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Police Legal Vocab
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1. Temporary seizure or setting aside of specific to wich a party to a suit has claim of ownership.
peremptory challenge
Sequestration
motor vehicle non-traffic accident
Laned roadway
2. Roadway that is divided into at least 2 clearly marked lanes.
Laned roadway
subpoena
Garishment
Fraud
3. A legislative enactment by a municipality (e.g.' local curfew - parking violations); a local law as opposed to a state statute.
Alley
ordinance
Freeway main lane
misfeasance
4. That place where a person has his/her true and permanent home. a person may have several residences - but only one domicile
Truck
Mistake of law
Libel
domicile
5. Reduced speed zone to facilitate children going to and from school.
certiorari
subpoena
School crossing zone
Official Misconduct
6. A person 'advances prostitution' when - acting other than as a prostitute or as a patron thereof - he/she knowingly causes or aids a person to engage in prostitution - procures or solicits patrons for prostitution - provides persons or promises for p
rebuttal
Alley
advancing prostitution
Residence district
7. 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
self-defense
Roadway
Habitual criminal
8. 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.
20ft
Conservator Of Peace
noxious substance
indictment
9. 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.
Ethnicity
bail bond
Licencse Ineligibility
synergism
10. 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
tort
expert evidence
amicus curiae
synergism
11. 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
burglary
Chattel
parole
12. The entering of a private or restricted premise with the intent to commit grand theft - petty theft - or a felony
Traffic
burglary
Fraud
10th Amendment
13. Is used to recover possession of rental property.
embezzlement
Writ of possesion
Highway or street
Limitation
14. A direction given by the judge to the jury concerning the law of the case.
Official Misconduct
Freeway
Race
instruction
15. The persons who are actively concerned in the prosecution or defense of a legal proceeding.
subpoena
fair preponderance
malice
Parties
16. Divided - controlled access highway
4th Amendment
Petition
Flashing yellow light
Freeway
17. Law in its regular course of administration through the courts of justice. the guarantee of due process requires that every person have the protection of a fair trial
parole
due process
Official traffic control device
bind over
18. An officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense.
1st Amendment trial
magistrate
incompetent evidence
power of attorney
19. An erroneous or invalid trial; a trial which can not stand in law because of lack of jurisdiction - wrong drawing of jurors - or disregard of some other fundamental requisite.
Through highway
mistrial
writ of possesion (Eviction)
Daytime
20. Area between the boundary lines/ right of way lines of a publicly maintained way - which is open to vehicular travel.
battery
Urban district
Gross combination weight rating
Highway or street
21. A public disorder or uprising. To constitute a riot - the object need not be unlawful - provided the acts are done in a manner calculated to inspire terror. The chief element in a riot is the use of force or violence to disturb public peace if accomp
Pro Bono
10th Amendment
riot
extradition
22. 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
deposition
Frisk
Nighttime
amicus curiae
23. A certain time allowed by statute in which litigation must be brought.
Limitation
3rd Amendment
synergism
Capias
24. 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.
Residence district
'In Rem'
Injuction
Mistake of law
25. 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
equitable action
motive
noxious substance
forgery
26. The omission to do something which a reasonable person - guided by ordinary considerations - would do; or the doing of something with a reasonable and prudent person would not do.
Inadmissible
negligence
School Crossing guard
Special mobile equipment
27. A misdeed or trespass. The improper performance of some act which a person may lawfully do.
misfeasance
felony
false arrest
feigned accomplice
28. Place any type of litter on or in land/water
chambers
Dispose or dump
Traffic control signal
motive
29. The change of a punishment from a greater degree to a lesser degree - as from death to life imprisonment
4th Amendment trial
Shoulder
commutation
Limitation
30. Written or Oral application for a ruling or order from the court.
Sidewalk
felony
assault
Motion
31. Shared culture and background - Shared language - religion and other culture patterns
4th Amendment trial
Ethnicity
Safety Zone
Freeway main lane
32. The fraudulent appropriation by a person for his/her own use or benefit of property or money entrusted to him/her by another
embezzlement
Habitual criminal
dactyloscopy
felony
33. The act of physically destroying files - records - or information; for example - upon judicial order
'Et Ux'
malice
expunge
state's evidence
34. When an attorney works for client for no fee.
embezzlement
Pro Bono
8th Amendment
School crossing zone
35. 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.
Inadmissible
due process
search warrant
'Prima Face'
36. The official record of proceedings in a trial or hearing
transcript
decree
Frisk
cause
37. A Person who recieves personal property from another as a bailment.
extradition
Bailee
due process
Obscene
38. 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
polygraph
extortion - theft by
assault
decree
39. A suitor who - on account of poverty - is allowed to sue or defend without being chargable with cost
Shoulder
Parties
4th Amendment
Indigent/Pauper
40. To run the hands quickly over another's person in search of weapons or contra ban; a 'pat down' search.
demur
Frisk
expert evidence
Motor carrier
41. 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
principles
interrogatories
deposition
Pleadings
42. Rights not mention retained by people
20ft
6th Amendment
verdict
9th Amendment
43. Document filed by the plantiff with the clerk of the court that outlines the basis of the complaint - against the defendant.
Petition
mandamus
feigned accomplice
double jeopardy
44. Go thru only with caution
probable cause
Flashing yellow light
misfeasance
Levy
45. Tenn v. Garner
Licencse Ineligibility
cross examination
Nighttime
4th Amendment trial
46. A legislative enactment by a federal or state body of legislators - more frequently referred to as 'a law'
Through highway
deposition
Statute
amicus curiae
47. Evidence supplementary to that already given and tending to strengthen or confirm it
Truck tractor
negligence
corroboration evidence
felony
48. 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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49. A decision or order of the court. a final decree is one which fully and finally disposes of the litigation; an interlocutory decree is a provisional or preliminary decree which is not final.
directed verdict
decree
Special mobile equipment
misfeasance
50. Testimony - given by an accomplice or participant in a crime - tending to convict others.
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