Test your basic knowledge |

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The unlawful restraint by one person of another person's physical liberty.






2. A request made after a trial - asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial wasconducted properly. To make such a request is 'to appeal' or 'to take an appeal.'






3. A formal charge against a person - to the effect that he has engaged in a punishable offense.






4. To state - recite - assert - claim - maintain - charge or set forth. To make an allegation.






5. Opportunity to present rebuttal evidence after one's evidence has been subjected to cross-examination.






6. A crime composed of some - but not all - of the elements of a greater crime; commission of the greater crime automatically includes commission of the lesser included offense.






7. A forejudgment - bias - a preconceived opinion.






8. Mutual or successive relationships to the same right of property - or the same interest of one person with another which represents the same legal right.






9. 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.






10. Money or a written instrument such as a deed that - by agreement between two parties - is held by a neutral third party (held in escrow) until all conditions of the agreement are met.






11. 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).






12. Someone named to receive property or benefits in a will. In a trust - a person who is to receive benefits from the trust.






13. Failure to exercise the degree of care that a reasonable person would use under the same circumstances.






14. A forsaking - abandoning - renouncing - or giving over a right.






15. Immorality. An element of crimes inherently bad - as opposed to crimes bad merely because they are forbidden by statute.






16. Legal right given to a person to manage the property and financial affairs of a person deemed incapable of doing that for himself or herself. (Conservators have somewhat less responsibility than guardians. See also guardianship.)






17. The obligation of a party to establish by evidence a requisite degree of belief concerning a fact in the mind of the trier of fact or the court.






18. To protest to the court against an act or omission by the opposing party.






19. 1. Written attestation. 2. Authorized declaration verifying that an instrument is a true and correct copy of the original.






20. A change - alteration - or amendment which introduces new elements into the details - or cancels some of them - but leaves the general purpose and effect of the subject-matter intact.






21. 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






22. A party to a lawsuit. Litigation refers to a case - controversy - or lawsuit.






23. Writ or order by a court prohibiting a specific action from being carried out by a person or group.






24. Unlawful intercourse with an individual without their consent.






25. Begun - but not yet completed. Thus - an action is pending from its inception until the rendition of its final judgment.






26. A type of sentence where the convicted criminal is ordered to spend the rest of his or her life in prison






27. Illegal sex acts performed against a minor by a parent - guardian - relative or acquaintance.






28. A phrase commonly applied to counsel employed to assist in the preparation or management of the case - or its presentation on appeal - but who is not the principal attorney for the party.






29. 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.






30. An offer of proof as to what the evidence would be if a witness were called to testify or answer a question.






31. A meeting either on or off the record at the judge's bench between the judge - counsel - and sometimes the defendant - out of the hearing of the jury.






32. See DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION STATUTES.






33. Public official charged with duty to make inquiry into the causes and circumstances of any death which occurs through violence or suddenly - with marks of suspicion.






34. Money awarded by a court to a person injured by the unlawful act or negligence of another person.






35. A written direction or command delivered by a court or judge.






36. Judge's explanation to the jury before it begins deliberations of the questions it must answer and the applicable law governing the case. Also called charge.






37. Sexual intercourse between persons so closely related that marriage between them would be unlawful.






38. To confine in jail.






39. A judgment of the court that explains what the existing law is or expresses the opinion of the court without the need for enforcement.






40. 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.






41. The testimony of witnesses who know the general character and reputation of a person in the community in which he or she lives.






42. Judicial officer having strictly limited jurisdiction exercising some of the functions of a judge.






43. Fatherhood.






44. To place a paper in the official custody of the clerk of court to enter into the files or records of a case.






45. A federal or state public building or other place for the confinement of persons. It is used as either a punishment imposed by the law or otherwise in the course of the administration of justice






46. Specific factors that define a crime which the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt in order to obtain a conviction. The elements that must be proven are 1) that a crime has actually occurred - 2) the accused intended the crime to happen






47. The right to challenge a juror without assigning a reason for the challenge.






48. Evidence not sufficiently related to the matter in issue.






49. The lack of power or the legal ability to act.






50. A rule of law that courts and judges shall draw a particular inference from a particular fact - or from particular evidence.