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Paralegal 101

Subject : law
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1. 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.






2. A decision is reversed when the litigants appeal the trial court decision and the higher court disagrees with the decision of a lower court.






3. A national association of paralegal associations.






4. Occurs when the police restrain a person's freedom and charge the person with a crime.






5. A determination that an attorney may not practice law for a set period of time.






6. A process whereby the prosecutor and the defendant's attorney agree for the defendant to plead guilty in exchange for the prosecutor's promise to charge him or her with a lesser offense - drop some additional charges - or request a lesser sentence.






7. A defense whereby the defendant offers new evidence to avoid judgment.






8. In a lawsuit the person who is sued; in a criminal case the person who is being charged with a crime.






9. A term used to describe two cases that are almost identical - with similar facts and legal issues.






10. Relates to the ability of a witness to testify; generally - the witness must be capable of being understood by the jury; must understand the duty to tell the truth; and if a lay witness - must give testimony based on personal knowledge.






11. A compilation of federal or state statutes in which the statutes are organized by subject matter rather than by year of enactment.






12. A tort committed by one who intends to do the act that creates the harm.






13. The pleading that begins a lawsuit.






14. An agreement supported by consideration.






15. A court's power to review statutes to decide if they conform to the federal or a state constitution.






16. The defense's request that the court find the prosecution failed to meet its burden and that it remove the case from the jury by finding the defendant not guilty.






17. In a case brief - facts that relate to what happened procedurally in the lower courts or administrative agencies before the case reached the court issuing the opinion.






18. The process of organizing statutes by subject matter.






19. A requirement that a party fulfill his or her contractual obligations.






20. Broad questions that put few limits on the freedom of the respondent.






21. The doctrine stating that normally once a court has decided one way on a particular issue - it and other courts in the same jurisdiction will decide the same way on that issue in future cases given similar facts unless they can be convinced of the ne






22. The person who is being asked questions at a deposition.






23. A professional entity in which the stockholders share in the organization's profits but have their liabilities limited to the amount of their investment.






24. An opinion that agrees with the majority's result but disagrees with its reasoning.






25. A method for measuring the relative negligence of the plaintiff and the defendant - with a commensurate sharing of the compensation for the injuries.






26. In a case brief - facts that deal with what happened to the parties before the litigation began.






27. Not susceptible to a precise definition; a belief based on specific facts that a crime has been or is about to be committed; more than a reasonable suspicion.






28. In a complaint - one cause of action.






29. Establishes a direct link to the event that must be proven.






30. The process after arrest that includes taking the defendant's personal information - giving the defendant an opportunity to read and sign a Miranda card - and allowing the defendant the opportunity to use a telephone.






31. An online legal database containing court decisions and statutes from the entire country - as well as secondary authority; a competitor to Westlaw.






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






33. The result reached in a particular case.






34. A nonbinding process in which attorneys for both sides present synopses of their cases to a jury - which renders an advisory opinion on the basis of these presentations.






35. Someone in court testifying to what someone said out of court for the purpose of establishing the truth of what was said.






36. The intermediate appellate courts in the federal system.






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






38. A warrant that allows the police to enter without announcing their presence in advance.






39. Consists of records - contracts - leases - wills - and other written instruments.






40. Governmental publication of court opinions.






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






42. Information about what happened procedurally to the litigation after the case cited. Include this information in a citation. There is no entry for the topic Husband and Wife.






43. 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.






44. The right of the police to detain an individual for a brief period of time and to search the outside of the person's clothing if the police have a reasonable suspicion that the individual has committed or is about to commit crime.






45. Money is awarded to a plaintiff in payment for his or her actual losses.






46. A test that provides that the defendant is not guilty due to insanity if - at the time of the killing - the defendant suffered from a defect or disease of the mind and could not understand whether the act was right or wrong.

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47. Either a subcategory of relevancy or simply another word for relevancy - the requirement that the evidence be more probative than prejudicial.






48. Questions relating to the interpretation or application of the law.






49. Evidence that is derived from an illegal search or interrogation is inadmissible.






50. A fee calculated as a percentage of the settlement or award in the case.