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Law Vocab
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1. An estate consists of personal property (car - household items - and other tangible items) - real property - and intangible property - such as stock certificates and bank accounts - owned in the individual name of a person at the time of the person's
CLASS ACTION
ESTATE
DEPRIVATION OF CUSTODY
SENTENCE - SUSPENDED
2. A criminal case in which the allowable penalty does not include death.
BAIL
GRANTOR OR SETTLOR
NON-CAPITAL CASE
POWER OF ATTORNEY
3. 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.
DEPENDENT CHILD
SEARCH AND SEIZURE
PIMP
PLEA
4. Any unlawful physical restraint of another's personal liberty - whether or not carried out by a peace officer.
FALSE ARREST
PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE
REHEARING
MATERIAL WITNESS
5. A murder committed during the commission of a felony such as robbery - burglary - or kidnapping.
FELONY MURDER
AID AND ABET
SHERIFF
MAYHEM
6. The postconviction stage in which the defendant is brought before the court for imposition of sentence.
PARALEGAL
SENTENCING
ESCHEAT (ES-CHET)
JURISDICTION
7. The closure of court records to inspection - except to the parties.
DETENTION
SEALING
EMINENT DOMAIN
ATTORNEY-IN-FACT
8. Trial without a jury in which a judge decides the facts.
MERITS
BENCH TRIAL
PLAINTIFF
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
9. The rights of a person guaranteed by the state or federal constitutions.
RIGHTS - CONSTITUTIONAL
CIVIL PROCEDURE
EXTRADITION
AGREED STATEMENT OF FACTS
10. 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).
LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE
JURY FOREMAN
ORDER - COURT
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
11. 1. To discuss - ponder or reflect upon before reaching a decision. A judge will usually deliberate before announcing a judgment. 2. Intentional - characterized by consideration and awareness.
DELIBERATE
BATTERY
ATTORNEY OF RECORD
FIDELITY BOND
12. To lose - or lose the right to.
POWER OF ATTORNEY
FORFEIT
HOLOGRAPHIC WILL
RIGHTS - CONSTITUTIONAL
13. 1) The disputed point in a disagreement between parties in a lawsuit. 2) To send out officially - as in to issue an order.
CERTIFIED
ISSUE
ADMINISTRATOR
HARASSMENT
14. The act of showing a weapon to another person - typically the police or the victim.
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
QUASH
AGENT
BRANDISHING A WEAPON
15. Evidence not sufficiently related to the matter in issue.
CONFESSION
EN BANC
IRRELEVANT
BREATHALYZER TEST
16. The assertion of a party to an action - setting out what he expects to prove.
NON-CAPITAL CASE
PAROLE EVIDENCE
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION
ALLEGATION
17. 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.
COURTS - JUVENILE and DEPENDENCY
COURT
COUNTERFEIT
EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION
18. 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.
POST CONVICTION RELIEF PROCEEDING
MEDIATION
CAUSATION
STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION
19. A rule of law that courts and judges shall draw a particular inference from a particular fact - or from particular evidence.
PETITION
REASONABLE DOUBT - BEYOND A
PRESUMPTION OF LAW
ATTEMPT
20. The juror who chairs the jury during deliberations and speaks for the jury in court when announcing the verdict.
INDECENT EXPOSURE
STANDING
JURY FOREMAN
DISTURBING THE PEACE
21. A lawyer appointed or elected to represent the state in criminal cases in his or her respective judicial districts. See PROSECUTOR.
MANDATE
REDRESS
GUARDIAN
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
22. Immorality. An element of crimes inherently bad - as opposed to crimes bad merely because they are forbidden by statute.
