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Law Vocab
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1. Legal document issued by a court that shows an executor's legal right to take control of assets in the deceased person's name.
LETTERS TESTAMENTARY
PRECEDENT
PRE-SENTENCE REPORT
CALENDAR
2. 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
FORGERY
NUNCUPATIVE WILL
MOTION GRANTED
3. Punishment - civil or criminal - generally referring to payment of money.
DISCOVERY
IRRELEVANT
PENALTY
EMINENT DOMAIN
4. Courts having jurisdiction over cases involving children under 18. Casesinvolve delinquent - dependent - and neglected children.
COURTS - JUVENILE and DEPENDENCY
ROBBERY
CLAIM
INCARCERATE
5. The lawyer who represents a client and is entitled to receive all formal documents from the court or from other parties. Also known as counsel of record.
FELONY
CHAIN OF CUSTODY
FORGERY
ATTORNEY OF RECORD
6. A legal representative - attorney - lawyer.
COUNSEL
MORAL TURPITUDE
CONFESSION
REPORT
7. Chains or shackles for the hands to secure prisoners.
HANDCUFFS
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
ATTEMPT
GENERAL ASSIGNMENT
8. Allowance ordered to be paid by one spouse to the other for support while the spouses are living apart but not divorced.
RAPE
SEPARATE MAINTENANCE
EYE WITNESS
BRIEF
9. The ordinary jury of twelve (or fewer) persons for the trial of a civil or criminal case. So called to distinguish it from the grand jury.
COURT - NIGHT
PETIT JURY
BENCH WARRANT
RECALL
10. Mental capacity of a person - especially with regard to his or her ability to stand trial and to assist counsel in his or her defense.
SHERIFF
LITIGANT
COMPETENCY
FELONY
11. A trust set up for the benefit of someone who the grantor believes would be incapable of managing his or her own financial affairs.
SPENDTHRIFT TRUST
STANDING
ADJUDICATE
PRETERMITTED CHILD
12. A machine which records by a needle on a graph varying emotional disturbances when answering questions truly or falsely - as indicated by fluctuations in blood pressure - perspiration.respiration
EXAMINATION - REDIRECT
GROUNDS
LIE DETECTOR
CAPTION
13. The act of taking and carrying away the personal property of another of a value less than $300 with the intent to deprive the owner or possessor of it permanently.
PETTY THEFT
CLERK OF COURT
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
CITATION
14. To unite - to combine - to enter into an alliance.
DECREE
STATEMENT - OPENING
GENERAL ASSIGNMENT
JOIN
15. The practice which enables an accused awaiting trial to be released without posting any security other than a promise to appear before the court at the proper time.
INSTRUCTIONS
REPLY
DISSOLUTION
RECOGNIZANCE
16. A claim by codefendant or co-plaintiffs against each other and not against persons on the opposite side of the lawsuit.
DEFAULT
CROSS-CLAIM
FINGERPRINT
COMMITMENT ORDER
17. The legal process by which the government takes private land for public use - paying the owners a fair price. See EMINENT DOMAIN.
CONDEMNATION
NOTICE
HIT AND RUN
ACCOMPLICE
18. To confine in jail.
RECUSE
INCARCERATE
CLEMENCY OR EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY
INMATE
19. To set right; to remedy; to compensate; to remove the causes of a grievance.
REDRESS
SENTENCE - SUSPENDED
RESTRAINING ORDER
ADMONISH
20. To overthrow - to vacate - to annul or make void.
APPELLATE JURISDICTION
MORAL TURPITUDE
ATTEMPT
QUASH
21. An agreement by two or more persons to commit an unlawful act; in criminal law - conspiracy is a separate offense from the crime that is the object of the conspiracy.
CONSPIRACY
RECOGNIZANCE
DETENTION
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
22. An established standard - guide - or regulation.
RULE
FORFEITURE
EMBEZZLE
PETITIONER
23. An order of the court. A final decree is one that fully and finally disposes of the litigation. Aninterlocutory decree is a preliminary order that often disposes of only part of a lawsuit.
OFFENSE
REHEARING
DECREE
LINEUP
24. The act of sending a case back to the trial court and ordering the trial court to conduct limited new hearings or an entirely new trial.
REMAND
JUDGMENT
LIVING TRUST
CROSS-EXAMINATION
25. The unlawful killing of a human being with deliberate intent to kill.
AUTHENTICATE
MURDER
ARSON
RIGHTS - CONSTITUTIONAL
26. A remedy requiring a person who has breached a contract to perform specifically what he or she has agreed to do. Specific performance is ordered when damages would be inadequate compensation.
