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Law Vocab
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1. A lesser offense than a felony and generally punishable by fine or limited jail time - but not in a penitentiary.
NOT GUILTY
MISDEMEANOR
DEATH ROW
PETTY OFFENSE
2. For the judge or jury to determine and declare the guilt of the defendant.
COMPARATIVE NEGLIGENCE
DELINQUENCY - JUVENILE
ASSISTANT STATE'S ATTORNEY
FIND GUILTY
3. The seat occupied by judges in courts.
DIRECT EVIDENCE
SEARCH WARRANT
BENCH
MITIGATING FACTORS
4. To make greater in value - to increase.
PRETERMITTED SPOUSE
ENHANCE
MULTIPLICITY OF ACTIONS
CHALLENGE TO THE ARRAY
5. A protest to the court against an act or omission by the opposing party.
CONSIDERATION
OBJECTION
FIDELITY BOND
ADMONISH
6. Remarks addressed by attorney to judge or jury on the merits of case or on points of law.
ARGUMENT
JUDICIAL REVIEW
IMPLIED CONTRACT
EXHIBIT
7. To hold a person for trial on bond (bail) or in jail. If the judicial official conducting a hearing finds probable cause to believe the accused committed a crime - the official will bind over the accused - normally by setting bail for the accused's a
BIND OVER
LEADING QUESTION
SELF-INCRIMINATION
SETTLEMENT
8. 1. A unit of the judiciary authorized to decide disputed matters of fact - cases or controversies. 2. Figuratively - the judge or judicial officer. Judges sometimes use 'court' to refer to themselves in the third person - as in 'the court has read
COURT
PETITIONER
CONDITIONAL RELEASE
PROSECUTION
9. 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.
INTANGIBLE ASSETS
ATTORNEY
COMMIT
PRISON
10. A witness whose testimony is not favorable to the party who calls him or her as a witness. A hostile witness may be asked be cross-examined by the party who calls him or be cross-examined by the party who calls him or leading questions and may her to
HOSTILE WITNESS
COURTS - JUVENILE and DEPENDENCY
MISTRIAL
COMMITMENT ORDER
11. Settling a dispute without a full - formal trial. Methods includemediation - conciliation - arbitration - and settlement - among others.
ON A PERSON'S OWN RECOGNIZANCE
CEASE AND DESIST ORDER
ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (ADR)
FALSE ARREST
12. A government grant giving an inventor the exclusive right to make or sell his or her invention for a term of years.
AFFIANT
PATENT
CASE
DELIBERATE
13. Evidence that helps to prove a point or issue in a case.
RELEVANT
SERVICE OF PROCESS
FIREARM
INTANGIBLE ASSETS
14. A crime of a more serious nature than a misdemeanor - usually punishable by imprisonment in a penitentiary for more than a year and/or substantial fines.
AGGRAVATED BATTERY
COUNTY JAIL
ENJOINING
FELONY
15. The juror who chairs the jury during deliberations and speaks for the jury in court when announcing the verdict.
CONTRACT
JURY FOREMAN
REPORT
FALSE ARREST
16. The unlawful killing of a human being with deliberate intent to kill.
PETITIONER
MURDER
INTERLOCUTORY
HOLOGRAPHIC WILL
17. Additional juror impaneled in case of sickness or disability of another juror.
DELINQUENCY - JUVENILE
MOTION
JUROR - ALTERNATE
BRANDISHING A WEAPON
18. A person who aids or contributes in the commission of a crime.
PUNITIVE DAMAGES
DETENTION HEARING
RULES OF EVIDENCE
ACCESSORY
19. A lawsuit - litigation - or action. Any question - civil or criminal - litigated or contested before a court of justice.
BODY ATTACHMENT
CROSS-EXAMINATION
CAUSE
RELEVANT
20. In tort law - a defense to a personal injury suit. The essence of an affirmative defense is that the plaintiff assumed the known risk of whatever dangerous condition caused the injury.
ROBBERY
COMMIT
GUARDIAN
ASSUMPTION OF RISK
21. 1. One who administers the estate of a person who dies without a will. 2. A court official.
SENTENCE - CONCURRENT
ADMINISTRATOR
FRAUD
BANKRUPTCY
22. An order requiring a person to appear in court and present reasons why a certain order - judgment - or decree should not be issued.
