1.

Physical Injury –

2. Assault - any unlawful attempt or offer with force or violence to do a

corporal hurt to another.

3. Battery - The unlawful touching the person of another by the

aggressor himself, or any other substance put in motion by him.

4. Homicide – the killing of a human being due to the act or omission of another

5. Murder - the killing of a human being by a sane person, with intent, malice
aforethought (prior intention to kill the particular victim or anyone who gets in the way)
and with no legal excuse or authority.

6. Manslaughter - the unlawful killing of another person without premeditation or so-

called "malice aforethought" (an evil intent prior to the killing). It is distinguished from
murder (which brings greater penalties) by lack of any prior intention to kill anyone or
create a deadly situation.

7. Rape - the crime of sexual intercourse (with actual penetration of a woman's vagina
with the man's penis) without consent and accomplished through force, threat of
violence or intimidation (such as a threat to harm a woman's child, husband or
boyfriend).

8. Indecent Exposure - the crime of displaying one's genitalia to one or more other
people in a public place, usually with the apparent intent to shock the unsuspecting
viewer and give the expose a sexual charge.

9. Kidnapping - the taking of a person against his/her will (or from the control of a parent
or guardian) from one place to another under circumstances in which the person so
taken does not have freedom of movement, will, or decision through violence, force,
threat or intimidation.

10.Bigamy - the condition of having two wives or two husbands at the same time.

11.Adultery - consensual sexual relations when one of the participants is legally married
to another.

12.Prostitution - the profession of performing sexual acts for money.

13.Incest - sexual intercourse between close blood relatives, including brothers and
sisters, parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren, or aunts or uncles with
nephews or nieces.

14.Libel - to publish in print (including pictures), writing or broadcast through radio,

television or film, an untruth about another which will do harm to that person or his/her
reputation, by tending to bring the target into ridicule, hatred, scorn or contempt of
others.
15.Slander - oral defamation, in which someone tells one or more persons an untruth
about another, which untruth will harm the reputation of the person defamed.

16. Mayhem - the criminal act of disabling, disfiguring or cutting off or making useless one
of the members (leg, arm, hand, foot, eye) of another either intentionally or in a fight,
called maiming.

17. Robbery - 1) the direct taking of property (including money) from a person (victim)
through force, threat or intimidation.

18. Burglary - the crime of breaking and entering into a structure for the purpose of
committing a crime.

19. Breaking and Entering - 1) the criminal act of entering a residence or other enclosed
property through the slightest amount of force (even pushing open a door), without
authorization.

20. Larceny - the crime of taking the goods of another person without permission (usually
secretly), with the intent of keeping them.

21. Receiving Stolen Property - the crime of possession of goods which one knows or
which any reasonable person would realize were stolen. It is generally a felony.
Innocent possession is not a crime, but the goods are generally returned to the legal
owner.

22. Embezzlement - the crime of stealing the funds or property of an employer, company
or government or misappropriating money or assets held in trust.

23. Forgery - 1) the crime of creating a false document, altering a document, or writing a
false signature for the illegal benefit of the person making the forgery.

24. Extortion - obtaining money or property by threat to a victim's property or loved ones,
intimidation, or false claim of a right (such as pretending to be an IRS agent).

25. Vandalism –

26. Malicious - With bad, and unlawful motives

27. Arson – the felony crime of intentionally burning a house or other building.

28. Vagrancy - moving about without a means to support oneself, without a permanent
home, and relying on begging.

29. Garnishment - the entire process of petitioning for and getting a court order directing
a person or entity (garnishee) to hold funds they owe to someone who allegedly is in
debt to another person, often after a judgment has been rendered.
30. Gag Order - a judge's order prohibiting the attorneys and the parties to a pending
lawsuit or criminal prosecution from talking to the media or the public about the case.

31. Frivolous - referring to a legal move in a lawsuit clearly intended merely to harass,
delay or embarrass the opposition.

