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18 Cards in this Set
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appellate brief |
submitted by the opposing attorney's |
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appellate court |
review decisions of lower courts when a party claims an error was made during the previous |
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arbitrator |
other cases the parties may be retain |
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associate circuit court |
these lower courts |
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court |
as governmental forum that administers justice under the law |
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court of record |
keeps an exact account of what goes in trail |
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general jurisdiction |
three levels of federal courts |
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justice |
is the titles given to judges who sit on state supreme courts and federal supreme court |
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juveniles |
younger members of society |
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litigate |
take their disputes to court |
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meditator |
independent third party of act |
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municipal court |
are usually divided into traffic and criminal divisions into traffic and criminal divisions |
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original jurisdiction |
over a case |
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probate court |
when individuals die their property and other interests must be divided according to their wishes and appropriate |
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small claims court |
minor individual suits would not often be heard |
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transcript |
a verbatim record of what went on at trial |
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trail court |
first court to hear a dispute |
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writ of certiorari |
order to a lower court to produce the record of a case for the supreme court into review |
