The Sources of Our Law
Types of Laws
The American Legal System
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The first known system of written laws.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
100
The party that brings the charges against the alleged criminal.
What is plaintiff?
100
Requires an official who has arrested someone to bring that person to court & explain why he or she is being held.
What is the Writ of Habeas Corpus?
100
Search warrant
What is a judges authorization to search and seize an object or objects at a specific place?
200
The study of law.
What is jurisprudence?
200
The person being accused of the crime.
What is defendant?
200
Stare decisis
What are rulings that are used to build decisions for similar cases in the future?
200
You can't be tried for the same crime twice.
What is double jeopardy?
300
Law based on court decisions rather than on a legal code.
What is common law?
300
A serious crime someone has done.
What is a felony?
300
Bill of Attainder
What is a law that punishes someone accused of a crime without a trial or a fair hearing in court?
300
Grand jury
What is the place where federal crimes are heard?
400
Legal opinions that become common law.
What is precedent?
400
A legal action in which a person or group sues to collect for some harm that is done.
What is a lawsuit?
400
Ex post facto law
What is a law that would allow a person to be punished for an action that was not a crime when it was committed?
400
Money payed as collateral to stay of out of jail until trial day.
What is Bail?
500
Laws written by a legislative branch.
What are statues?
500
A minor criminal act.
What is misdemeanor?
500
The gov. can not take our lives, liberty, and/or property without due process of law.
What is due process of law?
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