Criminal Law

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  1. statutory law
    the body of laws created by legislative statutes
  2. penal code
    the legal code governing crimes and their punishment
  3. supremacy
    power to dominate or defeat
  4. libel
    a false and malicious publication
  5. injunction
    a judicial remedy to prohibit a party from doing something
  6. tort
    a wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought
  7. appellate
    relating to challenges to a legal decision
  8. incitement
    an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating
  9. imperil
    pose a threat to; present a danger to
  10. inchoate
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
  11. magistrate
    a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law
  12. espionage
    the systematic use of spies to obtain secrets
  13. parlay
    exploit a skill or resource in order to get something of greater value
  14. conspiracy
    a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act
  15. jurisprudence
    the branch of philosophy concerned with the law
  16. actus reus
    activity that transgresses moral or civil law
  17. mens rea
    criminal intent
  18. vagrancy
    the state of wandering from place to place
  19. concurrence
    the property of two things happening at the same time
  20. liability
    the state of being legally obliged and responsible
  21. ex post facto
    affecting things past
  22. corpus delicti
    the body of evidence that constitute the offence
  23. Islamic law
    the code of religious law derived from the Quran
  24. Tazir crime
    minor crimes committed by Muslims
Created on Tue Jul 05 20:29:15 EDT 2011 (updated Tue Jul 12 20:37:18 EDT 2011)

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