AAERT 2027 EXAMINATION ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔OPENING STATEMENT - ✔✔introductory remarks at the start of the trial
✔✔OPINION TESTIMONY - ✔✔provided by expert witnesses
✔✔OWN RECOGNIZANCE - ✔✔defendant in criminal trial released from custody, on
simple promise to appear in court as required
✔✔PARITY - ✔✔relative equality as in status, amount, or value
✔✔PECUNIARY DAMAGES - ✔✔money award in compensation for damages
sustained
✔✔PERCIPIENT WITNESS - ✔✔witness with firsthand knowledge of a matter, who
observed the events
✔✔PLAINTIFF - ✔✔person bringing action against another party
✔✔PLEA - ✔✔document citing alleged wrongdoing on part of defendant and requesting
a specific relief
✔✔PRECEDENT - ✔✔prior court ruling or opinion
✔✔PREJUDICE - ✔✔bias or preconceived opinion formed before the evidence is fully
heard
✔✔PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE - ✔✔principle that a defendant is considered
innocent until proven guilty
✔✔PRIVITY OF CONTRACT - ✔✔contractual relationship between parties
,✔✔PROBABLE CAUSE - ✔✔sufficient reason for law enforcement agents to obtain a
search warrant or detain someone suspected of committing a crime
✔✔PROBATION - ✔✔releasing a person found guilty of an offense
✔✔PROOF HEARING - ✔✔after a default judgment; hearing where plaintiff presents
the actual evidence supporting a position
✔✔PUNATIVE DAMAGES - ✔✔money award above actual damages suffered;
designed to punish the defendant and warn others against pursuing such a course of
action
✔✔REBUTTAL - ✔✔evidence/argument to contradict points made
✔✔RECANT - ✔✔retraction of previous statement
✔✔RECIDIVIST - ✔✔repeat criminal
✔✔RECIDIVISM - ✔✔tendency to repeat crimes
✔✔RECROSS - ✔✔questioning after redirect examination
✔✔RECUSE - ✔✔to disqualify
✔✔REDACT - ✔✔edit or revise document
✔✔REDIRECT - ✔✔questioning a witness after cross examination
✔✔REMAINDERMAN - ✔✔person who receives property after death of a life tenant
✔✔REMITTITUR - ✔✔courts order reducing the amount of grossly excessive jury award
✔✔REMITTER - ✔✔operation of law which restores earlier valid title
✔✔RESCISSION - ✔✔cancellation or annulment of contract
✔✔RIPARIAN - ✔✔relating to water rights and access to rivers and streams
✔✔RULING - ✔✔courts decision on legal question raised in a case
✔✔SEARCH WARRANT - ✔✔permission given to search premises or persons
✔✔SCOFFLAW - ✔✔one who not only breaks the law but holds it in contempt
, ✔✔SEALED - ✔✔not open to public scruitiny
✔✔SENTENCING HEARING - ✔✔procedure after a criminal trial when the severity of
the sentence is imposed
✔✔SEQUESTER - ✔✔to remove or set apart
✔✔SETTLEMENT - ✔✔agreement between parties
✔✔SHEPARDIZING - ✔✔legal research into the ultimate outcome of a case
✔✔SIDEBAR - ✔✔counsel and judge discuss matters outside te hearing of the jury
✔✔STANDING DOCTRINE - ✔✔having sufficient interest in the outcome of an issue to
permit filing a lawsuit
✔✔STATUTORY LAW - ✔✔law enacted by legislature
✔✔STRIKE - ✔✔remove a portion of record from consideration by a fact finder
✔✔SUBORN - ✔✔to induce commission of an unlawful act
✔✔SUBPOENA - ✔✔formal order to appear
✔✔SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM - ✔✔supply specified documents
✔✔SUBPOENA AD TESTIFICANDUM - ✔✔come prepared to testify
✔✔SUMMARY JUDGEMENT - ✔✔courts decision is rendered before completion of trial
✔✔SUMMONS - ✔✔official notice served upon a defendant
✔✔SURPLUSAGE - ✔✔irrelevant matter in a proceeding; excessive verbiage
✔✔JOINT TENANCY - ✔✔ownership of property by 2 o more persons
✔✔TESTIMONY - ✔✔evidence given by witness under oath
✔✔TORT - ✔✔civil wrong
✔✔TORTFEASOR - ✔✔defendant who is alleged to have committed a civil wrong
