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Law Vocab
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1. A statement of all important facts - which all the parties agree is true and correct -which is submitted to a court for ruling.
DEATH PENALTY
ABANDONMENT
AGREED STATEMENT OF FACTS
ORDINANCE
2. A rule or order prescribed for management or government.
INSANITY PLEA
FAMILY ALLOWANCE
REGULATION
DISPOSITION
3. An advocate - counsel - or official agent employed in preparing - managing - and trying cases in the courts.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
LIABILITY
CERTIFICATION
4. A state examination taken by prospective lawyers in order to be admitted and licensed to practice law.
APPEARANCE
DEFAULT
HEARING - PRELIMINARY
BAR EXAMINATION
5. To place a paper in the official custody of the clerk of court to enter into the files or records of a case.
EXCLUSIONARY RULE
FILE
JURY FOREMAN
PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE
6. A short - abbreviated form of the case as found in the record.
RETAINER
ABSTRACT OF RECORD
HARASSMENT
BANKRUPT
7. A government grant giving an inventor the exclusive right to make or sell his or her invention for a term of years.
ADJUDICATION
PATENT
AGENT
EVICTION
8. 1. Written attestation. 2. Authorized declaration verifying that an instrument is a true and correct copy of the original.
COURT OF RECORD
CERTIFICATION
IMMUNITY
GOOD TIME
9. A ruling by the court in favor of the party making the objection.
RETURN
OBJECTION SUSTAINED
ELEMENTS OF A CRIME
FALSE ARREST
10. Substantial reason - one that affords a legal excuse.
INFORMATION
GOOD CAUSE
INVESTIGATION
SELF-PROVING WILL
11. A general term for an action - cause - suit - or controversy brought before the court for resolution.
CASE
FIRST APPEARANCE
JURY COMMISSIONER
EXONERATE
12. 1. The process of removing some minor criminal traffic - or juvenile cases from the full judicial process - on the condition that the accused undergo some sort of rehabilitation or make restitution for damages. 2. Unauthorized use of funds.
GRAND JURY
DIVERSION
RULE
CLASS ACTION
13. A method of discharging a claim upon agreement by the parties to give and accept something in settlement of the claim.
IMPEACHMENT OF WITNESS
ACCORD AND SATISFACTION
CITATION
CAUSE
14. 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.
BIFURCATE
NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY
PURGE
APPEAL
15. 1. One who has been convicted of a criminal offense. 2. That which is connected with the law of crimes; That which has the character of a crime (criminal justice; criminal intent).
CRIMINAL
PATERNITY
SENTENCING
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
16. The area of a state or federal prison where criminals who are sentenced to death are confined until their sentence is commuted or carried out.
ARBITRATION
DEATH ROW
NO-FAULT PROCEEDINGS
BRANDISHING A WEAPON
17. Ordinarily refers to a summary proceeding for restoring possession of land to one who has been wrongfully deprived of possession.
GENERAL ASSIGNMENT
FORCIBLE ENTRY AND DETAINER
SPENDTHRIFT TRUST
FELONY
18. Official and formal erasure of a record or partial contents of a record.
FIRST APPEARANCE
EXPUNGEMENT
DISPOSITION
PAROLE
19. A person who makes and signs an affidavit.
KIDNAPPING
FRAUD
BREACH
AFFIANT
20. Any unlawful physical restraint of another's personal liberty - whether or not carried out by a peace officer.
JUDICIAL NOTICE
POSSESSION OF DRUGS
INDETERMINATE SENTENCE
FALSE ARREST
21. An attack on a judgment other than a direct appeal to a higher court.
COLLATERAL ATTACK
JURY
HIT AND RUN
PROBABLE CAUSE
22. The constitutional prohibition under the Fifth Amendment against a person being put on trial more than once for the same offense.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
BAIL BONDSMAN
SEPARATION
LAW CLERKS
23. The time in a lawsuit when the complaining party has stated his or her claim and the other side has responded with a denial and the matter is ready to be tried.
BENEFICIARY
BAIL BOND
CLOSING ARGUMENT
AT ISSUE
24. A coming into court as party or interested person or as a lawyer on behalf of party or interested person.
PROFFER
ADMONISH
REMAND
APPEARANCE
25. An agreement between parties that dictates what is being received from one party to the other.
SETTLEMENT
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
EVIDENCE - DIRECT
ADJUDICATE
26. The section of a courthouse in which the judge presides over the proceedings.
COURTROOM
BURDEN OF PROOF
MAYHEM
EXPERT TESTIMONY
27. The finding of the court that an act was committed with the intent of embarrassing the court - disobeying its lawful orders - or obstructing the administration of justice in some way.
