civics ch 15
Terms
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- plaintiff
- the party that bring the charges against someone
- stare decisis
- let the decision stand
- misdemeanor
- minor crimes
- common law
- law based on court decisions
- bill of attainder
- punishment without a crime
- jurisprudence
- the study of law
- felony
- major crimes
- statute
- a law written by the legislative branch
- ex post facto law
- punishment of someone when they did something when it wasn't a law at the time
- defendant
- the group being sued
- grand jury
- people that decide if someone is guilty by the evidence
- search warrent
- a warrent that gives police the ability to search anything with cause
- writ of hadeas corpus
- when a police man has to bring the defendent to the court to tell them what they did wrong
- torts
- civil wrongs
- lawsuit
- a legal action
- precedence
- legal opinions that became part of common law
- double jepardy
- being tried twice for the same crime
- bail
- money given to get out of jail