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Law Vocab
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1. Willful destruction of property - from actual ill will or resentment toward its owner or possessor.
MALICIOUS MISCHIEF
LIFE IMPRISONMENT
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
ACCORD
2. A procedural error during a trial or hearing sufficiently harmful to justify reversing the judgment of a lower court.
REVERSIBLE ERROR
POLYGRAPH
EXONERATE
FORECLOSURE
3. To clean or clear - such as eliminating inactive records from court files; with respect to civil contempt - to cure the noncompliance that caused the contempt finding.
PROBATE
ACCUSATION
REST
PURGE
4. The judgment reached or given by a court of law.
STATUS OFFENDERS
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
DECISION
DISMISSAL WITHOUT PREJUDICE
5. Testimony given in relation to some scientific - technical - or professional matter by experts - i.e. -person qualified to speak authoritatively by reason of their special training - skill - or familiarity with the subject.
MANSLAUGHTER - VOLUNTARY
BREACH
EXPERT TESTIMONY
PURGE
6. A private person (who is not necessarily a lawyer) authorized by another to act in his or her place - either for some particular purpose - as to do a specific act - or for the transaction of business in general - not of legal character. This authorit
ATTORNEY-IN-FACT
GAMBLING
ALLEGED
PROSECUTOR
7. 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
REGULATION
CRIMINAL RECORD
JOINT TENANCY
8. To take into one's family the child of another and give him or her the rights - privileges - and duties of a child and heir.
CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
ADOPTION
PENALTY
CIVIL PROCEDURE
9. A special type of guilty plea by which a defendant does not admit guilt but concedes that the State hasufficient evidence to convict; normally made to avoid the threat of greater punishment. Source: Black's Law Dictionary(1996); North Carolina v. Alf
LIBEL
PREJUDICE
BREATHALYZER TEST
ALFORD PLEA
10. A previously decided case that guides the decision of future cases.
REDRESS
PRECEDENT
OBJECTION
MURDER
11. The act of taking money - personal property - or any other article of value that is in the possession of another done by means of force or fear.
ROBBERY
HANDCUFFS
MANDATE
FORECLOSURE
12. A contract in which the promise made by the obligor is not expressed - but inferred by one's conduct or implied in law.
COURT APPOINTED COUNSEL
ENJOINING
POSTPONEMENT
IMPLIED CONTRACT
13. 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.
PROBATION
ADVERSARY SYSTEM
ATTORNEY OF RECORD
CHILD MOLESTATION
14. Evidence given to explain - counteract - or disprove facts given by the opposing counsel.
CERTIFICATION
INSANITY PLEA
REBUTTAL
COMMISSIONER
15. The dismissal of a case - by which the same cause of action cannot be brought against thedefendant again at a later date.
DISMISSAL WITH PREJUDICE
SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
INTESTATE
APPELLATE JURISDICTION
16. A person confined to a prison - penitentiary - or jail.
DEPRIVATION OF CUSTODY
REMAND
FILE
INMATE
17. 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
PROTECTIVE ORDER
ABSTRACTACT
COURT
LETTERS TESTAMENTARY
18. With knowledge - willfully or intentionally with respect to a material element of an offense.
INCAPACITY
DAMAGES
FIDELITY BOND
KNOWINGLY
19. Evidence given to explain - repel - counteract - or disprove facts given in evidence by the adverse party.
REAL EVIDENCE
PERJURY
PETITION
PUBLIC DEFENDER
20. The rule preventing illegally obtained evidence to be used in any trial.
PRETERMITTED CHILD
AGGRAVATED BATTERY
ATTORNEY OF RECORD
EXCLUSIONARY RULE
21. The juror who chairs the jury during deliberations and speaks for the jury in court when announcing the verdict.
FOSTER CARE
EQUAL PROTECTION
SMALL CLAIMS COURT
JURY FOREMAN
22. To unite - to combine - to enter into an alliance.
JOIN
AGREED STATEMENT OF FACTS
MOTION
CHALLENGE TO THE ARRAY
23. The court in which a matter must first be filed.
JUDICIAL NOTICE
ADMISSION
MANSLAUGHTER - INVOLUNTARY
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
24. A right guaranteed by the U. S. Constitution - interpreted by the federal courts; also - a right guaranteed by some other constitution (such as a state constitution).
