Business Law Crossword

2. a formal examination of evidence before a judge, and typically before a jury, in order to decide guilt in a case of criminal or civil proceedings.
3. the party that accuses a person of a crime
6. the government official who brings the case against the defendant
8. a request made to the United States Supreme Court asking permission for that court to review the decision of a lower court
11. the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
12. the rules used to determine the difference between right and wrong
14. a person who helps two parties work toward a compromise
15. willful or malicious damage to property
17. of federal government that makes laws
18. a country's formal document that spells out the principles by which its government operates
19. a person who is accused of a crime
20. an act or omission that gives rise to injury or harm to another and amounts to a civil wrong for which courts impose liability
21. grants in inventor the right to exclude others from making, using or selling an invention for a 20 year period

1. actual knowledge of that which a reasonable person could expect to know
2. word, symbol, design or color that a business uses to identify itself or something it sells
4. a court that hears appeals and reviews cases from the lower courts
5. protects original works of authors; books, movies, music, computer software for the life of the author plus 70 years
7. the principle that the decision of a higher court should serve as a guide or precedent and control the decision a similar case in the future
9. laws enacted by a municipality
10. a person who helps two parties work toward a compromise
13. a court order forbidding a party to do some act
16. a written law passed by a legislature on the state or federal level