1. Types of Law Reasons for Law
UNIT 5 REVIEW GAME
Types of Law Reasons for Law 1 2 3 4 5
Legal System
Civil Cases
Criminal Cases

2. Legal decisions that provide example for future cases.
Precedent

3. Minor violations of the law are called.
misdemeanors

4. Type of law involves disputes between people or groups.
Civil law

5. Laws that seek to prevent people from deliberately or recklessly harming each other or property.
Criminal law

6. The earliest known written laws.
Code of Hammurabi

7. This protects a person’s right to be taken before a judge and told why they are being held.
Writ of Habeas Corpus

8. Provide a 5th & 6th Amendment right guaranteed in the Miranda Warning
5th – self-incrimination
6th – right to an attorney

9. The right to due process of law is protected by these 2 amendments.

10. Search Warrant Probable Cause
The 4th Amendment mandates that police must have this to search your property. What must police have to obtain this from a judge.
Search Warrant
Probable Cause

11. What is a right guaranteed by the 6th Amendment?
To be informed of accusation
To hear & question witnesses
To subpoena witnesses
To representation in court
To have a speedy & public trial by a jury

12. Person who brings lawsuit.
Plaintiff

13. Person being sued.
defendant

14. Most civil cases are settled before __________.
Trial

15. The plaintiff in a civil case will file this to begin a civil case.
complaint

16. In the case that the defendant is found responsible, the defendant has the right to _______.
appeal

17. When a person is accused of a crime by the police.
arrest

18. To be formally accused of a crime by a grand jury or a judge.
indictment

19. This is the process when the defendant is told of the charges, and asked to enter a plea.
arraignment

20. When the opposing side is able to ask questions of a witness for the other side.
Cross-examine

21. When the jury cannot reach a verdict.
Hung jury