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Civics Leagal Terms
Leagal Terms for the test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Precedent | Aleagal disicion or authoritve rule |
| Common Law | The system of law origenating from Englad |
| Law | A rule of conduct or proceduer established by costom |
| Democracy | Goverment by the people |
| Civil Law | The body of laws of a state or nation |
| Belittes | To represent of speak as contemptibility small or unimportant |
| Court | A place where justice is administrated |
| Oral Law | Leagal commentry(laws that are spoken not written) |
| Trial by ordeal | Trialing a persons innocents or guilt by dangerous or painful tests |
| Trial by jury | A persons innocents or guilt determanend by others |
| Criminal law | Criminal law, also known as penal law, involves prosecution for an act that has been classified as a crime. Criminal Law or penal law, involves prosecution by the government of a person for an act that has been classified as a crime. |
| Negligence | the quality, fact, or result of being negligent; neglect: negligence in discharging one's responsibilities. |
| tresspass | an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. |
| Defermation | the act of deforming; distortion; disfigurement. |
| Nuisance | One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother: Having to stand in line was a nuisance. The disruptive child was a nuisance to the class |
| Compensation | Something, such as money, given or received as payment or reparation, as for a service or loss. |
| Sue | To petition (a court) for redress of grievances or recovery of a right. |
| Plaintiff | a person who brings suit in a court (opposed to defendant ). |
| Judge | a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice. |
| Defendant | Law. a person, company, etc., against whom a claim or charge is brought in a court (opposed to plaintiff ). |
| Crime | An act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction. |
| Homicide | a person who kills another; murderer. |
| manslaugter | The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc? or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger. |
| Prosecute | to institute legal proceedings against (a person). |
| Fine | a sum of money imposed as a penalty for an offense or dereliction: a parking fine. |
| Jury | a group of persons sworn to render a verdict or true answer on a question or questions officially submitted to them. |
| Magistrate | a minor judicial officer, as a justice of the peace or the judge of a police court, having jurisdiction to try minor criminal cases and to conduct preliminary examinations of persons charged with serious crimes. |
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