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Law Vocab
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1. Yearly judicial review - usually in juvenile dependency cases - to determine whether the child requirescontinued court supervision or placement.
EXTRAORDINARY WRIT
PROBATION
PETTY OFFENSE
ANNUAL REVIEW
2. The method - established normally by rules to be followed in a case; the formal steps in a judicial proceeding.
EXHIBIT - PEOPLE'S
PROCEDURAL LAW
PARDON
ALLEGATION
3. Supplementary evidence that tends to strengthen or confirm the initial evidence.
CORROBORATING EVIDENCE
PETTY THEFT
INTESTACY LAWS
BAR
4. A person to whom the court refers a pending case to take testimony - hear the parties - and report to the court.
MALICE
INTESTATE
CRIMINAL INSANITY
REFEREE
5. The adjournment or postponement of a session - hearing - trial - or other proceeding until a future date.
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
CONTINUANCE
CORROBORATING EVIDENCE
HOLDING CELL
6. In bankruptcy proceedings - a debt is secured if the debtor gave the creditor a right to repossess the property or goods used as collateral.
SECURED DEBT
CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS
RATIFICATION
FIFTH AMENDMENT
7. A specialized court that hears crimes dealing with traffic offenses.
SPENDTHRIFT TRUST
OFFER OF PROOF
CASE
COURT - TRAFFIC
8. The distinctive pattern of lines on human fingertips that are used as a method of identification in criminal cases.
BOOKING NUMBER
DISPOSITION
SHOPLIFTING
FINGERPRINT
9. Presentation of evidence to the court (out of the hearing of the jury) for the court's decision of whether the evidence is admissible.
PLEADINGS
STATEMENT - CLOSING
OFFER OF PROOF
BILL OF PARTICULARS
10. A personal representative - named in a will - who administers an estate.
NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY
EXECUTOR
ALLOCUTION
GENERAL ASSIGNMENT
11. That which tends to injure a person's reputation. Libel is published defamation - whereasslander is spoken.
DEFAMATION
EXTRADITION
MISTRIAL
CHARACTER EVIDENCE
12. A police identification procedure by which the suspect to a crime is exhibited - along with others - before the victim or witness to determine if the victim or witness can identify the committed the crime.suspect as the person who
MALICE
ROBBERY
LINEUP
ESCHEAT (ES-CHET)
13. An accounting for the whereabouts of the tangible evidence from the moment it is received in custody until it is offered in evidence in court.CHALLENGE - An objection - such as when an attorney objects at a hearing to the seating of a particular pers
CHAIN OF CUSTODY
INTESTATE
QUASI JUDICIAL
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
14. Money awarded by a court to a person injured by the unlawful act or negligence of another person.
DAMAGES
RECALL
STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
NEXT FRIEND
15. A person confined to a prison - penitentiary - or jail.
ASSISTANT STATE'S ATTORNEY
DISSOLUTION
INMATE
JAIL
16. The state or condition of a person who is unable to pay his or her debts as they are or become due.
PETTY OFFENSE
BIFURCATE
GUILTY
BANKRUPT
17. A sentence imposed for the commission of a crime whereby a convicted criminal offender is released into the community - usually under conditions and under the supervision of a probation officer - instead of incarceration.
JUVENILE WAIVER
REDRESS
STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
PROBATION
18. A moot case or a moot point is one not subject to a judicial determination because it involves an abstract question or a pretended controversy that has not yet actually arisen or has already passed. Mootness usually refers to a court's refusal to con
REMAND
MOTION GRANTED
RETAINER
MOOT
19. Refers to courts that are limited in the types of criminal and civil cases they may hear. For example - traffic violations generally are heard by limited jurisdiction courts.
COUNTERFEIT
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
LIMITED JURISDICTION
HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION
20. A suit which has been quashed and ended.
CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES
ACCOMPLICE
PROOF
ABATEMENT OF ACTION
21. 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.
ESCHEAT (ES-CHET)
NOTICE TO PRODUCE
ALLEGE
PROBATION DEPARTMENT
22. Violation of a professional duty to act with reasonable care and in good faith without fraud or collusion.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
MALPRACTICE
HANDCUFFS
SODOMY
23. A formal - written statement by legislature declaring - commanding - or prohibiting something.
MANSLAUGHTER - INVOLUNTARY
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
PAROLE EVIDENCE
STATUTE
24. A contract in which the promise made by the obligor is not expressed - but inferred by one's conduct or implied in law.
