Criminal
This is the most severe category of crime.
What is a Felony?
This is a Tort that does not require a contact, just reasonable apprehension one.
What is an Assault?
The right to freedom of religion, among other things.
What is the First Amendment?
When voting became legal for black voters, it was on the condition that they pass this kind of test.
What is a literacy test?
This is how cases are named in Criminal Courts.
What is State v. (private party)?
This is the least severe charge that can result from killing another person. (be specific)
What is Involuntary Manslaughter?
This Tort is usually abbreviated do to its long official name.
What is Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress? (IIED)
This amendment prohibits the government from quartering soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent in peacetime.
What is the Third Amendment?
This is the description of the first people allowed to vote in the U.S. (Race, Religion, Gender, etc.)
This is what we call the basic factors a lawyer has to prove to make their case. (Whatever it may be)
What are Elements?
This is the Legal name for the mental state required to commit a crime, such as intent, knowledge, or recklessness.
What is Mens Rea?
This is the first thing you need to prove someone had in order to establish a negligence tort.
What is a Duty?
This Amendment gives citizens the right to "petition the government"
What is the First Amendment?
This particular group of people got to vote for the first time in 1920
What are women?
This is the legal body that our legal system descends from.
What is Common Law?
This is the Legal name for the voluntary/ intentional part of a Crime.
What is Actus Reus?
This is one of the two types of causation. This type is employed when the law wants to cut off the chain of liability in a negligence case.
What is Proximate Cause?
This amendment ensures the right to have a lawyer in criminal trials.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This particular group of citizens was not allowed to vote until 1961, regardless of their race or gender.
What are residents of the District of Columbia?
This is the name of the legal dictionary every law student and lawyer uses.
What is Black's Law Dictionary?
This is what we call it when multiple forces at once are the cause of a crime.
What is a Concurrence?
This is what we call the type of defense used in a case where you admit to the thing you're being accused of, but claim it is justified.
What is an Affirmative Defense?
This amendment protects individuals from overly harsh penalties by the government.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
1952 was the year this particular ethnic group was allowed to vote for the first time.
What are Asians?
The only state in the U.S. whose state legal system descends from a different legal body than the rest of the country.
What is Louisiana? (Napoleonic Law)