32. Free Enterprise –

33. Fraud - the intentional use of deceit, a trick or some dishonest means to deprive
another of his/her/its money, property or a legal right.

34. Franking Privileges –

35. Franchise - . a right granted by the government to a person or corporation, such as a

taxi permit, bus route, an airline's use of a public airport, business license or corporate
existence.

36. Foreclosure - the system by which a party who has loaned money secured by a
mortgage or deed of trust on real property (or has an unpaid judgment), requires sale
of the real property to recover the money due, unpaid interest, plus the costs of
foreclosure, when the debtor fails to make payment.

37. Finder’s Fee –

38. Fiduciary - from the Latin fiducia, meaning "trust," a person (or a business like a bank
or stock brokerage) who has the power and obligation to act for another (often called
the beneficiary) under circumstances which require total trust, good faith and honesty.

39.F.I.C.A. – (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) This act mandates that an

employer withhold a set percentage of an employee’s salary each pay period.
40. Felony - 1) a crime sufficiently serious to be punishable by death or a term in state or
federal prison, as distinguished from a misdemeanor which is only punishable by
confinement to county or local jail and/or a fine.
41. Federal Reserve System - the central bank of the United States. It was created
by Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more
stable monetary and financial system.

42. Fair Value - The estimated value of all assets and liabilities of an acquired
company used to consolidate the financial statements of both companies. 2.
In the futures market, fair value is the equilibrium price for a futures
contract. This is equal to the spot price after taking into account
compounded interest (and dividends lost because the investor owns the
futures contract rather than the physical stocks) over a certain period of
time.

43. Fairness Doctrine - The policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission.
an attempt to ensure that all coverage of controversial issues by a broadcast station be
balanced and fair.

44. Equal Time Doctrine – (overview) a station which sells or gives one minute to Candidate
“A” must sell or give the same amount of time with the same audience potential to all other
candidates for the particular office.

45. Extradition - the surrender by one state or country of a person charged with a crime
in another state or country.

46. Ex Post Facto - Latin for "after the fact," which refers to laws adopted after an act is
committed making it illegal although it was legal when done, or increasing the penalty
for a crime after it is committed.

47. Exonerate –

48. Exile –

49. Executor - the person appointed to administer the estate of a person who has died
leaving a will which nominates that person. Unless there is a valid objection, the judge
will appoint the person named in the will to be executor.

50. Evasion - an act or instance of violating the tax laws by failing or refusing to
pay all or part of one's taxes.

51. Euthanasia - Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death
painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures,
 a person or animal suffering from an incurable, esp. a painful, disease or
condition.

52. Ethics - the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of

human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.

53. Espionage - the crime of spying on the federal government and/or transferring state
secrets on behalf of a foreign country.

54. Equity - 1) a venerable group of rights and procedures to provide fairness, unhampered by the
narrow strictures of the old common law or other technical requirements of the law.

55. Equal Protection Clause - Portion of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
that prohibits discrimination by state government institutions. The clause grants all people
"equal protection of the laws," which means that the states must apply the law equally and
cannot give preference to one person or class of persons over another.

56. Entrapment - in criminal law, the act of law enforcement officers or government
agents inducing or encouraging a person to commit a crime when the potential criminal
expresses a desire not to go ahead.

57. Endowment - The creation of a fund, often by gift or bequest from a dead person's
estate, for the maintenance of a public institution, particularly a college, university or
scholarship.

58. Eminent Domain - the power of a governmental entity (federal, state, county or city
government, school district, hospital district or other agencies) to take private real
estate for public use, with or without the permission of the owner.

59. Ecology - the branch of sociology concerned with the spacing and
interdependence of people and institutions.
60. Easement - the right to use the real property of another for a specific purpose.

61. Earnest Money - money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract.

62. D.W.I. - (Driving While Intoxicated)

63. Duress - the use of force, false imprisonment or threats (and possibly psychological
torture or "brainwashing") to compel someone to act contrary to his/her wishes or
interests.

