CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
These are the methods of the law that apply to the apprehension, trial and punishment of the accused.
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These are the methods of the law that apply to the apprehension, trial and punishment of the accused.
A trial that is incomplete and for some reason or other is terminated before a verdict is reached.
the term given to the order to request a thing be done within a certain period of time.
This term applies when a person has consented to his medical records being released to someone else.
This applies to a person serving to handle money and property to benefit another party, such as the attorney, broker, guardian etc. TLD Example: The executor of the estate served in a
the answer by a witness that does not answer the question he was asked.
a term that is used to describe negligence that was on purpose or that which a reasonable person wouldn’t do.
This term applies to payments in excess of agreed wages, a bonus and profit sharing as an incentive for a good performance.
A term used to describe property held by a person who is not the owner but who is a trustee or an agent. TLD Example: The parties to the contract agreed to
These are the rules that control and supervise the orderly procedures of a legislative or deliberative organisation that were compiled by General Robert in 1876.
This term applies to a person who has joined with other people in defending a legal action.
a term that a family or a person can give to a physician not to keep a person alive by artificial means or to resuscitate if death is near.
This term is applied when the majority of a particular commodity is bought on the market and is then sold for a higher price.
a phrase for using the best care and diligence and skill a person has to perform an act.
See burden of proof.
See equal protection of the law.
the authority that is given to a commission to take a testimony from witnesses who can’t be personally produced to the court.
the term where the evidence is vital to proving a fact.
the same term as contrary to the evidence.
This phrase means to practice law without having a license to do so.