History
What is a Legal System?
The legal procedure.
What is Due Process?
A crime resulting in less than one year in prison or a fine.
What is a misdemeanor?
Punishment.
What is a Sentence?
The money given to release a person from jail while they await trial.
What is Bail.
The twelve tables.
What is the way Roman Law was written?
The person being sued in a civil lawsuit.
Who is the Defendant?
A serious crime resulting in more than 1 year in prison.
What is a Felony?
A theory or system of moral values.
What is Ethics?
An action that breaks a law and causes harm to another.
What is Crime?
Written law that enforced the code of "An eye for an eye".
What is Hammurabi's code?
The person who files a civil case.
Who is the Plantiff?
Must be read to anyone accused of a crime.
What are the Miranda Rights?
A community that a population creates because of close proximity and, typically, language.
What is Culture?
Money paid for loses or injury.
What are Damages?
A legal system relying on precedent.
What is English Common Law?
Questions a witness to discredit another party's claim.
What is Cross-Examination?
A law punishing a person for an act that was not illegal at the time committed.
What is Ex Post Facto?
Conforming to a standard of right behavior.
What are Morals?
Rulings or decisions that are made based on the decision of earlier, similar cases.
What is Precedent?
Equal rights for men, promotion of religious freedom, limited women's rights, and promoted slavery.
What are the values of the Napoleonic Code?
A group of people selected to hear evidence in a case and make a decision.
What is A Jury?
A person cannot be tried for the same crime more than once after being proven "guilty".
What is Double Jeopardy?
Court order requiring a jailed prisoner to be brought before a judge for an explanation of their imprisonment.
What is the Writ of Habeas Corpus?
A notification that someone must appear before a court of law.
What is Summons?