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Law Vocab
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1. An action between two or more persons in the courts of law - not a criminal matter.
EXHIBIT
JUDICIAL NOTICE
BRANDISHING A WEAPON
LAWSUIT
2. A claim presented by a defendant in a civil lawsuit against the plaintiff. In essence - a counter lawsuit within a lawsuit.
EN BANC
OBJECTION OVERRULED
BEQUEATH
COUNTERCLAIM
3. 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.
APPELLATE JURISDICTION
ADOPTION
MATERIAL EVIDENCE
COMMON LAW
4. An attempt to cause serious bodily injury to another or purposely - knowingly or recklesslycausing such injury - or an attempt to cause or purposely or knowingly cause bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon.
INDECENT EXPOSURE
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
JUROR
EXAMINATION - RECROSS
5. 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.
ADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE
CIVIL CASE
ALIBI
HOLOGRAPHIC WILL
6. 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.
AGENT
MEDIATION
JURISDICTION
BANKRUPTCY
7. The judge's instructions to the jury concerning the law that applies to the facts of the case on trial.
ADMISSION
JUDICIAL REVIEW
CHARGE TO THE JURY
LEADING QUESTION
8. One who lives in a location for a period of time and denotes it as their official address or residence.
SEQUESTRATION OF WITNESSES
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
JURY TRIAL
PERMANENT RESIDENT
9. A child who is homeless or without proper care through no fault of the parent - guardian - or custodian. DEPORTATION - The act of removing a person to another country. Order issued by an immigration judge - expelling an alien from the United States.
DEPENDENT CHILD
SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION STATUTES
NOT GUILTY
10. A parent's or custodian's act of leaving a child without adequate care - supervision - support - or parental
PRETERMITTED CHILD
JURY - HUNG
NOTICE
ABANDONMENT
11. 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.
AFFIDAVIT
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
BATTERY - SPOUSAL
LEASE
12. To state - recite - assert - claim - maintain - charge or set forth. To make an allegation.
ALLEGE
COMMUNITY PROPERTY
LIABILITY
ALIBI
13. Without denying the charge - the defendant raises circumstances such as insanity - self-defense -or entrapment to avoid civil or criminal responsibility.
ATTORNEY-IN-FACT
HARMLESS ERROR
ABANDONMENT
AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE
14. A false statement given while under oath or in a sworn affidavit.
CROSS-CLAIM
PERJURY
MERITS
RECUSE
15. Intentional - unlawful deception to deprive another person of property or to injure that person in some other way.
DEPENDENT CHILD
COUNSEL TABLE
FRAUD
OBJECTION SUSTAINED
16. An offensive touching or use of force on a person without the person's consent.
DETENTION HEARING
CHILD ABUSE
BATTERY
ESCHEAT (ES-CHET)
17. 1. Arrest record. A written account listing all the instances in which a person has been arrested. 2. A form completed by a police officer when a person is arrested.
CRIMINAL RECORD
DIVORCE
CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES
JUVENILE WAIVER
18. A contract in which the promise made by the obligor is not expressed - but inferred by one's conduct or implied in law.
GLUE SNIFFING
LIABLE
INTERROGATORIES
IMPLIED CONTRACT
19. The initial appearance of an arrested person before a judge to determine whether there is probable cause for his or her arrest. Generally the person comes before a judge within hours of the arrest - and are informed of the charges against him or her
IMPEACHMENT OF WITNESS
FIRST APPEARANCE
MOOT
INVESTIGATION
20. 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.
EXONERATE
CONTINUANCE
PARALEGAL
BATTERED CHILD SYNDROME (B.C.S.)
21. A collection - compendium - or revision of laws - rules - and regulations enacted by legislative authority.
CODE
JUROR - ALTERNATE
EMINENT DOMAIN
ADJUDICATION
22. Aka PROSECUTOR and DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
JUROR
ABSTRACT OF TITLE
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
SETTLEMENT
23. A lawyer appointed or elected to represent the state in criminal cases in his or her respective judicial districts. See PROSECUTOR.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
PENITENTIARY
AFFIANT
24. 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.
MANSLAUGHTER - INVOLUNTARY
ATTORNEY OF RECORD
INTERROGATORIES
CLEAR AND CONVINCING EVIDENCE
25. Supervised release of a prisoner before the expiration of his or her sentence.
EXECUTOR
PAROLE
DELIBERATE
NOTICE
26. Grant by the court which assures someone will not face prosecution in return for providing evidence in a criminal proceeding.
