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Law words
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adversary | (n)enemy or rival |
| apparent | (adj) obvious or plain to see |
| hailiff | (n) court officer that guards prisoners |
| blackmail | (n)extortion by threat of exposure or secret information |
| clemency | (n) mercy |
| condemn | (v) declare to wrong, guilty or unfit to use |
| conviction | (n) act of convicting or found guitly |
| decieve | (v) trick or mislead |
| defense | (n) act of defending from being convicted of a crime |
| entrap | (v) to trap or to catch or to trick |
| faulty | (adj) wrong, weak, imperfect |
| imprison | (v) put in prison |
| manacle | (n) shackle for the hands or wrists |
| motive | (n) cause of a person's action |
| objective | (adj.) giving just the facts or not favoring either side |
| parole | (n) conditional release of a prisoner, still being watched |
| reasonable | (adj.) fair or dicated by common sense |
| relevant | (adj.) closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand |
| valid | supported by facts or evidence |