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Police Legal Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. When an attorney works for client for no fee.
Right of way
Court of Criminal Appeals
Pro Bono
dactyloscopy
2. Intent to commit an unlawful act or cause harm without legal justification or excuse.
extradition
1st Amendment trial
Limitation
malice
3. Operate a vehicle with G.V.W.are of 26 -001 or more - Combo of vehicles 26 -001 or more towing more than 10000
4. Motor vehicle - primarily designed to transport property.
crime
certiorari
Truck
bail bond
5. One of the lanes on the freeway
Urban district
1st Amendment trial
Freeway main lane
1st amendment
6. A mandatory or prohibitive writ issued by a court.
injunction
9th Amendment
nolo contendere
5th Amendment Trial
7. The protection of one's person or property against some injury attempted by another. The law of 'self-defense' justifies an act done in the reasonable belief of immediate danger. When acting in justifiable self-defense - a person may not be punished
no bill
self-defense
5th Amendment
decree
8. No force quarterly of soldiers - permitted only in war time and in accordance with the law.
1st amendment
3rd Amendment
brief
Limitation
9. Motor vehicle or a combination of - hat is used to haul people or property - that -Has gross combination weight rating of 26 -001 or more - including towed unit with G.V.W.are of more than 10000 pounds - Can haul 16 or more passengerss - (including d
cause
cross examination
Commercial Motor vehicle
advancing prostitution
10. The practical application of the scientific study of fingerprint comparisons and the classification of prints
dactyloscopy
Roadway
Limitation
Sidewalk
11. An intentional perversion of truth; deceitful practice or device resorted to with intent to deprive another of property or other right - or in some manner to do him/her injury.
Fraud
'Prima Face'
venue
Frisk
12. Any motor vehicle accident occurring entirely at a place other than on a highway.
Jurisdiction Of County Courts
'Ex Rel'
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
extortion - theft by
13. Portion of a street that is in between the edge of the road and adjacent property line.
30ft
10th Amendment
self-defense
Sidewalk
14. Vehicle with or withour power - designes to be drwan and to transport persons or property: Constructed so that NO PART OF ITS WEIGHT AND LOAD RESTS ON THE MOTOR VEHICLE.
Trailer
Motor carrier
discovery
accomplice
15. The removal of a suit begun in one county or district to another for trial or from one court to another in the same county or district
School Crossing guard
incompetent evidence
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
change of venue
16. Persons -Houses - papers - and effects from unreasonable searches and seizure - NO WARRANTS EXCEPT UPON PROBABLE CAUSE
Sequestration
corroboration evidence
Bicycle
4th Amendment
17. A 'person' that direct the operation of one or more vehicles that haul people or cargo.
accessory
Motor carrier
battery
incompetent evidence
18. A motor vehicle used primarily as a farm implement.
Truck tractor
Sequestration
rout
Farm Tractor
19. A pleading usually used by defendants in criminal cases - which literally means 'I will not contest it'.
Default Judgement
motive
School crossing zone
nolo contendere
20. Land next to and including the highway if - It's NOT IN A MUNICIPALITY AND It has HOMES OR BUSINESSES on it at intervals of less than 100ft - for at least a quarter mile
Inventory
5th Amendment
Urban district
Open fields
21. A highway that has PREFENTIAL RIGHT OF WAY in an intersection
Open fields
power of attorney
Through highway
Obscene
22. Oral or written statements made to the court presenting the claims and defenses of the parites
Race
Sidewalk
Pleadings
Class 'B' dl
23. An article of personal property as distinguished from from real property.
Chattel
1st Amendment trial
Safety Zone
Nighttime
24. Evidence supplementary to that already given and tending to strengthen or confirm it
Residence district
negligence
Default Judgement
corroboration evidence
25. RIGHT TO BE INDICTED BY A GRAND JURY - Notice of charges - Double jeopardy - Self Incrimination - Due Process - Reasonable reimbursement for property
5th Amendment
condemnation
Inadmissible
Business district
26. A public offense or wrong that is forbidden by law
Safety Zone
Sequestration
crime
voir dire
27. Commands the person to whom it is directed to desist or refrain from the commision or continuance of the act enjoined or to obey and execute such order as the court has seen proper to issue.
Sequestration
Indigent/Pauper
Injuction
5th Amendment Trial
28. The change of a punishment from a greater degree to a lesser degree - as from death to life imprisonment
necessarily included offenses
Shoulder
synergism
commutation
29. Can be issued by a clerk of the court
School crossing zone
3rd Amendment
Capias
20ft
30. Written or Oral application for a ruling or order from the court.
peremptory challenge
Motion
School Crossing guard
Sequestration
31. The act of physically destroying files - records - or information; for example - upon judicial order
crime
assault
Petition
expunge
32. Evidence sufficient to convince the triers of fact that the party who has the burden of doing so has established its cause
Motor carrier
fair preponderance
opinion evidence
Levy
33. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of a fire hydrate?
Urban district
15ft
'Ex Rel'
felony
34. In Re Gault
Roadway
demur
6th Amendment trial
change of venue
35. Proceedings held to determine wheter a person has violated a lawful court order and to set punishment if viloation is found.
extradition
extortion - theft by
extenuation circumstances
Contempt
36. A legislative enactment by a municipality (e.g.' local curfew - parking violations); a local law as opposed to a state statute.
Return
Freeway main lane
ordinance
Freeway
37. To file a pleading (called a demurrer) admitting the truth of the facts in the complaint or answer - but contending
prosecutor
Farm Tractor
nightstick
demur
38. The assertion - declaration - or statement of a party to an action - made in a pleading - setting out what he/she expects to prove
allegation
Injuction
Motor Vehicle Searches
Writ of possesion
39. And wife. The phrase was formely common in case names and legal documents invovling a husband and wife jointly.
40. To hold on bail for trial
dactyloscopy
burglary
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
bind over
41. Document filed by the plantiff with the clerk of the court that outlines the basis of the complaint - against the defendant.
Writ of possesion
Pleadings
Garishment
Petition
42. Unoccupied -Undeveloped -Uncultivated
Open fields
discovery
Bailee
6th Amendment trial
43. Decayable waste (animal/vegetable) - Non-decayable/solid waste that consist of boxes -rubber - plastic - metal - etc.
Capias
14th Amendment
prosecutor
Litter
44. From 1/2 hour before sunrise - to 1/2 hour after sunset
power of attorney
equitable action
Daytime
Litter
45. Giving or pronouncing a judgment or decree; also the judgment given.
parole
4th Amendment
2nd Amendment
adjudication
46. Original jurisdiction of all misdemeanors of which exclusive original jurisdiction is not given to teh justice court - and shall not exceed $500.
allegation
6th Amendment trial
Jurisdiction Of County Courts
Return
47. A court attendant whose duties are to keep order in the courtroom and to have custody of the jury
bailiff
Commitment
expunge
Class 'A' dl
48. The release of a person from a penal institution prior to expiration of the maximum period of imprisonment; a conditional release from prison subject to return upon violation.
Nighttime
parole
School crossing zone
domicile
49. Human power that has 2 wheel. It has to have at lease one wheel tat is a min. of 14' in.
Bicycle
Truck
venue
corroboration evidence
50. Tenn v. Garner
chambers
Affiant
Class 'B' dl
4th Amendment trial