Leagal Terms for the test
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| Precedent | Aleagal disicion or authoritve rule
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| Common Law | The system of law origenating from Englad
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| Law | A rule of conduct or proceduer established by costom
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| Democracy | Goverment by the people
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| Civil Law | The body of laws of a state or nation
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| Belittes | To represent of speak as contemptibility small or unimportant
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| Court | A place where justice is administrated
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| Oral Law | Leagal commentry(laws that are spoken not written)
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| Trial by ordeal | Trialing a persons innocents or guilt by dangerous or painful tests
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| Trial by jury | A persons innocents or guilt determanend by others
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| 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.
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| Negligence | the quality, fact, or result of being negligent; neglect: negligence in discharging one's responsibilities.
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| tresspass | an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied.
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| Defermation | the act of deforming; distortion; disfigurement.
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| 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
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| Compensation | Something, such as money, given or received as payment or reparation, as for a service or loss.
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| Sue | To petition (a court) for redress of grievances or recovery of a right.
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| Plaintiff | a person who brings suit in a court (opposed to defendant ).
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| Judge | a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
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| Defendant | Law. a person, company, etc., against whom a claim or charge is brought in a court (opposed to plaintiff ).
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| Crime | An act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction.
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| Homicide | a person who kills another; murderer.
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| 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.
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| Prosecute | to institute legal proceedings against (a person).
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| Fine | a sum of money imposed as a penalty for an offense or dereliction: a parking fine.
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| Jury | a group of persons sworn to render a verdict or true answer on a question or questions officially submitted to them.
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| 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.
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