64. Due Diligence - such diligence as a reasonable person under the same
circumstances would use : use of reasonable but not necessarily exhaustive
efforts called also reasonable diligence

65. Docket - 1) n. the cases on a court calendar. 2) n. brief notes, usually written by the
court clerk, stating what action was taken that day in court. 3) v. to write down the
name of a case to be put on calendar or make notes on action in court.

66. Disturbance - an outbreak of disorder; a breach of public peace.

67. Destitute - Lacking resources or the means of subsistence; completely

impoverished.

68. Deposition - the taking and recording of testimony of a witness under oath before a
court reporter in a place away from the courtroom before trial.
69. De Facto - Latin for "in fact." Often used in place of "actual" to show that the court will
treat as a fact authority being exercised or an entity acting as if it had authority, even
though the legal requirements have not been met.

70. De Jure - Latin for "lawful," as distinguished from de facto (actual).

71. Deficit - a shortage, less than is due, or in the case of a business or government
budget, more expenditures than income. Unbalanced budgets with a planned year-end
deficit are prohibited at every level of government except the federal.

72. Deed - the written document which transfers title (ownership) or an interest in real
property to another person.

73. Creditor - a person or entity to whom a debt is owed.

74. Creed - A system of belief, principles, or opinions.

75. Council - a body of persons specially designated or selected to act in an

advisory, administrative, or legislative capacity.

76. Counsel - a lawyer, attorney, attorney-at-law, counsellor, counsellor-at-law, solicitor,

barrister, advocate or proctor (a lawyer in admiralty court), licensed to practice law. In
the United States they all mean the same thing. 2) v. to give legal advice. 3) v. in some
jurisdictions, to urge someone to commit a crime, which in itself is a crime.

77. Corporal Punishment - physical punishment, as flogging, inflicted on the

body of one convicted of a crime: formerly included the death penalty,
sentencing to a term of years, etc.
78. Coroner - a county official with the responsibility to determine the cause of death of
anyone who dies violently (by attack or accident), suddenly, or suspiciously.

79. Copyright - the exclusive right of the author or creator of a literary or artistic property
(such as a book, movie or musical composition) to print, copy, sell, license, distribute,
transform to another medium, translate, record or perform or otherwise use (or not
use) and to give it to another by will.

80. Patent - an exclusive right to the benefits of an invention or improvement granted by

the U.S. Patent Office, for a specific period of time, on the basis that it is novel (not
previously known or described in a publication), "non-obvious" (a form which anyone in
the field of expertise could identify), and useful. a) "utility patent" which includes a
process, a machine (mechanism with moving parts), manufactured products, and
compounds or mixtures (such as chemical formulas); b) "design patent" which is a
new, original and ornamental design for a manufactured article; and c) "plant patent"
which is a new variety of a cultivated asexually reproduced plant.

81. Common Law - the traditional unwritten law of England, based on custom and usage,
which began to develop over a thousand years before the founding of the United
States.

82. Collateral - property pledged to secure a loan or debt, usually funds or personal
property as distinguished from real property (but technically collateral can include real
estate). 2) adj. referring to something that is going on at the same time parallel to the
main issue in a lawsuit or controversy which may affect the outcome of the case, such
as adoption of a new federal regulation or a criminal trial of one of the parties.

83. Conspiracy - when people work together by agreement to commit an illegal act.

84. Contempt of Court - there are essentially two types of contempt: a) being rude,
disrespectful to the judge or other attorneys or causing a disturbance in the courtroom,
particularly after being warned by the judge; b) willful failure to obey an order of the
court. This latter can include failure to pay child support or alimony.
85. Concurrent Power - a power that is held simultaneously by more than one
entity;

86. Collusion - where two persons (or business entities through their officers or other
employees) enter into a deceitful agreement, usually secret, to defraud and/or gain an
unfair advantage over a third party, competitors, consumers or those with whom they
are negotiating.

87. Coercion - force or the power to use force in gaining compliance, as by a

government or police force.

