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Police Legal Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A suit - litigation - or action - that is either civil or criminal
3rd Amendment
bailiff
fair preponderance
cause
2. That place where a person has his/her true and permanent home. a person may have several residences - but only one domicile
Statute
opinion evidence
domicile
Class 'A' dl
3. In Re Gault
deposition
Habitual criminal
Conservator Of Peace
6th Amendment trial
4. A mandatory or prohibitive writ issued by a court.
School Crossing guard
Freeway
brief
injunction
5. Proceedings held to determine wheter a person has violated a lawful court order and to set punishment if viloation is found.
condemnation
5th Amendment
Contempt
Frisk
6. Is an affimative defense
plaintiff
School crossing zone
domicile
Mistake of law
7. Evidence supplementary to that already given and tending to strengthen or confirm it
Freeway main lane
Official Misconduct
verdict
corroboration evidence
8. A legislative enactment by a municipality (e.g.' local curfew - parking violations); a local law as opposed to a state statute.
testimony
Commercial Motor vehicle
School crossing zone
ordinance
9. Every person who - after a felony has been committed - harbors - conceals - or aids a principal in such felony - with the intent that said principal may avoid or escape from arrest - trial - conviction - or punishment - having knowledge that said pri
accessory
certiorari
Open fields
discovery
10. One of the lanes on the freeway
accomplice
Freeway main lane
motive
Park or parking
11. Written or Oral application for a ruling or order from the court.
decree
Laned roadway
Motion
necessarily included offenses
12. 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.
Freeway
negligence
Motor carrier
Residence district
13. 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.
Fraud
Limitation
Writ Of Possesion (Non-Eviction)
battery
14. 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
School Crossing guard
feigned accomplice
30ft
decree
15. 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.
Motor carrier
Parties
Libel
magistrate
16. 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
Pleadings
Alley
venue
polygraph
17. That which - under the established rules of evidence - cannot be admitted or received into a court of law.
Freeway
Inadmissible
accomplice
Official Misconduct
18. The release of a person from a penal institution prior to expiration of the maximum period of imprisonment; a conditional release from prison subject to return upon violation.
'Et Ux'
Traffic
parole
fence
19. 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
default
accessory
discovery
expunge
20. Private office or room of a judge
Class 'A' dl
Shoulder
expert evidence
chambers
21. Document filed by the plantiff with the clerk of the court that outlines the basis of the complaint - against the defendant.
Writ of possesion
Petition
Through highway
Statute
22. The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another
Pleadings
Right of way
Business district
5th Amendment Trial
23. The protection of one's person or property against some injury attempted by another. The law of 'self-defense' justifies an act done in the reasonable belief of immediate danger. When acting in justifiable self-defense - a person may not be punished
decree
self-defense
Garishment
plaintiff
24. A proceeding whereby property - money - or credits of a debtor - in possession of another (garnishee) - are applied to the debts of the debtor.
discovery
Garishment
Traffic control signal
brief
25. 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.
Park or parking
Class 'A' dl
indictment
double jeopardy
26. Speedy trial - Public trial - Unbiased jury - Knowledge of accusation/charge - Cross examine witnesses - obtain witnesses - Representation by an attorney
Habitual criminal
negligence
Return
6th Amendment
27. It is recognized as an extension of the sidewalk and doesnt have to be marked on the roadway to be considered lawful.
incompetent evidence
Crosswalk
4th Amendment
Frisk
28. A motor vehicle used primarily as a farm implement.
Official Misconduct
accomplice
change of venue
Farm Tractor
29. 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.
change of venue
9th Amendment
decree
due process
30. Is a order signed by a proper magistrate directing a sheriff to recieve and place in jail.
Commitment
10th Amendment
'Et Ux'
Business district
31. And the following one or ones.
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32. A pleading usually used by defendants in criminal cases - which literally means 'I will not contest it'.
motive
Commercial Motor vehicle
14th Amendment
nolo contendere
33. 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.
School Crossing guard
Official Misconduct
discovery
state's evidence
34. A friend of the court; one who interposes or volunteers information upon some matter of law
amicus curiae
'Et Ux'
6th Amendment trial
4th Amendment
35. 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.
Class 'A' dl
burglary
rout
plaintiff
36. Can be pedestrians - ridden or herded animals or vehicles.
Traffic
School Crossing guard
rout
Gross combination weight rating
37. To collect - gather - take up - seize - or execute on monies - real - or personal property under a lwfully issued writ.
Levy
4th Amendment
expunge
bind over
38. An instrument authorizing another to act as one's agent or attorney.
8th Amendment
power of attorney
assault
dactyloscopy
39. The fraudulent appropriation by a person for his/her own use or benefit of property or money entrusted to him/her by another
motive
nightstick
Sidewalk
embezzlement
40. Tenn v. Garner
5th Amendment
venue
'In Rem'
4th Amendment trial
41. Any sign - signal - marking - or device that is placed lawfully and is used to regulate - warn - or guide traffic
allegation
4th Amendment
Official traffic control device
noxious substance
42. A deadly weapon; a long - heavy club usually carried by a law enforcement officer.
power of attorney
cross examination
nightstick
15ft
43. 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.
Safety Zone
6th Amendment
Trailer
Affiant
44. 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
Licencse Ineligibility
no bill
recognizance
due process
45. In criminal practice - bringing a prisoner to the bar of the court to answer to a criminal charg
Inadmissible
5th Amendment
arraignment
mistrial
46. Against A Thing.
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47. The predominate appeal of the matter taken as a whole is to a prurient interest in sexual conduct involving minors.
Obscene
4th Amendment
9th Amendment
Fraud
48. 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.
Highway or street
Race
bailiff
Fraud
49. The challenge which the prosecution or defense may use to reject a certain number of prospective jurors without assigning cause.
Truck
peremptory challenge
crime
interrogatories
50. Decayable waste (animal/vegetable) - Non-decayable/solid waste that consist of boxes -rubber - plastic - metal - etc.
Litter
Obscene
motive
Motor carrier