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Law Vocab
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1. 1. A real or seeming incompatibility between one's private interests and one's public or fiduciary duties. 2. A real or seeming incompatibility between the interests of two of a lawyer's clients - such that the lawyer is disqualified from representin
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
COUNTY JAIL
COURTS - JUVENILE and DEPENDENCY
SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
2. An aggravated unlawful assault in which there is threat to do bodily harmwithout justification or excuse by use of any instrument calculated to do serious bodily harm or cause death.
COURT ORDER
SENTENCING
JURY TRIAL
ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON
3. 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.
OBJECTION OVERRULED
COMMON LAW
INTESTATE SUCCESSION
STATUTORY LAW
4. Representation of some fact or circumstance which is not true and is calculated to mislead - whereby a person obtains another's money or goods.
HARASSMENT
FALSE PRETENSES
PROBATION
NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY
5. 1. The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. 2. The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
STATEMENT - CLOSING
LIEN
JURISDICTION
DOCKET NUMBER
6. 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
LINEUP
RAPE
MUGSHOT
DISCLAIM
7. Evidence which tends to indicate that a defendant did not commit the alleged crime.
DEMURRER
ATTACHMENT
REVERSE
EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE
8. A program of parental care for children who do not have an in-home parental relationship with either biological or adoptive parents.
LIBEL
DELIBERATION
FOSTER CARE
BATTERY - SPOUSAL
9. The malicious burning of someone else's or one's own dwelling or of anyone's commercial or industrial property.
SEQUESTRATION OF WITNESSES
PROSECUTION
REPLEVIN
ARSON
10. A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it - before a notary or officer havingauthority to administer oaths.
INDEPENDENT EXECUTOR
AFFIDAVIT
INDICTMENT
ADMONISH
11. 1. Property that is pledged as security against a debt. 2. A person belonging to the same ancestral stock (a relation) - but not in a direct line of descent.
FORGERY
COMMITMENT ORDER
PREJUDICIAL EVIDENCE
COLLATERAL
12. An individual appointed by the court to oversee administrative matters.
LEASE
CONDITIONAL RELEASE
CLERK OF COURT
ABSTRACT OF RECORD
13. The purpose to use a particular means to bring about a certain result.
INTENT
CORROBORATE
DISSOLUTION
INDEPENDENT EXECUTOR
14. The final decision of the court - resolving the dispute; an opinion; an award of damages.
CHALLENGE FOR CAUSE
STATUTORY LAW
JUDGMENT
ALIMONY
15. Standard of proof commonly used in civil lawsuits and in regulatory agency cases. It governs the amount of proof that must be offered in order for the plaintiff to win the case.
COMMISSIONER
CLEAR AND CONVINCING EVIDENCE
HARMLESS ERROR
PETIT JURY
16. An order issued by a judge for the arrest of a person.
COMMITMENT
BENCH WARRANT
CLEMENCY OR EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY
PRELIMINARY HEARING
17. The seat occupied by judges in courts.
ALFORD PLEA
BENCH
AGGRAVATED BATTERY
LIEN
18. 1. A statement of acceptance of responsibility. 2. The short declaration at the end of a legal paper showing that the paper was duly executed and acknowledged.
INCEST
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
ASSUMPTION OF RISK
INVESTIGATION
19. Unlawful killing of another - without malice - when the death is caused by some other unlawful act not usually expected to result in great bodily harm.
AGREEMENT
GARNISH
PARTY
MANSLAUGHTER - INVOLUNTARY
20. Facts that do not constitute a justification or excuse for an offense but which may be considered as reasons for reducing the degree of blame.
ADJUDICATION
SHOW CAUSE
CRIME
MITIGATING FACTORS
21. Evidence given to explain - repel - counteract - or disprove facts given in evidence by the adverse party.
OBJECT
REAL EVIDENCE
GUARDIAN
INTESTATE SUCCESSION
22. A crime composed of some - but not all - of the elements of a greater crime; commission of the greater crime automatically includes commission of the lesser included offense.
AFFIDAVIT
DEFAULT-JUDGMENT
BRIEF
LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE
23. A party is said to rest or rest its case when it has presented all the evidence it intends to offer.
OFFER OF PROOF
PROFFER
REST
LEWD CONDUCT
24. Unlawful intercourse with an individual without their consent.
RAPE
ATTORNEY-IN-FACT
BATTERED CHILD SYNDROME (B.C.S.)
DISSOLUTION
25. The process by which one state or country surrenders to another state - a person accused or convicted of a crime in the other state.
