Across
- 2. a formal examination of evidence before a judge, and typically before a jury, in order to decide guilt in a case of criminal or civil proceedings.
- 3. the party that accuses a person of a crime
- 6. the government official who brings the case against the defendant
- 8. a request made to the United States Supreme Court asking permission for that court to review the decision of a lower court
- 11. the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
- 12. the rules used to determine the difference between right and wrong
- 14. a person who helps two parties work toward a compromise
- 15. willful or malicious damage to property
- 17. of federal government that makes laws
- 18. a country's formal document that spells out the principles by which its government operates
- 19. a person who is accused of a crime
- 20. an act or omission that gives rise to injury or harm to another and amounts to a civil wrong for which courts impose liability
- 21. grants in inventor the right to exclude others from making, using or selling an invention for a 20 year period
Down
- 1. actual knowledge of that which a reasonable person could expect to know
- 2. word, symbol, design or color that a business uses to identify itself or something it sells
- 4. a court that hears appeals and reviews cases from the lower courts
- 5. protects original works of authors; books, movies, music, computer software for the life of the author plus 70 years
- 7. the principle that the decision of a higher court should serve as a guide or precedent and control the decision a similar case in the future
- 9. laws enacted by a municipality
- 10. a person who helps two parties work toward a compromise
- 13. a court order forbidding a party to do some act
- 16. a written law passed by a legislature on the state or federal level