EMBEZZLE
POSSESSION OF DRUGS
MORAL TURPITUDE
HEARING - CONTESTED
23. A coming into court as party or interested person or as a lawyer on behalf of party or interested person.
DEATH PENALTY
APPEARANCE
AGENT
ACCUSED
24. Another term for arraignment.
PRELIMINARY HEARING
CORROBORATION
COMMITMENT ORDER
CIVIL ACTION
25. The act of collecting the bets of others or making odds on future gambling events.
EXECUTE
ACCESSORY
BOOKMAKING
HARASSMENT
26. Substantial reason - one that affords a legal excuse.
REVOKE
EXECUTE
REASONABLE PERSON
GOOD CAUSE
27. The state or condition of a person who is unable to pay his or her debts as they are or become due.
MALPRACTICE
PREJUDICIAL EVIDENCE
STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION
BANKRUPT
28. An action instituted with intention of injuring the defendant and without probable cause -and which terminates in favor of the person prosecuted.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
GRAND JURY
ARREST OF JUDGMENT
MALICIOUS PROSECUTION
29. The process by which the property of a person who has died without a will passes on to others according to the state's distribution statutes.
INTESTATE SUCCESSION
INDEPENDENT EXECUTOR
MULTIPLICITY OF ACTIONS
DOCKET
30. One who knowingly - voluntarily - and intentionally unites with the principal offender in the commission ofa crime. A partner in a crime.
ACCOMPLICE
EVIDENCE - DIRECT
INFORMANT
AGENT
31. To sentence a person convicted of an offense to pay a penalty in money.
BIND OVER
HEARING
FINE
EXCEPTIONS
32. A trial lawyer representing the government in a criminal case and the interests of the state in civil matters.
PEOPLE (PROSECUTION)
PROSECUTOR
BENCH
CRIMINAL RECORD
33. To try issues separately - such as guilt and criminal responsibility in a criminal proceeding or liability and damages in a civil action.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
SETTLOR
JUVENILE
BIFURCATE
34. Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
ALIMONY
ATTACHMENT
COMMIT
ISSUE
35. Aka DOCKET NUMBER.
RECOGNIZANCE
INDECENT EXPOSURE
GOOD TIME
CASE NUMBER
36. A forejudgment - bias - a preconceived opinion.
COMMITMENT ORDER
PREJUDICE
FALSE ARREST
DEATH ROW
37. Needy and poor. A defendant who can demonstrate his or her indigence to the court may be assigned a court appointed attorney at public expense.
INDIGENT
ATTORNEY OF RECORD
EQUITABLE ACTION
DOMICILE
38. 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.
PARTY
OFFENSE
PROBATION
PAROLE EVIDENCE
39. An invalid trial caused by some legal error. When a judge declares a mistrial - the trial must start again from the beginning - including the selection of a new jury.
GRAND THEFT
MISTRIAL
GRANTOR OR SETTLOR
INTERROGATORIES
40. A hallowed principle of criminal law that a person is innocent of a crime until proven guilty.
COURTROOM
PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE
HARMLESS ERROR
IMPLIED CONTRACT
41. The process by which a judge is disqualified from hearing a case - on his or her own motion or upon the objection of either party.
RECUSE
PROOF
LITIGANT
ACCORD
42. The section of a courthouse in which the judge presides over the proceedings.
COURTROOM
AUTHENTICATE
NEXT FRIEND
REAL PROPERTY
43. Gifts made in a will.
CIVIL ACTION
BEQUESTS
PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE
SPENDTHRIFT TRUST
44. An elected constitutional officer serving as an arm of the court with respect to all court filings and related proceedings.
DISSOLUTION
SHERIFF
COURT ADMINISTRATOR
COMMUTATION
45. Yearly judicial review - usually in juvenile dependency cases - to determine whether the child requirescontinued court supervision or placement.
FIELD SOBRIETY TEST
GROUNDS
STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
ANNUAL REVIEW
46. The physical location where the defense and prosecuting parties are seated throughout the duration of the trial.
FAILURE TO COMPLY
ILLEGAL
COUNSEL TABLE
OPINION
47. 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
NOMINAL PARTY
DOMICILE
FORFEIT
48. Legal debts and obligations.
LIABILITY
INTERLOCUTORY
ASSUMPTION OF RISK
MISTRIAL
49. To state - recite - assert - claim - maintain - charge or set forth. To make an allegation.
DELIBERATE
INTERROGATORIES
ALLEGE
ADMISSION
50. Fatherhood.
DIVERSION
PATERNITY
REVOCABLE TRUST
CRIME
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