88. Clemency - the power of a President in federal criminal cases, and the Governor in
state convictions, to pardon a person convicted of a crime, commute the sentence
(shorten it, often to time already served) or reduce it from death to another lesser
sentence.

89. Boycott - rganized refusal to purchase products or patronize a store to damage the
producer or merchant monetarily, to influence its policy, and/or to attract attention to a
social cause.

90. Blasphemy - A contemptuous or profane act, utterance, or writing concerning

God or a sacred entity.

91. Bigot - a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or
opinion.

92. Alien - a person who is not a citizen of the country.

93. Indictment - a charge of a felony (serious crime) voted by a Grand Jury based upon a
proposed charge, witnesses' testimony and other evidence presented by the public
prosecutor (District Attorney).
94. Cabinet - A body of persons appointed by a head of state or a prime minister
to head the executive departments of the government and to act as official
advisers.

95. Misdemeanor - a lesser crime punishable by a fine and/or county jail time for up to
one year.

96. Direct Tax - a tax exacted directly from the persons who will bear the burden
of it (without reimbursement to them at the expense of others), as a poll
tax, a general property tax, or an income tax.

97. Gag Rule –

98. Judicial Review - the power of a court to adjudicate the constitutionality of

the laws of a government or the acts of a government official.

99. Common Law Marriage - a marriage without a civil or ecclesiastical

ceremony, generally resulting from an agreement to marry followed by the
couple's living together as husband and wife.

100.Redress of Grievances –

101.Dissenting Opinion - an opinion filed by a judge who disagrees with the

majority decision of a case

102.Tenant - a person who occupies real property owned by another based upon an
agreement between the person and the landlord/owner, almost always for rental
payments.

103.Ordain - To order by virtue of superior authority

104.General Election - a regularly scheduled local, state, or national election in

which voters elect officeholders.
105.Arbitration - a mini-trial, which may be for a lawsuit ready to go to trial, held in an
attempt to avoid a court trial and conducted by a person or a panel of people who are
not judges.

106.Bill - 1) what is commonly called a "check" by which the signer requires the bank to
pay a third party a sum of money. This is a holdover from the days when a person
would draw up a "bill of exchange." 2) a statement of what is owed. 3) any paper
money. 4) a legislative proposal for enactment of a law. It is called a bill until it is
passed and signed, at which time it is a law (statute) and is no longer referred to as a
bill. 5) an old-fashioned term for various filed documents in lawsuits or criminal
prosecutions, which is falling into disuse.

107.Corruption of the Blood - The corruption of blood would forbid the accuser’s
family from inheriting his property.

108.Executive - a person or group of persons having administrative or

supervisory authority in an organization.

109.Integrate - To give or cause to give members of all races, religions, and

ethnic groups an equal opportunity to belong to, be employed by, be
customers of, or vote in (an organization, place of business, city, state, etc.

110.Oath - 1) a swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, which
would subject the oath-taker to a prosecution for the crime of perjury if he/she
knowingly lies in a statement either orally in a trial or deposition or in writing.

111.Arraignment - the hearing in which a person charged with a crime is arraigned in his
or her first appearance before a judge.

112.Landlord - a person who owns real property and rents or leases it to another, called
a "tenant."

113.Juvenile Delinquent - a person who is under age (usually below 18), who is found to
have committed a crime in states which have declared by law that a minor lacks
responsibility and thus may not be sentenced as an adult.

114.Double jeopardy - placing someone on trial a second time for an offense for which
he/she has been previously acquitted, even when new incriminating evidence has
been unearthed.

115.Grand Jury - jury in each county or federal court district which serves for a term of a
year and is usually selected from a list of nominees offered by the judges in the county
or district.

116.Appropriation - an act of a legislature authorizing money to be paid from

the treasury for a specified use.
117.Shield Law - Statutes enacted in some states which declare that communications
between news reporters and informants are confidential and privileged and thus
cannot be testified to in court.

118.Common Law - the traditional unwritten law of England, based on custom and
usage, which began to develop over a thousand years before the founding of the
United States.