Essential Legal Terms

To bring someone to court to answer a criminal charge

A case which is being heard by a committee, tribunal or court of law

Money claimed by someone as compensation for harm done?

Any act which is not legal

To ask a high law court to change its decision or sentence

To make an allegation in legal proceedings

A legal agreement between two or more parties

The court’s final decision in a trial

A disagreement or argument between parties

The punishment given by the court to a criminaldefendant who has been found guilty of a crime

A person who has studied law and can act for people on legal business

Insolvent and unable to pay debts as they come due

To order someone to pay money as a punishment.

An adjective referring to a judge or to the law

Failure to carry out the terms of an agreement

An agreement reached after an argument

An official who presides over a court

to wrong or mistreat a person or animal physically, mentally, or sexually

A neutral person appointed or chosen to settle a dispute

A written or spoken statement of facts which helps to prove or disprovesomething at a trial

Someone who is accused of a crime in a criminal case

To find that someone is guilty of a crime

Not guilty of a crime

A person who makes a claim against someone in a civil court

to become the owner of something

To give someone the wrong idea or impression aboutsomething

to keep someone restricted to a placethat essentially functions as a prison

Having the legal ability to force someone to do something

To hold someone legally so as to charge them with a crime

The arguments used when fighting a case