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rules enforced by the government
What is laws
100
beliefs about what is fair and right and wrong
What are morals
100
breaking a law in a nonviolent way because it goes against personal morals
What is civil disobedience
100
breaking a law in a nonviolent way because it goes against personal morals
What is Civil disobedience
100
written laws made by legislatures
What are statutes?
200
a body of law based on judges’ decisions
What is common law?
200
a written collection of laws
What is legal code
200
the laws which tell which acts are crimes
What is criminal law?
200
any behavior that is considered illegal because the government considers it harmful to society
What is crime?
200
a serious crime, the punishment for which is 1+ years
What is felony?
300
a less serious crime, for which the penalty is often a fine
What is misdemeanor?
300
laws that help settle disagreements between people
What are civil law?
300
one of the earliest collections of written laws, made by Hammurabi, emperor of Babylon from 1792-1750 BC, made so that government could apply same laws throughout empire, main form of punishment physical, based off the principal “an eye for an eye”
What is Hammurabi’s Code?
300
made in 528 AD by Emperor Justinian of the Byzantine empire, made of all known Roman laws at that time, fair and reasonable punishment for crime, some principles in constitution date back to Justinian code
What is Justinian Code?
300
established by King Henry II (ruled England from 1154-1189), law based on “common sense and logic”, made by the rulings of past judges, differed from area to area of England, based on local practices and past cases
What is English Common Law?
400
a crime in which physical contact occurs
What is battery?
400
when a person breaks into a building and plans to do something illegal inside
What is burglary?
400
the betrayal of one’s country
What is treason?
400
a crime in which people use violence to get what they want from the government
What is terrorism?
400
a good reason to believe a suspect has been involved in a crime
What is probable cause?
500
agreeing to plead guilty in exchange for a lesser charge or a lighter sentence
What is plea bargaining?
500
a court hearing in which the defendant is formally charged with a crime
What is arraignment?
500
a juvenile who is found guilty of a crime
What is delinquent?
500
a youth who is found guilty of running away, disobedience, or truancy
What is a status offender?
500
cases in which a court is asked to settle a dispute
What are lawsuits?