Law Vocab
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1. All evidence except eyewitness testimony. One example is physical evidence - such as fingerprints - from which an inference can be drawn.

2. Giving or pronouncing a judgment or decree. Also the judgment given.

3. An official or formal statement of facts or proceedings.

4. An action by which a third person who may be affected by a lawsuit is permitted to become a party to the suit. Differs from the process of becoming an amicus curiae.

5. Officer of the court who files pleadings - motions - judgments - etc. - issues process - and keeps records of court proceedings.

6. An action for the recovery of a possession that has been wrongfully taken.

7. The purpose to use a particular means to bring about a certain result.

8. The guarantee in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that all persons be treated equally by the law.

9. To act in accordance with - to accept - to obey.

10. The department that oversees the actions of probationers as well as the location of where probation officers work.

11. A failure to respond to a lawsuit within the specified time.

12. A chronological summary of all official records and recorded documents affecting the title to aparcel of real property.

13. The act that caused an event to occur. A person generally is liable only if an injury was proximately caused by his or her action or by his or her failure to act when he or she had a duty to act.

14. A machine which records by a needle on a graph varying emotional disturbances when answering questions truly or falsely - as indicated by fluctuations in blood pressure - perspiration.respiration

15. To annul or make void by recalling or taking back.

16. Money awarded by a court to a person injured by the unlawful act or negligence of another person.

17. An allowance for expenses in prosecuting or defending a suit. Ordinarily this does not include attorney fees.

18. The postconviction stage in which the defendant is brought before the court for imposition of sentence.

19. To give a gift to someone through a will.

20. To deprive a person of his liberty by legal authority.

21. Evidence that can be legally and properly introduced in a civil or criminal trial.

22. Oral or anal copulation between humans - or between humans or animals.

23. Voluntary statement made by one who is a defendant in a criminal trial - which - if true - discloses his or her guilt.

24. A statement of all important facts - which all the parties agree is true and correct -which is submitted to a court for ruling.

25. Ill will - hatred - or hostility by one person toward another which may prompt the intentional doing of a wrongful act without legal justification or excuse.