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An official who can conduct hearings and decide on cases in a court of law.
Who is Judge?
The final statement by an attorney to jury summarizing the evidence and arguing what the evidence has not established.
What is Closing Arguments?
Something that gives proof of a contested facts.
What is Evidence?
A case in which both the plaintiff and the defendant are private individuals in which is a legal proceeding to resolve a dispute among people.
What is Civil Case?
An act or an action that is against the criminal law or a failure to what the criminal law requires.
What is Crime?
A person who practices law.
Who is Attorney?
The act of jurors talking to each other and coming to a decision on the charges or crimes of a trial.
What is Deliberation?
The greater weight of the evidence; superior evidentiary weight that, though not sufficient to free the mind wholly from all reasonable doubt, is still sufficient to incline a fair and impartial mind to one to one side of the issue rather than the other. (Burden of proof in a civil trial)
What is Preponderance of the Evidence?
The network of courts and tribunals which deals with disputes involving one person complaining about another person did or failed to do.
What is Civil Justice System?
To prove that someone is guilty as a matter of law.
What is Convict?
Someone in charge of making a record of all court proceedings.
Who is Recorder?
A lawyers protest about the legal propriety of a question which has been asked of a witness by the opposite attorney with the purpose of making the trail judge deciding if the question can be asked.
What is Objection?
To question a witness called by the opposite side or a hostile or other and adversarial witness called by a party.
What is Cross-Examine?
An agreement between two or more party's to door not to do a certain thing whether written or oral.
What is Contracts?
A case in which the state is the plaintiff and in which the defendant is a person charged with having committed a crime.
What is Criminal Case?
A certain number of persons selected accordingly to law and sworn into inquire into matters of fact and declare the truth about matters of facts before them.
Who is Jury?
The attorneys representing either side of the case are finished with their witnesses.
What is Rests?
Someone who is called to testify before a court of law.
What is Witness?
The person who brings a civil lawsuit, or in the case of a criminal case, the State or Federal government.
Who is Plaintiff?
A person against whom a criminal charge or civil claim is brought in a court of law.
Who is Defendant?
The presiding member of a jury who speaks or answers for the jury.
Who is Foreperson/Foreman?
A court order prohibiting a party from a specific course of action.
What is Injunction?
The burden of proof in a criminal case required to establish the guilt of a person changed with a crime.
What is Beyond Reasonable Doubt?
A loss, detriment, or injury to one's person, property of rights, through the unlawful act or omission or negligence to another.
What is Damages?
The network of courts and tribunals which deals with criminal laws and it's enforcement.
What is Criminal Justice System?