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
OFFENDER
COURT ADMINISTRATOR
IMPLIED CONTRACT
25. A person - business - or government agency actively involved in the prosecution or defense of a legal proceeding.
PARTY
PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE
DETENTION FACILITY
APPELLATE JURISDICTION
26. A procedure by which a convicted defendant challenges the conviction and/or sentence on the basis of some alleged violation or error.
POST CONVICTION RELIEF PROCEEDING
DEATH ROW
PRECEDENT
MATERIAL WITNESS
27. Opportunity to present rebuttal evidence after one's evidence has been subjected to cross-examination.
CREDIBILITY
RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION
APPELLEE
ALFORD PLEA
28. A coming into court as party or interested person or as a lawyer on behalf of party or interested person.
RECUSE
JURY COMMISSIONER
MALPRACTICE
APPEARANCE
29. All the judges of a court sitting together. Appellate courts can consist of a dozen or more judges - but often they hear cases in panels of three judges. If a case is heard or reheard by the full court - it is heard en banc.
INTERLOCUTORY
EXTRADITION
EN BANC
EXAMINATION - REDIRECT
30. Numerous and unnecessary attempts to litigate the same issue.
ADMONISH
BEQUESTS
MULTIPLICITY OF ACTIONS
INDEMNIFY
31. A child born or adopted after a will is executed - who is not provided for in the will.
DEFAULT
COMMUNITY PROPERTY
PRETERMITTED CHILD
CREDIBILITY
32. Supervised release of a prisoner before the expiration of his or her sentence.
DISSENT
APPEAL
LENIENCY
PAROLE
33. The act which produces an effect.
ANNOTATION
CAUSATION
PRETERMITTED SPOUSE
PRISON
34. To give a gift to someone through a will.
BEQUEATH
FOURTH AMENDMENT
ASSUMPTION OF RISK
NOTICE TO PRODUCE
35. Declaration or document issued by a grand jury that either makes a neutral report or notes misdeeds by officials charged with specified public duties.
JURY
COURT - TRAFFIC
DIRECT EXAMINATION
PRESENTMENT
36. Postponing the effect of a judgment already entered - ordinarily because of an error apparent on the record .
MEMORIALIZED
REMITTITUR
ARREST OF JUDGMENT
FIELD SOBRIETY TEST
37. One who commits a crime - such as a felony - misdemeanor - or other punishable unlawful act.
RECIDIVISM
CHIEF JUDGE
PROOF
OFFENDER
38. Money awarded to an injured person - over and above the measurable value of the injury - in order to punish the person who hurt him.
ABSTRACTACT
PUNITIVE DAMAGES
STATUTE
DECISION
39. A child who is homeless or without proper care through no fault of the parent - guardian - or custodian. DEPORTATION - The act of removing a person to another country. Order issued by an immigration judge - expelling an alien from the United States.
SEXUAL MOLESTATION
ELEMENTS OF A CRIME
DEPENDENT CHILD
NO-CONTEST CLAUSE
40. With knowledge - willfully or intentionally with respect to a material element of an offense.
REVERSIBLE ERROR
EXECUTE
SHOPLIFTING
KNOWINGLY
41. The lack of power or the legal ability to act.
INCAPACITY
REASONABLE PERSON
REVOCABLE TRUST
SERVE A SENTENCE
42. Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
ADJUDICATE
CONDITIONAL RELEASE
ATTACHMENT
BEST EVIDENCE
43. Evidence which might unfairly sway the judge or jury to one side or the other.
PRISON
PREJUDICIAL EVIDENCE
SANCTION
BRIEF
44. A ruling by the court against the party making the objection.
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
OBJECTION OVERRULED
STATUS OFFENDERS
POSSESSION OF DRUGS
45. Representation of some fact or circumstance which is not true and is calculated to mislead - whereby a person obtains another's money or goods.
DOCKET
DIVERSION
FALSE PRETENSES
EXECUTOR
46. State-imposed death as punishment for a serious crime. Capital punishment.
PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS
PETITION
DEATH PENALTY
CERTIFICATION
47. Evidence which tends to indicate that a defendant did not commit the alleged crime.
CHAIN OF CUSTODY
LAW CLERKS
ADVERSARY SYSTEM
EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE
48. The person filing an action in a court of original jurisdiction. Also - the person who appeals the judgment of a lower court. The opposing party is called the respondent.
DOMICILE
MOOT
PETITIONER
LAW CLERKS
49. To lose - or lose the right to.
FORFEIT
COURT ORDER
JOYRIDING
CIVIL PROCEDURE
50. An order by the court telling a person to stop performing a specific act.
ON A PERSON'S OWN RECOGNIZANCE
GOOD CAUSE
PRECEDENT
ENJOINING