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100
The study of law.
What is Jurisprudence?
100
A person that commits a serious crime and will receive major consequences.
What is a felony?
100
an official who arrested someone, to bring that person to court and explain why he/she is being held.
What is the writ of habeas corpus?
100
a person who is tried for a crime and found not guilty may not be placed in jeopardy.
What is a double jeopardy?
100
constitutional law involves rights guaranteed under the constitution.
What is public law?
200
Legal opinions that became part of the common law.
What is Precedent?
200
offenses such as vandalism, stealing, bad checks, and so on.
What is a misdemeanor?
200
a law that punishes a person, accused of a crime without a trial or a fair hearing in court.
What is the bill of attainder?
200
decides whether the government has enough evidence to bring them to trial.
What is the grand jury?
300
A law written by a legislative branch.
What are statues?
300
Legal action in which a person or group sues to collect damages for some harm that is done.
What is a lawsuit?
300
a law that would allow a person to be punished for an action that was not against the law when it was committed.
What is the ex post facto law?
300
a sum of money an arrested person pay to a court to win release from jail while awaiting trial arrives.
What is bail?
400
The party that brings the charges against the alleged criminal.
What is a plaintiff?
400
Civil wrongs.
What is a tort?
400
government may not take our lives and liberty or property according to the proper exercise of law.
What is the due process of law?
400
laws that seek to prevent people from deliberately or recklessly harming each other or each others property.
What is criminal law?
500
The individual or group being sued.
What is a defendant?
500
Building decisions for cases in the future.
What is a stare decisis?
500
a judges authorization for a certain place to be searched and describing what objects may be seized.
What is a search warrant?
500
involve disputes between people or groups in which no criminal laws have been broken.
What is civil law?
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