legal terms

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Across
  1. 4. a person who committed the offence
  2. 5. a person who has the right and duty to protect another person, his or her property and rights
  3. 7. laws made by local councils
  4. 8. the mimimum term a prisoner musr serve before being eligible for parole
  5. 10. an intentionally dishonest act done to deceive (trick) someone
  6. 11. evidence: evidence not personally seen or heard by a witness, but said by another person. This is usually not allowed in court.
  7. 13. a form of communal title where land is not owned, but used by those who have rights over it. Describes traditional Aboriginal rights over land.
Down
  1. 1. a Latin term meaning “a guilty mind”; criminal intent, knowing an act is wrong
  2. 2. a serious crime, which is usually triable before a judge and jury
  3. 3. a Latin for “to have the body”; the command to produce a person in the Court
  4. 6. the property of a person who has died
  5. 9. a panel of people selected from the general public to decide the guilt or innocence of people in criminal cases
  6. 12. lying under oath