GRADES OF CRIME
how crimes are sorted out according to their severity.
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how crimes are sorted out according to their severity.
This phrase means to be dismissed by the court without any instructions to return.
a term used that describes a gift of property that comes without the title. This means that the person can’t sell or hand the property on.
a Latin phrase meaning gifts between living people.
This phrase means to extend the time the payment of a debt is due.
a term given to the gift that is given in a will that is limited to real estate but can include property also.
This term is used when you know that an unlawful situation exists but you choose to ignore, such as accepting goods you know are stolen.
The term used when a person is informed that a suit is about to take place.
This term is given to a person with a good reputation and known to honest, true and forthright.
These are the laws that have been passed in order to preserve wildlife.
This term means that you work for living and earn wages.
the law that regulates the selling of firearms.
This term applies to things that go in evidence when it has been presented and accepted to be evidence at a trial.
This laws is seen in some states where a passenger in a friends car cannot sue to driver for an accident unless unusual negligence is the cause.
This term applies to an attorney’s misconduct that may see him lose his license to practice law.
These are the legal causes that allow a divorce to take place and differ in each state.
how you pronounce the abbreviation for the Government National Mortgage Association that reads GNMA.
a term that applies to a major injury.
a term that means something that is relevant, pertinent to and apropos.
a pardon that is given to a class or group of people convicted of crimes such as a group of political prisoners. See amnesty.
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