Legal Terms for the test
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| Precedent | A Legal decision or authorative rule
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| Common Law | The system of law in 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 someone or something unimportant
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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 detirmining someones guilt or innocence
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| Trial by Jury | Being judged with evidence and proven guilty or innocent
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| Negligence | The quality fact or result of being negligent
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| Tresspass | An unlawful act causing injury to the person, propery or rights of another
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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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| Compenstaion | the act or state of compensating
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| 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
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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 | a person, company, etc., against whom a claim or charge is brought in a court
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| Crimes | 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 | the killing of one human being by another.
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| Manslaughter | the killing of a human being by another
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| Murder | to kill or slaughter inhumanly or barbarously
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| Prosecute | to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process
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| Magistrate | a civil officer charged with the administration of the law
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