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25 Cards in this Set
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Property to which the
owner has relinquished all rights, title, claims, and possession with intention of not reclaiming it or resuming ownership, possession, or enjoyment. |
ABANDONED PROPERTY
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To encourage, incite, or set another on to
commit a crime, Article 77, UCMJ. |
ABET
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Any person
subject to the Code who, knowing that an offense punishable by the Code has been committed, receives, comforts, or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent the offender’s apprehension, trial, or punishment. NOTE: Article 78, UCMJ, deals with accessories. |
ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT
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One who
counsels, commands, procures, or causes another to commit an offense-whether present or absent at the commission of the offense. NOTE: Under Article 77, UCMJ, an accessory before the fact is a principal. |
ACCESSORY BEFORE THE FACT
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A formal charge against a person, to
the effect that the person is guilty of a punishable offense, laid before a court having jurisdiction to inquire into the alleged crime. |
ACCUSATION
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One who is charged with an offense under
the Code. |
ACCUSED
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Any person who signs and swears to
charges; any person who directs that charges normally be signed and sworn to by another; and any other person who has an interest other than an official interest in the prosecution of the accused. |
ACCUSER
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The legal and formal certification of the
innocence of a person who has been charged with a crime; a deliverance or setting free a person from a charge of guilt. |
ACQUITTAL
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The status of being in the active
federal service of any of the armed forces under a competent appointment or enlistment or pursuant to a competent muster, order, call, or induction. |
ACTIVE DUTY
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A state wherein the person
in fact knows of the existence of an order, regulation, fact, and so forth, in question. |
ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE
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New and separate
charges preferred after others have been preferred against the accused while the original charges are still pending. |
ADDITIONAL CHARGES—
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The putting off or postponing of a
trial until a stated time or indefinitely; a cessation of the proceedings for a period extending beyond the same day. |
ADJOURNMENT
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To determine whether a claim is
proper and decide what amount, if any, should be paid the claimant. |
ADJUDICATE
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A board appointed to
render findings based on facts pertaining, or believed to pertain, in a case and to recommend retention, separation, or suspension of separation, and the reason for separation and the characterization of service or description of separation. |
ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD—
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A discharge or
release from active duty upon expiration of enlistment or required period of service, or before, by administrative means and not by a court-martial. |
ADMINISTRATIVE SEPARATION—
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That body of law and regulation
dealing with civil maritime cases. |
ADMIRALTY
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A self-incriminatory statement falling
short of a complete acknowledgement of guilt. |
ADMISSION
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“According to value.” Ad valorem tax
is a tax or duty upon the value of the article or thing subject to taxation. |
AD VALOREM
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The person who makes and subscribes an
affidavit. |
AFFIANT
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A statement or declaration reduced to
writing and confirmed by the party making it by an oath taken before a person who has authority to administer the oath. |
AFFIDAVIT
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A person authorized by another to act for that
person. One entrusted with another’s business. |
AGENT
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One who shares the criminal
intent or purpose of a perpetrator, and hence is liable as a principal, Article 77, UCMJ. |
AIDER AND ABETTOR
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A defense that the accused could not have
committed the offense alleged because the accused was somewhere else when the crime was committed. |
ALIBI
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The assertion, declaration, or
statement of a party in a pleading of what the party expects to prove. |
To assert or state in a pleading; to plead in a
specification. |
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A complaint to a superior court of an
injustice done or error committed by an inferior court whose judgment or decision the court above is called upon to correct or reverse. See Appellate Review. |
APPEAL
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