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legal terms
legal terms for test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| precedent | an act,statement etc that may serve as an example or justification for a later one. |
| common law | law based on custom. useage and judical decisions. |
| laws | all the rules of conduct established by athourity or costom of a nation. |
| democarcy | A COUNTRY ETC , WITH SUCH GOVERNMENT . |
| belittles | to represent or speak of as contemptibly small or unimportant;disparage |
| cival war | war between differnet factions of the same nation |
| feudal system | the system which medieval times used for social highracky |
| court | a place in which law is practised |
| oral law | a code of conduct in a given culture , religion or community |
| trial by ordeal | ancient methods of determining quilt or innocent |
| trail by jury | expanded right to jury trail means more appeals by criminal defendants. |
| civil law | the first set of laws regulates peoples behaviour with other indivduals |
| negligence | the quality, fact, or result of being negligent; neglect: negligence in discharging one's responsibilities. |
| negligence | an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. |
| defamation | the quality, fact, or result of being negligent; neglect: negligence in discharging one's responsibilities. |
| negligence | the quality, fact, or result of being negligent; neglect: negligence in discharging one's responsibilities. |
| compensation | the act or state of compensating |
| plaintiff | plaintiff |
| 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 ). |
| 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. |
| manslaughter | Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought. |
| murder | Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the comm |
| proecute | to institute legal proceedings against (a person). |
| fine | of superior or best quality |
| jury | a group of persons sworn to render a verdict or true answer on a question or questions officially submitted to them. |
| magistrate | civil officer charged with the administration of the law. |
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