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Paralegal 101

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A defense requiring proof that the defendant would not have committed the crime but for police trickery.






2. Law that deals with harm to a person or a person's property.






3. Evidence that supports previous testimony but that comes in a different form.






4. Questions relating to the interpretation or application of the law.






5. When only one court has the power to hear a case.






6. A trial court error that is not sufficient to warrant reversing the decision.






7. A pamphlet inserted into the back of a book containing information new since the volume was published.






8. Indirect evidence - used to prove facts by implication.






9. Private publication of court opinions-for example - the regional reporters - such as N.E.2d - published by West.






10. A nonbinding process in which attorneys for both sides present synopses of their cases to a jury - which renders an advisory opinion on the basis of these presentations.






11. Bad intent.






12. A court opinion that establishes new law in an important area.






13. In a case brief - the rule of law applied to the case's specific facts.






14. All property that is not real property.






15. A method for measuring the relative negligence of the plaintiff and the defendant - with a commensurate sharing of the compensation for the injuries.






16. A grand jury's written accusation that a given individual has committed a crime.






17. When a judge formally recognizes something as being a fact without requiring the attorneys prove it through the introduction of other evidence.






18. An opinion that agrees with the majority's result but disagrees with its reasoning.






19. Consists of records - contracts - leases - wills - and other written instruments.






20. Standard used by appellate courts when reviewing a trial court's findings of fact.






21. A national voluntary organization of lawyers.






22. Techniques for resolving conflicts that are alternatives to full-scale litigation. The two most common are arbitration and mediation.






23. An assumption that something that is not real is real-for example - saying that a corporation is a person for purposes of its being able to sue and be sued.






24. The rule that in order to claim self-defense there must have been no possibility of retreat.






25. The background documents created during the process of a bill becoming a statute. These documents can include alternative versions of the legislation - proceedings of committee hearings and reports - and transcripts of floor debates.






26. Written questions sent by one side to the opposing side - answered under oath.






27. A court's power to review statutes to decide if they conform to the federal or a state constitution.






28. The process of finding the law.






29. A defendant's personal promise to appear in court.






30. A court's power to hear any type of case arising within its geographical area.






31. The power of a court to hear a case.






32. The process of properly identifying and authenticating evidence so that it can be introduced.






33. The failure to act reasonably under the circumstances.






34. A process whereby the prosecutor and the defendant's attorney agree for the defendant to plead guilty in exchange for the prosecutor's promise to charge him or her with a lesser offense - drop some additional charges - or request a lesser sentence.






35. A constitutional protection against being tried twice for the same crime.






36. A determination that an attorney may not practice law for a set period of time.






37. The law that sets the length of time from when something happens to when a lawsuit must be filed before the right to bring it is lost.






38. In deductive reasoning - the second proposition - which along with the major premise leads to the conclusion; in law - the minor premise consists of the client's facts.






39. Rules of conduct promulgated and enforced by the government.






40. A person who permits or directs another person to act on the principal's behalf.






41. A statute establishing and setting out the powers of an administrative agency.






42. The power of a court to hear a case.






43. The power of a court to force a person to appear before it.






44. The educated ability to apply law to specific facts.






45. Simultaneously representing adverse clients.






46. When more than one court has jurisdiction to hear a case.






47. A court order requiring a person to appear to testify at a trial or deposition.






48. The questioning of an opposing witness.






49. A defendant's plea meaning that the defendant neither admits nor denies the charges.






50. Information about what happened procedurally to the litigation after the case cited. Include this information in a citation.