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Across
  1. 2. "Have the body"; court order requiring that detained prisoner be produced in court to inquire into legality of detention
  2. 6. Written Authority allowing one person to act for another
  3. 8. Transfer of accused fugitive from state where arrested to state where charged
  4. 10. Command to appear in court and testify
  5. 12. Written court order issued to serve administration of justice; usually stipulating that something be done or not be done.
  6. 15. Defendants answer to plaintiff’s
  7. 16. Legal case contested in court
  8. 18. Oral evidence given by witness
  9. 21. Intentional abandonment of right
  10. 23. Trial Consideration of case by jury, as opposed to by judge or arbitrator
  11. 24. Holding a prisoner without bail
Down
  1. 1. Legally authorized period of delay
  2. 3. Offer money or property to fulfill an obligation
  3. 4. Court order authorizing action by public officer, usually arrest or search and seizure
  4. 5. Isolate jury
  5. 7. Official Inquiry or examination before jury; coroner's investigation of cause of death
  6. 9. Written questions answered under oath
  7. 11. Criminal charges made by grand jury
  8. 13. “I do not wish to contest”
  9. 14. Condition of release of accused person without payment of bail.
  10. 17. Legislative act limiting time in which plaintiff may bring civil suit or state may bring criminal action
  11. 19. Action to recover actual item of personal property rather than its value
  12. 20. Damages in excess of actual loss awarded to wronged plaintiff to punish defendant
  13. 22. "After the fact", fixing or changing punishment for an act after it was committed, now forbidden by U.S. Constitution.
  14. 25. Annul or rescind a document decision or offer