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Laws A set of rules created by a government or ruler.
Precedent A legal decision or authoritive rule.
Common laws The system of laws originally in England.
Belittles To make someone/something seem unimportant.
Civil law The body of laws of a state or nation.
Court The place that legal cases and trials are heard.
Feudal system The political, milartary and social system in the middle ages.
Trial by ordeal A primitive method determining if a persons guilty or innocent.
Democracy Everyone on a country has equal rights.
Oral law Code of conduct in use in a given cultures religion or community.
Trial by jury Being judged with evidence and witnesses in a court to determine if a person in guilty or innocent.
Negligence The quality, fact, or result of being negligent.
Trespass An unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied.
Defamation The act of defaming false or unjustified injury of the good reputation of another, as by slander or libel.
Nuisance One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious, a bother.
Compensation The act or state of compensating.
Sue To institute a process in law against; bring a civil action against.
Plaintiff The party that institutes a 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.
Laws A set of rules created by a government or ruler.
Precedent A legal decision or authoritive rule.
Common laws The system of laws originally in England.
Belittles To make someone/something seem unimportant.
Civil law The body of laws of a state or nation.
Court The place that legal cases and trials are heard.
Feudal system The political, milartary and social system in the middle ages.
Trial by ordeal A primitive method determining if a persons guilty or innocent.
Democracy Everyone on a country has equal rights.
Oral law Code of conduct in use in a given cultures religion or community.
Trial by jury Being judged with evidence and witnesses in a court to determine if a person in guilty or innocent.
Negligence The quality, fact, or result of being negligent.
Trespass An unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied.
Defamation The act of defaming false or unjustified injury of the good reputation of another, as by slander or libel.
Nuisance One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious, a bother.
Compensation The act or state of compensating.
Sue To institute a process in law against; bring a civil action against.
Plaintiff The party that institutes a 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.
Prosecute Law. To institute legal proceedings against (a person).
Murder Law. The killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law.
Manslaughter Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
Magistrate A civil officer charged with the administration of the law.
Jury A group of persons sworn to render a verdict or true answer on a question or questions officially submitted to them.
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