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Law Vocab
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1. 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.
DEATH ROW
PREMEDITATION
AGENT
STATEMENT - OPENING
2. Recommendation for a sentence less than the maximum allowed.
COUNSEL
EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE
LENIENCY
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
3. Having no force - legal power to bind - or validity.
DISMISS
NULL AND VOID
CODICIL (kod'i-sil)
INCARCERATE
4. 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.
MEMORIALIZED
COLLATERAL
INTERROGATORIES
DEFENSE
5. The person who administers an estate. If named in a will - that person's title is an executor . If there is no valid will - that person's title is an administrator.
EQUITABLE ACTION
PROBATE
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
OATH
6. A person having a legal relationship of trust and confidence to another and having a duty to act primarily for the others benefit - e.g. - a guardian - trustee - or executor.
CHAIN OF CUSTODY
BENEFICIARY
JURISPRUDENCE
FIDUCIARY
7. A moot case or a moot point is one not subject to a judicial determination because it involves an abstract question or a pretended controversy that has not yet actually arisen or has already passed. Mootness usually refers to a court's refusal to con
STATE'S ATTORNEY
PETTY OFFENSE
MOOT
EXTORTION
8. A written order issued by a court directing a sheriff or peace officer to take custody of and bring before the court: 1) A witness who fails to comply with a subpoena - 2) a party who fails to comply with a court order in a civil action - or 3) a mat
BODY ATTACHMENT
DEFENDANT
POUR-OVER WILL
MANSLAUGHTER - VOLUNTARY
9. Confidential communications to certain persons that are protected by law against any disclosure - including forced disclosure in legal proceedings.
PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS
INTENT
HOSPITAL WARRANT
HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION
10. The procedure where the accused is brought before the court to hear the criminal charge(s) against him or her and to enter a plea of either guilty - not guilty or no contest.
CHAIN OF CUSTODY
ARRAIGN
ARGUMENT
MAYHEM
11. To set right; to remedy; to compensate; to remove the causes of a grievance.
GRAND JURY
APPEARANCE
REDRESS
PRESUMPTION
12. Confirmation or support of a witness' statement or other fact.
ACCESSORY
CRIMINAL CASE
CORROBORATION
RULE
13. A person who aids or contributes in the commission of a crime.
STATUS OFFENDERS
RECUSE
ACCESSORY
PAROLE
14. Formal conclusion by a judge or jury on issues of fact.
HOME MONITORING
PRESUMPTION
FINDING
ARRAIGNMENT
15. 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.
AFFIDAVIT
CONTEMPT OF COURT
HUNG JURY
INTERLOCUTORY
16. Among other rights - the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees that a person cannot be compelled to present self-incriminating testimony in a criminal proceeding.
IMPANEL
CONSPIRACY
PARTY
FIFTH AMENDMENT
17. The dismissal of a case without preventing the plaintiff from bringing the same cause of action against the defendant in the future.
DISMISSAL WITHOUT PREJUDICE
ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (ADR)
EXTRAORDINARY WRIT
CHILD ABUSE
18. The act or fact of holding a person in custody; confinement or compulsory delay.
EMBEZZLE
DISCOVERY
ALLEGATION
DETENTION
19. Any form of cruelty to a child's physical - moral - or mental well-being.
REMITTITUR
CHILD ABUSE
CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES
CAUSE OF ACTION
20. The postconviction stage in which the defendant is brought before the court for imposition of sentence.
SENTENCING
NOMINAL PARTY
BAIL
REPORT
21. 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.
CONSPIRACY
PREMEDITATION
ADMINISTRATOR
LIABLE
22. The closing statement - by counsel - to the trier of facts after all parties have concluded their presentation of evidence.
EXAMINATION - REDIRECT
GRAND JURY
PURGE
CLOSING ARGUMENT
23. 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.
RESTITUTION
PEREMPTORY CHALLENGE
JUVENILE
MIRANDA RIGHTS
24. The place where a person has his or her permanent legal home. A person may have several residences - but only one domicile.