EXTRADITION
SELF-DEFENSE
LIFE IMPRISONMENT
CRIMINAL CASE
26. Confidential communications to certain persons that are protected by law against any disclosure - including forced disclosure in legal proceedings.
PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS
HANDCUFFS
STATE'S ATTORNEY
FORFEITURE
27. A document containing background material on a convicted person. It is prepared to guide the judge in the imposition of a sentence. Sometimes called a pre-sentence report.
EXECUTE
SEARCH AND SEIZURE
HEARING - CONTESTED
SENTENCE REPORT
28. The peril in which an accused is placed when he is properly charged with a crime before a court. Jeopardy normally attaches when the petit jury is impaneled.
HOLOGRAPHIC WILL
COMMITMENT
JEOPARDY
HOMICIDE
29. 1. In a criminal case - the person accused of the crime. 2. In a civil case - the person being sued.
DEFENDANT
NON-CAPITAL CASE
BANKRUPTCY
PREJUDICE
30. An honest belief - the absence of malice - and the absence of design to defraud.
INDEMNIFY
GOOD FAITH
FALSE ARREST
LITIGATION
31. Conduct which tends to annoy all citizens - including unnecessary and distractingnoisemaking.
POSSESSION OF DRUGS
QUASI JUDICIAL
DISTURBING THE PEACE
CONVICTION
32. Member of the jury.
APPELLATE COURT
PENALTY
IRRELEVANT
JUROR
33. Questioning the qualifications of an entire jury panel - usually on the ground of partiality or some fault in the process of summoning the panel.
CHALLENGE TO THE ARRAY
EVICTION
DISCLAIM
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
34. Evidence that can be legally and properly introduced in a civil or criminal trial.
JUVENILE
ADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE
CONCURRENT JURISDICTION
COMMIT
35. Unlawful killing of another - without malice - when the act is committed with a sudden extreme emotional impulse.
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT
COURT OF RECORD
CHARGING DOCUMENT
MANSLAUGHTER - VOLUNTARY
36. The transfer of a state case to federal court for trial; in civil cases - because the parties are from different states; in criminal and some civil cases - because there is a significant possibility that there could not be a fair trial in state court
DEFAMATION
ACQUITTAL
COMPLAINANT
REMOVAL
37. An action which may be brought for the purpose of restraining the threatened infliction of wrongs or injuries - and the prevention of threatened illegal action.
CHILD SUPPORT
ELEMENTS OF A CRIME
BRIBE
EQUITABLE ACTION
38. 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.
INTENT
EXECUTOR
REMOVAL
NO BILL
39. Synonymous with reversible error ; an error which warrants the appellate court in reversing the judgment before it.
PREJUDICIAL ERROR
DECISION
ESTOPPEL
BEQUEATH
40. The reduction by a judge of the damages awarded by a jury.
REMITTITUR
NEXT FRIEND
EXONERATE
AT ISSUE
41. Fatherhood.
CODE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
DOCKET
PATERNITY
REVOKE
42. A person who is the liable party in paying the bond for the defendant's release from jail.
RETAINER
COMPARATIVE NEGLIGENCE
BAIL BONDSMAN
ACTION
43. To complete the legal requirements (such as signing before witnesses) that make a will valid. Also - to execute a judgment or decree means to put the final judgment of the court into effect.
CASE
EXECUTE
RULES OF EVIDENCE
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
44. The jurisdiction of two or more courts - each authorized to deal with the same subject matter.
CONCURRENT JURISDICTION
BAIL BONDSMAN
CONVICTION
JUDGMENT
45. Evidence which might unfairly sway the judge or jury to one side or the other.
PERMANENT INJUNCTION
PREJUDICIAL EVIDENCE
STANDING
SEXUAL MOLESTATION
46. A lawsuit brought to enforce - redress - or protect private rights or to gain payment for a wrong done to a person or party by another person or party. In general - all types of actions other than criminal proceedings.
ANSWER
CHILD SUPPORT
PREJUDICE
CIVIL CASE
47. A forejudgment - bias - a preconceived opinion.
HOLDING CELL
JURY TRIAL
PREJUDICE
FORFEITURE
48. A trial lawyer representing the government in a criminal case and the interests of the state in civil matters.
ADMISSION
APPELLANT
PROSECUTOR
STRICT LIABILITY
49. 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.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY
PENDING
NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY
LEGAL AID
50. Youths charged with the status of being beyond the control of their legal guardian or are habitually disobedient - truant from school - or have committed other acts that would not be a crime if committed by an adult. They are not delinquents (in that
ACCORD AND SATISFACTION
ASSAULT
STATUS OFFENDERS
BEQUESTS