| Question |
Answer |
| Precedent |
A Legal decision or authorative rule |
| Common Law |
The system of law in England |
| Laws |
A set of rules to be followed by in the community |
| Democracy |
Everyone in the country has equal rights |
| Civil Law |
The body of laws for a state or nation |
| Belittles |
To make someone or something unimportant |
| Feudal System |
The political, military and social system in the middle ages |
| Court |
This is the place where legal cases and trials are heard |
| Oral Law |
Code of conduct in use in a given culture |
| Trial by Ordeal |
A method detirmining someones guilt or innocence |
| Trial by Jury |
Being judged with evidence and proven guilty or innocent |
| Negligence |
The quality fact or result of being negligent |
| Tresspass |
An unlawful act causing injury to the person, propery or rights of another |
| Defamation |
the act of defaming; false or unjustified injury of the good reputation of another, as by slander or libel |
| Compenstaion |
the act or state of compensating |
| Plaintiff |
The party that institutes a suit in a court. The party that institutes a suit in a court. a person who brings suit in a court |
| judge |
a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice |
| defendant |
a person, company, etc., against whom a claim or charge is brought in a court |
| Crimes |
An act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction |
| Homicide |
the killing of one human being by another. |
| Manslaughter |
the killing of a human being by another |
| Murder |
to kill or slaughter inhumanly or barbarously |
| Prosecute |
to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process |
| Magistrate |
a civil officer charged with the administration of the law |
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