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Police Legal Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Can't stop - stand - or park within how many ft. of a fire hydrate?
mandamus
School crossing zone
15ft
Alley
2. Common-law and constitutional prohibition against more than one prosecution of the same crime - transaction - or omission
double jeopardy
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
Flashing yellow light
3rd Amendment
3. Citizens of each state are also - citizens of the U.S. state governments must adhere to the U.S. Constitution.
14th Amendment
best evidence
dactyloscopy
Garishment
4. The challenge which the prosecution or defense may use to reject a certain number of prospective jurors without assigning cause.
Mistake of law
double jeopardy
Flammable liquid
peremptory challenge
5. An order in writing - issued by a justice or magistrate - in the name of the state - directing an officer to search a specified house or other premise. Usually required as a condition before a legal search and seizure.
Gross combination weight rating
Libel
Jurisdiction Of County Courts
search warrant
6. A proceeding whereby one party to an action may be informed as to facts known by other parties or witnesses
Class 'B' dl
discovery
parole
Bus
7. An article of personal property as distinguished from from real property.
injunction
default
equitable action
Chattel
8. A Person who recieves personal property from another as a bailment.
Traffic
mistrial
Bailee
Indigent/Pauper
9. The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another
Licencse Ineligibility
Official traffic control device
fair preponderance
Right of way
10. Vehicle not designed to haul persons or property. O LESS THAN 40FT IN LENGTH.
rebuttal
Special mobile equipment
Pleadings
9th Amendment
11. 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
writ of possesion (Eviction)
principles
crime
Business district
12. By or on the relation of.
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13. Paved Shoulder
Frisk
prosecutor
'In Rem'
Improved shoulder
14. Motor vehicle - primarily designed to transport property.
Truck
Official Misconduct
Alley
Return
15. Manaul - electric - or mechanical device that directs traffic to stop and to proceed.
1st Amendment trial
Traffic control signal
arraignment
20ft
16. 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
Frisk
Flammable liquid
state's evidence
17. Written or Oral application for a ruling or order from the court.
Court of Criminal Appeals
Freeway main lane
Shoulder
Motion
18. In criminal practice - bringing a prisoner to the bar of the court to answer to a criminal charg
Capias
domicile
condemnation
arraignment
19. One who initiates the prosecution upon which an accused is arrested or who offers or presents an accusation against the party whom he/she suspects to be guilty; also - one who takes charge of a case and performs the functions of a trial lawyer for th
prosecutor
Exclusionary Rule
Mistake of law
6th Amendment
20. 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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21. One of the lanes on the freeway
20ft
Special mobile equipment
Safety Zone
Freeway main lane
22. Common Ancesry and physical characteristics
Race
Nighttime
10th Amendment
Trailer
23. That place where a person has his/her true and permanent home. a person may have several residences - but only one domicile
domicile
discovery
Through highway
Residence district
24. 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
Class 'A' dl
Gross combination weight rating
Class 'B' dl
change of venue
25. A highway that has PREFENTIAL RIGHT OF WAY in an intersection
Through highway
Official Misconduct
best evidence
Traffic
26. 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
extortion - theft by
writ of possesion (Eviction)
Frisk
preponderance of evidence
27. Proceedings held to determine wheter a person has violated a lawful court order and to set punishment if viloation is found.
5th Amendment Trial
6th Amendment
magistrate
Contempt
28. Freedom of religion - Freedom of speech - Freedom of the press - Freedom to peaceably assemble - Rights to grievances
1st amendment
peremptory challenge
Fraud
equitable action
29. To file a pleading (called a demurrer) admitting the truth of the facts in the complaint or answer - but contending
Improved shoulder
Daytime
demur
equitable action
30. A suit - litigation - or action - that is either civil or criminal
cause
Fraud
'In Rem'
accessory
31. Tenn v. Garner
4th Amendment trial
no bill
Crosswalk
Dispose or dump
32. Area in roadway designaaed for exclusive pedestrian use. Mus have signage or markings
directed verdict
Safety Zone
bailiff
extradition
33. Reasonable grounds for supposing that a criminal charge is well-founded.
Default Judgement
Alley
parole
probable cause
34. Oral or written statements made to the court presenting the claims and defenses of the parites
extenuation circumstances
Official traffic control device
power of attorney
Pleadings
35. Place any type of litter on or in land/water
accomplice
Dispose or dump
cross examination
'Et Al'
36. Evidence given by a competent witness - under oath; as distinguished from evidence derived from writings and other sources
deposition
testimony
Improved shoulder
14th Amendment
37. 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.
'Et Al'
instruction
necessarily included offenses
Truck tractor
38. Evidence of what the witness thinks or believes in regard to facts in dispute - as distinguished from his/her personal knowledge of the facts; not admissible except (under certain limitations) in the case of experts.
Statute
opinion evidence
Bus
fair preponderance
39. Operate a vehicle with G.V.W.are of 26000 or more - Can't tow more than 10000 - unless its a farm trailer. then they can tow up to 20000
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40. To hold on bail for trial
Contempt
bind over
'Et Al'
preponderance of evidence
41. A certain time allowed by statute in which litigation must be brought.
verdict
Inventory
assault
Limitation
42. Written questions propounded by one party and served on an adversary - who must provide answers thereto under oath.
Pleadings
interrogatories
extradition
Bicycle
43. Portion of a street that is in between the edge of the road and adjacent property line.
bail
peremptory challenge
Malfeasance
Sidewalk
44. Divided - controlled access highway
Jurisdiction Of County Courts
Freeway
Official Misconduct
3rd Amendment
45. To run the hands quickly over another's person in search of weapons or contra ban; a 'pat down' search.
Race
Frisk
battery
Ethnicity
46. Allows a landlord who prevails in an eviction suit to regain possession of the premises that were in dispute.
bind over
dissent
writ of possesion (Eviction)
6th Amendment
47. Rights not mention retained by people
15ft
Litter
9th Amendment
nolo contendere
48. A motor vehicle designed to carry more than 10 or motor vehicle other than a cab
Bus
Truck tractor
6th Amendment trial
extenuation circumstances
49. All persons concerned in the commission of a crime - whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense or aid in its commission or have advised and encouraged its commission - all persons counseling - advising - or encouraging children un
Indigent/Pauper
Traffic
principles
double jeopardy
50. Miranda v. Arizona
Conservator Of Peace
5th Amendment Trial
extradition
cross examination
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