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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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