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