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Law Vocab
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1. To advise or caution. For example the Court may caution or admonish counsel for wrong practices.
QUASI JUDICIAL
CLOSING ARGUMENT
DEMURRER
ADMONISH
2. Mental capacity of a person - especially with regard to his or her ability to stand trial and to assist counsel in his or her defense.
BOOKING NUMBER
COMPETENCY
CLASS ACTION
REHEARING
3. To bear witness to - to affirm to be true or genuine - to certify.
ATTEST
CASE LAW
MANDATE
PLAINTIFF
4. An action instituted with intention of injuring the defendant and without probable cause -and which terminates in favor of the person prosecuted.
REVERSIBLE ERROR
MALICIOUS PROSECUTION
PROBATION OFFICER
MIRANDA RIGHTS
5. An open act showing the intent to commit a crime.
MANSLAUGHTER - VOLUNTARY
JURY TRIAL
OVERT ACT
RULE
6. 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
PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
REMEDY
FOURTH AMENDMENT
7. A court-ordered allowance that one spouse pays the other spouse for maintenance and support while they areeither separated - pending suit for divorce - or after they are divorced.
RELINQUISHMENT
REVOCABLE TRUST
GRANTOR OR SETTLOR
ALIMONY
8. A person who directs a commission; a member of a commission. The officer in charge of a department or bureau of a public service.
RESTRAINING ORDER
COMMISSIONER
PROBATION DEPARTMENT
INADMISSIBLE
9. With knowledge - willfully or intentionally with respect to a material element of an offense.
KNOWINGLY
BATTERED CHILD SYNDROME (B.C.S.)
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT
10. The CFR is the annual listing of executive agency regulations published in the daily Federal Register - and the regulations issued previously which are still in effect. The CFR contains regulatory laws governing practice and procedure before federal
LAW CLERKS
STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS
INCARCERATE
11. A court order to protect a person from further harassment - service of process - or discovery.
HUNG JURY
ENTRAPMENT
REAL PROPERTY
PROTECTIVE ORDER
12. The purpose to use a particular means to bring about a certain result.
PENALTY
PERSONAL PROPERTY
COURT APPOINTED COUNSEL
INTENT
13. The term pertains to liability for loss shifted from one person held legally responsible to another.
INDEMNIFY
RESPONDENT
MORAL TURPITUDE
NOT GUILTY
14. One who is joined as a party or defendant merely because the technical rules of pleading require his presence in the record.
NOMINAL PARTY
MATERIAL EVIDENCE
ANNOTATION
GAMBLING
15. Those which do not constitute a justification or excuse for an offense but which may be considered as reasons for reducing the degree of blame.
MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES
AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE
PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
AFFIDAVIT
16. The act of staking money - or other thing of value - on an uncertain event or outcome.
AT ISSUE
GAMBLING
PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE
PAROLE EVIDENCE
17. The designation assigned to each case filed in a particular court. Also called a case number.
FAMILY ALLOWANCE
DOCKET NUMBER
PREJUDICIAL ERROR
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
18. The matter can only be filed in one court.
CROSS-EXAMINATION
ELEMENTS OF A CRIME
EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION
HOLDING CELL
19. A form of alternative dispute resolution in which the parties bring their dispute to a neutral third party - who helps them agree on a settlement.
MIRANDA RIGHTS
RESTRAINING ORDER
ADMISSIBLE
MEDIATION
20. A request made after a trial - asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial wasconducted properly. To make such a request is 'to appeal' or 'to take an appeal.'
ESTATE TAX
APPEAL
BEQUEATH
COMMITMENT ORDER
21. 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.
AMENDMENT
BATTERED CHILD SYNDROME (B.C.S.)
CHILD MOLESTATION
DEPENDENT CHILD
22. 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.
EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES
EXAMINATION - RECROSS
FAIR HEARING
BAR
23. To stand idly around - particularly in a public place.
MATERIAL EVIDENCE
LOITERING
PROSECUTION
REST
24. To call into question the truthfulness of a witness.
POUR-OVER WILL
JURY TRIAL
IMPEACHMENT OF WITNESS
BREACH
25. The hearing given to person accused of crime - by a magistrate or judge - to determine whether there is enough evidence to warrant the confinement and holding to bail the person accused.
RECALL
HEARING - PRELIMINARY
COURT ORDER
MEMORIALIZED
26. A determination of guilt which is the result of a trial or entry of a plea of guilty or nol contendere (no contest) - regardless of whether adjudication of guilt or imposition of sentence was suspended - deferred - or withheld.
