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Law Vocab
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1. A hallowed principle of criminal law that a person is innocent of a crime until proven guilty.
MAYHEM
PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE
COSTS
FINDING
2. Evil doing - ill conduct; the commission of some act which is positively prohibited by law.
PRE-INJUNCTION
CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES
MALFEASANCE
DAMAGES
3. A procedural error during a trial or hearing sufficiently harmful to justify reversing the judgment of a lower court.
PURGE
FAIR HEARING
POWER OF ATTORNEY
REVERSIBLE ERROR
4. Sexual intercourse between persons so closely related that marriage between them would be unlawful.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
STANDING
ARSON
INCEST
5. The jury's decision-making process after hearing the evidence and closing arguments and being giventhe court's instructions.
INJUNCTION
STATEMENT - CLOSING
DELIBERATION
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
6. Persons trained in the law who assist judges in researching legal opinions.
LAW CLERKS
PRESUMPTION OF LAW
PETIT JURY
BEQUEATH
7. The assertion of a right to money or property.
ACCESSORY
OBJECTION OVERRULED
MEDIATION
CLAIM
8. An oral (unwritten) will.
LARCENY
ALLOCUTION
ROBBERY
NUNCUPATIVE WILL
9. Written questions asked by one party in a lawsuit for which the opposing party must provide written answers.
INITIAL APPEARANCE
INTERROGATORIES
CHARACTER EVIDENCE
CEASE AND DESIST ORDER
10. Tangible physical property (such as cars - clothing - furniture - and jewelry) and intangible personal property. This does not include real property such as land or rights in land.
PERSONAL PROPERTY
INCOMPETENCY
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
ESTATE
11. An advocate - counsel - or official agent employed in preparing - managing - and trying cases in the courts.
RAP SHEET
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON
HEARING
12. 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.
SERVICE OF PROCESS
EMBEZZLE
CIVIL CASE
PAROLE
13. A mutual understanding and intention between two or more parties. The writing or instrument which isevidence of an agreement. (Although often used as synonymous with contract - agreement is a broader term.)
PERSONAL PROPERTY
EXPUNGEMENT
POLLING THE JURY
AGREEMENT
14. A husband or wife of a deceased spouse married after a will is executed who is not provided for in the will.
INTESTACY LAWS
PLEA
POUR-OVER WILL
PRETERMITTED SPOUSE
15. A formal - written application to the court requesting judicial action on some matter.
PETITION
RECOGNIZANCE
LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE
IMPEACHMENT OF WITNESS
16. All the judges of a court sitting together. Appellate courts can consist of a dozen or more judges - but often they hear cases in panels of three judges. If a case is heard or reheard by the full court - it is heard en banc.
EN BANC
PRIORS
EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION
CLERK OF COURT
17. An amendment to a will.
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18. To state - recite - assert - claim - maintain - charge or set forth. To make an allegation.
ALLEGE
RAPE
PANDERING
EXAMINATION - RECROSS
19. Voluntary acknowledgment of the existence of certain facts relevant to the adversary's case.
ADMISSION
ASSIGNEE
INTESTACY LAWS
PRESENTMENT
20. A prison or place of confinement where convicted felons are sent to serve out the term of their sentence.
OFFENSE
DECLARATORY JUDGMENT
PENITENTIARY
CORROBORATING EVIDENCE
21. The reduction of a sentence - such as from death to life imprisonment.
BRIBE
INVESTIGATION
GRAND JURY
COMMUTATION
22. A claim by codefendant or co-plaintiffs against each other and not against persons on the opposite side of the lawsuit.
CROSS-CLAIM
ACCORD
HEARING - CONTESTED
ON A PERSON'S OWN RECOGNIZANCE
23. All the documents and evidence plus transcripts of oral proceedings in a case.
CRIMINAL CASE
CAUSE
RECORD
BAIL BONDSMAN
24. 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.
LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE
IMPANEL
REASONABLE DOUBT - BEYOND A
CHARGE TO THE JURY
25. Successive sentences - one beginning at the expiration of another - imposed against a person convicted of two or more violations.
CROSS-EXAMINATION
DEFENSE
CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES
JURY BOX
26. 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.
