Across
- 5. This law comprises treaties customs and agreements among nations
- 6. Rights that are guaranteed under the Constitution or spelled out in congressional legislation
- 8. Cases that involve disputes between people or groups of people
- 10. Crimes that have very serious consequences
- 11. Legal action in which a person or group sues to collect damages for some harm that is done
Down
- 1. Offenses such as vandalism, stealing inexpensive items, writing bad checks for low amounts, and so on
- 2. The party that brings the charges against the alleged criminal
- 3. The individual or group being sued
- 4. The copying or stealing of another person‘s words and ideas, and passing them off as your own
- 7. Laws that seek to prevent people from deliberately or recklessly harming each other or each other‘s property
- 9. A person may suffer an injury and claim that another party is responsible because of negligence