Vocab
Tort
Crimes
Court System
Miscellaneous
100
The jury's decision
What is verdict?
100
Private or civil wrong for which the law provides a remedy
What is tort?
100
A punishable offense against society
What is Crime?
100
Court in which dispute is first held
What is original jurisdiction?
100
May be responsible if an employee commits a crime
What is a company?
200
Falsely making or materially altering a writing to defraud another
What is forgery?
200
Intentional, Negligence, and Strict Liability
What are the types of torts?
200
Crime punishable by more than a year in prison, death, or a fine of at least $1000
What is a felony?
200
Level of court that rules over all, deals with appeals, and sometimes original jurisdiction
What is the U.S. Supreme Court?
200
Unlawfully offering or giving anything of value to influence performance of an official and carrying out his/her public or legal duties
What is bribery?
300
Crime typically committed in the work place that does not involve violence or force, injury to people, or physical damage to property
What is white-collar crime?
300
Most common tort
What is Negligence?
300
Duty, Violation of Duty, and Criminal Intent
What are the elements of a crime?
300
This type of court has jurisdiction over citizenship cases
What is Federal District Court
300
Another name for blackmail
What is extortion?
400
Hears only one specific type of case
What is a specialized jurisdiction?
400
Monetary award intended to compensate the injured party for the harm done
What is damages?
400
Assault, battery, kidnapping, rape, murder
What are crimes against a person?
400
The three tiers of the state court system
What are trial court, appellate court, and state supreme court?
400
In a civil trial, this event allows both lawyers to summarize the case and persuade the judge/jury one final time
What are closing arguments?
500
Keeps an exact account of what goes on at trial
What is courts of record?
500
Duty, Breach, Injury, Causation
What are the elements of a tort?
500
Self defense, criminal insanity, immunity
What are types of substantive defenses?
500
An order to a lower court to produce the record of a case to the supreme court for review
What is writ of certiorari?
500
Action that hinders the administration of justice and is punishable by imprisonment
What is contempt of court?
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