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CJ Terms 1A
Terminology Match
Term | Definition |
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Appellate Court | Court of Appeals |
Common Law | Resulting from Custom or Court Decision |
Corpus Delicti | Elements of the Crime |
Custom | Behavior Traditional with time |
Incestuous | marriage or sexual relations between close blood relatives |
Inherent | Within, basic to, built in. |
Jurisdiction | Court's legal authority to act |
Moral Turpitude | Relating to ethics, honesty, morality |
Nullify | to dilute or abolish |
Precedent | Resulting from Custom and court decision |
Public Policy | Best for the majority, custom |
Statutes | laws defining crimes and their punishments |
Substantive law | Written law |
Tort | Private or civil wrong |
Venue | geographical location of a court hearing a case |