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Police Legal Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Is a order signed by a proper magistrate directing a sheriff to recieve and place in jail.
Default Judgement
Commitment
misfeasance
Traffic control signal
2. A deadly weapon; a long - heavy club usually carried by a law enforcement officer.
nightstick
Dispose or dump
probable cause
accomplice
3. A friend of the court; one who interposes or volunteers information upon some matter of law
1st amendment
amicus curiae
Freeway
condemnation
4. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of a fire hydrate?
15ft
Park or parking
Right of way
Garishment
5. An obligation - before a court - to do a specific thing or incur a penalty of some kind; in lieu of bond - one is entrusted to appear before the court at a later date.
deposition
recognizance
14th Amendment
Frisk
6. Proceedings held to determine wheter a person has violated a lawful court order and to set punishment if viloation is found.
cross examination
riot
Contempt
writ of possesion (Eviction)
7. Final appeallate jurisdiction in penalty cases
Capias
Court of Criminal Appeals
forgery
Bus
8. Temporary seizure or setting aside of specific to wich a party to a suit has claim of ownership.
15ft
prosecutor
Sequestration
burglary
9. Unlawfully obtaining property from another by threat. the threat - regardless of its nature must induce an 'oppressive condition or circumstance;' e.g. - threatening to inflict injury - or to accuse - or to expose a secret that tends to subject a per
extortion - theft by
Default Judgement
9th Amendment
cause
10. Portion of a highway next to the roadway - which is distinguished by design - consruction - or marking - Area not Intended for vehicle travel.
Ethnicity
Exclusionary Rule
Shoulder
Bicycle
11. An order or precept in writing - issued in the name of the people or of a court or judicial officer.
writ
Official traffic control device
6th Amendment
Garishment
12. In Re Gault
principles
6th Amendment trial
Exclusionary Rule
ordinance
13. The change of a punishment from a greater degree to a lesser degree - as from death to life imprisonment
Freeway
venue
Habitual criminal
commutation
14. The omission to do something which a reasonable person - guided by ordinary considerations - would do; or the doing of something with a reasonable and prudent person would not do.
Urban district
accessory
demur
negligence
15. A person who brings an action; the party who complains or sues in a personal action and is so named on the record.
plaintiff
Open fields
testimony
rebuttal
16. A legal document (process) signed by a judicial officer commanding a witness to appear and testify at a specific time and place
subpoena
'Ex Rel'
Frisk
dactyloscopy
17. Any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another
battery
Commercial Motor vehicle
arraignment
Flammable liquid
18. A direction given by the judge to the jury concerning the law of the case.
Gross combination weight rating
transcript
1st amendment
instruction
19. Is used to recover possession of rental property.
Writ of possesion
Jurisdiction Of County Courts
School crossing zone
Conservator Of Peace
20. It is recognized as an extension of the sidewalk and doesnt have to be marked on the roadway to be considered lawful.
discovery
chambers
Crosswalk
false arrest
21. Motor vehicle - primarily designed to transport property.
Truck tractor
'Et Seq'
Truck
Writ of possesion
22. To run the hands quickly over another's person in search of weapons or contra ban; a 'pat down' search.
demur
advancing prostitution
Frisk
School crossing zone
23. The fraudulent appropriation by a person for his/her own use or benefit of property or money entrusted to him/her by another
Affiant
embezzlement
Litter
indictment
24. All persons concerned in the commission of a crime - whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense or aid in its commission or have advised and encouraged its commission - all persons counseling - advising - or encouraging children un
principles
burglary
Limitation
14th Amendment
25. Right to bear arms
bail
nightstick
Class 'B' dl
2nd Amendment
26. The particular county - city - or geographic area in which a court with jurisdiction may hear and determine a case
bind over
demur
Urban district
venue
27. To file a pleading (called a demurrer) admitting the truth of the facts in the complaint or answer - but contending
'Et Ux'
Traffic control signal
demur
'Et Al'
28. Human power that has 2 wheel. It has to have at lease one wheel tat is a min. of 14' in.
Bicycle
bailiff
mistrial
'Prima Face'
29. Detailed list of articles of assests containing a designation or description of each specific article.
Inventory
Flashing yellow light
15ft
expunge
30. An obligation signed by the accused - with his/her sureties - to secure his/her presence in court
bail bond
magistrate
nightstick
transcript
31. A written or printed document prepared by counsel to file in court - usually setting forth both facts and law in support of the case
Highway or street
forgery
Laned roadway
brief
32. Evidence of what the witness thinks or believes in regard to facts in dispute - as distinguished from his/her personal knowledge of the facts; not admissible except (under certain limitations) in the case of experts.
adjudication
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
Chattel
opinion evidence
33. A misdeed or trespass. The improper performance of some act which a person may lawfully do.
misfeasance
Safety Zone
mistrial
Frisk
34. That which - under the established rules of evidence - cannot be admitted or received into a court of law.
15ft
nightstick
Inadmissible
Levy
35. An injury or wrong committed - either with or without force - to the person or property of another
Libel
amicus curiae
tort
Race
36. Duran v. City of Douglas - Az
chambers
indictment
1st Amendment trial
Shoulder
37. Divided - controlled access highway
Safety Zone
necessarily included offenses
Freeway
Bailee
38. The felonious taking of personal property in the possession of another from his/her person or immediate presence and against his/her will - accomplished by means of force or fear.
robbery
condemnation
decree
embezzlement
39. An instrument used to record variations of several different body pulsations. The courts have not as yet agreed that the scientific principles of the polygraph - commonly called the lie detector - has crossed the line between the experimental and the
polygraph
Crosswalk
10th Amendment
power of attorney
40. Manaul - electric - or mechanical device that directs traffic to stop and to proceed.
Exclusionary Rule
discovery
Traffic control signal
5th Amendment Trial
41. Probable cause to search vehicle (Carroll v. U.S)
4th Amendment
Truck
noxious substance
Motor Vehicle Searches
42. A mandatory or prohibitive writ issued by a court.
injunction
'Prima Face'
writ of possesion (Eviction)
fence
43. Rubbish - refuse - waste material - offal - paper - glass - cans - bottles - trash - debris - or any foreign substance of whatever kind or description and whether or not it is of value.
mistrial
Flashing yellow light
Litter
accessory
44. A pleading usually used by defendants in criminal cases - which literally means 'I will not contest it'.
'In Rem'
polygraph
nolo contendere
Alias Citation
45. Person - at least 18 yrs. old - that has the job of directing traffic in school zone.
Truck
Traffic
School Crossing guard
Pro Bono
46. By or on the relation of.
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47. To collect - gather - take up - seize - or execute on monies - real - or personal property under a lwfully issued writ.
Special mobile equipment
Levy
amicus curiae
fair preponderance
48. A highway that has PREFENTIAL RIGHT OF WAY in an intersection
Trailer
Through highway
probable cause
Laned roadway
49. Motor vehicle or a combination of - hat is used to haul people or property - that -Has gross combination weight rating of 26 -001 or more - including towed unit with G.V.W.are of more than 10000 pounds - Can haul 16 or more passengerss - (including d
Inadmissible
Commercial Motor vehicle
felony
transcript
50. Right to bail - Protection from excessive fines - No cruel of unusual punishment
power of attorney
Class 'A' dl
8th Amendment
chambers