Civil Procedure · the 30-terms handout

The thirty terms

All 27 definitions in one page — 26 from Prof. Coyne’s handout, plus laches, which he names but never defines. Pick ten, take twenty at random, work a section, or set the whole sheet going at once — then run any of eight modes over whatever you chose.

The wording is his, exactly — with one marked exception. Grading compares your answer to the handout word by word: capitalisation and punctuation are ignored, order counts. Nothing has been tidied, which means two of his typos are preserved on purpose — JUGEMENT AS A MATTER OF LAW, and minimum contracts in Personal Jurisdiction, where the term of art is minimum contacts. Learn the doctrine from the second; reproduce the first if his exam wants the handout back.

The exception is laches. The handout names it among the common affirmative defenses but never defines it — which is probably why a sheet titled 30 terms holds 29. It sits in a group of its own, Named on the handout, defined elsewhere, and its definition is Cornell’s Legal Information Institute, not his. Check his wording before you rely on it.

Pick what you are working on

A shortcut, a whole section, or individual terms. The word count on each chip is how long that definition runs, which is the honest measure of what you are taking on.

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