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Law |
A rule of conduct, generally found enacted in the form of a statue, that prescribes or mandate certain forms of behavior |
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Statutory law |
Written or confined law; the law on the books, as an acted by a government body or agency having the power to make laws |
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Case law |
The body of judicial precedent, historically built on legal reasoning and pass interpretations of statutory laws that serves as a guided decision-making, especially in the courts |
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Common law |
The originating from usage and custom rather than from a written statues. The term refers to an Unwritten body of judicial opinion, originally developed by English courts, that is based on not statutory Customs, traditions, and presidents that help guide judicial decision-making |
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Jurisprudence |
The philosophical of law. Also, the science and study of the law |
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Substantive criminal law |
The part of the law that defines crimes and specifies punishments |
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Civil law |
The branch of modern law that governs relations between parties |
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Tort |
A wrongful act, damage, or injury not involving a breach of contract. Also, a private or civil wrong or injury |
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Stare decisis |
A legal principle requiring that, in subsequent cases on similar issues of Law and fact, chords to be bounded by their own earlier decisions and buy those Of Fire chords having jurisdiction over them. The term literally means standing by decided matters |
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Infraction |
A minor violation of State Statute or local ordinances punishable by a fine or other penalty or by specified, usually limited, term of incarceration |
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Treason |
A u.s. Citizens action to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the United States. Also, the attempt to overthrow the government of a society wife which one is a member |
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Espionage |
The Gatherings, transmitting, or losing of information related to the National Defense in such a manner that the information becomes available to enemies of the United States and may be used to their advantage |
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Inchoate offense |
An offense not yet completed. Also, an infant's that consists of an action or conduct that is a step toward the intended Commission of another offense |
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Actus reus |
An act in violence of the law. Also, a guilty Act |
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Mens rea |
State of mind that accompanies a criminal act. Also, a guilty mind |
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Concurrence |
The coexistence of 1 + active violation of the law, and to a culpable mental state |
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Ex post facto |
Latin for after the fact. The Constitution prohibits the enactment of laws, which make acts committed before the laws in question were passed punishable as crimes |
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Element of a crime |
In a specific crime, one of the essential features of that crime, as specified by law or statute |
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Corpus delicti |
The facts that show that a crime has occurred. The term literally means the body of the crime |
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procedural defense |
A defense that claims that the defendant was in some significant way discriminated against in the Justice process or that's some important aspect of official procedure was not properly followed in the best occasion prosecution of the crime |
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Alter Ego rule |
Is a major restrictions, a rule of law that holds that a person can defend a third party only under circumstances and only to the degree that the third party cuz legally act on his or her on behalf |
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Insanity defense |
A legal defense based on claims of mental illness or mental incapacity |
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M'Naghten rule |
A rule for determining on Saturday, which asked whether the defendant knew that he or she was doing or whether the defendant knew that what he or she was doing was wrong |
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Guilty but mentally ill (GBMI) |
Ethernet, equivalent to a finding of guilty, that establishes that the defendant, although mentally ill, wasn't sufficient possession of his or her faculties to be morally blameworthy for his or her Acts |
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Incompetent to stand trial |
In criminal proceedings, a finding by a court that, has a result of mental illness, defect or disability, a defendant is incapable of understanding the nature of the charges in proceeding against him or her, of Consulting with the nephew tourney, and eating in his or her own defense |
