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- 6. a civil officer who holds executive, legislative, or judicial authority.
- 7. a written law passed by a legislative body.
- 12. Pertaining to, or involving, crimes or the administration of penal justice.
- 13. (in certain countries) a head of a government department.
- 15. laws, considered collectively.
- 16. or authority is a legal case that establishes a principle or rule
- 17. Government a government that is responsible to the people.
- 18. Asset the method by which a country's constitutional monarch (possibly through a delegated official) formally approves an act of that nation's parliament, thus making it a law or letting it be promulgated as law.
- 21. A body of law derived and evolved directly from Roman Law, the primary feature of which is that laws are struck in writing; codified, and not determined, as in the common law, by the opinions of judges based on historic customs.
- 22. the group of people with the authority to govern a country or state; a particular ministry in office.
- 23. a group of states with a central government but independence in internal affairs.
- 25. to use the executive power of a Governor or President to forgive a person convicted of a crime
- 27. a legal technique for the resolution of disputes outside the courts, wherein the parties to a dispute refer it to one or more persons.
- 29. an order (writ) of a court which directs a law enforcement officer (usually a sheriff) to arrest and bring a person before the judge, such as a person who is charged with a crime, convicted of a crime but failed to appear for sentencing, owes a fine or is in contempt of court.
- 30. or street protest is action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause
- 33. Decisis is a Latin term meaning "to stand by that which is decided"
- 34. proposed legislation under consideration by a legislature
- 35. The English Monarch
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- 1. Minister the head of an elected government; the principal minister of a sovereign or state.
- 2. Principles a parliamentary system of government modelled after that which developed in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- 3. the highest legislature
- 4. of powers the vesting of the legislative, executive, and judiciary powers of government in separate bodies.
- 5. the committee of senior ministers responsible for controlling government policy.
- 8. means to nullify, void or declare invalid. The procedure is used in both criminal and civil cases when there is an irregularity or defect in procedures.
- 9. The formal, written document submitted to a court, and which asks for the court to redress what is described
- 10. (of a legislative body) having two chambers
- 11. Government An electoral system where citizens vote to elect people to represent their interests and concerns.
- 14. offence is an offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand
- 19. Court a court based in or with a jurisdiction covering one or more counties, which are administrative divisions (subnational entities) within a country
- 20. An officer or body with the authority to pronounce judgment on a matter based upon the evidence.
- 24. a legal proceeding by which a case is brought before a higher court for review of the decision of a lower court
- 26. discontinue a session of (a parliament or other legislative assembly) without dissolving it.
- 28. Dictum an opinion or a remark made by a judge which does not form a necessary part of the court's decision.
- 31. Court the highest judicial court in a country or state.
- 32. Decidendi is a Latin phrase meaning "the reason" or "the rationale for the decision".