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Paralegal 101

Subject : law
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1. A court's power to hear only specialized cases.






2. Including more than one count in a complaint; the counts do not need to be consistent.






3. Also known as real estate; land and items growing on or permanently attached to that land.






4. Not factually true - but accepted by the courts as being legally true.






5. The background documents created during the process of a bill becoming a statute. These documents can include alternative versions of the legislation - proceedings of committee hearings and reports - and transcripts of floor debates.






6. An opinion in which a majority of the court joins.






7. An authoritative secondary source - written by a group of legal scholars - summarizing the existing common law - as well as suggesting what the law should be.






8. When the defendant does not have sufficient money or other assets to pay the judgment.






9. When nonlawyers do things that only lawyers are allowed to do. In most states this is a crime.






10. In a case brief - the general legal principle in existence before the case began.






11. An online legal databease containing court decisions and statutes from the entire country - as well as secondary authority; a competitor to Lexis.






12. Federal and state rules that govern the admissibility of evidence in court.






13. The result reached in a particular case.






14. A defendant's plea meaning that the defendant neither admits nor denies the charges.






15. A motion brought before the beginning of a trial either to eliminate the necessity for a trial or to limit the information that can be heard at the trial.






16. A tangible object or a right or ownership interest.






17. A rule that states that evidence obtained in violation of an individual's constitutional rights cannot be used against that individual in a criminal trial.






18. When a person must be brought into a lawsuit as either a plaintiff or a defendant.






19. A national association of paralegal associations.






20. A transfer of real property rights that occurs after someone other than the owner has had actual - open - adverse - and exclusive use of the property for a statutorily determined number of years.






21. In logic - an argument is considered to be valid or sound if the assumption underlying the argument are true.






22. The reference to a particular page within an opinion.






23. When more than one court has jurisdiction to hear a case.






24. Cases that involve similar facts and rules of law.






25. A statute enacted to correct a defect in prior law or to provide a remedy where none existed.






26. The requirement in a legal malpractice case that the plaintiff-client prove that but for the attorney's negligence - the client would have won.






27. Intangible assets - such as trade secrets - copyrights - patents - and trade or service marks.






28. A system of government in which the authority to govern is split between a single - nationwide central government and several regional governments that control specific geographical areas.






29. A computer program that allows the user to retrieve web documents that match the key words entered by the searcher.






30. A claim that based on the law and the facts is sufficient to support a lawsuit. If the plaintiff does not state a valid cause of action in the complaint - the court will dismiss it.






31. The law that sets the length of time from when something happens to when a lawsuit must be filed before the right to bring it is lost.






32. Usually organized as either a partnership or a professional corporation - law clinics provide low-cost legal services on routine matters by stressing low overhead and high volume.






33. The standard of proof used in some civil trials. The evidence presented must be greater than a preponderance of the evidence but less than beyond a reasonable doubt.






34. Books that contain appellate court decisions. There are both official and unofficial reporters.






35. A method adopted by the federal rules in which the plaintiff simply informs the defendant of the claim and the general basis for it.






36. How subsequent cases have affected the case you are Shepardizing. It is sometimes indicated by a one-letter abbreviation before the Shepard's citation.






37. Information that tells the reader the name of the case - where it can be located - the court that decided it - and the year it was decided. The Bluebook gives precise rules as to how case citations are to be written.






38. A decision is overruled when a court in a later case changes the law that the decision in the earlier case is no longer good law.






39. A defense requiring proof that force or a threat of force was used to cause a person to commit a criminal act.






40. A pamphlet inserted into the back of a book containing information new since the volume was published.






41. A computer search that identifies every place in which the search term appears in the actual text of the document being searched.






42. A notice informing the defendant of the lawsuit and requiring the defendant to respond or risk losing the suit.






43. A court order authorizing a sheriff to take property in order to enforce a judgment.






44. Ownership by two or more people. Ownership shares do not have to be equal - but each has an undivided interest in the property. When a tenant in common dies - that person's share passes either by will or by intestate statute.






45. Generally - an emergency situation that allows a search to proceed without a warrant.






46. Located in most codified statutes - this table lists statutes by their popular names along with their citations.






47. A statutory citation is a formalized method for referring to a statute's chapter (or title) and section numbers.






48. A court's power to hear any type of case arising within its geographical area.






49. A witness who has not been shown to have any special expertise.






50. An examination of a prospective juror to see if he or she is fit to serve as a juror on a specific case.






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