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Law Vocab
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1. A crime - such as a felony - misdemeanor - or other punishable unlawful act.
OFFENSE
LIE DETECTOR
ASSUMPTION OF RISK
CORROBORATE
2. 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.
POST CONVICTION RELIEF PROCEEDING
ACQUIT
MALICE
AID AND ABET
3. An official or formal statement of facts or proceedings.
LINEUP
HEARSAY
FOURTH AMENDMENT
REPORT
4. The person to whom property rights or power are transferred by another - a grantee.
ASSIGNEE
MITIGATING FACTORS
EXAMINATION - REDIRECT
CONDEMNATION
5. Opportunity to present rebuttal evidence after one's evidence has been subjected to cross-examination.
OPINION
PLAINTIFF
RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION
CHANGE OF VENUE
6. A concept applied by courts in product liability cases in which a seller is liable for any and all defective or hazardous products which unduly threaten a consumer's personal safety.
STRICT LIABILITY
FELONY
CONDITIONAL RELEASE
BREACH
7. Intentional - unlawful deception to deprive another person of property or to injure that person in some other way.
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE
PIMP
PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE
FRAUD
8. Officer of the court who files pleadings - motions - judgments - etc. - issues process - and keeps records of court proceedings.
LAW CLERKS
CLERK
ARRAIGN
PATENT
9. A person who initiates a lawsuit against another. Also called the complainant.
CHILD SUPPORT
CIVIL ACTION
CAPTION
PLAINTIFF
10. Confidential communications to certain persons that are protected by law against any disclosure - including forced disclosure in legal proceedings.
RETAINER
PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS
EN BANC
MISTRIAL
11. A defense attorney designated by the court to represent a defendant who does not have the funds to retain an attorney. COURT COSTS - The expenses of prosecuting or defending a lawsuit - other than the attorneys' fees. An amount of moneymay be awarded
COURT APPOINTED COUNSEL
MALPRACTICE
DECREE
ASSUMPTION OF RISK
12. The hearing available to a person charged with a felony to determine if there is enough evidence (probable cause) to hold him for trial.
CRIMINAL
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
CHALLENGE TO THE ARRAY
ADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE
13. Taking and carrying away the personal property of another person of a value in excess of an amount set by law with the .intent to deprive the owner or possessor of it.
FINDING
GRAND THEFT
FAILURE TO APPEAR
PERJURY
14. The number assigned to the criminal record that corresponds to the person's arrest.
AGREEMENT
FALSE IMPRISONMENT
BOOKING NUMBER
LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE
15. Confirmation or support of a witness' statement or other fact.
EXCLUSIONARY RULE
EVIDENCE - DIRECT
CONDEMNATION
CORROBORATION
16. Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
EVICTION
DELINQUENCY - JUVENILE
ATTACHMENT
QUASI JUDICIAL
17. The act of bringing to an end; termination. The dissolution of a marriage or other relationship.
BENCH WARRANT
BREATHALYZER TEST
DISSOLUTION
RECORD
18. An act of legislation of a local governing body such as a city - town or county.
SENTENCE
HOSPITAL WARRANT
ORDINANCE
CRIMINAL SUMMONS
19. Numerous and unnecessary attempts to litigate the same issue.
AFFIDAVIT
ATTORNEY OF RECORD
POSSESSION OF DRUGS
MULTIPLICITY OF ACTIONS
20. An error committed during a trial that was corrected or was not serious enough to affect the outcome of a trial and (prejudicial) to be reversed on appeal.
PRE-SENTENCE REPORT
JUROR
HARMLESS ERROR
FAILURE TO COMPLY
21. Language in a will that provides that a person who makes a legal challenge to the will's validity will be disinherited.
DECREE
SENTENCE REPORT
NO-CONTEST CLAUSE
HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION
22. A weapon which acts by force of gunpowder - such as a rifle - shotgun or revolver.
OBJECTION OVERRULED
STATUS OFFENDERS
BENCH CONFERENCE
FIREARM
23. To clean or clear - such as eliminating inactive records from court files; with respect to civil contempt - to cure the noncompliance that caused the contempt finding.
PURGE
LAWSUIT
SETTLEMENT
LEASE
24. Dying without a will.
FORFEIT
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE
INTESTATE
AGENT
25. An elected constitutional officer serving as an arm of the court with respect to all court filings and related proceedings.
