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Law Vocab
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1. A crime of a more serious nature than a misdemeanor - usually punishable by imprisonment in a penitentiary for more than a year and/or substantial fines.
BAR
PRISON
FELONY
IMPEACHMENT OF WITNESS
2. The rights of a person guaranteed by the state or federal constitutions.
RIGHTS - CONSTITUTIONAL
JUDICIAL NOTICE
COURTROOM
SENTENCE - SUSPENDED
3. Generally - a tax on the privilege of transferring property to others after a person's death. In addition to federal estate taxes - many states have their own estate taxes.
FORFEIT
IMPLIED CONTRACT
ESTATE TAX
GLUE SNIFFING
4. The legal process by which the government takes private land for public use - paying the owners a fair price. See EMINENT DOMAIN.
PREJUDICE
MEMORIALIZED
CONDEMNATION
DECLARATORY JUDGMENT
5. Any unlawful physical restraint of another's personal liberty - whether or not carried out by a peace officer.
SENTENCE
ABSTRACT OF TITLE
HEARING - PRELIMINARY
FALSE ARREST
6. 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.
JURY COMMISSIONER
BOOKMAKING
BANKRUPT
CIVIL CASE
7. The lack of power or the legal ability to act.
INITIAL APPEARANCE
OFFENDER
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE
INCAPACITY
8. A previously decided case that guides the decision of future cases.
SHERIFF
ALLOCUTION
PRECEDENT
DECREE
9. 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.
FRAUD
SENTENCE
IMPANEL
PROBATE COURT
10. 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.
DISTURBING THE PEACE
INTERLOCUTORY
DOMICILE
LIMITED JURISDICTION
11. To make greater in value - to increase.
ENHANCE
PROBATION
SERVE A SENTENCE
ADMONISH
12. False and defamatory spoken words tending to harm another's reputation - community standing - office - trade - business - or means of livelihood.
OPENING ARGUMENT
SLANDER
SETTLOR
BAIL
13. A form of executive clemency preventing criminal prosecution or removing or extinguishing a criminal conviction.
INTESTATE
PARDON
PRELIMINARY HEARING
IMPANEL
14. 1. An act of omission or commission in violation of law which carries criminal consequences. 2. Criminal activity in general relating to a specific time or place.
SELF-INCRIMINATION
LIVING TRUST
CRIME
POSSESSION OF DRUGS
15. Placing a convicted defendant on conditional probation - the successful completion of which will prevent entry of the underlying judgment of conviction
REMEDY
CITATION
ATTEMPT
PROBATION BEFORE JUDGMENT (PBJ)
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.
PREJUDICIAL EVIDENCE
FIFTH AMENDMENT
ACCESSORY
REPORT
17. A person who aids or contributes in the commission of a crime.
ADMISSIBLE
ACCESSORY
IMPANEL
OBJECTION
18. Any behavior - contrary to law - which disturbs the public peace or decorum - scandalizes the community - or shocks the public sense of morality.
PROBATION
REDRESS
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
BANKRUPT
19. A murder committed during the commission of a felony such as robbery - burglary - or kidnapping.
FELONY MURDER
IRREVOCABLE TRUST
ELEMENTS OF A CRIME
HEARSAY
20. An attorney appointed by a court or employed by a government agency whose work consists primarily of defending people who are unable to hire a lawyer due to economic reasons.
