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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.
POSTPONEMENT
EVIDENCE - DIRECT
CAPITAL CASE
ANNUAL REVIEW
2. Officer of the court who files pleadings - motions - judgments - etc. - issues process - and keeps records of court proceedings.
NEXT FRIEND
DISCLAIM
MEDIATION
CLERK
3. A suit which has been quashed and ended.
ABATEMENT OF ACTION
HUNG JURY
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE
EXCLUSION OF WITNESSES
4. Evidence which tends to indicate that a defendant did not commit the alleged crime.
SERVE A SENTENCE
EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE
LIE DETECTOR
DIRECT EVIDENCE
5. 1. Arrest record. A written account listing all the instances in which a person has been arrested. 2. A form completed by a police officer when a person is arrested.
INTESTATE
CLOSING ARGUMENT
ACCORD AND SATISFACTION
CRIMINAL RECORD
6. 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.
ACQUIT
COMPETENCY
PURGE
MURDER
7. A person who directs a commission; a member of a commission. The officer in charge of a department or bureau of a public service.
LIMITED JURISDICTION
ASSIGNEE
COMMISSIONER
BRANDISHING A WEAPON
8. Any form of cruelty to a child's physical - moral - or mental well-being.
ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (ADR)
CHILD ABUSE
INTERVENTION
NO-FAULT PROCEEDINGS
9. A specialized court that deals with cases during the late evening and early morning hours.
COURT - NIGHT
STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
HOMICIDE
SPENDTHRIFT TRUST
10. A parent's or custodian's act of leaving a child without adequate care - supervision - support - or parental
ABANDONMENT
CHAIN OF CUSTODY
PRISON
LEWD CONDUCT
11. An order issued by a judge or magistrate commanding a sheriff - constable - or other officer to search a specified location.
OVERT ACT
JURY BOX
DOCKET
SEARCH WARRANT
12. Responsible for a delinquency - crime - or other offense; not innocent.
OFFENSE
PANDERING
GUILTY
GROUNDS
13. Mutual or successive relationships to the same right of property - or the same interest of one person with another which represents the same legal right.
BEQUESTS
COMMITMENT
POLYGRAPH
PRIVITY
14. To forge - to copy or imitate - without authority or right - and with the purpose to deceive or defraud - by passing off the copy as genuine.
LETTERS TESTAMENTARY
FRAUD
RAP SHEET
COUNTERFEIT
15. The court-supervised process by which a will is determined to be the will-maker's final statement regarding how the will-maker wants his or her property distributed.
PROBATE
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
INFORMANT
CASE NUMBER
16. Attorney at law - lawyer - counselor at law.
BENCH WARRANT
MALICIOUS MISCHIEF
ATTORNEY
EXPUNGEMENT
17. To bear witness to - to affirm to be true or genuine - to certify.
ATTEST
CASE LAW
REMEDY
HANDCUFFS
18. 1. Historically - the partition separating the general public from the space occupied by the judges - lawyers - and other participants in a trial. 2. More commonly - the term means the whole body of lawyers.
BAR
FIFTH AMENDMENT
DEFAMATION
LARCENY
19. The formal statement before the court that the accused admits committing the criminal act.
REFEREE
ENTER A GUILTY PLEA
BAIL FORFEITURE
JUDICIAL NOTICE
20. Any behavior - contrary to law - which disturbs the public peace or decorum - scandalizes the community - or shocks the public sense of morality.
HARMLESS ERROR
CHAIN OF CUSTODY
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
OBJECTION SUSTAINED
21. Evidence that can be legally and properly introduced in a civil or criminal trial.
MAGISTRATE
ADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE
MISTRIAL
LAW CLERKS
22. A legal right - exemption or immunity granted to a person - company or class - that is beyond the common advantages of other citizens.
BAIL REVIEW
DUE PROCESS OF LAW
HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION
PRIVILEGE
23. A meeting between the judge and the lawyers involved in a lawsuit to narrow the issues in the suit - agree on what will be presented at the trial - and make a final effort to settle the case without a trial.
QUASH
PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE
POUR-OVER WILL
EQUITY
24. Ordinarily refers to a summary proceeding for restoring possession of land to one who has been wrongfully deprived of possession.
