms

This course focuses on familiarizing students of criminology with legal forms used in judicial proceedings and law enforcement. It aims to acquaint students with the parts and contents of legally binding documents like affidavits, sales contracts, mortgages, powers of attorney, complaints, and official notices. The course emphasizes that legal forms provide clear guidelines and evidence for agreements to avoid future disputes, and allow parties to comply with requirements for valid, enforceable, and provable contracts according to law.

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Course Title

Technical English 2 (Legal Forms)

Course Description

This course focuses on the study of Legal Forms used in judicial


proceedings and law enforcement of which familiarization of the same is essential to
students of criminology. It is designed to make students become acquainted with the
parts and contents of these legally binding and enforceable documents and, at the
same time, obtain awareness of their value in upholding the rule of law and promoting
justice.

Lesson 1:

What are Legal Forms?

Legal form is a prototype of an instrument to be employed in a legal transaction


or a judicial proceeding that includes the primary essential matters, the appropriate
technical phrases or terms, and any additional material required to render it officially
accurate, arranged in suitable and systematic order, and conducive to adaptation to the
circumstances of the particular case ( https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com).

These could be in the forms of Acknowledgement and Jurat, Affidavits, Sales of


Realty, Sales of Personal Property, Mortgages, Powers of Attorney, Special Contracts
and Agreement, Gratuitous Contracts and Dispositions, Partnerships and Corporation,
and Complaints in Criminal Cases. Official notices may also be considered as legal
forms such as Summons, Appearance Notice, Subpoena, Warrant of Arrest, and Search
Warrant ( Bajado – Nano & Pioquinto, 2014 ).

Importance of Legal Forms

The memory of people is short. Parties to a verbal agreement often disagree as


to what they have agreed several months or years after they have entered into a verbal
agreement. To avoid such situation and in order to have a clear guide and evidence of
the terms they have agreed, lawyers, or even the parties themselves, request a written
agreement for their contract or legal transaction. Moreover, form is important when the
law requires a document or other special form. And when the law requires that a
contract be in some form in order that it may be valid or enforceable or that a contract
be proved in a certain way, that requirement is absolute and indispensable. In the same

✔ Miller, Larry (et al) (2015), Report Writing for Criminal Justice Professionals 5th
Edition
✔ Free Online Legal Form & Document Creator | Legal Templates. Legal Templates.
https://legaltemplates.net
way, judicial proceedings make use of forms as documentary requirements and
evidence for these proceedings, containing therein legally binding information.

✔ Miller, Larry (et al) (2015), Report Writing for Criminal Justice Professionals 5th
Edition
✔ Free Online Legal Form & Document Creator | Legal Templates. Legal Templates.
https://legaltemplates.net

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