COURT ORDER
SHOW CAUSE
ADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE
SEPARATION
23. An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
STANDING
ORAL ARGUMENT
PATENT
PARDON
24. An offensive touching or use of force on one's spouse without the spouse's consent.
CUMULATIVE SENTENCES
SELF-INCRIMINATION
RECUSE
BATTERY - SPOUSAL
25. Crime in which the driver of a vehicle leaves the scene of an accident without identifying himself or herself.
HIT AND RUN
RULE OF COURT
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
DEFAULT-JUDGMENT
26. An advocate - counsel - or official agent employed in preparing - managing - and trying cases in the courts.
CONCURRENT SENTENCES
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
EXTORTION
REVERSE
27. A hearing established to re-evaluate the bail amount that was originally set for the accused.
BAIL REVIEW
REPLY
EXTRAORDINARY WRIT
DELIBERATION
28. The process whereby the accused and the prosecutor in a criminal case work out a mutually satisfactory disposition of the case subject to court approval. Usually involves the defendant's pleading guilty to a lesser offense or to only one.
PLEA BARGAIN
EVICTION
PROBATION DEPARTMENT
KIDNAPPING
29. A statement of all important facts - which all the parties agree is true and correct -which is submitted to a court for ruling.
BIFURCATE
AGREED STATEMENT OF FACTS
ACCUSED
AMENDMENT
30. A legally enforceable agreement between two or more competent parties made either orally or in writing. CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE - A legal doctrine that says if the plaintiff in a civil action for negligence also was negligent - he or she cannot recov
CONTRACT
LEASE
PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE
DEATH PENALTY
31. 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.
DECREE
ASSAULT
ISSUE
GOOD CAUSE
32. A violation of law - not punishable by imprisonment. Minor traffic offenses are generally considered infractions.
INFRACTION
CHANGE OF VENUE
SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE
GRANTOR OR SETTLOR
33. The process of photographing - fingerprinting - and recording identifying data of a suspect. This process follows the arrest.
PRIORS
CEASE AND DESIST ORDER
BOOKING
CONCURRENT SENTENCES
34. A police identification procedure by which the suspect to a crime is exhibited - along with others - before the victim or witness to determine if the victim or witness can identify the committed the crime.suspect as the person who
SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
INDEPENDENT EXECUTOR
LINEUP
CONDITIONAL RELEASE
35. False and defamatory spoken words tending to harm another's reputation - community standing - office - trade - business - or means of livelihood.
SENTENCE - SUSPENDED
COURT REPORTER
RE-DIRECT EXAMINATION
SLANDER
36. A person with legal skills - but who is not an attorney - and who works under the supervision of a lawyer or who is otherwise authorized by law to use those legal skills.
ENTER A GUILTY PLEA
INTERLOCUTORY
PARALEGAL
PLEADINGS
37. A written accusation alleging a defendant has committed an offense. Includes a citation - an indictment - information - and statement of charges.
ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (ADR)
CROSS-CLAIM
ORDINANCE
CHARGING DOCUMENT
38. A defendant's statement in mitigation of punishment.
ALLOCUTION
SENTENCE REPORT
INHERITANCE TAX
EXTORTION
39. 1. The action of sending a person to a penal or mental institution. 2. The order directing an officer to take a person to a penal or mental institution.
SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
COMMITMENT
PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE
LOITERING
40. This phrase - endorsed by a grand jury on the written indictment submitted to it for its approval - means that the evidence was found insufficient to indict.
COURT OF RECORD
NO BILL
CIVIL CASE
INTESTACY LAWS
41. 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.
CORONER
EXTRADITION
JUROR
RECOGNIZANCE
42. Courts having jurisdiction over cases involving children under 18. Casesinvolve delinquent - dependent - and neglected children.
COURTS - JUVENILE and DEPENDENCY
CEASE AND DESIST ORDER
COURT - NIGHT
ILLEGAL
43. The jurisdiction of two or more courts - each authorized to deal with the same subject matter.
CONCURRENT JURISDICTION
REPORT
REMEDY
REVERSE
44. Release of a person from custody without the payment of any bail or posting of bond - upon the promise to return to court.
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45. Conduct which tends to annoy all citizens - including unnecessary and distractingnoisemaking.
DISTURBING THE PEACE
COMMUTATION
ACQUITTAL
EXPERT TESTIMONY
46. The rights of a person guaranteed by the state or federal constitutions.
RIGHTS - CONSTITUTIONAL
CODE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
LAW
LAY PERSON
47. Inclination - bent - a pre-conceived opinion or a predisposition to decide a cause or an issue a certain way.
MITIGATING FACTORS
ACCESSORY
BIAS
PRISON
48. Legally responsible.
CONSIDERATION
PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE
STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION
LIABLE
49. Legal right given to a person to manage the property and financial affairs of a person deemed incapable of doing that for himself or herself. (Conservators have somewhat less responsibility than guardians. See also guardianship.)
DOCKET NUMBER
CONSERVATORSHIP
JURISDICTION
PERMANENT RESIDENT
50. State-imposed death as punishment for a serious crime. Capital punishment.
LINEUP
MOOT
BILL OF PARTICULARS
DEATH PENALTY