Vocab Packet

3. Legislative act of limiting time in which plaintiff may bring civil suit or state may bring criminal action
6. Isolate Jury
12. Criminal charges made by grand jury
14. Written authority allowing one person to act for another
15. Action to recover actual item of personal property rather than its value
18. “I do not wish to contest”
21. Condition of release of accused person without oayment of bail
22. Intentional abandonment of right
23. “After the fact”; fixing or changing punishment for an act after it wascommited, now forbidden by U.S. Constitution
24. Defendant’s answer to plaintiff;s declaration; accused’s answer to criminal charge

1. Consideration of case by jury, as opposed to by judge or arbitrator
2. Legal case contested in court
4. Official Inquiry or examination before jury; coroner’s investigation of cause of death
5. Transfer of accused fugitive from state where arrested to state where charged
7. Offer money or property to fulfill an obligation
8. Court order authoriziing action by public officer, usually arrest or search and seizure
9. Written questions answered under oath
10. Oral evidene given by witness
11. “Have the body”; court order requiring that detained prisoner be produced in court to inquire into legality of detention
13. Holding of prisoner without bail
14. Damages in excess of actual loss awarded to wronged plaintiff to punish defendant
16. Annul or rescind a document decisions or offer
17. Written court order issued to serve administration of justice; usually stipulating that something be done or not be done
19. Command to appear in court and testify
20. Legally authorized period of delay