Across
- 2. Forcible restraint or restriction.
- 4. To carry on a legal contest by judicial process
- 5. Taking of money or valuable property from a person against his will, by force or fear.
- 6. The breaking and entering a building with the intent to steal.
- 7. A person intentionally causes an unprivileged act with 
offensive bodily contact to another.
- 9. A rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding and enforced by a controlling authority.
- 10. A conduct that failed to use the degree of care demanded by the circumstances.
- 13. A person who commences a personal action (lawsuit) to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights (the complaining party in litigation)
- 17. To protect oneself from a threatening battery or assault
- 19. A person freely approving of something that would otherwise be an intentional tort.
- 20. A crime for which punishment is one year or less in prison and/or a possible fine. Examples: shoplifting and petty larceny.
- 21. A person intentionally causes harmful bodily contact with 
another.
Down
- 1. Intentionally altering, or false making, of writing, with intent to defraud, that might have a legal effect.
- 3. Offenses that are of lesser importance than felonies and misdemeanors.
- 8. The process of developing and controlling society through law.
- 9. A set of laws adopted by a society.
- 11. The deprivation of another's property through breach of a trusting relationship.
- 12. An act, committed or omitted, in violation of a public law governing it.
- 14. A civil (private) wrong that a court will give a remedy.
- 15. Any serious crime for which the punishment can be more than one year or death. Examples: murder, robbery, and rape.
- 16. A person required to make answer in a legal action or suit.
- 18. A standard or custom shared by members of a group about how they should behave. Norms can be informal or formal (law).