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1. Aka DOCKET NUMBER.
CASE NUMBER
BEQUEATH
PARALEGAL
PETITIONER
2. A legal doctrine that makes each of the parties who are responsible for an injury liable for all the damages awarded in a lawsuit if the other parties responsible cannot pay.
LIABLE
JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY
MENTAL HEALTH
FIFTH AMENDMENT
3. A picture of an alleged criminal created by a professional police artist using verbal descriptionsgiven by the victim or a witness.
SELF-PROVING WILL
EXHIBIT - PEOPLE'S
COMPOSITE DRAWING
CROSS-CLAIM
4. The hearing available to a person charged with a felony to determine if there is enough evidence (probable cause) to hold him for trial.
HARASSMENT
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
DISMISSAL WITH PREJUDICE
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
5. The designation assigned to each case filed in a particular court. Also called a case number.
PETITIONER
DOCKET NUMBER
FELONY MURDER
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
6. Tangible physical property (such as cars - clothing - furniture - and jewelry) and intangible personal property. This does not include real property such as land or rights in land.
PERSONAL PROPERTY
SENTENCE - CONCURRENT
STANDARD OF PROOF
FALSE IMPRISONMENT
7. A court having jurisdiction to hear appeals and review a trial court's procedure.
FOSTER CARE
APPELLATE COURT
GUILTY
OATH
8. A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
DEATH PENALTY
IMPANEL
DISCOVERY
COURT REPORTER
9. Oral or verbal evidence rather than written. The Parole Evidence Rule limits the admissibility of parole evidence which would directly contradict the clear meaning of terms of a written contract.
SHOPLIFTING
BEQUEATH
DISMISSAL WITH PREJUDICE
PAROLE EVIDENCE
10. A practice whereby a person or place is searched and evidence useful in the investigation and prosecution of a crime is seized or taken. The search is conducted after an order is issued by a judge.
SEARCH AND SEIZURE
NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY
CORONER
HEARING - CONTESTED
11. The final decision of the court - resolving the dispute; an opinion; an award of damages.
DEFAULT-JUDGMENT
RECUSE
JUDGMENT
HUNG JURY
12. Punishment by death for capital crimes. Death penalty.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
JURY FOREMAN
COURTS - JUVENILE and DEPENDENCY
SHERIFF
13. To give authority or legal authenticity to a statute - record - or other written instrument.
FORCIBLE ENTRY AND DETAINER
SEQUESTRATION OF WITNESSES
EXONERATE
AUTHENTICATE
14. A trust that the grantor may change or revoke.
SENTENCING
REVOCABLE TRUST
BAR
JAIL
15. The process whereby the accused and the prosecutor in a criminal case work out a mutually satisfactory disposition of the case subject to court approval. Usually involves the defendant's pleading guilty to a lesser offense or to only one.
PLEA BARGAIN
AID AND ABET
EXAMINATION - REDIRECT
COURT APPOINTED COUNSEL
16. A party to a lawsuit. Litigation refers to a case - controversy - or lawsuit.
LITIGANT
PREJUDICE
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
ORDINANCE
17. The act of showing a weapon to another person - typically the police or the victim.
REFEREE
BRANDISHING A WEAPON
SEALING
FALSE PRETENSES
18. With knowledge - willfully or intentionally with respect to a material element of an offense.
PARTY
KNOWINGLY
ELEMENTS OF A CRIME
GRAND JURY
19. 1. To execute - perpetrate - or carry out an act. To commit a crime. 2. To send a person to prison - asylum - or reformatory by a court order.
STATUTORY LAW
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
COMMIT
COLLATERAL ATTACK
20. In practice - a notice in writing requiring the opposite party to produce a certain described paper or document at the trial - or in the course of pre-trial discovery.
DELIBERATION
RESTITUTION
COURT ADMINISTRATOR
NOTICE TO PRODUCE
21. The judgment formally pronounced by the court or judge upon the defendant after his or her conviction by imposing a punishment to be inflicted either in the form of a fine - incarceration or probation.
SENTENCE
PENALTY
SELF-PROVING WILL
DETENTION FACILITY
22. A court order forbidding the defendant from doing any action or threatened action until a hearing on the application can be conducted.
JUROR - ALTERNATE
OVERRULE
MALFEASANCE
RESTRAINING ORDER
23. A suit which has been quashed and ended.
MENTAL HEALTH
ABATEMENT OF ACTION
REVERSIBLE ERROR
DUE PROCESS OF LAW
24. Ordinarily refers to a summary proceeding for restoring possession of land to one who has been wrongfully deprived of possession.
SENTENCING
INCEST
PROCEDURAL LAW
FORCIBLE ENTRY AND DETAINER
25. The court in which a matter must first be filed.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
DECISION
CIVIL ACTION
COURT REPORTER
26. A right guaranteed by the U. S. Constitution - interpreted by the federal courts; also - a right guaranteed by some other constitution (such as a state constitution).
