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| fundamental law of a nation |
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| decisions in a case that is used to guide decisions in later cases with simular facts |
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| to stand on decided cases- deciding new cases by referncing previous decisions |
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| governs or defines legal wrongs, or crimes committed against society |
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| a serious class of crivme- such as rape, murder or robbery-that may be punishable by imprisonment in excess of one year or death |
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| a lesser crimve that is neither a felony nor treason, punishable by a fien and/or imprisonment in other than state or federal penitentiaries |
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| to find a person guilty of a crime trial cournt mus find that the evidence presented show that the person committed the crime |
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| preponderance of the evidence |
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| In civil trials the burden of persuasion to win a verdict requires the plaintiff to prove it claim by having the majority or bulk of the evidence on its side |
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| common law and sstatutory law that defind and establish legal rights and regulate behavior |
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| degermines how substantive law is enforced through the courts by determining how a lwsuit begins |
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| general accepted standards of right and wrong in a society |
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| teh duties which a member of society owes to other memebers |
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| refers to a code of conduct that defines the behaviral boundries for business activity |
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| Law made & applied by judges as they resolve disputes between private parties |
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| key factor in agency's decision whether to prosecute an organization or to recommend lenience to a court when a legal problem arisis |
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| law that is supreme over state & federal law that go beyond what the constitution allows |
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| Congress and the state legislatures are the souce |
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| Under common law case comes to court in a form of a case |
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| concerns the legal relatinship between members of society - businesses and individuals and the government |
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