PRESUMPTION OF LAW
COURT ADMINISTRATOR
JAIL
PROSECUTION
26. An oral (unwritten) will.
NUNCUPATIVE WILL
PROSECUTOR
PRECEDENT
EXPUNGEMENT
27. 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.
EQUITABLE ACTION
BATTERED CHILD SYNDROME (B.C.S.)
BAR
PRETERMITTED SPOUSE
28. 1. To execute - perpetrate - or carry out an act. To commit a crime. 2. To send a person to prison - asylum - or reformatory by a court order.
CHANGE OF VENUE
FIDELITY BOND
STATUS OFFENDERS
COMMIT
29. An action by which a third person who may be affected by a lawsuit is permitted to become a party to the suit. Differs from the process of becoming an amicus curiae.
SPENDTHRIFT TRUST
REMITTITUR
INTERVENTION
BREACH
30. A procedure by which a convicted defendant challenges the conviction and/or sentence on the basis of some alleged violation or error.
HIT AND RUN
IMPEACHMENT OF WITNESS
HEARING
POST CONVICTION RELIEF PROCEEDING
31. An action instituted with intention of injuring the defendant and without probable cause -and which terminates in favor of the person prosecuted.
REAL EVIDENCE
EQUAL PROTECTION
MALICIOUS PROSECUTION
PERJURY
32. To put off or delay a court hearing.
POSTPONEMENT
CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS
CALLING THE DOCKET
FOSTER CARE
33. Aka PROSECUTOR and DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
MALICIOUS MISCHIEF
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
BAR EXAMINATION
MIRANDA RIGHTS
34. Failure to exercise the degree of care that a reasonable person would use under the same circumstances.
BAIL BONDSMAN
NEGLIGENCE
INADMISSIBLE
BEST EVIDENCE
35. A listing of all the criminal convictions against an individual.
AID AND ABET
ATTACHMENT
SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
RAP SHEET
36. The section of a courthouse in which the judge presides over the proceedings.
NULL AND VOID
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
LIVING TRUST
COURTROOM
37. A federal or state public building or other place for the confinement of persons. It is used as either a punishment imposed by the law or otherwise in the course of the administration of justice
PRISON
PRESENTMENT
EMINENT DOMAIN
POST CONVICTION RELIEF PROCEEDING
38. A foundation or basis; points relied on.
GROUNDS
EXCEPTIONS
DISCLAIM
FIELD SOBRIETY TEST
39. The party against whom an appeal is taken. Sometimes called a respondent.
SPENDTHRIFT TRUST
APPELLEE
SERVE A SENTENCE
PROOF
40. A special type of guilty plea by which a defendant does not admit guilt but concedes that the State hasufficient evidence to convict; normally made to avoid the threat of greater punishment. Source: Black's Law Dictionary(1996); North Carolina v. Alf
STIPULATE
ALFORD PLEA
CONTINUANCE
REASONABLE DOUBT - BEYOND A
41. Process by which a court seeks to interpret the meaning and scope of legislation.
STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION
PAROLE
JURY COMMISSIONER
42. Unlawful sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 18 - regardless of whether they consent to the act.
PRE-INJUNCTION
STATUTORY RAPE
EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
43. To place a paper in the official custody of the clerk of court to enter into the files or records of a case.
FRAUD
EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION
PRIVILEGE
FILE
44. Antisocial behavior by a minor; especially behavior that would be criminally punishable if the actor were an adult - but instead is usually punished by special laws pertaining only to minors.
DELINQUENCY - JUVENILE
ANNOTATION
CRIMINAL SUMMONS
OFFENSE
45. The time in a lawsuit when the complaining party has stated his or her claim and the other side has responded with a denial and the matter is ready to be tried.
RELINQUISHMENT
AMEND
AT ISSUE
AUTHENTICATE
46. Standards governing whether evidence in a civil or criminal case is admissible.
QUASH
EXAMINATION - RECROSS
INITIAL APPEARANCE
RULES OF EVIDENCE
47. A list of cases to be heard by a court - or a log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
CRIMINAL CASE
ALIBI
RELINQUISHMENT
DOCKET
48. Money or a written instrument such as a deed that - by agreement between two parties - is held by a neutral third party (held in escrow) until all conditions of the agreement are met.
ESCROW
PROBATE
KNOWINGLY
EXHIBIT
49. Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
INFRACTION
COUNTERFEIT
EVIDENCE
MOTION DENIED
50. A forsaking - abandoning - renouncing - or giving over a right.
HEARSAY
EXTORTION
RELINQUISHMENT
STANDING