DECREE
DOMICILE
FIDELITY BOND
DECLARATORY JUDGMENT
25. Stealing or theft.
SEPARATION
GENERAL JURISDICTION
LARCENY
COURT ADMINISTRATOR
26. To terminate legal action involving outstanding charges against a defendant in a criminal case.
STATUTE
DISMISS
MOTION DENIED
CONCURRENT JURISDICTION
27. A type of sentence where the convicted criminal is ordered to spend the rest of his or her life in prison
LIFE IMPRISONMENT
EVIDENCE - DIRECT
INSTRUCTIONS
ACTION
28. The jury's decision-making process after hearing the evidence and closing arguments and being giventhe court's instructions.
MOTION DENIED
EXTRADITION
ORAL ARGUMENT
DELIBERATION
29. A short - abbreviated form of the case as found in the record.
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
BIAS
ABSTRACT OF RECORD
ANNOTATION
30. The formal statement before the court that the accused admits committing the criminal act.
ESCHEAT (ES-CHET)
ENTER A GUILTY PLEA
SODOMY
JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY
31. The designation assigned to each case filed in a particular court. Also called a case number.
DOCKET NUMBER
CREDIBILITY
RAP SHEET
EXECUTOR
32. Legal document issued by a court that shows an executor's legal right to take control of assets in the deceased person's name.
DEATH ROW
LETTERS TESTAMENTARY
DIRECT EXAMINATION
NEGLIGENCE
33. A statement of all important facts - which all the parties agree is true and correct -which is submitted to a court for ruling.
AGREED STATEMENT OF FACTS
CONSERVATORSHIP
POSTPONEMENT
BEST EVIDENCE
34. The written statements of fact and law filed by the parties to a lawsuit.
PLEADINGS
PERJURY
NUNCUPATIVE WILL
RECIDIVISM
35. A satisfaction agreed upon between the parties in a lawsuit which bars subsequent actions on the claim.
SLANDER
ACCORD
EXPERT TESTIMONY
GOOD FAITH
36. Another hearing of a civil or criminal case by the same court in which the case was originally heard.
APPELLEE
REHEARING
ALLEGED
HOME MONITORING
37. Inferences drawn from proven facts.
SELF-INCRIMINATION
EVIDENCE - CIRCUMSTANTIAL
POLYGRAPH
POLLING THE JURY
38. An oral (unwritten) will.
DECISION
EXAMINATION - RECROSS
LIABILITY
NUNCUPATIVE WILL
39. The judgment reached or given by a court of law.
POLLING THE JURY
FOUNDATION
DECISION
EXECUTE
40. The correction of an error admitted in any process.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
PRECEDENT
AMENDMENT
ATTORNEY-IN-FACT
41. A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
PRECEDENT
NO-CONTEST CLAUSE
COURT REPORTER
LITIGANT
42. One acting without formal appointment as guardian for the benefit of an infant - a person of unsound mind not judicially declared incompetent - or other person under some disability.
GRAND THEFT
MAYHEM
CODICIL (kod'i-sil)
NEXT FRIEND
43. A personal representative - named in a will - who administers an estate.
EXECUTOR
CONDITIONAL RELEASE
DETENTION HEARING
NOMINAL PARTY
44. An assault committed with the intention of committing some additional crime.
CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES
ASSAULT - AGGRAVATED
EXCEPTIONS
LAY PERSON
45. The act that caused an event to occur. A person generally is liable only if an injury was proximately caused by his or her action or by his or her failure to act when he or she had a duty to act.
BATTERY
PROXIMATE CAUSE
MERITS
ALLEGATION
46. The act of not appearing in court after being presented with a subpoena or summons.
FAILURE TO APPEAR
AFFIANT
ATTORNEY OF RECORD
APPELLANT
47. Cancellation by a court of a warrant before its execution by the arrest of a defendant; also - a process by which a retired judge may be asked to sit on a particular case.
PARDON
RECALL
DISCOVERY
ACCUSED
48. A collection - compendium - or revision of laws - rules - and regulations enacted by legislative authority.
EMBEZZLE
ADJUDICATION
SLANDER
CODE
49. The court with authority to supervise estate administration.
MEDIATION
COURT REPORTER
FOUNDATION
PROBATE COURT
50. A gift - not necessarily of monetary value - given to influence the conduct of the receiver.
AMENDMENT
CORROBORATING EVIDENCE
BRIBE
DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION STATUTES