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Police Legal Vocab
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1. Anyone under 15 Y.O.A - Anyone under 18 Y.O.A unless they comply with driver education training - Anyone proven to be addicted to certain substances.
'Prima Face'
Licencse Ineligibility
assault
8th Amendment
2. Manaul - electric - or mechanical device that directs traffic to stop and to proceed.
Traffic control signal
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
decree
Default Judgement
3. 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.
testimony
peremptory challenge
Habitual criminal
Libel
4. Steet not primarily used for hrought traffic - that provides access to building or lots
Alley
Nighttime
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
corroboration evidence
5. A written or printed document prepared by counsel to file in court - usually setting forth both facts and law in support of the case
Farm Tractor
rout
brief
plaintiff
6. Rights not mention retained by people
Alias Citation
9th Amendment
Flashing yellow light
allegation
7. The general class or type of property taken or the reason why the offense was committed. In crimes where property is taken - the motive will be the type of property taken. The specific type of property which the thief desired to acquire might include
polygraph
motive
3rd Amendment
best evidence
8. That which - under the established rules of evidence - cannot be admitted or received into a court of law.
cause
Flammable liquid
Licencse Ineligibility
Inadmissible
9. Oral or written statements made to the court presenting the claims and defenses of the parites
5th Amendment Trial
Pleadings
venue
Business district
10. Can be pedestrians - ridden or herded animals or vehicles.
Writ of possesion
Traffic
30ft
discovery
11. Any substance capable of generating offensive - noxious - or suffocating fumes - gasses - or vapors.
noxious substance
testimony
Highway or street
Malfeasance
12. Probable cause to search vehicle (Carroll v. U.S)
Motor Vehicle Searches
chambers
Pleadings
Jurisdiction Of County Courts
13. Portion of a highway next to the roadway - which is distinguished by design - consruction - or marking - Area not Intended for vehicle travel.
Ethnicity
Shoulder
mandamus
cross examination
14. Portion of a street that is in between the edge of the road and adjacent property line.
Sidewalk
false arrest
certiorari
Limitation
15. Written or Oral application for a ruling or order from the court.
Motion
Freeway
expert evidence
arraignment
16. RIGHT TO BE INDICTED BY A GRAND JURY - Notice of charges - Double jeopardy - Self Incrimination - Due Process - Reasonable reimbursement for property
1st amendment
Commercial Motor vehicle
prosecutor
5th Amendment
17. One of the lanes on the freeway
Mistake of law
School crossing zone
Freeway main lane
parole
18. Reduced speed zone to facilitate children going to and from school.
decree
double jeopardy
School crossing zone
Limitation
19. Private office or room of a judge
chambers
double jeopardy
'Et Ux'
Alias Citation
20. A legal document (process) signed by a judicial officer commanding a witness to appear and testify at a specific time and place
School crossing zone
subpoena
Litter
bind over
21. By or on the relation of.
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22. To hold on bail for trial
30ft
Malfeasance
subpoena
bind over
23. Reasonable grounds for supposing that a criminal charge is well-founded.
probable cause
dactyloscopy
certiorari
Safety Zone
24. An instrument used to record variations of several different body pulsations. The courts have not as yet agreed that the scientific principles of the polygraph - commonly called the lie detector - has crossed the line between the experimental and the
polygraph
Capias
'Et Al'
mistrial
25. Allows a landlord who prevails in an eviction suit to regain possession of the premises that were in dispute.
writ of possesion (Eviction)
Freeway
dissent
forgery
26. To release a person arrested or imprisoned - on security being taken - for his/her appearance in court on a specified day and place.
expunge
Obscene
bail
Open fields
27. To stand an occupied or unoccupied vehicle other than while loading or unloading
Park or parking
crime
accomplice
4th Amendment trial
28. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of a traffic control device thats on the side of the road?
Special mobile equipment
30ft
recognizance
Statute
29. An obligation signed by the accused - with his/her sureties - to secure his/her presence in court
Sequestration
Special mobile equipment
bail bond
Malfeasance
30. A. Served by an sheriff or constable B. Directs defendant to deliver possession of certain property to the officer - who the delivers the property to the person the court has directed.
bailiff
embezzlement
Highway or street
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
31. 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.
nightstick
Motor carrier
indictment
8th Amendment
32. The name of a writ which issues from a court of superior jurisdiction - directed to an inferior court - commanding the performance of a particular act.
mandamus
accessory
malice
1st Amendment trial
33. The false making or material altering - with intent to defraud - of any writing which - if genuine - might be the foundation of a legal liability
forgery
injunction
Mistake of law
'Et Al'
34. Citizens of each state are also - citizens of the U.S. state governments must adhere to the U.S. Constitution.
no bill
Motor Vehicle Searches
felony
14th Amendment
35. Is an affimative defense
Alley
arraignment
Mistake of law
dissent
36. The introduction of rebutting evidence; the showing that the statements of witnesses as to what occurred are not true; the stage of trial at which such evidence may be introduced.
synergism
Official Misconduct
burglary
rebuttal
37. Area between the boundary lines/ right of way lines of a publicly maintained way - which is open to vehicular travel.
deposition
8th Amendment
demur
Highway or street
38. Person who swears to an affidavit or statement
Affiant
expert evidence
double jeopardy
accessory
39. From 1/2 hour before sunrise - to 1/2 hour after sunset
'Ex Rel'
Inventory
Daytime
Obscene
40. The assertion - declaration - or statement of a party to an action - made in a pleading - setting out what he/she expects to prove
allegation
state's evidence
motive
Improved shoulder
41. Motor vehicle - primarily designed to transport property.
8th Amendment
Truck
Conservator Of Peace
synergism
42. Temporary seizure or setting aside of specific to wich a party to a suit has claim of ownership.
6th Amendment
Improved shoulder
Flashing yellow light
Sequestration
43. A direction given by the judge to the jury concerning the law of the case.
necessarily included offenses
instruction
fair preponderance
Frisk
44. An instrument authorizing another to act as one's agent or attorney.
venue
Garishment
power of attorney
Class 'B' dl
45. A term commonly used to denote the disagreement of one or more judges of a court with the decision of the majority
bind over
dissent
amicus curiae
Class 'A' dl
46. Area in roadway designaaed for exclusive pedestrian use. Mus have signage or markings
Safety Zone
verdict
feigned accomplice
search warrant
47. A Person who recieves personal property from another as a bailment.
Bailee
condemnation
mandamus
Trailer
48. No force quarterly of soldiers - permitted only in war time and in accordance with the law.
Court of Criminal Appeals
Capias
bailiff
3rd Amendment
49. Endorsement by an officer upon a process stating what - where - when - why - how - and whom service and compliance of the commands within the process were made.
Race
Return
Frisk
5th Amendment Trial
50. It is recognized as an extension of the sidewalk and doesnt have to be marked on the roadway to be considered lawful.
Conservator Of Peace
Crosswalk
burglary
Daytime
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