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Police Legal Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Motor vehicle used to draw another vehicle. NOT MEANT TO CARRY A LOAD - OTHER HAN PART OF THE WEIGHT OF THE OTHER VEHICLERO
Truck tractor
Roadway
Obscene
Contempt
2. In Re Gault
4th Amendment trial
Nighttime
6th Amendment trial
Litter
3. No force quarterly of soldiers - permitted only in war time and in accordance with the law.
rebuttal
advancing prostitution
3rd Amendment
Statute
4. 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.
opinion evidence
fair preponderance
burglary
Commitment
5. A motor vehicle designed to carry more than 10 or motor vehicle other than a cab
Bus
accessory
Indigent/Pauper
Frisk
6. A 'person' that direct the operation of one or more vehicles that haul people or cargo.
Motor carrier
equitable action
extenuation circumstances
demur
7. 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.
mistrial
corroboration evidence
Freeway main lane
Official traffic control device
8. Right to bail - Protection from excessive fines - No cruel of unusual punishment
8th Amendment
discovery
Statute
search warrant
9. The assertion - declaration - or statement of a party to an action - made in a pleading - setting out what he/she expects to prove
Improved shoulder
allegation
Bailee
5th Amendment
10. The change of a punishment from a greater degree to a lesser degree - as from death to life imprisonment
Urban district
Litter
commutation
Business district
11. Evidence given by a competent witness - under oath; as distinguished from evidence derived from writings and other sources
riot
Contempt
motive
testimony
12. 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.
expunge
15ft
rout
robbery
13. 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
riot
decree
Licencse Ineligibility
Roadway
14. The false making or material altering - with intent to defraud - of any writing which - if genuine - might be the foundation of a legal liability
nolo contendere
recognizance
forgery
peremptory challenge
15. 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.
rebuttal
Trailer
synergism
Business district
16. Tenn v. Garner
4th Amendment trial
Trailer
Improved shoulder
Truck
17. Is a order signed by a proper magistrate directing a sheriff to recieve and place in jail.
dactyloscopy
due process
incompetent evidence
Commitment
18. Motor vehicle - primarily designed to transport property.
Official Misconduct
14th Amendment
8th Amendment
Truck
19. Decayable waste (animal/vegetable) - Non-decayable/solid waste that consist of boxes -rubber - plastic - metal - etc.
negligence
4th Amendment
Litter
Bailee
20. By or on the relation of.
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21. An original writ commanding judges or officers of inferior courts to certify or to return records of proceedings in a cause for judicial review
Farm Tractor
certiorari
venue
Freeway main lane
22. Proceedings held to determine wheter a person has violated a lawful court order and to set punishment if viloation is found.
Contempt
peremptory challenge
Official traffic control device
instruction
23. Land next to and including the highway if - It's NOT IN A MUNICIPALITY AND It has HOMES OR BUSINESSES on it at intervals of less than 100ft - for at least a quarter mile
Urban district
nightstick
Habitual criminal
Limitation
24. Testimony - given by an accomplice or participant in a crime - tending to convict others.
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25. A legal document (process) signed by a judicial officer commanding a witness to appear and testify at a specific time and place
rebuttal
subpoena
double jeopardy
commutation
26. Written or Oral application for a ruling or order from the court.
change of venue
Default Judgement
Motion
'Ex Rel'
27. The questioning of witnesses in a trial or in the taking of a deposition by the party opposed to the one who produced the witness
Indigent/Pauper
mandamus
Parties
cross examination
28. Powers not identified belong to the states.
10th Amendment
30ft
Sidewalk
preponderance of evidence
29. 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.
1st Amendment trial
Pleadings
Fraud
equitable action
30. Citizens of each state are also - citizens of the U.S. state governments must adhere to the U.S. Constitution.
rout
14th Amendment
Bailee
Crosswalk
31. 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
certiorari
Business district
Conservator Of Peace
expunge
32. A proceeding whereby one party to an action may be informed as to facts known by other parties or witnesses
Laned roadway
crime
discovery
Bailee
33. Against A Thing.
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34. Written questions propounded by one party and served on an adversary - who must provide answers thereto under oath.
interrogatories
cause
Flashing yellow light
demur
35. The predominate appeal of the matter taken as a whole is to a prurient interest in sexual conduct involving minors.
30ft
Obscene
mandamus
'In Rem'
36. 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.
30ft
Pleadings
felony
Libel
37. Place any type of litter on or in land/water
Dispose or dump
Daytime
Indigent/Pauper
Commercial Motor vehicle
38. A misdeed or trespass. The improper performance of some act which a person may lawfully do.
misfeasance
Park or parking
Pleadings
3rd Amendment
39. The fraudulent appropriation by a person for his/her own use or benefit of property or money entrusted to him/her by another
search warrant
decree
embezzlement
Affiant
40. An injury or wrong committed - either with or without force - to the person or property of another
Crosswalk
transcript
riot
tort
41. 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.
synergism
embezzlement
indictment
negligence
42. Manaul - electric - or mechanical device that directs traffic to stop and to proceed.
Traffic control signal
Class 'A' dl
Dispose or dump
Limitation
43. RIGHT TO BE INDICTED BY A GRAND JURY - Notice of charges - Double jeopardy - Self Incrimination - Due Process - Reasonable reimbursement for property
Flashing yellow light
5th Amendment
misfeasance
accomplice
44. 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
rout
Official Misconduct
3rd Amendment
45. Divided - controlled access highway
Flashing yellow light
Race
Freeway
riot
46. An instrument authorizing another to act as one's agent or attorney.
noxious substance
state's evidence
power of attorney
Official Misconduct
47. Reasonable grounds for supposing that a criminal charge is well-founded.
probable cause
interrogatories
6th Amendment
commutation
48. Person who swears to an affidavit or statement
Official Misconduct
Affiant
plaintiff
fence
49. A proceeding whereby property - money - or credits of a debtor - in possession of another (garnishee) - are applied to the debts of the debtor.
negligence
Truck
Garishment
14th Amendment
50. Detailed list of articles of assests containing a designation or description of each specific article.
subpoena
Exclusionary Rule
noxious substance
Inventory