EXTRADITION
PLAINTIFF
ACCESSORY
PUBLIC DEFENDER
21. A government grant giving an inventor the exclusive right to make or sell his or her invention for a term of years.
ACCUSED
DIVORCE
PATENT
AGGRAVATED BATTERY
22. A rule or order prescribed for management or government.
ACCUSED
REGULATION
EQUITY
CLEMENCY OR EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY
23. A crime - such as a felony - misdemeanor - or other punishable unlawful act.
CERTIFIED
LETTERS TESTAMENTARY
OFFENSE
CONSERVATORSHIP
24. Responsible for a delinquency - crime - or other offense; not innocent.
DISMISS
GUILTY
MISTRIAL
PROBATION OFFICER
25. To unite - to combine - to enter into an alliance.
FRAUD
ASSAULT - AGGRAVATED
JOIN
CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES
26. Circumstances which render a crime less aggravated - heinous - or reprehensible than it would otherwise be.
DIVERSION
RAPE
EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES
EQUITABLE ACTION
27. 1. A real or seeming incompatibility between one's private interests and one's public or fiduciary duties. 2. A real or seeming incompatibility between the interests of two of a lawyer's clients - such that the lawyer is disqualified from representin
SECURED DEBT
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
LIBEL
BOOKMAKING
28. One not trained in law.
APPEAL
LAY PERSON
ASSISTANT STATE'S ATTORNEY
HIT AND RUN
29. The purpose to use a particular means to bring about a certain result.
INTENT
AFFIRMED
ADOPTION
BEQUESTS
30. A will entirely written - dated - and signed by the testator in his/her own handwriting.
HOLOGRAPHIC WILL
ANSWER
PLEA
ELEMENTS OF A CRIME
31. The willful taking and concealing of merchandise from a store or business establishment with the intention of using the goods for one's personal use without paying the purchase price.
HOLDING CELL
EN BANC
SHOPLIFTING
INTESTATE SUCCESSION
32. The party against whom an appeal is taken. Sometimes called a respondent.
OFFENSE
APPELLEE
DISSOLUTION
APPELLANT
33. Generally - justice or fairness.
RELINQUISHMENT
PEOPLE (PROSECUTION)
EQUITY
JURY FOREMAN
34. A remedy requiring a person who has breached a contract to perform specifically what he or she has agreed to do. Specific performance is ordered when damages would be inadequate compensation.
SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE
RULE OF COURT
ILLEGAL
PLEA BARGAIN
35. A final settlement or determination. The court decision terminating proceedings in a case before judgment.
FALSE ARREST
DISPOSITION
COMMIT
ORDER - COURT
36. An order issued by a judge for the arrest of a person.
ENHANCE
BENCH WARRANT
DEPRIVATION OF CUSTODY
REPLEVIN
37. A contract in which the promise made by the obligor is not expressed - but inferred by one's conduct or implied in law.
IMPLIED CONTRACT
SERVICE
INTESTATE SUCCESSION
COMMUTATION
38. Punishment by death for capital crimes. Death penalty.
EVICTION
NOMINAL PARTY
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
INTERLOCUTORY
39. A legal proceeding in which a debtor's money - in the possession of another (the garnishee) - is applied to the debts of the debtor - such as when an employer garnishes a debtor's wages.
PROBATION DEPARTMENT
SEPARATE MAINTENANCE
PRIVITY
GARNISHMENT
40. 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.
GUARDIAN
INFORMATION
INDEMNIFY
DEMURRER
41. Allowance ordered to be paid by one spouse to the other for support while the spouses are living apart but not divorced.
REVERSIBLE ERROR
MISTRIAL
SEPARATE MAINTENANCE
RESTRAINING ORDER
42. 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
COURT - TRAFFIC
PRELIMINARY HEARING
HARMLESS ERROR
43. Evidence which might unfairly sway the judge or jury to one side or the other.
PREJUDICIAL EVIDENCE
CHARACTER EVIDENCE
RECIDIVISM
MEDIATION
44. The formal statement before the court that the accused admits committing the criminal act.
SEALING
ENTER A GUILTY PLEA
AGREEMENT
JUDGMENT
45. The questioning of a witness produced by the other side.
POUR-OVER WILL
ARGUMENT
CROSS-EXAMINATION
RETURN
46. An amendment to a will.
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47. 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.
EQUITY
LIE DETECTOR
ANNOTATION
ADOPTION
48. Among other matters - the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from depriving any person of life - liberty - or property without adequate due process .
SEQUESTRATION OF WITNESSES
PRIVITY
BEST EVIDENCE
FOURTH AMENDMENT
49. Formal conclusion by a judge or jury on issues of fact.
DOCKET NUMBER
BODY ATTACHMENT
FINDING
CIVIL ACTION
50. The quality in a witness which makes his or her testimony believable.
CREDIBILITY
CALENDAR
MALICIOUS PROSECUTION
ARBITRATION