SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Police Legal Vocab
Start Test
Study First
Subject
:
law
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The persons who are actively concerned in the prosecution or defense of a legal proceeding.
Parties
self-defense
Truck tractor
testimony
2. A suit - litigation - or action - that is either civil or criminal
Truck
certiorari
state's evidence
cause
3. A legal document (process) signed by a judicial officer commanding a witness to appear and testify at a specific time and place
8th Amendment
Writ of possesion
5th Amendment
subpoena
4. 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.
Commercial Motor vehicle
robbery
mandamus
Litter
5. Vehicle not designed to haul persons or property. O LESS THAN 40FT IN LENGTH.
decree
bind over
Special mobile equipment
Libel
6. Person who swears to an affidavit or statement
arraignment
Class 'A' dl
Affiant
1st amendment
7. The change of a punishment from a greater degree to a lesser degree - as from death to life imprisonment
commutation
negligence
Park or parking
6th Amendment
8. Divided - controlled access highway
amicus curiae
Licencse Ineligibility
Traffic control signal
Freeway
9. Shared culture and background - Shared language - religion and other culture patterns
indictment
8th Amendment
mandamus
Ethnicity
10. Any unlawful physical restraint of another's liberty - whether in prison or in custody
false arrest
extenuation circumstances
discovery
double jeopardy
11. Portion of the highway - other than the shoulder.
Roadway
cause
'Et Al'
battery
12. 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
nightstick
cross examination
5th Amendment
13. RIGHT TO BE INDICTED BY A GRAND JURY - Notice of charges - Double jeopardy - Self Incrimination - Due Process - Reasonable reimbursement for property
5th Amendment
Pleadings
Roadway
Shoulder
14. The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another
Right of way
Freeway main lane
Park or parking
mistrial
15. An injury or wrong committed - either with or without force - to the person or property of another
Exclusionary Rule
demur
tort
riot
16. 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.
polygraph
indictment
synergism
amicus curiae
17. To release a person arrested or imprisoned - on security being taken - for his/her appearance in court on a specified day and place.
Pleadings
bail
3rd Amendment
School Crossing guard
18. In practice - the formal and unanimous decision or finding made by a jury - reported to the court - and accepted by it.
plaintiff
parole
negligence
verdict
19. It is recognized as an extension of the sidewalk and doesnt have to be marked on the roadway to be considered lawful.
parole
rout
Crosswalk
4th Amendment
20. Value specified as the loaded weight of a combination or articulated vehicle
Flashing yellow light
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
Gross combination weight rating
'In Rem'
21. An obligation signed by the accused - with his/her sureties - to secure his/her presence in court
interrogatories
Race
15ft
bail bond
22. Motor vehicle used to draw another vehicle. NOT MEANT TO CARRY A LOAD - OTHER HAN PART OF THE WEIGHT OF THE OTHER VEHICLERO
Improved shoulder
Truck tractor
30ft
Parties
23. Final appeallate jurisdiction in penalty cases
brief
Court of Criminal Appeals
incompetent evidence
forgery
24. That place where a person has his/her true and permanent home. a person may have several residences - but only one domicile
Truck
domicile
Malfeasance
6th Amendment trial
25. An instruction by the judge to the jury to return a specific verdict
Pleadings
dissent
Limitation
directed verdict
26. An instrument authorizing another to act as one's agent or attorney.
Flammable liquid
indictment
power of attorney
Park or parking
27. An unlawful attempt - coupled with a present ability - to commit a violent injury on the person of another
false arrest
Freeway
assault
Class 'B' dl
28. 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.
Ethnicity
Freeway main lane
Return
rebuttal
29. Citation issued after the original ciation usually directed to the sheriff or another county or directed to the defendant under another.
crime
6th Amendment trial
Commercial Motor vehicle
Alias Citation
30. Freedom of religion - Freedom of speech - Freedom of the press - Freedom to peaceably assemble - Rights to grievances
Farm Tractor
Pleadings
false arrest
1st amendment
31. Document filed by the plantiff with the clerk of the court that outlines the basis of the complaint - against the defendant.
writ
Indigent/Pauper
Petition
directed verdict
32. The testimony of a witness not taken in open court - but in pursuance of authority given by statute or rule of court to take testimony elsewhere
extortion - theft by
Freeway
deposition
accomplice
33. Steet not primarily used for hrought traffic - that provides access to building or lots
embezzlement
commutation
cause
Alley
34. Joint action of two separate drugs resulting in a total effect greater than the summed effects of both. For example - barbiturates are alcohol synergists - since the combined action of doses of alcohol and barbiturates (whoes additive effects would b
bail
venue
'Prima Face'
synergism
35. A 'person' that direct the operation of one or more vehicles that haul people or cargo.
cause
Motor carrier
Residence district
bind over
36. One who - under the direction of a law enforcement officer or upon his/her own initiative - pretends complicity in a crime in order to detect the perpetrator in an effort to prosecute such perpetrator. as such - there is no criminal intent on the par
polygraph
dissent
feigned accomplice
Right of way
37. 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.
Indigent/Pauper
Conservator Of Peace
recognizance
misfeasance
38. Private office or room of a judge
chambers
cause
necessarily included offenses
Right of way
39. 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.
Libel
Crosswalk
Levy
Petition
40. In criminal practice - bringing a prisoner to the bar of the court to answer to a criminal charg
double jeopardy
arraignment
5th Amendment
Jurisdiction Of County Courts
41. A proceeding whereby one party to an action may be informed as to facts known by other parties or witnesses
Chattel
Levy
discovery
injunction
42. Operate a vehicle with G.V.W.are of 26 -001 or more - Combo of vehicles 26 -001 or more towing more than 10000
43. The false making or material altering - with intent to defraud - of any writing which - if genuine - might be the foundation of a legal liability
6th amendment
necessarily included offenses
forgery
expunge
44. Go thru only with caution
Flashing yellow light
adjudication
parole
recognizance
45. 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
Commercial Motor vehicle
extortion - theft by
6th amendment
dissent
46. Area in roadway designaaed for exclusive pedestrian use. Mus have signage or markings
Truck tractor
default
Safety Zone
advancing prostitution
47. That which - under the established rules of evidence - cannot be admitted or received into a court of law.
Exclusionary Rule
Nighttime
prosecutor
Inadmissible
48. Sufficent to establish a fact or raise a presumption unless disproved or rebuted.
49. A mandatory or prohibitive writ issued by a court.
injunction
testimony
transcript
best evidence
50. Giving or pronouncing a judgment or decree; also the judgment given.
Malfeasance
nolo contendere
adjudication
Affiant