Law

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