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