EQUITABLE ACTION
BENCH CONFERENCE
LIEN
SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE
27. A written statement prepared by the counsel arguing a case in court. It contains a summary of the facts of a case -the pertinent laws - and an argument of how the law applies to the facts supporting counsel's position.
PERMANENT RESIDENT
ASSIGNEE
ESTOPPEL
BRIEF
28. The purpose to use a particular means to bring about a certain result.
AUTO TAMPERING
ANSWER
PUNITIVE DAMAGES
INTENT
29. To sentence a person convicted of an offense to pay a penalty in money.
FINE
HOSPITAL WARRANT
FORECLOSURE
SENTENCE REPORT
30. Written questions asked by one party in a lawsuit for which the opposing party must provide written answers.
EVIDENCE - DIRECT
INTERROGATORIES
RULE OF COURT
EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES
31. The manipulation of an automobile and its parts for a specific purpose.
EQUITY
HOMICIDE
PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE
AUTO TAMPERING
32. A method of discharging a claim upon agreement by the parties to give and accept something in settlement of the claim.
PRIVITY
JUDGE
NOT GUILTY
ACCORD AND SATISFACTION
33. A request made after a trial - asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial wasconducted properly. To make such a request is 'to appeal' or 'to take an appeal.'
PROFFER
APPEAL
COUNSEL TABLE
BREACH
34. A ruling by the court in favor of the party making the objection.
ADMISSIBLE
AUTO TAMPERING
RESTRAINING ORDER
OBJECTION SUSTAINED
35. Confidential communications to certain persons that are protected by law against any disclosure - including forced disclosure in legal proceedings.
RESTRAINING ORDER
STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
ESCHEAT (ES-CHET)
PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS
36. An association of persons jointly undertaking some commercial enterprise. Unlike a partnership - a joint venture does not entail a continuing relationship among the parties.
JOINT VENTURE
CONTRACT
PETTY OFFENSE
BILL OF PARTICULARS
37. The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
GRAND JURY
AFFIDAVIT
ISSUE
COMMON LAW
38. The seat occupied by judges in courts.
BENCH
PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS
CORROBORATING EVIDENCE
LINEUP
39. Public official charged with duty to make inquiry into the causes and circumstances of any death which occurs through violence or suddenly - with marks of suspicion.
ACCUSED
NOTICE
CORONER
AFFIRMED
40. One which implicitly instructs the witness how to answer or which suggests to the witness the answer desired.
LEADING QUESTION
PARALEGAL
REGULATION
COLLATERAL
41. Member of the jury.
SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
REDRESS
JUROR
42. The unlawful use of force against another with unusual or serious consequences such as theuse of a dangerous weapon.
CASE
INCAPACITY
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT
AGGRAVATED BATTERY
43. In some states - the highest appellate court - where it is the Court's discretion whether to hear the case on appeal.
PREJUDICE
COURT - APPEALS
CALLING THE DOCKET
PLEADINGS
44. The jury or the judge must determine that the defendant - because of mental disease or defect - could not form the intent required to commit the offense.
NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY
ESTATE TAX
MURDER
STATUTORY RAPE
45. 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.
INMATE
EVIDENCE
DELIBERATE
CONTRACT
46. The voluntary transfer - by a debtor - of all property to a trustee for thebenefit of all of his or her creditors.
DELIBERATE
GENERAL ASSIGNMENT
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
DIVERSION
47. To seat a jury. When voir dire is finished and both sides have exercised their challenges - the jury is impaneled.The jurors are sworn in and the trial is ready to proceed.
IMPANEL
ATTORNEY OF RECORD
AFFIANT
CUMULATIVE SENTENCES
48. Property owned in common by husband and wife each having an undivided one-half interest by reason of their marital status. For example - the earnings of one spouse during the marriage do not belong solely to that spouse; the earnings are community pr
COMMUNITY PROPERTY
FINE
DELIBERATE
INCRIMINATE
49. Requirement that police tell a suspect in their custody of his or her constitutional rights before they question him or her: specifically - the right to remain silent; that any statement made may be used against him or her; the right to an attorney;
MIRANDA RIGHTS
BATTERY - SPOUSAL
CAUSE OF ACTION
PROBATION OFFICER
50. Aka DOCKET NUMBER.
CASE NUMBER
CONTEMPT OF COURT
ADMONISH
OBJECTION SUSTAINED