POLLING THE JURY
INJUNCTION
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
BENCH CONFERENCE
27. The trial method used in the U.S. and some other countries. This system is based on the belief that truth can best be determined by giving opposing parties full opportunity to present and establish their evidence - and totest by crossexamination the
ADVERSARY SYSTEM
EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE
REST
BRANDISHING A WEAPON
28. Public official charged with duty to make inquiry into the causes and circumstances of any death which occurs through violence or suddenly - with marks of suspicion.
CORONER
RAP SHEET
ARREST OF JUDGMENT
JUROR
29. A concept applied by courts in product liability cases in which a seller is liable for any and all defective or hazardous products which unduly threaten a consumer's personal safety.
DOCKET
LITIGATION
STRICT LIABILITY
STATUTORY LAW
30. A rule of law that courts and judges shall draw a particular inference from a particular fact - or from particular evidence.
BENCH CONFERENCE
SENTENCE - SUSPENDED
PRESUMPTION OF LAW
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
31. Numerous and unnecessary attempts to litigate the same issue.
COMMIT
MULTIPLICITY OF ACTIONS
CONCILIATION
FIRST APPEARANCE
32. An agreement by two or more persons to commit an unlawful act; in criminal law - conspiracy is a separate offense from the crime that is the object of the conspiracy.
RESTRAINING ORDER
CONSPIRACY
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION
COMPLAINANT
33. Any factors associated with the commission of a crime which increase the seriousness of theoffense or add to its injurious consequences.
AGGRAVATING FACTORS
FIFTH AMENDMENT
DAMAGES
CONDEMNATION
34. A crime - such as a felony - misdemeanor - or other punishable unlawful act.
FIRST APPEARANCE
SENTENCE REPORT
OFFENSE
PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE
35. One not trained in law.
ANSWER
GRAND THEFT
EXTORTION
LAY PERSON
36. Youths charged with the status of being beyond the control of their legal guardian or are habitually disobedient - truant from school - or have committed other acts that would not be a crime if committed by an adult. They are not delinquents (in that
ADJUDICATION
COURT - TRAFFIC
STATUS OFFENDERS
GUILTY
37. A short - abbreviated form of the case as found in the record.
STANDARD OF PROOF
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
ABSTRACT OF RECORD
ACCORD
38. The finding of the court that an act was committed with the intent of embarrassing the court - disobeying its lawful orders - or obstructing the administration of justice in some way.
CONTEMPT OF COURT
GRANTOR OR SETTLOR
FALSE PRETENSES
BRIEF
39. The continued - habitual - or compulsive commission of law violations after first having been convicted of prior offenses.
DETENTION FACILITY
EVIDENCE
RECIDIVISM
HOSTILE WITNESS
40. The act of taking and carrying away the personal property of another of a value less than $300 with the intent to deprive the owner or possessor of it permanently.
PIMP
RESTRAINING ORDER
ROBBERY
PETTY THEFT
41. A legal proceeding in which a debtor's money - in the possession of another (the garnishee) - is applied to the debts of the debtor - such as when an employer garnishes a debtor's wages.
JURISDICTION
RECIDIVISM
GARNISHMENT
CHILD SUPPORT
42. Synonymous with reversible error ; an error which warrants the appellate court in reversing the judgment before it.
BREACH
ACCESSORY
PREJUDICIAL ERROR
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
43. An error committed during a trial that was corrected or was not serious enough to affect the outcome of a trial and (prejudicial) to be reversed on appeal.
EMINENT DOMAIN
DOCKET NUMBER
HARMLESS ERROR
OVERT ACT
44. The cause - price - or impelling influence which induces a party to enter into a contract.
AGREEMENT
FOURTH AMENDMENT
CONSIDERATION
INFORMANT
45. The area of a state or federal prison where criminals who are sentenced to death are confined until their sentence is commuted or carried out.
DEATH ROW
CORROBORATE
INTERLOCUTORY
INADMISSIBLE
46. An undisclosed person who confidentially discloses material information of a crime to the police - which is usually done in exchange for a reward or special treatment.
INFORMANT
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
LAWSUIT
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
47. Conduct which tends to annoy all citizens - including unnecessary and distractingnoisemaking.
DISTURBING THE PEACE
LAY PERSON
LINEUP
BATTERY - SPOUSAL
48. A lawyer elected to represent the state in criminal cases in his or her respective juicial circuit. See PROSECUTOR.
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49. An inference of the truth or falsity of a proposition or fact - that stands until rebutted by evidence to the contrary.
CRIMINAL
PRESUMPTION
AFFIDAVIT
HARMLESS ERROR
50. To legally certify the innocence of one charged with a crime. To set free - release or discharge from an obligation - burden or accusation. To find a defendant not guilty in a criminal trial.
COURT - APPEALS
ACQUIT
PENALTY
CLEMENCY OR EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY
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