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔OPENING STATEMENT - ✔✔introductory remarks at the start of the trial
✔✔OPINION TESTIMONY - ✔✔provided by expert witnesses
✔✔OWN RECOGNIZANCE - ✔✔defendant in criminal trial released from custody, on
simple promise to appear in court as required
✔✔PARITY - ✔✔relative equality as in status, amount, or value
✔✔PECUNIARY DAMAGES - ✔✔money award in compensation for damages
sustained
✔✔PERCIPIENT WITNESS - ✔✔witness with firsthand knowledge of a matter, who
observed the events
✔✔PLAINTIFF - ✔✔person bringing action against another party
✔✔PLEA - ✔✔document citing alleged wrongdoing on part of defendant and requesting
a specific relief
✔✔PRECEDENT - ✔✔prior court ruling or opinion
✔✔PREJUDICE - ✔✔bias or preconceived opinion formed before the evidence is fully
heard
✔✔PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE - ✔✔principle that a defendant is considered
innocent until proven guilty
✔✔PRIVITY OF CONTRACT - ✔✔contractual relationship between parties
,✔✔PROBABLE CAUSE - ✔✔sufficient reason for law enforcement agents to obtain a
search warrant or detain someone suspected of committing a crime
✔✔PROBATION - ✔✔releasing a person found guilty of an offense
✔✔PROOF HEARING - ✔✔after a default judgment; hearing where plaintiff presents
the actual evidence supporting a position
✔✔PUNATIVE DAMAGES - ✔✔money award above actual damages suffered;
designed to punish the defendant and warn others against pursuing such a course of
action
✔✔REBUTTAL - ✔✔evidence/argument to contradict points made
✔✔RECANT - ✔✔retraction of previous statement
✔✔RECIDIVIST - ✔✔repeat criminal
✔✔RECIDIVISM - ✔✔tendency to repeat crimes
✔✔RECROSS - ✔✔questioning after redirect examination
✔✔RECUSE - ✔✔to disqualify
✔✔REDACT - ✔✔edit or revise document
✔✔REDIRECT - ✔✔questioning a witness after cross examination
✔✔REMAINDERMAN - ✔✔person who receives property after death of a life tenant
✔✔REMITTITUR - ✔✔courts order reducing the amount of grossly excessive jury award
✔✔REMITTER - ✔✔operation of law which restores earlier valid title
✔✔RESCISSION - ✔✔cancellation or annulment of contract
✔✔RIPARIAN - ✔✔relating to water rights and access to rivers and streams
✔✔RULING - ✔✔courts decision on legal question raised in a case
✔✔SEARCH WARRANT - ✔✔permission given to search premises or persons
✔✔SCOFFLAW - ✔✔one who not only breaks the law but holds it in contempt
, ✔✔SEALED - ✔✔not open to public scruitiny
✔✔SENTENCING HEARING - ✔✔procedure after a criminal trial when the severity of
the sentence is imposed
✔✔SEQUESTER - ✔✔to remove or set apart
✔✔SETTLEMENT - ✔✔agreement between parties
✔✔SHEPARDIZING - ✔✔legal research into the ultimate outcome of a case
✔✔SIDEBAR - ✔✔counsel and judge discuss matters outside te hearing of the jury
✔✔STANDING DOCTRINE - ✔✔having sufficient interest in the outcome of an issue to
permit filing a lawsuit
✔✔STATUTORY LAW - ✔✔law enacted by legislature
✔✔STRIKE - ✔✔remove a portion of record from consideration by a fact finder
✔✔SUBORN - ✔✔to induce commission of an unlawful act
✔✔SUBPOENA - ✔✔formal order to appear
✔✔SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM - ✔✔supply specified documents
✔✔SUBPOENA AD TESTIFICANDUM - ✔✔come prepared to testify
✔✔SUMMARY JUDGEMENT - ✔✔courts decision is rendered before completion of trial
✔✔SUMMONS - ✔✔official notice served upon a defendant
✔✔SURPLUSAGE - ✔✔irrelevant matter in a proceeding; excessive verbiage
✔✔JOINT TENANCY - ✔✔ownership of property by 2 o more persons
✔✔TESTIMONY - ✔✔evidence given by witness under oath
✔✔TORT - ✔✔civil wrong
✔✔TORTFEASOR - ✔✔defendant who is alleged to have committed a civil wrong