IMMUNITY
LIVING TRUST
NUNCUPATIVE WILL
JOINT VENTURE
27. To support with evidence or authority; make more certain.
ALIMONY
CORROBORATE
EXAMINATION - RECROSS
CREDIBILITY
28. Someone named to receive property or benefits in a will. In a trust - a person who is to receive benefits from the trust.
PETIT JURY
BENEFICIARY
ACCUSED
CITATION
29. The legal right to bring a lawsuit. Only a person with something at stake has standing to bring a lawsuit.
SERVICE
DEFENDANT
STANDING
REGULATION
30. The formal statement before the court that the accused admits committing the criminal act.
ENTER A GUILTY PLEA
RESPONDENT
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
FAIR HEARING
31. Form of discipline of a lawyer resulting in the loss (often permanently) of that lawyer's right to practice law. It differs from censure (an official reprimand or condemnation) and from suspension (a temporary loss of the right to practice law).
NULL AND VOID
DISBARMENT
DETENTION HEARING
INTESTATE
32. Evidence which tends to indicate that a defendant did not commit the alleged crime.
SERVICE
OATH
STATUS OFFENDERS
EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE
33. Successive sentences - one beginning at the expiration of another - imposed against a person convicted of two or more violations.
CHILD ABUSE
CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES
PROFFER
INVESTIGATION
34. The taking or detaining of a person against his or her will and without lawful authority.
INADMISSIBLE
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
PROBATION DEPARTMENT
KIDNAPPING
35. A trust that - once set up - the grantor may not revoke.
SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
IRREVOCABLE TRUST
CAPTION
36. A case summary or commentary on the law cases - statutes - and rules illustrating its interpretation.
GOOD CAUSE
ANNOTATION
REASONABLE DOUBT - BEYOND A
OBJECTION
37. Chains or shackles for the hands to secure prisoners.
POUR-OVER WILL
HANDCUFFS
PLEADINGS
COMMISSIONER
38. An elected or appointed public official with authority to hear and decide cases in a court of law.
JUDGE
PERSONAL PROPERTY
PRETERMITTED SPOUSE
ALLEGE
39. A formal charge against a person - to the effect that he has engaged in a punishable offense.
ACCUSATION
CHILD SUPPORT
FIFTH AMENDMENT
EXPERT TESTIMONY
40. See DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION STATUTES.
JUDICIAL REVIEW
LIFE IMPRISONMENT
JURY FOREMAN
INTESTACY LAWS
41. A formal written document filed by the prosecutor detailing the criminal charges against the defendant. An alternative to an indictment - it serves to bring a defendant to trial.
BIAS
PERSON IN NEED OF SUPERVISION
JURY - HUNG
INFORMATION
42. The juror who chairs the jury during deliberations and speaks for the jury in court when announcing the verdict.
JURY FOREMAN
COMPOSITE DRAWING
BRIBE
EXAMINATION - DIRECT
43. To give a gift to someone through a will.
BEQUEATH
LIFE IMPRISONMENT
RULE
EXHIBIT
44. One who knowingly - voluntarily - and intentionally unites with the principal offender in the commission ofa crime. A partner in a crime.
ACCOMPLICE
OPENING ARGUMENT
COURT REPORTER
SELF-PROVING WILL
45. The postconviction stage in which the defendant is brought before the court for imposition of sentence.
HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION
MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES
PLEA BARGAIN
SENTENCING
46. Acts or declarations by which one implicates oneself in a crime.
GUILTY
MANDATE
SELF-INCRIMINATION
BRIEF
47. The doctrine that the government - state or federal - is immune to lawsuit unless it gives its consent.
COUNTY JAIL
SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
PANDERING
ALLEGATION
48. There are essentially three standards of proof applicable in most court proceedings. In criminal cases - the offense must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt - the highest standard. In civil cases and neglect and dependency proceedings - the lowest
CLOSING ARGUMENT
LINEUP
CRIMINAL INSANITY
STANDARD OF PROOF
49. An estate consists of personal property (car - household items - and other tangible items) - real property - and intangible property - such as stock certificates and bank accounts - owned in the individual name of a person at the time of the person's
POST CONVICTION RELIEF PROCEEDING
CREDIBILITY
ESTATE
ASSAULT - AGGRAVATED
50. Refers to courts that are limited in the types of criminal and civil cases they may hear. For example - traffic violations generally are heard by limited jurisdiction courts.
COURT OF RECORD
LIMITED JURISDICTION
CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES
AMENDMENT