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criminal law/criminal justice

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  1. statutory
    relating to or created by regulations
  2. constrain
    hold back
  3. provisions
    a stock or supply of foods
  4. enactment
    the passing of a law by a legislative body
  5. codified
    enacted by a legislative body
  6. jurisdiction
    the territory within which power can be exercised
  7. supremacy
    power to dominate or defeat
  8. jurisprudence
    the branch of philosophy concerned with the law
  9. substantive
    having a firm basis in reality and therefore important
  10. mens rea
    criminal intent
  11. actus reus
    activity that transgresses moral or civil law
  12. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  13. precedent
    an example that is used to justify similar occurrences
  14. monetary
    relating to or involving money
  15. tort
    a wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought
  16. concurrence
    the property of two things happening at the same time
  17. ex post facto
    affecting things past
  18. corpus delicti
    the body of evidence that constitute the offence
  19. duress
    compulsory force or threat
  20. provocation
    a means of arousing or stirring to action
  21. estoppel
    a rule blocking someone from denying their past actions or claims in court
Created on 七月 5, 2011 (updated 七月 5, 2011)

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