vocab

3. Annul or rescind a document decision or offer
4. Written court order issued to serve administration of justice; usually stipulating that something be done or not be done.
6. Intentional abandonment of right
8. Action to recover actual item of personal property rather than its value
10. Damages in excess of actual loss awarded to wronged plaintiff to punish defendant
15. “Have the body”; court order requiring that detained prisoner be produced in court to inquire into legality of detention
16. Official Inquiry or examination before jury; coroner’s investigation of cause of death
17. Court order authorizing action by public officer, usually arrest or search and seizure
18. Written authority allowing one person to act for another
21. Condition of release of accused person without payment of bail
22. Command to appear in court and testify
23. Written questions answered under oath
24. Oral evidence given by witness
25. Legislative act limiting time in which plaintiff may bring civil suit or state may bring criminal action

1. Holding of prisoner without bail
2. Consideration of case by jury, as opposed to by judge or arbitrator
5. Criminal charges made by grand jury
7. “After the fact”; fixing or changing punishment for an act after it was committed, now forbidden by U.S. Constitution.
9. Isolate jury
11. Transfer of accused fugitive from state where arrested to state where charged
12. answer to plaintiff’s declaration; accused’s answer to criminal charge
13. Legally authorized period of delay
14. “I do not wish to contest”
19. Offer money or property to fulfill an obligation
20. Legal case contested in court