JOINT TENANCY
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
RESTRAINING ORDER
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
25. The rights of a person guaranteed by the state or federal constitutions.
POWER OF ATTORNEY
RIGHTS - CONSTITUTIONAL
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
EXHIBIT
26. A formal - written application to the court requesting judicial action on some matter.
RECOGNIZANCE
ESTATE
INTANGIBLE ASSETS
PETITION
27. A hearing established to re-evaluate the bail amount that was originally set for the accused.
HOSTILE WITNESS
CONDEMNATION
PERMANENT RESIDENT
BAIL REVIEW
28. A court order to protect a person from further harassment - service of process - or discovery.
AGREED STATEMENT OF FACTS
BEQUEATH
FAIR HEARING
PROTECTIVE ORDER
29. Help - assist - or facilitate the commission of a crime.
CIVIL CASE
AID AND ABET
FORGERY
INTESTATE
30. Standards governing whether evidence in a civil or criminal case is admissible.
RULES OF EVIDENCE
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
SECURED DEBT
ANNOTATION
31. A legal right - exemption or immunity granted to a person - company or class - that is beyond the common advantages of other citizens.
DETENTION HEARING
ESCROW
COUNSEL TABLE
PRIVILEGE
32. A belief in the American legal system which states that all people accused of a criminal act are considered not to have committed the crime until the evidence leaves no doubt in the mind of the court or the jury .
INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY
EXHIBIT
PREJUDICE
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION
33. Giving or pronouncing a judgment or decree. Also the judgment given.
PLEA BARGAIN
ADJUDICATION
CONSPIRACY
PROBATION OFFICER
34. A violation of law - not punishable by imprisonment. Minor traffic offenses are generally considered infractions.
INTANGIBLE ASSETS
ESCROW
INFRACTION
SETTLEMENT
35. The distinctive pattern of lines on human fingertips that are used as a method of identification in criminal cases.
FINGERPRINT
REASONABLE DOUBT - BEYOND A
BOOKING NUMBER
ANSWER
36. A weapon which acts by force of gunpowder - such as a rifle - shotgun or revolver.
INTERVENTION
FIREARM
PLEA
SENTENCE
37. 1. Historically - the partition separating the general public from the space occupied by the judges - lawyers - and other participants in a trial. 2. More commonly - the term means the whole body of lawyers.
RECUSE
ARRAIGNMENT
CALENDAR
BAR
38. To annul or make void by recalling or taking back.
STATUTORY LAW
LIFE IMPRISONMENT
REVOKE
AMEND
39. Generally - justice or fairness.
DISCLAIM
EQUITY
PROTECTIVE ORDER
PROBATION OFFICER
40. Official and formal erasure of a record or partial contents of a record.
FIFTH AMENDMENT
NO-CONTEST CLAUSE
EXPUNGEMENT
SHOPLIFTING
41. Persons trained in the law who assist judges in researching legal opinions.
POWER OF ATTORNEY
ABSTRACTACT
PURGE
LAW CLERKS
42. To disagree. An appellate court opinion setting forth the minority view and outlining the disagreement of one or more judges with the decision of the majority.
ACQUITTAL
DISSENT
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
HOMICIDE
43. The means by which a right is enforced or the violation of a right is prevented - redressed or compensated.
PROCEDURAL LAW
MALICIOUS PROSECUTION
SHERIFF
REMEDY
44. Any fact or evidence that leads to a judgment of the court.
PROOF
COMMON LAW
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT
COMPLAINT
45. Remarks addressed by attorney to judge or jury on the merits of case or on points of law.
STATUTORY LAW
MALICIOUS MISCHIEF
CLERK OF COURT
ARGUMENT
46. A young person who has not yet attained the age at which he or she should be treated as an adult for purposes of criminal law and other legal matters.
CHILD SUPPORT
ASSISTANT STATE'S ATTORNEY
ACQUIT
JUVENILE
47. To sentence a person convicted of an offense to pay a penalty in money.
BIND OVER
KIDNAPPING
FINE
PRIVITY
48. A seizure; the obtaining of money by legal process through seizure and sale of property.
MITIGATING FACTORS
LEVY
JUDICIAL NOTICE
AT ISSUE
49. To change - correct - revise - improve - modify - or alter.
INTENT
AMEND
CASE NUMBER
DISCOVERY
50. The party appealing a final decision or judgment.
CONSERVATORSHIP
BRANDISHING A WEAPON
DRUNK DRIVING
APPELLANT