| Question |
Answer |
| Precedent |
Aleagal disicion or authoritve rule |
| Common Law |
The system of law origenating from Englad |
| Law |
A rule of conduct or proceduer established by costom |
| Democracy |
Goverment by the people |
| Civil Law |
The body of laws of a state or nation |
| Belittes |
To represent of speak as contemptibility small or unimportant |
| Court |
A place where justice is administrated |
| Oral Law |
Leagal commentry(laws that are spoken not written) |
| Trial by ordeal |
Trialing a persons innocents or guilt by dangerous or painful tests |
| Trial by jury |
A persons innocents or guilt determanend by others |
| Criminal law |
Criminal law, also known as penal law, involves prosecution for an act that has been classified as a crime. Criminal Law or penal law, involves prosecution by the government of a person for an act that has been classified as a crime. |
| Negligence |
the quality, fact, or result of being negligent; neglect: negligence in discharging one's responsibilities. |
| tresspass |
an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. |
| Defermation |
the act of deforming; distortion; disfigurement. |
| Nuisance |
One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother: Having to stand in line was a nuisance. The disruptive child was a nuisance to the class |
| Compensation |
Something, such as money, given or received as payment or reparation, as for a service or loss. |
| Sue |
To petition (a court) for redress of grievances or recovery of a right. |
| Plaintiff |
a person who brings suit in a court (opposed to defendant ). |
| Judge |
a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice. |
| Defendant |
Law. a person, company, etc., against whom a claim or charge is brought in a court (opposed to plaintiff ). |
| Crime |
An act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction. |
| Homicide |
a person who kills another; murderer. |
| manslaugter |
The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc? or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger. |
| Prosecute |
to institute legal proceedings against (a person). |
| Fine |
a sum of money imposed as a penalty for an offense or dereliction: a parking fine. |
| Jury |
a group of persons sworn to render a verdict or true answer on a question or questions officially submitted to them. |
| Magistrate |
a minor judicial officer, as a justice of the peace or the judge of a police court, having jurisdiction to try minor criminal cases and to conduct preliminary examinations of persons charged with serious crimes. |