Intro to Law and Legal - terms for 7 & 8.txt

Action used to recover possession ofland as well as damages for unlawful detention or possession

Awarded to restore a person to aprevious position to prevent unjust enrichment

Awarded to punish the defendant forconduct and to deter others from similar conduct

Rectifies a written instrument in order that it may express the real agreementor intention of the parties

An order directing the defendant to actor refrain from acting in a specifiedway

Short statements used as guides in thedecision-making process in disputes inequity

Awarded to put the plaintiff in the same finacial position as before the commission of a tort

Court determination of the rights of theparties to a dispute; does not order any performance relative to those rights

Stipulated sum contained in an agreement to be paid as compensation for loss in the event of a breach of acontract

Action used to recover possession ofpersonal property wrongfully taken

Damages that are the natural and necessary result of a wrongful act or omission and can be expected to accompany an injury

A guilty plea that cannot be used later against the accused as an admission

Provides that evidence obtained in violation of the Constitution is inadmissible in a riminal trial

A theory of punishment aimed at "getting even" with offenders

The singling out or targeting of a particular. group so as to impose punishment without a trial

A grand jury's written accusation against one who is believed to have committed a crime

Acknowledgement, in a court of law, of one's obligation to appear for trial

The element of a criminal offense that constitutes the wrongful act

Questions the legality of the incarceration of a prisoner

Reasonable grounds to believe that the arrestee has committed or is committing a crime

Offensively touching another person without his or her consent

A law that makes acts criminal that were not criminal at the time they were committed

A theory of punishment aimed at correcting offenders so that they can live according to the existing social order

Affords the accused and counsel an opportunity to attack the identifying witnesses' credibility

Satisfies the Sixth Amendment requirement that the accused "be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation"