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Paralegal 101

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






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






3. The application of legal rules to a client's specific factual situation; also known as legal analysis.






4. A decision is reversed when an appellate court overturns or negates the decision of a lower court.






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






6. The power of a court to hear a case.






7. The process of properly identifying and authenticating evidence so that it can be introduced.






8. The intermediate appellate courts in the federal system.






9. The process of organizing statutes by subject matter.






10. The judge informs the jurors of the law they need to know to make their decision.






11. A trial court error that is not sufficient to warrant reversing the decision.






12. The result reached in a particular case.






13. 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.






14. The power of the federal courts to hear matters of federal law.






15. 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.






16. Defendant's reply to the complaint. It may contain statements of denial - admission - or lack of knowledge and affirmative defenses.






17. A business run by two or more persons as co-owners.






18. An activity that requires professional judgment - or the educational ability to relate law to a specific legal problem.






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






20. Rules and regulations created by administrative agencies.






21. A separable part of a statute that must be satisfied for the statute to apply.






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






23. Determined by whether the evidence leads one to logically conclude that an asserted fact is either more or less probable.






24. When a higher court agrees with what lower court has done.






25. 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.






26. The tenant's right to be free from interference from the landlord with respect to how the property is used.






27. Law dealing with ownership.






28. Consists of the description of events that a witness testifies to under oath in a legal proceeding.






29. A national association of paralegal associations.






30. A term used to describe a case that is similar to another case.






31. A request that the court order that certain information not be mentioned in the presence of the jury.






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






33. In a case brief - the court's answer to the issue presented to it; the new legal principle established by a court opinion.






34. The purpose of the legislature at the time it enacted the statute.






35. Part of the Model Penal Code; a test that provides that the defendant is not guilty due to insanity if - at the time of the killing - the defendant lacked either the ability to understand that the act was wrong or the ability to control the behavior.






36. 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.






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






38. A judicial philosophy that supports a limited role for the judiciary in changing the law - including deference to the legislative branch.






39. A constitutional protection against being tried twice for the same crime.






40. A trial conducted without a jury.






41. A defendant's personal promise to appear in court.






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






43. Law that deals with harm to society as a whole.






44. Used to describe legislation that changes the common law.






45. A provision that purports to waive liability.






46. Proof that the evidence is what it is said to be.






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






48. An introductory paragraph listing issues to be discussed in the order they are to be discussed.






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






50. A reason for invalidating a statute where a reasonable person could not determine a statute's meaning.







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