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civics Legal terms
legal terms for the test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Precedent | a legal description or authorative rule |
| Common law | The unwritten law, especially those of England, based on custom or court decision. |
| Law | a rule or set of rules, especially those made by the government or rule. |
| Democracy | a way of governing a country, in which the people elect representitives top govern the country on their behalf. |
| Cival Laws | The body of law established by a state or nation for it's own rights. |
| Beliefs | To make something seem important. she she hurt their feelings when she bittled their work. |
| feudal system | having to do with a way of lifein which ordinary peopl lived on and used the land of a nobel man, giving him military & other service in return. |
| oral law | someone who speaks and makes them the law. (spoken set laws) |
| Jury | a group of people chosen to hear and try to decide to outcome of a court case. |
| Trial by order | A hearing of the facts or a trying of someone guilt or innecence in a law court. |
| Criminal law | in law, especially tort law, the breach of an obligation (duty) to act with care, or the failure to act as a reasonable |
| Trespass | in law, any physical injury to the person or to property. |
| defamation |
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