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Police Legal Vocab
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1. Final appeallate jurisdiction in penalty cases
2nd Amendment
nightstick
Garishment
Court of Criminal Appeals
2. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of a traffic control device thats on the side of the road?
extradition
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
Truck tractor
30ft
3. The legal process by which real estate of a private owner is taken for public use without his/her consent - but upon the award and payment of just compensation
15ft
5th Amendment
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
condemnation
4. The questioning of witnesses in a trial or in the taking of a deposition by the party opposed to the one who produced the witness
cross examination
Chattel
due process
'Et Ux'
5. Land next to and even including a highway - if it is used for business purposes. Area described as being 600ft segment - has at least 300 ft of it along the highway set up for businesses
Motor carrier
Truck
Business district
Garishment
6. A friend of the court; one who interposes or volunteers information upon some matter of law
nolo contendere
14th Amendment
crime
amicus curiae
7. An accusation in writing found and presented by a grand jury - charging that a person therein named has done some act or been guilty of some omission which - by law - is a crime.
advancing prostitution
Safety Zone
indictment
expert evidence
8. A deadly weapon; a long - heavy club usually carried by a law enforcement officer.
embezzlement
nightstick
Truck tractor
burglary
9. A highway that has PREFENTIAL RIGHT OF WAY in an intersection
testimony
Through highway
best evidence
Bailee
10. Temporary seizure or setting aside of specific to wich a party to a suit has claim of ownership.
Freeway
Farm Tractor
Conservator Of Peace
Sequestration
11. To stand an occupied or unoccupied vehicle other than while loading or unloading
interrogatories
2nd Amendment
4th Amendment trial
Park or parking
12. To release a person arrested or imprisoned - on security being taken - for his/her appearance in court on a specified day and place.
bail
Freeway
cross examination
instruction
13. Person who swears to an affidavit or statement
Dispose or dump
Affiant
'Ex Rel'
Limitation
14. An obligation signed by the accused - with his/her sureties - to secure his/her presence in court
bail bond
Libel
mandamus
Commitment
15. This phrase - endorsed by a grand jury on an indictment - is equivalent to 'not found' or 'not a true bill'. It means that - in the opinion of the jury - evidence was insufficient to warrant the return of a formal charge.
opinion evidence
adjudication
no bill
Improved shoulder
16. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of a fire hydrate?
burglary
15ft
Class 'A' dl
noxious substance
17. A method of defamation expressed by print - writing - pictures - or signs. In its most general sense - any publication that is injurious to the reputation of another.
Jurisdiction Of County Courts
Libel
felony
opinion evidence
18. An article of personal property as distinguished from from real property.
5th Amendment
Race
Nighttime
Chattel
19. Common Ancesry and physical characteristics
Race
Licencse Ineligibility
'Et Al'
state's evidence
20. Motor vehicle - primarily designed to transport property.
principles
6th Amendment
Truck
default
21. A court attendant whose duties are to keep order in the courtroom and to have custody of the jury
power of attorney
Litter
Statute
bailiff
22. Portion of a street that is in between the edge of the road and adjacent property line.
synergism
power of attorney
misfeasance
Sidewalk
23. Place any type of litter on or in land/water
Safety Zone
Dispose or dump
Right of way
verdict
24. Citizens of each state are also - citizens of the U.S. state governments must adhere to the U.S. Constitution.
14th Amendment
Bicycle
School crossing zone
deposition
25. 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.
Injuction
Return
change of venue
Bailee
26. A proceeding whereby one party to an action may be informed as to facts known by other parties or witnesses
discovery
bind over
probable cause
Litter
27. And the following one or ones.
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28. Written or Oral application for a ruling or order from the court.
Motion
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
best evidence
6th amendment
29. Powers not identified belong to the states.
1st Amendment trial
Pleadings
Habitual criminal
10th Amendment
30. Original jurisdiction of all misdemeanors of which exclusive original jurisdiction is not given to teh justice court - and shall not exceed $500.
Injuction
School crossing zone
fence
Jurisdiction Of County Courts
31. Operate a vehicle with G.V.W.are of 26 -001 or more - Combo of vehicles 26 -001 or more towing more than 10000
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32. Where an offense cannot be accomplished without necessarily committing another offense - the latter is a necessarily included offense. For example - every battery includes an assault. Murder includes manslaughter.
prosecutor
School crossing zone
'Et Al'
necessarily included offenses
33. A preportory stage to a riot. A rout is necessary for a riot to occur. When a lawful assembly begins to move towards the execution of an unlawful propose - but before any acts of violence or disorder occur - a rout has been committed.
School Crossing guard
'In Rem'
3rd Amendment
rout
34. An action Which may be brought for the purpose of restraining the threatened infliction of wrongs or personal injuries and the prevention of threatened illegal action
15ft
prosecutor
Parties
equitable action
35. Common-law and constitutional prohibition against more than one prosecution of the same crime - transaction - or omission
preponderance of evidence
best evidence
Traffic
double jeopardy
36. A pleading usually used by defendants in criminal cases - which literally means 'I will not contest it'.
nolo contendere
robbery
Conservator Of Peace
Bus
37. The persons who are actively concerned in the prosecution or defense of a legal proceeding.
motive
Parties
Class 'A' dl
Freeway
38. Roadway that is divided into at least 2 clearly marked lanes.
Official traffic control device
1st amendment
verdict
Laned roadway
39. Offense that is an intentional or knowing violation of a law committed by a public servant while acting in an official capacity as a public servant.
Writ of possesion
Race
Official Misconduct
30ft
40. A suitor who - on account of poverty - is allowed to sue or defend without being chargable with cost
bail bond
Indigent/Pauper
mandamus
accomplice
41. A 'default' in an action of law occurs when a defendant fails to plead within the time allowed or fails to appear at the trial
domicile
Conservator Of Peace
default
Default Judgement
42. 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
Park or parking
nightstick
expunge
43. An obligation - before a court - to do a specific thing or incur a penalty of some kind; in lieu of bond - one is entrusted to appear before the court at a later date.
recognizance
School crossing zone
Truck tractor
cross examination
44. Unlawfully obtaining property from another by threat. the threat - regardless of its nature must induce an 'oppressive condition or circumstance;' e.g. - threatening to inflict injury - or to accuse - or to expose a secret that tends to subject a per
Parties
extortion - theft by
Obscene
misfeasance
45. The predominate appeal of the matter taken as a whole is to a prurient interest in sexual conduct involving minors.
'Et Seq'
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
plaintiff
Obscene
46. It is recognized as an extension of the sidewalk and doesnt have to be marked on the roadway to be considered lawful.
writ
Crosswalk
Safety Zone
Ethnicity
47. Is an affimative defense
Motor carrier
Mistake of law
expert evidence
20ft
48. Divided - controlled access highway
Petition
Freeway
crime
double jeopardy
49. The change of a punishment from a greater degree to a lesser degree - as from death to life imprisonment
1st Amendment trial
parole
Ethnicity
commutation
50. An instrument authorizing another to act as one's agent or attorney.
Residence district
necessarily included offenses
Chattel
power of attorney