Legal crossword
Across
- 3. A crime in which someone tries to get money out of someone else by threatening to make known something unpleasant
- 6. A country’s body of judges
- 10. A government in which the supreme power is vested in a single person
- 16. A police officer or a private investigator whose function is to obtain information and evidence of illegal activity
- 17. Treating all alike,unbiased,fair snd just
- 19. The largest unit of the executive branch,covering a broad area of government responsibility
- 20. A written or spoken statement of facts which helps to prove or disprove something at a tria
- 24. A person whose business is to advise people about the law
- 25. A formal written request to a superior
- 26. Lawyer who advises clients
- 27. Someone who makes false notes or coins
- 28. Not guilty of a crime
- 29. To seize by the authority of the law,to make someone a prisoner
Down
- 1. A person,company against whom a criminal charge or civil claim is made
- 2. Someone who uses violence,for example bombing,for political reasons to force a government to do something
- 4. To charge with an offence,crime,to blame
- 5. Someone who takes control of a vehicle by force to make it travel to a different place
- 7. A person who suffers injury,loss,or death as a result of criminal activities or other circumstances
- 8. A claim by an accused person of having been elsewhere when an offense was committed
- 9. A person who robs someone with violence in the street
- 11. An act passed by a law-making body
- 12. A small room in a prison where prisoners are kept
- 13. Person who institutes a criminal case
- 14. An official who presides over a court
- 15. To take or receive(property,a title,etc.) by succession or will
- 18. To ask a high law court to change its decision or sentence
- 21. A legal agreement between 2 or more parties
- 22. The president’s disapproval of a bill that has been passed by both houses of Congress
- 23. A person pretending to be what he/she is not
- 27. To order someone to pay money as a punishment