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judicialbranch vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| crime | breaking law, punishment |
| criminal law | legal system, deals with crimes, harmful to society. |
| civil law | resolving disagreements, between individuals or groups, against the state |
| common law | judges decisions |
| precedents | earlier court decision, in later cases |
| constitutional law | law based, constitution and supreme court decisions |
| appeal | right of a convicted person to ask a higher court to review their case |
| jurisdiction | area of authority, hear a court case, enforce law |
| district courts | lower federal courts, original jurisdiction most cases involving federal law |
| courts of appeals |