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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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