FIDUCIARY
CONVICTION
PRECEDENT
CIVIL ACTION
27. 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.
POST CONVICTION RELIEF PROCEEDING
PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE
PAROLE EVIDENCE
CHILD SUPPORT
28. A ruling by the court in favor of the party making the objection.
PARTY
DELIBERATION
MAYHEM
OBJECTION SUSTAINED
29. 1. An act of omission or commission in violation of law which carries criminal consequences. 2. Criminal activity in general relating to a specific time or place.
SETTLOR
CRIME
DISSENT
HOSTILE WITNESS
30. A person confined to a prison - penitentiary - or jail.
REPLY
HARMLESS ERROR
OFFER OF PROOF
INMATE
31. A warrant that a court issues under Health-General Article Section 12-120 after a probable cause determination
INFORMANT
JUVENILE WAIVER
HOSPITAL WARRANT
COMMITMENT
32. A slang term meaning previous conviction(s) of the accused.
PENITENTIARY
PRIORS
MALFEASANCE
PRESENTMENT
33. In criminal trial - a witness whose testimony is crucial to either the defense or prosecution.
HOMICIDE
MATERIAL WITNESS
DELINQUENCY - JUVENILE
FOURTH AMENDMENT
34. The unlawful killing of one human being by another.
RECOGNIZANCE
ENJOINING
HOMICIDE
INTERROGATORIES
35. A release from custody which imposes regulations on the activities and associations of the defendant. If a defendant fails to meet the conditions - the release is revoked.
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
DOMICILE
SETTLOR
CONDITIONAL RELEASE
36. Declarations by either side in a civil or criminal case reserving the right to appeal a judge's ruling upon a motion. Also - in regulatory cases - objections by either side to points made by the other side or to rulings by the agency or one of its he
COMPOSITE DRAWING
EXCEPTIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
BANKRUPTCY
37. The party appealing a final decision or judgment.
BOOKING
COUNSEL
APPELLANT
MALICIOUS PROSECUTION
38. Money awarded by a court to a person injured by the unlawful act or negligence of another person.
LEVY
ACTION
BEQUEATH
DAMAGES
39. A legally enforceable agreement between two or more competent parties made either orally or in writing. CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE - A legal doctrine that says if the plaintiff in a civil action for negligence also was negligent - he or she cannot recov
REMITTITUR
KNOWINGLY
PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
CONTRACT
40. The act of sending a case back to the trial court and ordering the trial court to conduct limited new hearings or an entirely new trial.
PROOF
REMAND
ON A PERSON'S OWN RECOGNIZANCE
CAUSE OF ACTION
41. The right of all persons to receive the guarantees and safeguards of the law and the judicial process. It includes such constitutional requirements as adequate notice - assistance of counsel - the right to remain silent - theright to a speedy and pub
ESTATE
DUE PROCESS OF LAW
SENTENCE - SUSPENDED
ANNUAL REVIEW
42. In juvenile court - a judicial hearing - usually held after the filing of a petition - to determine interim custody of a minor pending a judgment.
EVIDENCE - EVANESCENT
JUROR
PLEADINGS
DETENTION HEARING
43. To obtain customers for a whore or prostitute. One who obtains customers for a whore or prostitute.
PIMP
BURGLARY
DEPOSITION
MURDER
44. A court order requiring that some action be taken - or that some party refrain from taking action. It differs from forms of temporary relief - such as a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction.
PERMANENT INJUNCTION
LETTERS TESTAMENTARY
PROBATION OFFICER
STATEMENT - OPENING
45. False and defamatory spoken words tending to harm another's reputation - community standing - office - trade - business - or means of livelihood.
SLANDER
REASONABLE PERSON
ARGUMENT
LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE
46. An endeavor or effort to do an act or accomplish a crime - carries beyond preparation - but lacking execution.
ANSWER
SLANDER
BOOKMAKING
ATTEMPT
47. Any fact or evidence that leads to a judgment of the court.
DISPOSITION
PROOF
LETTERS TESTAMENTARY
POST CONVICTION RELIEF PROCEEDING
48. A defense to criminal charges alleging that agents of the government induced a person to commit a crime he or she otherwise would not have committed.
ENTRAPMENT
SELF-INCRIMINATION
CLEAR AND CONVINCING EVIDENCE
ROBBERY
49. An action between two or more persons in the courts of law - not a criminal matter.
CEASE AND DESIST ORDER
OVERRULE
EXONERATE
LAWSUIT
50. Trial without a jury in which a judge decides the facts.
PURGE
LENIENCY
HARMLESS ERROR
BENCH TRIAL