LAW
MATERIAL EVIDENCE
CONSPIRACY
ACCESSORY
27. A defense attorney designated by the court to represent a defendant who does not have the funds to retain an attorney. COURT COSTS - The expenses of prosecuting or defending a lawsuit - other than the attorneys' fees. An amount of moneymay be awarded
DEATH PENALTY
LIABILITY
ATTORNEY
COURT APPOINTED COUNSEL
28. A formal written accusation - issued by a grand jury - charging a party with a crime.
JOINT VENTURE
JURY TRIAL
INDICTMENT
BATTERED CHILD SYNDROME (B.C.S.)
29. Recommendation for a sentence less than the maximum allowed.
REVOCABLE TRUST
BIFURCATE
JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY
LENIENCY
30. A party is said to rest or rest its case when it has presented all the evidence it intends to offer.
REST
DISMISSAL WITH PREJUDICE
BRIBE
EXHIBIT - PEOPLE'S
31. Jury of inquiry. The jury which determines which charges - if any - are to be brought against a defendant.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
PREJUDICIAL EVIDENCE
EMINENT DOMAIN
GRAND JURY
32. Primary evidence; the best evidence available. Evidence short of this is 'secondary.' That is - anoriginal letter is 'best evidence -' and a photocopy is 'secondary evidence.'
SETTLEMENT
STATUS OFFENDERS
GAMBLING
BEST EVIDENCE
33. To forge - to copy or imitate - without authority or right - and with the purpose to deceive or defraud - by passing off the copy as genuine.
COUNTERFEIT
PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS
DISMISSAL WITHOUT PREJUDICE
BOOKING
34. A court order directing that an individual be kept in custody - usually in a penal or mental facility.
RELINQUISHMENT
COMMITMENT ORDER
DIVERSION
REVERSIBLE ERROR
35. The referral of a dispute to an impartial third person chosen by the parties to the dispute who agree in advance to abide by the arbitrator's award issued after a hearing at which both parties have an opportunity to be heard.
ARBITRATION
MOTION DENIED
PROBATE COURT
SELF-DEFENSE
36. The act or fact of holding a person in custody; confinement or compulsory delay.
DETENTION
BAIL BONDSMAN
COURT ADMINISTRATOR
NOTICE TO PRODUCE
37. An attorney appointed by a court or employed by a government agency whose work consists primarily of defending people who are unable to hire a lawyer due to economic reasons.
PROBABLE CAUSE
ACCUSED
PUBLIC DEFENDER
FAIR HEARING
38. The act - after a jury verdict has been announced - of asking jurors individually whether they agree with the verdict.
FOSTER CARE
INTENT
POLLING THE JURY
BATTERY - SPOUSAL
39. 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
MURDER
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
EN BANC
40. Objection to the seating of a particular juror for a stated reason (usually bias or prejudice for or against one of the parties in the lawsuit). The judge has the discretion to deny the challenge. This differs from peremptory challenge.
CHALLENGE FOR CAUSE
MANSLAUGHTER - VOLUNTARY
FIND GUILTY
SEALING
41. In criminal trial - a witness whose testimony is crucial to either the defense or prosecution.
MUGSHOT
MATERIAL WITNESS
SENTENCE - SUSPENDED
NEXT FRIEND
42. A person who makes and signs an affidavit.
AFFIANT
LITIGATION
LIVING TRUST
SEARCH WARRANT
43. False and defamatory spoken words tending to harm another's reputation - community standing - office - trade - business - or means of livelihood.
SLANDER
INFORMANT
PROSECUTION
ABATEMENT OF ACTION
44. A person who directs a commission; a member of a commission. The officer in charge of a department or bureau of a public service.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
COMMISSIONER
CONTEMPT OF COURT
PRESUMPTION
45. Attorney at law - lawyer - counselor at law.
ATTORNEY
ROBBERY
ENTRAPMENT
IMPLIED CONTRACT
46. Words - gestures - and actions which tend to annoy - alarm - and verbally abuse another person.
ISSUE
HARASSMENT
LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE
CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES
47. Among other matters - the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from depriving any person of life - liberty - or property without adequate due process .
CONFESSION
FOURTH AMENDMENT
BANKRUPTCY
FAIR HEARING
48. 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.
CLEAR AND CONVINCING EVIDENCE
CHARACTER EVIDENCE
CUMULATIVE SENTENCES
REMAND
49. Immorality. An element of crimes inherently bad - as opposed to crimes bad merely because they are forbidden by statute.
NOTICE
MORAL TURPITUDE
CONVICTION
SHERIFF
50. In juvenile court - a judicial hearing - usually held after the filing of a petition - to determine interim custody of a minor pending a judgment.
EMBEZZLE
MAYHEM
DETENTION HEARING
ACQUIT