Civics Legal Terms

Description:	Legal Terms for the Test
Category:	AP Comparative Gov.
Created by:	sankeyl on 2009-02-16

Question	Answer
Precedent	A legal decision or a authorative rule.
Common Law	The unwrittens laws, especially those of England, based on customons or court decision
Law	a rule or a set of rules, especially those made by the govermentor ruler
Democracy	a way of goverment a country, is which the people elect repesentatives to govern the country on their behalf.
Cival Law	The body of law established by a state or nation for it's owen rights.
Beliefs	To make something seem important, she hurt their feelings when she bellitled their work.
Fedual Systum	having to do with a way of life in which ordinary people lived on and used the land of a nobel man, giving him military & other servicein return.
Oral Law	someone who speaks and makes them the law. (spoken instead of written)
Jury	a group of people chosen to hear and try to decide the outcome of a case
Trail by order	A hearing of the facts or a trying of someone quilt or innecence in a law court.
Crinimal Law	the branch of law that defines crimes, treats of their nature, and provides for their punishment.
Negligence	negligence, in law, especially tort law, the breach of an obligation (duty) to act with care, or the failure to act as a reasonable and prudent person would under similar circumstances.
Trespass	In law, unlawful entry onto land.
Defamation	In law, issuance of false statements about a person that injure his reputation or that deter others from associating with him.
Nuisance	in law, an act that, without legal justification, interferes with safety, comfort, or the use of property
Compensation	Damages - legal term referring to the financial compensation recoverable by reason of another's breach of duty; the money paid or awarded to a plaintiff
Sue	the action of filing a lawsuit before a court of law
Precedent	A legal decision or a authorative rule.
Common Law	The unwrittens laws, especially those of England, based on customons or court decision
Law	a rule or a set of rules, especially those made by the govermentor ruler
Democracy	a way of goverment a country, is which the people elect repesentatives to govern the country on their behalf.
Cival Law	The body of law established by a state or nation for it's owen rights.
Beliefs	To make something seem important, she hurt their feelings when she bellitled their work.
Fedual Systum	having to do with a way of life in which ordinary people lived on and used the land of a nobel man, giving him military & other servicein return.
Oral Law	someone who speaks and makes them the law. (spoken instead of written)
Jury	a group of people chosen to hear and try to decide the outcome of a case
Trail by order	A hearing of the facts or a trying of someone quilt or innecence in a law court.
Crinimal Law	the branch of law that defines crimes, treats of their nature, and provides for their punishment.
Negligence	negligence, in law, especially tort law, the breach of an obligation (duty) to act with care, or the failure to act as a reasonable and prudent person would under similar circumstances.
Trespass	In law, unlawful entry onto land.
Defamation	In law, issuance of false statements about a person that injure his reputation or that deter others from associating with him.
Nuisance	in law, an act that, without legal justification, interferes with safety, comfort, or the use of property
Compensation	Damages - legal term referring to the financial compensation recoverable by reason of another's breach of duty; the money paid or awarded to a plaintiff
Sue
Precedent	A legal decision or a authorative rule.
Common Law	The unwrittens laws, especially those of England, based on customons or court decision
Law	a rule or a set of rules, especially those made by the govermentor ruler
Democracy	a way of goverment a country, is which the people elect repesentatives to govern the country on their behalf.
Cival Law	The body of law established by a state or nation for it's owen rights.
Beliefs	To make something seem important, she hurt their feelings when she bellitled their work.
Fedual Systum	having to do with a way of life in which ordinary people lived on and used the land of a nobel man, giving him military & other servicein return.
Oral Law	someone who speaks and makes them the law. (spoken instead of written)
Jury	a group of people chosen to hear and try to decide the outcome of a case
Trail by order	A hearing of the facts or a trying of someone quilt or innecence in a law court.
Crinimal Law	the branch of law that defines crimes, treats of their nature, and provides for their punishment.
Negligence	negligence, in law, especially tort law, the breach of an obligation (duty) to act with care, or the failure to act as a reasonable and prudent person would under similar circumstances.
Trespass	In law, unlawful entry onto land.
Defamation	In law, issuance of false statements about a person that injure his reputation or that deter others from associating with him.
Nuisance	in law, an act that, without legal justification, interferes with safety, comfort, or the use of property
Compensation	Damages - legal term referring to the financial compensation recoverable by reason of another's breach of duty; the money paid or awarded to a plaintiff
Sue	A plaintiff (Π in legal shorthand), also known as a claimant or complainant, is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an action) before a court.
Judge	A judge, or justice, is an official who presides over a court of law.
Defendant	A defendant or defender (Δ in legal shorthand) is any party who is required to answer the complaint of a plaintiff or pursuer in a civil lawsuit before a court, or any party who has been formally charged or accused of violating a criminal statute.
Crimes	In the sociological field, crime is the breach of a rule or law for which some governing authority or force may ultimately prescribe a punishment.
Homicide	homicide, in law, the taking of human life. Homicides that are neither justifiable nor excusable are considered crimes.
Manslaughter	manslaughter, homicide committed without justification or excuse but distinguished from murder by the absence of the element of malice aforethought.
Murder	murder, criminal homicide, usually distinguished from manslaughter by the element of malice aforethought.
Prosecute	The prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries with either the common law adversarial system, or the civil law inquisitorial system.
fine	fine. 1 In criminal law, sum of money exacted by a lawful tribunal as punishment for a crime.
Magistrate	A magistrate is a judicial officer. In common law systems a magistrate usually has limited authority to administer and enforce the law.