initial writ the main written pleading that starts all but minor matters in the Scottish Sheriff Court.

• Accountant in Bankruptcy
• Accountant of Court
• accounts (of limited companies)
• accretion
• accused
• a coelo usque ad centrum
• acquiescence
• acquis communautaire
• acquisitive prescription
• acquittal
• acte claire
• actio de effusis vel dejectis
• actio de in rem verso
• actio de positis vel suspensis
• action on the case
• actio personalis moritur cum persona
• actio quanti minoris
• act of God
• act of indemnity
• Act of Parliament
• act of state
• Act of the Scottish Parliament
• Acts of Union
• actual authority
• actual grant presumed