Across
- 5. a crime punishable by imprisonment
- 6. law that pertains to persons, things, and relationships, that development among them
- 7. custom and judicial precedent rather than status.
- 9. the action of charging someone with a crime and putting them on trial
- 10. a system of law concerned with punishment of those who commit crimes
Down
- 1. review by the us Supreme court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act
- 2. the official power to make legal decisions and judgments
- 3. a action that is slightly bad or breaks a rule but is not a crime
- 4. the person accused of the crime
- 8. two court system operating independently