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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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