MODIFICATION
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
CONTEMPT OF COURT
PERJURY
28. Circumstances which render a crime less aggravated - heinous - or reprehensible than it would otherwise be.
DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION STATUTES
EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES
COURT OF RECORD
CONVICT
29. To protest to the court against an act or omission by the opposing party.
PEREMPTORY CHALLENGE
OBJECT
BIND OVER
HOSPITAL WARRANT
30. A body of persons temporarily selected from the citizens of a particular district sworn to listen to the evidence in a trial and declare a verdict on matters of fact.
JURY
MATERIAL WITNESS
LYNCHING
CALLING THE DOCKET
31. The judgment formally pronounced by the court or judge upon the defendant after his or her conviction by imposing a punishment to be inflicted either in the form of a fine - incarceration or probation.
MULTIPLICITY OF ACTIONS
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
SENTENCE
LINEUP
32. A motion to dismiss a civil case because of the legal insufficiency of a complaint.
PERJURY
ASSIGNEE
AFFIRMED
DEMURRER
33. The act of taking and carrying away the personal property of another of a value less than $300 with the intent to deprive the owner or possessor of it permanently.
PETTY THEFT
PROBATION DEPARTMENT
EXTORTION
HOLOGRAPHIC WILL
34. Successive sentences - one beginning at the expiration of another - imposed against a person convicted of two or more violations.
EXTORTION
CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES
JURY TRIAL
EXHIBIT - PEOPLE'S
35. To terminate legal action involving outstanding charges against a defendant in a criminal case.
HEARING
ARBITRATION
DISMISS
LAW
36. 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.
INCOMPETENCY
ARRAIGN
COLLATERAL
MALICIOUS MISCHIEF
37. Mental capacity of a person - especially with regard to his or her ability to stand trial and to assist counsel in his or her defense.
COMPETENCY
HARASSMENT
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
AGREEMENT
38. 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.
BAR
DISCLAIM
INTESTATE
PRECEDENT
39. The standard in a criminal case requiring that the jury be satisfied to a moralcertainty that every element of a crime has been proven by the prosecution. This standard of proof does not require that the state establish absolute certainty by eliminat
MEDIATION
COURT - TRAFFIC
QUASI JUDICIAL
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT
40. 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.
RECOGNIZANCE
FIRST APPEARANCE
CRIMINAL INSANITY
JEOPARDY
41. To refuse a gift made in a will.
PRECEDENT
PLEADINGS
FOURTH AMENDMENT
DISCLAIM
42. Issues and claims capable of being properly examined in court.
ARBITRATION
DIRECT EVIDENCE
PROFFER
JUSTICIABLE
43. Any of the drugs whose production and use are regulated by law - including narcotics - stimulants - and hallucinogens.
PATENT
EXHIBIT
CORONER
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
44. Nonphysical items such as stock certificates - bonds - bank accounts - and pension benefits that have value and must be taken into account in estate planning.
INTANGIBLE ASSETS
INADMISSIBLE
DIVERSION
ADVERSARY SYSTEM
45. The act of showing a weapon to another person - typically the police or the victim.
CLERK OF COURT
BRANDISHING A WEAPON
ROBBERY
REVOCABLE TRUST
46. Property owned in common by husband and wife each having an undivided one-half interest by reason of their marital status. For example - the earnings of one spouse during the marriage do not belong solely to that spouse; the earnings are community pr
PRETERMITTED CHILD
COURT ORDER
COMMUNITY PROPERTY
CODE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
47. To give a gift to someone through a will.
BEQUEATH
FORFEIT
INJUNCTION
COLLATERAL ATTACK
48. An order of an administrative agency or court prohibiting a person or business from continuing a particular course of conduct.
PERSONAL PROPERTY
CEASE AND DESIST ORDER
BANKRUPTCY
INTENT
49. Bail that is kept by the court as a result of not following a court order.
CRIMINAL SUMMONS
EQUITABLE ACTION
BAIL FORFEITURE
LAY PERSON
50. The party who complains or sues; one who applies to the court for legal redress. Also called the plaintiff.
COMPLAINANT
DIVERSION
INFRACTION
DIVORCE