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1. 1. A real or seeming incompatibility between one's private interests and one's public or fiduciary duties. 2. A real or seeming incompatibility between the interests of two of a lawyer's clients - such that the lawyer is disqualified from representin
CONVICTION
ABSTRACT OF TITLE
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
ALLEGATION
2. A procedure by which a convicted defendant challenges the conviction and/or sentence on the basis of some alleged violation or error.
MAGISTRATE
DEPRIVATION OF CUSTODY
POST CONVICTION RELIEF PROCEEDING
COLLATERAL ATTACK
3. The constitutional prohibition under the Fifth Amendment against a person being put on trial more than once for the same offense.
FAIR HEARING
SELF-INCRIMINATION
ARSON
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
4. Any unlawful physical restraint of another's personal liberty - whether or not carried out by a peace officer.
INADMISSIBLE
FALSE ARREST
STRICT LIABILITY
MODIFICATION
5. An inference of the truth or falsity of a proposition or fact - that stands until rebutted by evidence to the contrary.
LIFE IMPRISONMENT
PRESUMPTION
IRREVOCABLE TRUST
BREACH
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.
PLEADINGS
ISSUE
ACQUIT
CLAIM
7. The initial appearance of an arrested person before a judge to determine whether there is probable cause for his or her arrest. Generally the person comes before a judge within hours of the arrest - and are informed of the charges against him or her
COMMITMENT
LINEUP
CONFESSION
FIRST APPEARANCE
8. A motion to dismiss a civil case because of the legal insufficiency of a complaint.
EXCLUSIONARY RULE
LETTERS TESTAMENTARY
DEMURRER
MALICIOUS PROSECUTION
9. Oral or written request made by a party to an action before - during - or after a trial asking the judge to issue a ruling or order in that party's favor.
MOTION
PETTY OFFENSE
HOLDING CELL
PRE-SENTENCE REPORT
10. A formal written document filed by the prosecutor detailing the criminal charges against the defendant. An alternative to an indictment - it serves to bring a defendant to trial.
INFORMATION
ORAL ARGUMENT
BAIL FORFEITURE
CASE LAW
11. Any form of cruelty to a child's physical - moral - or mental well-being.
DRUNK DRIVING
IMMUNITY
PRELIMINARY HEARING
CHILD ABUSE
12. Punishment - civil or criminal - generally referring to payment of money.
BATTERED CHILD SYNDROME (B.C.S.)
PENALTY
ARBITRATION
COMMITMENT
13. A hearing held for the purpose of deciding issues or fact of law that both parties are disputing.
HEARING - CONTESTED
BILL OF PARTICULARS
ENTRAPMENT
PROXIMATE CAUSE
14. A crime of a more serious nature than a misdemeanor - usually punishable by imprisonment in a penitentiary for more than a year and/or substantial fines.
ACCUSATION
JURY TRIAL
PREJUDICIAL EVIDENCE
FELONY
15. A contract by which owner of property grants to another the right to possess - use - and enjoy it for a specified period of time in exchange for payment of an agreed price (rent).
HIT AND RUN
BEQUESTS
LEASE
EVIDENCE - EVANESCENT
16. An arrangement whereby a husband and wife live apart from each other while remaining married either by mutual consent or by a judicial order.
ACCUSATION
SEPARATION
EXTRAORDINARY WRIT
FINDING
17. A statement of all important facts - which all the parties agree is true and correct -which is submitted to a court for ruling.
AGREED STATEMENT OF FACTS
CIVIL CASE
EVICTION
SEARCH AND SEIZURE
18. The planning of a crime preceding the commission of the act - rather than committing the crime on the spur of the moment.
DEPRIVATION OF CUSTODY
PROBATE ESTATE
PREMEDITATION
BAIL BOND
19. A jury whose members cannot agree upon a verdict.
HUNG JURY
SENTENCE - SUSPENDED
DEPOSITION
CHARGING DOCUMENT
20. A punitive act designed to secure enforcement by imposing a penalty for its violation. For example - a sanction may be imposed for failure to comply with discovery orders.
ORDER - COURT
SANCTION
LARCENY
COURT REPORTER
21. The lack of power or the legal ability to act.
INCAPACITY
ARREST OF JUDGMENT
JUDICIAL NOTICE
DISSENT
22. Acts or declarations by which one implicates oneself in a crime.
INTESTACY LAWS
SELF-INCRIMINATION
STATUTE
AFFIDAVIT
23. Help - assist - or facilitate the commission of a crime.
AID AND ABET
BRIEF
PROFFER
CAUSE OF ACTION
24. A previously decided case that guides the decision of future cases.
IMPEACHMENT OF WITNESS
PRECEDENT
COUNSEL
REHEARING
25. The presence of drugs on the accused for recreational use or for the purpose to sell.
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
POSSESSION OF DRUGS
FORECLOSURE
PREMEDITATION
26. 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.'
