5 Terms
Contributors in Courts
Courts
Evidence
Legal services; Courts
Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
Affirmed
Legal services; Courts
In the practise of appellate courts, the word means that the decision of the trial court is correct.
Conveyance
Legal services; Courts
Instrument transferring title of land for one person or group of persons to another.
Miranda warning
Legal services; Courts
Requirement that police tell a suspect in their custody of his or her constitutional rights before they question him or her. So named as a result of the Miranda v. Arizona ruling by the United States ...
Peremptory challenge
Legal services; Courts
Request by a party that a judge not allow a certain prospective juror as a member of the jury. No reason or cause need be stated.
Concurrent sentences
Legal services; Courts
Sentences for more than one crime that are to be served at the same time, rather than one after the other.
Annotations
Legal services; Courts
Remarks, notes, case summaries, or commentaries following statutes which describe interpretations of the statute.
