Body of principales and rules of law contained in written codes.
Law concerning the private rights of individuals.
Law concerned with the punishment of offenders.
Law derived from custom and from precedent rather than from written, codified statutes.
Each of the parts of a court, depending on its jurisdiction.
Previous case or legal decision, taken as a guide for future cases.
To become approved by a legislature or a body empowered to sanction or reject.
To establish by legal and authoritative act; specifically: to make a bill into law.
The judges of a country, seen as a group.
Illegal act.
Decision by a judge in civil proceedings .
Punishment imposed on a person after a criminal trial.
Area and matters over which a court has legal authority.
Court order requiring someone to appear in court on a certain day to give evidence.
A person who commits a crime.
Legal punishment given by a court to a convicted person.
When an accused person says that he or she was somewhere else when an act was committed you say s/he has a(n).
Decision returned by a jury.
Act of setting a person free because s/he has been found not guilty.
Finding a person accused of a crime is guilty.
Formal questioning in court.
A defendant's reply to a charge put to him.
A decision that has to be followed.
When a police officer warns someone that s/he will be charged with a crime and that what s/he says may be used in evidence.
When there's more than one judge sitting together they sit in...
When a case is heard with public.
A layer who is in active service .
A legal term to say "intentionally".
When a court supports the decision of a lower court.
When a case is heard with no public .
When a court does not support the decision of a lower court.
The opposite of a minor crime.
Another way of saying "temporary measures".
The delivery of court documents is called..
When an act starts to be applied .
SIs have the same standing as act, they have..
When judges have to give the reasons for their decisions it is called.
If someone is accused of three offences s/he is...
From what comes before, from the former; before seeing the facts.
To this; for this purpose.
Sworn statement.
Otherwise known as; common name.
Elsewhere.
In good faith; without intention to deceive.
In fact.
By law, by right.
Produce; bring forth the body.
In the absence of .
In closed court; in chambers; in private.
In blazing offence; in the act of committing an offence.
Among other things.
By that very fact; by the fact itself.
By itself.
At first sight; on the face of it.
Current state of affairs.
The other way a(round).
Conjunto de regales, unidades y restricciones que conocen los hablantes de una lengua.
Tipos mixtos a medio camino entre los lenguajes artificiales y las lenguas naturales.
Let out.
Single woman.
State of mind of the criminal.
Burden of proof.
Hecho consumado.
Under penalty of; bajo pena de .
Person who has been charged.
Person who has admitted guilt or has been found guilty.
Not yet the subject of formal criminal proceedings.
Based on basic principles of fairness and justice.
Term used at the initial stage.
Term used beyond the initial stage.
Wrongful act independent of a contract.
Statement of case/claim.
Other name for claim form.
Statement of truth.
Legal word for permission.
Process for resolving disagreement in which and impartial third party helps.
Disclosure.
Dispute resolution in which a neutral third party renders a decision after a hearing.
Examination-in-chief; no leading questions .
Adversary; respondent in a divorce.
Former plaintiff; injured party; petitioner in a divorce.
Court that hears cases brought by persons who claim personal injury, loss or damage to property, damage to reputation or damage to rights.
Body of law created by judges' decisions on individual cases.
Law passed by Parliament.
In this document; mentioned here.
By this document.
From now on.
To this text or document.
Attached, accompanying this text.
On this document/text.
So far/ up to this moment.
After that; in the future.
On this/ immediately after this.
In the event of.
by virtue of.
For the reason that.
In pursuance of.
For the purpose of.
In accordance with.
In respect of.
In conformity with.
Lesser crimes.
Serious or very serious crimes.
Intermediate offences.
The exclusive right to make, use or sell an invention.
The body of law relating to a property right in an original work of authorship.
The statutory procedure by which a person is relieved of most debts and undergoes a judicially supervised organization or liquidation.
A person serving a sentence in a jail or prison.
Homicide without malice aforethought.
An act punishable by law.
The period of time a prisoner is imprisioned.
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