LEGAL CROSSWORD

The generic name for the defendant in a criminal case.
To determine finally.
A person who makes and signs an affidavit.
To state, recite, assert, claim, maintain, charge or set forth. To make an allegation.
A court officer who has charge of a court session in the matter of keeping order and has custody of the jury.
Historically, the partition separating the general public from the space occupied by the judges, lawyers, and other participants in a trial.
Inclination, bent, a pre-conceived opinion or a predisposition to decide a cause or an issue a certain way.
The heading on a legal document listing the parties, the court, the case number, and related information.
A collection, compendium, or revision of laws, rules, and regulations enacted by legislative authority.
An amendment to a will.
A legal representative, attorney, lawyer.
An order of the court. A final decree is one that fully and finally disposes of the litigation. An interlocutory decree is a preliminary order that often disposes of only part of a lawsuit.
Money or a written instrument such as a deed that, by agreement between two parties, is held by a neutral third party (held in escrow) until all conditions of the agreement are met.
A person's own act, or acceptance of facts, which preclude his or her later making claims to the contrary.
A weapon which acts by force of gunpowder, such as a rifle, shotgun or revolver.
To lose, or lose the right to.
To withhold a debtor's money, and turn it over to another in order to pay a debt. Typically, the one withholding the money is the debtor's employer.
Statements by a witness who did not see or hear the incident in question but heard about it from someone else.
The term pertains to liability for loss shifted from one person held legally responsible to another.
The peril in which an accused is placed when he is properly charged with a crime before a court.
Evil doing, ill conduct; the commission of some act which is positively prohibited by law.
A person with legal skills, but who is not an attorney, and who works under the supervision of a lawyer or who is otherwise authorized by law to use those legal skills.
Evidence given to explain, counteract, or disprove facts given by the opposing counsel.
The means by which a right is enforced or the violation of a right is prevented, redressed or compensated.