Courtlab Words

3. Isolate jury
5. Legislative act limiting time in which plaintiff may bring civil suit or state may bring criminal action
8. Oral evidence given by witness
9. Damages in excess of actual loss awarded to wronged plaintiff to punish defendant
10. Condition of release of accused person without payment of bail
12. Court order authorizing action by public officer, usually arrest or search and seizure
18. "I do not wish to contest"
19. Intentional abandonment of right.
20. Written questions answered under oath
21. Consideration of case by jury, as opposed to by judge or arbitrator
23. Holding of prisoner without bail

1. Legally authorized period of delay
2. Legal case contested in court
3. Command to appear in court and testify
4. Transfer of accused fugitive from state where arrested to state where charged
6. Defendant's answer to plaintiff's declaration; accused's answer to criminal charge.
7. Written court order issued to serve administration of justice; usually stipulating that something be done or not be done.
9. Written authority allowing one person to act for another
11. "Have the body"; court order requiring that detained prisoner be produced in court to inquire into legality of detention
13. Annul or rescind a document decision or offer
14. "After the fact"; fixing or changing punishment for an act after it was committed, now forbidden by U.S. Constitution.
15. Offer money or property to fulfill an obligation
16. Official Inquiry or examination before jury; coroner's investigation of cause of death
17. Action to recover actual item of personal property rather than its value
22. Criminal charges made by grand jury