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Legal Terms For The Test

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Precident   A legal decison or authoritive rule  
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Common law   A system of laws brought in by england  
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Laws   A set of rules to be followed by in the community  
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Democracy   Everyone in the country has equal rights  
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Civil law   The body of laws for a state or nation  
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Belittles   To make some one/something un important  
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Feudal system   The political ,military and social system in the middle ages  
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Court   This is the place where legal cases and trials are heard  
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Oral law   Code of conduct in use in a given culture  
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Trial by ordeal   a method of determining someones innocence or guilt.  
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Trial by jury   Being judgeged with evidence are proven guilty or innocent.  
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Trespass   an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another  
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negligence   The Quality fact or result of being negligent  
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Nuisance   something offensive or annoying to individuals or to the community  
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Defamation   the act of defaming; false or unjustified injury of the good reputation of another, as by slander or libel  
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Compensation   an act or state of compensation  
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plaintiff   a person who brings suit in a court  
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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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