Lexicon
In the judgments of the Court of Cassation and the opinions of the Public Prosecutor’s Office at this Court, which are drafted in Dutch or in French, terms peculiar to the cassation procedure appear.
On the Dutch and French pages of this section, you will find a short lexicon for the benefit of the litigant, providing some explanation of the most common written legal language of the Court of Cassation and the Prosecutor’s Office at the Court.
This lexicon does not aim to be scientific. It is therefore necessarily incomplete and lacks scientific rigour. Moreover, it will never replace the thoughtful information provided by a lawyer. Its only objective is an attempt to make a professional jargon more accessible to a wide audience. The only merit of this lexicon is that it exists.