Civics Legal Terms Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Precident | A legal decison or authoritive rule |
| Common law | A system of laws brought in by 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 some one/something un important |
| 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 of determining someones innocence or guilt. |
| Trial by jury | Being judgeged with evidence are proven guilty or innocent. |
| Trespass | an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another |
| negligence | The Quality fact or result of being negligent |
| Nuisance | something offensive or annoying to individuals or to the community |
| Defamation | the act of defaming; false or unjustified injury of the good reputation of another, as by slander or libel |
| Compensation | an act or state of compensation |
| plaintiff | 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 |
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