PENITENTIARY
FORCIBLE ENTRY AND DETAINER
CLEAR AND CONVINCING EVIDENCE
ABANDONMENT
25. The lawyer who represents a client and is entitled to receive all formal documents from the court or from other parties. Also known as counsel of record.
JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY
REPLEVIN
LIABLE
ATTORNEY OF RECORD
26. The peril in which an accused is placed when he is properly charged with a crime before a court. Jeopardy normally attaches when the petit jury is impaneled.
JEOPARDY
OFFER OF PROOF
PUBLIC DEFENDER
INSANITY PLEA
27. The act of stopping a judicial proceeding by order of the court.
REVERSIBLE ERROR
REMAND
FOSTER CARE
STAY
28. A state examination taken by prospective lawyers in order to be admitted and licensed to practice law.
BAR EXAMINATION
CLERK OF COURT
CERTIFIED
CLEMENCY OR EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY
29. An agreement by attorneys on both sides of a civil or criminal case about some aspect of the case; e.g. - to extend the time to answer - to adjourn the trial date - or to admit certain facts at the trial.
GARNISHMENT
STIPULATE
JOYRIDING
INSTRUCTIONS
30. 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
CALENDAR
LINEUP
MOTION GRANTED
HOSTILE WITNESS
31. Placing a convicted defendant on conditional probation - the successful completion of which will prevent entry of the underlying judgment of conviction
PRETERMITTED CHILD
SERVICE OF PROCESS
PROBATION BEFORE JUDGMENT (PBJ)
BOOKMAKING
32. The quality in a witness which makes his or her testimony believable.
RECORD
INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE
CREDIBILITY
33. Substantial reason - one that affords a legal excuse.
GOOD CAUSE
BANKRUPTCY
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
HANDCUFFS
34. Evidence that helps to prove a point or issue in a case.
SEPARATION
RELEVANT
LIBEL
ACCUSATION
35. The authority of a court to review the official actions of other branches of government. Also - the authority to declare unconstitutional the actions of other branches.
ALLEGE
EXTRAORDINARY WRIT
JUDICIAL REVIEW
ACCORD
36. 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.
DEPENDENT CHILD
PURGE
ROBBERY
CRIMINAL
37. Juvenile found to have committed a status offense rather than a crime that would provide a basis for a finding of delinquency. Typical status offenses are habitual truancy - violating a curfew - or running away from home. These are not crimes - but t
NEXT FRIEND
CLERK
INFRACTION
PERSON IN NEED OF SUPERVISION
38. Unlawful sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 18 - regardless of whether they consent to the act.
SHOW CAUSE
JURISPRUDENCE
STATUTORY RAPE
NOMINAL PARTY
39. To put off or delay a court hearing.
POSTPONEMENT
NOTICE
ASSISTANT STATE'S ATTORNEY
QUASI JUDICIAL
40. The jury's decision-making process after hearing the evidence and closing arguments and being giventhe court's instructions.
LAW
DELIBERATION
OPINION
STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION
41. The unlawful use of force against another with unusual or serious consequences such as theuse of a dangerous weapon.
AGGRAVATED BATTERY
CONCILIATION
PROXIMATE CAUSE
FELONY MURDER
42. A slang term meaning previous conviction(s) of the accused.
ASSAULT
PRIORS
DISCLAIM
OPENING ARGUMENT
43. To annul or make void by recalling or taking back.
DEFAMATION
REVOKE
LAW
BATTERY
44. The judgment reached or given by a court of law.
REMITTITUR
SHOW CAUSE
DECISION
MATERIAL EVIDENCE
45. A trust that the grantor may change or revoke.
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
DEFENSE ATTORNEY
REVOCABLE TRUST
ALLOCUTION
46. Representation of some fact or circumstance which is not true and is calculated to mislead - whereby a person obtains another's money or goods.
COMMUNITY PROPERTY
JAIL
FALSE PRETENSES
BAIL BOND
47. A government grant giving an inventor the exclusive right to make or sell his or her invention for a term of years.
LINEUP
PATENT
DISCOVERY
LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE
48. 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.
ADMISSIBLE
ADVERSARY SYSTEM
PLEA BARGAIN
GARNISHMENT
49. 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.
CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
ATTEMPT
APPEAL
JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY
50. The state - as in the People of the State of Florida.
SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE
PEOPLE (PROSECUTION)
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
DELIBERATE
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