RETAINER
AFFIRMED
APPEAL
MALFEASANCE
27. Two or more sentences of jail time to be served simultaneously.
SENTENCE - CONCURRENT
REMAND
AUTO TAMPERING
MANDATE
28. A certificate or evidence of a debt. Often used interchangeably with bail.
BOND
ADJUDICATION
DEFENSE
BOOKING NUMBER
29. Noncriminal case in which one private individual or business sues another to protect - enforce - or redress private or civil rights.
HOME MONITORING
STRICT LIABILITY
CIVIL ACTION
PERJURY
30. Act of the client in employing the attorney or counsel. Also denotes the fee the client pays when he or she retains the attorney to act for him or her.
RETAINER
PREJUDICIAL ERROR
JUVENILE WAIVER
INFRACTION
31. 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
CLAIM
LEWD CONDUCT
ADVERSARY SYSTEM
REASONABLE DOUBT - BEYOND A
32. The malicious burning of someone else's or one's own dwelling or of anyone's commercial or industrial property.
LETTERS TESTAMENTARY
ORAL ARGUMENT
ARSON
MEMORIALIZED
33. A seizure; the obtaining of money by legal process through seizure and sale of property.
CODE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
MUGSHOT
LEVY
34. The act of bringing to an end; termination. The dissolution of a marriage or other relationship.
MOOT
EXTORTION
DISSOLUTION
DISTURBING THE PEACE
35. Judicial officer having strictly limited jurisdiction exercising some of the functions of a judge.
DUE PROCESS OF LAW
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
CASE LAW
MAGISTRATE
36. To seat a jury. When voir dire is finished and both sides have exercised their challenges - the jury is impaneled.The jurors are sworn in and the trial is ready to proceed.
ADJUDICATION
EXAMINATION - DIRECT
PROOF
IMPANEL
37. The party against whom an appeal is taken. Sometimes called a respondent.
HEARING - PRELIMINARY
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
APPELLEE
HOME MONITORING
38. A court order directing that an individual be kept in custody - usually in a penal or mental facility.
OBJECTION
COMMITMENT ORDER
ADMONISH
INCARCERATE
39. A temporary location that is meant to secure the accused while waiting for trial to begin or continue.
MEMORIALIZED
HOLDING CELL
LEASE
REDRESS
40. State-imposed death as punishment for a serious crime. Capital punishment.
AGGRAVATING FACTORS
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
DEATH PENALTY
ACCORD
41. 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
ESCHEAT (ES-CHET)
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
PROBATE ESTATE
42. A government grant giving an inventor the exclusive right to make or sell his or her invention for a term of years.
PARDON
PATENT
BAIL REVIEW
MODIFICATION
43. 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.
JUDICIAL REVIEW
FAMILY ALLOWANCE
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
CHILD SUPPORT
44. Voluntary statement made by one who is a defendant in a criminal trial - which - if true - discloses his or her guilt.
CONFESSION
PUNITIVE DAMAGES
COMMITMENT
PERSONAL PROPERTY
45. An honest belief - the absence of malice - and the absence of design to defraud.
CORROBORATION
GOOD FAITH
ARREST
EXTRAORDINARY WRIT
46. Aka PROSECUTOR and DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
STATE'S ATTORNEY
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
CHAIN OF CUSTODY
PANDERING
47. A state tax on property that an heir or beneficiary under a will receives from a deceased person's estate. The heir or beneficiary pays this tax.
ASSAULT
INHERITANCE TAX
JOIN
MOOT
48. The willful taking and concealing of merchandise from a store or business establishment with the intention of using the goods for one's personal use without paying the purchase price.
SHOW CAUSE
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
SHOPLIFTING
ALLEGE
49. The time within a plaintiff must begin a lawsuit (in civil cases) or a prosecutor must bring charges (in criminal cases). There are different statutes of limitations at both the federal and state levels for different kinds of lawsuits or crimes.
INSTRUCTIONS
COURTS - JUVENILE and DEPENDENCY
STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
FALSE IMPRISONMENT
50. The process of photographing - fingerprinting - and recording identifying data of a suspect. This process follows the arrest.
FILE
ACCORD
BOOKING
GAMBLING
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