The Durmah Lexicon™
Legal vocabulary is not decoration — it is the medium. The Lexicon is a spaced-recall system for the words your own lectures actually used.
A student who cannot use estoppel, ratio, obiter, ultra vires or volenti precisely cannot write precisely either. The Lexicon exists to fix that, and it is built around the terms that appeared in your own lectures rather than a generic dictionary.
Three ways in
- The header strip — a rotating Word of the Moment sits under the navigation on every page, with quick search, pronunciation and a shortcut to ask Durmah about the term.
- Cmd+K or Ctrl+K — opens Lexicon search from anywhere in the app without losing your place. This is the fastest way to check a term mid-sentence.
- The full Lexicon page — search, browse A–Z, and filter by your own set or all terms.
What a term card gives you
- The definition, and distinct senses where a term carries more than one.
- Source references.
- Which of your lectures the term appeared in — click through to the lecture itself.
- Your own notes.
- Star, priority and mastery controls.
A term is not an abstraction — it is something a named lecturer used on a specific day in a specific argument. Following that link back to the lecture is usually more instructive than re-reading the definition.
Adding a term Durmah does not have
- 1Search for it. If there is no match, you will be offered Define with Durmah.
- 2Durmah returns a definition and a relevance indicator showing whether the term is legal, borderline or not legally relevant.
- 3Optionally add context — the case where you met it, for instance.
- 4Save it to your Lexicon.
Durmah checks a term for legal relevance before saving it, and marks anything borderline or non-legal clearly. When you star a term from a lecture, it confirms the term genuinely appears in that lecture's analysis first — no invented vocabulary enters your Lexicon.
Drill and mastery
Star a term to add it to your drill set and give it a personal priority. Mark terms as active, mastered or paused — mastered terms drop out of rotation unless you ask to include them. The rotation weights your own starred terms heavily while still introducing new ones, so you keep meeting the words you chose to learn.
Keep going
What Lecture Intelligence gives you
Give Durmah a lecture and it returns a structured study asset — summary, key points, vocabulary, the authorities the lecturer actually relied on, and a read on what they emphasised.
Quiz Me
Active recall on demand, over a lecture, an assignment, a module or a week — in text or out loud.
Talking to Durmah in text
How Durmah answers, what it knows about your studies already, and how to read the source note on every legal answer.
Still stuck?
Ask Durmah — it knows this manual and can point you to the right section. If the manual itself is wrong, out of date or unclear, tell us and we will fix it. Documentation errors are treated as product bugs.
Durmah is an independent study platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated on behalf of any university. Everything in this manual describes study support for legal education. It is not legal advice. Where this manual and your module handbook disagree, your module handbook is authoritative.