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    Vocabulary Related To Law

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    This document defines vocabulary related to law, including terms for different roles in the legal system like advocate, attorney, barrister, counsel, prosecutor, and public defender. It also defines legal terms and procedures such as alimony, bail, conviction, jury, lawsuit, manslaughter, objection, plaintiff, plead, press charges, reach a verdict, sentence, sue, and trial.

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    Vocabulary Related To Law

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    This document defines vocabulary related to law, including terms for different roles in the legal system like advocate, attorney, barrister, counsel, prosecutor, and public defender. It also defines legal terms and procedures such as alimony, bail, conviction, jury, lawsuit, manslaughter, objection, plaintiff, plead, press charges, reach a verdict, sentence, sue, and trial.

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    Vocabulary related to Law

    Advocate: a lawyer
    Alimony: prensin alimenticia
    All rise. The Court is now in session
    Attorney-at-law: the formal name for a lawyer
    Attorney-in-fact: apoderado
    Bail: fianza. Released on bail / granted bail
    Bailiff: (in the US) an official who is responsible for prisoners who are appearing in
    court. (in the UK) an official who takes away someone's possessions when they owe
    money
    Barrister: a lawyer in England or Wales who is allowed to speak in the higher law courts
    Brief a barrister
    Call a witness
    Conviction: condena
    Counsel: a lawyer who gives someone legal advice and represents them in a court of law
    Court Clerk
    Criminal trial: juicio penal
    Death penalty
    Defence councel: a barrister or group of barristers responsible for defending someone on
    trial
    Do time: to serve a specific amount of time in prison
    First-degree murder: any intentional murder that is willful and premeditated with malice
    aforethought.
    Foreman: president del jurado
    Grant someone a pardon: indultar a alguien
    Hung jury: a judicial jury that cannot agree upon a verdict after extended deliberation
    and is unable to reach the required unanimity
    John Doe/ Jane Doe: NN. A name used in a law court for a person whose real name is
    kept secret or is not known
    Judge
    Juror: a member of a jury
    Jury
    Lawsuit: a problem taken to a law court by an ordinary person or an organization rather
    than the police in order to obtain a legal decision
    Manslaughter: the crime of killing someone without intending to kill them (sin
    premeditacin)
    May counsel approach the judge/bench
    Mistrial: a trial that cannot be completed or whose result has no legal value, usually
    because a legal mistake has been made

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    Objection overruled (the judge disagrees with the objection and allows the question,
    testimony, or evidence) vs. sustained (the judge agrees with the objection and disallows
    the question, testimony, or evidence) An objection is typically raised after the opposing
    party asks a question of the witness, but before the witness can answer
    Out of order: fuera de lugar
    Pass sentence on: to read out the sentence of punishment for a convicted criminal.
    Plaintiff: demandante (civil trial)
    Plead guilty / not guilty (to the crime)
    Press charges against XXX
    Prosecution: proceso, juicio
    Prosecutor: represents the people / the Queen // fiscal, aboga
    Public defender: in the US, a lawyer who is paid by the government to defend people in
    court if they cannot pay for themselves
    QC: Queens Counsel. A British lawyer of high remark
    Reach a verdict
    Serve a XXX year sentence in XXX: cumplir condena
    Silk: a QC take the silk
    Solicitor: in the UK, a lawyer who gives legal advice, writes legal contracts,
    and represents people in the lower courts of law
    Sue: demander (+for)
    Take the stand: subir al estrado
    The accused is acquitted: absuelto
    The bar: the profession of being a barrister (=a lawyer who has the right to speak in a
    higher court of law). If someone is called to the bar, they become a barrister.
    The bench: the position of being a judge in a court of law
    The case is dismissed
    The defence: the people in a court case who try to prove that someone is not guilty.
    The defendant: el acusado
    The prosecution: the people who try to prove that someone is guilty
    To be (out) on parole: en libertad condicional
    To be on trial
    To bring a prosecution against XXX: interponer una accin judicial contra XXX
    To strike from the record: to remove words from the transcript of a court hearing or
    from the written minutes of a meeting
    XXX is called to the stand
    XXX is on trial for XXX
    XXX was convicted of XXX: declarado culpable, condenar
    XXX will do/serve time in jail
    Your Honour: used when talking to a judge in a court of law

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