Law Vocab Terms

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