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