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Police Legal Vocab
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1. Go thru only with caution
Inventory
Nighttime
Flashing yellow light
default
2. Decayable waste (animal/vegetable) - Non-decayable/solid waste that consist of boxes -rubber - plastic - metal - etc.
Race
Pleadings
Litter
chambers
3. One who - under the direction of a law enforcement officer or upon his/her own initiative - pretends complicity in a crime in order to detect the perpetrator in an effort to prosecute such perpetrator. as such - there is no criminal intent on the par
6th amendment
Chattel
feigned accomplice
Gross combination weight rating
4. Evidence supplementary to that already given and tending to strengthen or confirm it
Daytime
Special mobile equipment
peremptory challenge
corroboration evidence
5. An original writ commanding judges or officers of inferior courts to certify or to return records of proceedings in a cause for judicial review
malice
1st Amendment trial
certiorari
robbery
6. Paved Shoulder
Traffic control signal
Improved shoulder
demur
tort
7. Liquid that has a flash point of not more than 70 degrees
injunction
Flammable liquid
Farm Tractor
extenuation circumstances
8. And wife. The phrase was formely common in case names and legal documents invovling a husband and wife jointly.
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9. Motor vehicle used to draw another vehicle. NOT MEANT TO CARRY A LOAD - OTHER HAN PART OF THE WEIGHT OF THE OTHER VEHICLERO
Ethnicity
Truck tractor
bailiff
'Et Al'
10. An accusation in writing found and presented by a grand jury - charging that a person therein named has done some act or been guilty of some omission which - by law - is a crime.
Parties
indictment
Laned roadway
rout
11. Common-law and constitutional prohibition against more than one prosecution of the same crime - transaction - or omission
double jeopardy
Fraud
1st Amendment trial
Affiant
12. An instruction by the judge to the jury to return a specific verdict
Crosswalk
directed verdict
interrogatories
domicile
13. Human power that has 2 wheel. It has to have at lease one wheel tat is a min. of 14' in.
Bicycle
adjudication
cross examination
feigned accomplice
14. Testimony given in relation to some scientific - technical - or professional matter by experts; i.e. - persons qualified to speak authoritatively by reason of their special training - skill - or familiarity with the subject
forgery
Flammable liquid
expert evidence
cause
15. Proceedings held to determine wheter a person has violated a lawful court order and to set punishment if viloation is found.
Gross combination weight rating
Contempt
subpoena
motive
16. An article of personal property as distinguished from from real property.
domicile
Truck tractor
directed verdict
Chattel
17. A public disorder or uprising. To constitute a riot - the object need not be unlawful - provided the acts are done in a manner calculated to inspire terror. The chief element in a riot is the use of force or violence to disturb public peace if accomp
ordinance
recognizance
riot
plaintiff
18. An injury or wrong committed - either with or without force - to the person or property of another
embezzlement
Nighttime
cross examination
tort
19. The persons who are actively concerned in the prosecution or defense of a legal proceeding.
Levy
tort
magistrate
Parties
20. A pleading usually used by defendants in criminal cases - which literally means 'I will not contest it'.
equitable action
nolo contendere
amicus curiae
accessory
21. It is recognized as an extension of the sidewalk and doesnt have to be marked on the roadway to be considered lawful.
2nd Amendment
peremptory challenge
commutation
Crosswalk
22. A person who has received two previous convictions on seperate felony charges. Such a person will be adjudged a habitual criminal and may be punishable by imprisionment in the state prison for life.
Habitual criminal
'In Rem'
School Crossing guard
plaintiff
23. Vehicle not designed to haul persons or property. O LESS THAN 40FT IN LENGTH.
motive
Special mobile equipment
Chattel
opinion evidence
24. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of crosswalk at an intersection?
writ
20ft
Jurisdiction Of County Courts
arraignment
25. Reasonable grounds for supposing that a criminal charge is well-founded.
state's evidence
Litter
parole
probable cause
26. Sheriff
Conservator Of Peace
3rd Amendment
Sequestration
venue
27. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of a fire hydrate?
synergism
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
noxious substance
15ft
28. A suit - litigation - or action - that is either civil or criminal
cause
Special mobile equipment
Traffic control signal
Right of way
29. A misdeed or trespass. The improper performance of some act which a person may lawfully do.
misfeasance
principles
embezzlement
necessarily included offenses
30. Evidence given by a competent witness - under oath; as distinguished from evidence derived from writings and other sources
testimony
4th Amendment
Malfeasance
default
31. 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
'Et Al'
principles
bind over
interrogatories
32. Powers not identified belong to the states.
10th Amendment
nightstick
noxious substance
bail
33. A person 'advances prostitution' when - acting other than as a prostitute or as a patron thereof - he/she knowingly causes or aids a person to engage in prostitution - procures or solicits patrons for prostitution - provides persons or promises for p
Motor Vehicle Searches
default
30ft
advancing prostitution
34. This phrase - endorsed by a grand jury on an indictment - is equivalent to 'not found' or 'not a true bill'. It means that - in the opinion of the jury - evidence was insufficient to warrant the return of a formal charge.
necessarily included offenses
Urban district
no bill
Special mobile equipment
35. Is an affimative defense
Bicycle
5th Amendment Trial
Farm Tractor
Mistake of law
36. The fraudulent appropriation by a person for his/her own use or benefit of property or money entrusted to him/her by another
embezzlement
Commercial Motor vehicle
discovery
2nd Amendment
37. To collect - gather - take up - seize - or execute on monies - real - or personal property under a lwfully issued writ.
commutation
'In Rem'
Through highway
Levy
38. Testimony - given by an accomplice or participant in a crime - tending to convict others.
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39. One who initiates the prosecution upon which an accused is arrested or who offers or presents an accusation against the party whom he/she suspects to be guilty; also - one who takes charge of a case and performs the functions of a trial lawyer for th
probable cause
Libel
preponderance of evidence
prosecutor
40. A legislative enactment by a federal or state body of legislators - more frequently referred to as 'a law'
subpoena
robbery
Statute
false arrest
41. A preportory stage to a riot. A rout is necessary for a riot to occur. When a lawful assembly begins to move towards the execution of an unlawful propose - but before any acts of violence or disorder occur - a rout has been committed.
Business district
rout
6th Amendment
plaintiff
42. Portion of the highway - other than the shoulder.
fair preponderance
14th Amendment
Roadway
principles
43. 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
Ethnicity
extortion - theft by
Official Misconduct
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
44. A court attendant whose duties are to keep order in the courtroom and to have custody of the jury
bailiff
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
demur
Litter
45. Law in its regular course of administration through the courts of justice. the guarantee of due process requires that every person have the protection of a fair trial
bailiff
adjudication
due process
negligence
46. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of a traffic control device thats on the side of the road?
Petition
30ft
no bill
Flashing yellow light
47. A person who brings an action; the party who complains or sues in a personal action and is so named on the record.
Sidewalk
plaintiff
demur
venue
48. The particular county - city - or geographic area in which a court with jurisdiction may hear and determine a case
venue
Dispose or dump
self-defense
Park or parking
49. That place where a person has his/her true and permanent home. a person may have several residences - but only one domicile
8th Amendment
domicile
'Prima Face'
Truck tractor
50. Detailed list of articles of assests containing a designation or description of each specific article.
Limitation
Inventory
4th Amendment
allegation
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