Legal terms for Court Interpreter Written Exam Questions And 100% Correct Answers 2023/2024
•demur: to object
•Default: fail to do something required to do
•Deponent: Person giving testimony
•Discovery: The pretrial procedures used by the parties to obtain information about
the case from the other parties in order to prepare for trial. (Exchange of evidence)
•Dismiss trial without prejudice: Without right to a new trial
•Dismiss case with prejudice: Without a right to a new trial
•Diversion: The suspension of criminal prosecution of an offender. The offender may
be asked to participate in a treatment or supervisory program in exchange for his agreement to stop or to suspend prosecution. (Alternate program)
•Hearsay evidence, testimony: A written or oral out-of-court statement offered to prove the truth of the
matter asserted. Hearsay is inadmissible into evidence, unless one or more of the hearsays
exceptions apply.
•Heretofore: up to this time
•Hold harmless: of, relating to, or being an agreement between parties in which one assumes the potential liability for injury that may arise from a situation
and thus relieves the other of liability
•hung jury: no unanimous decision
•Indictment: A formal written accusation submitted to a grand jury by a prosecutor,
charging one or more persons with one or more crimes. The grand jury must determine
whether the person or persons named should be prosecuted for the crime charged, in
which case the indictment is endorsed by the foreman of the grand jury as a true bill. An
indictment authorizes trial of the persons named for the crimes charged.
•Indict: to accuse formally
•Interdiction: Prohibition
•Intestate: having made no valid will •Double Jeopardy: Trial of a person by the same jurisdiction more than once for
the same crime. The U.S. Constitution prohibits subjecting persons to double jeopardy.
•Jurisdiction: The power to hear and to decide cases. Jurisdiction exists over particular types of cases (i.e., over subject matter), and over parties (i.e., personal jurisdiction). Also used to refer to a particular unit of government (e.g., a state), particularly with respect to its judicial powers (e.g., different jurisdictions have different
legal tests for insanity).
•Larceny: theft
•Lechery: lewdness
•Levy: tax or fee
•Libel: written defamation
•Parole: A conditional release from imprisonment which entitles the person receiving
the parole to serve the remainder of his term outside of prison if he satisfactorily complies with all the terms and conditions connected therewith.
•Plea bargain: Plea negotiations can center around the defendant's pleading guilty to a lesser offense, or
to only one or several of the counts in a multi-count indictment or information. In return,
the defendant seeks to obtain concessions as to the type or length of his sentence or the
reduction or elimination of charges against him.
•Peremptory challenge: The right of a party to exclude a prospective juror from serving on the jury for any reason and without explanation, subject to the civil rights laws.
•Probable cause: Reasonable ground for belief that certain facts exist.
•Allegation: n. a statement of claimed fact contained in a complaint (a written pleading filed to begin a lawsuit), a criminal charge, or an affirmative defense (part of the written answer to a complaint). Until each statement is proved it
is only an allegation. Some allegations are made "on information and belief" if the person making the statement is not sure of a fact.
•Allow the Claim: To decide a claim in favor of the party asserting it. Also to deny
a pre-trial motion to dismiss a claim and thereby to allow the proponent to continue litigating it.
•demur: to object
•Default: fail to do something required to do
•Deponent: Person giving testimony
•Discovery: The pretrial procedures used by the parties to obtain information about
the case from the other parties in order to prepare for trial. (Exchange of evidence)
•Dismiss trial without prejudice: Without right to a new trial
•Dismiss case with prejudice: Without a right to a new trial
•Diversion: The suspension of criminal prosecution of an offender. The offender may
be asked to participate in a treatment or supervisory program in exchange for his agreement to stop or to suspend prosecution. (Alternate program)
•Hearsay evidence, testimony: A written or oral out-of-court statement offered to prove the truth of the
matter asserted. Hearsay is inadmissible into evidence, unless one or more of the hearsays
exceptions apply.
•Heretofore: up to this time
•Hold harmless: of, relating to, or being an agreement between parties in which one assumes the potential liability for injury that may arise from a situation
and thus relieves the other of liability
•hung jury: no unanimous decision
•Indictment: A formal written accusation submitted to a grand jury by a prosecutor,
charging one or more persons with one or more crimes. The grand jury must determine
whether the person or persons named should be prosecuted for the crime charged, in
which case the indictment is endorsed by the foreman of the grand jury as a true bill. An
indictment authorizes trial of the persons named for the crimes charged.
•Indict: to accuse formally
•Interdiction: Prohibition
•Intestate: having made no valid will •Double Jeopardy: Trial of a person by the same jurisdiction more than once for
the same crime. The U.S. Constitution prohibits subjecting persons to double jeopardy.
•Jurisdiction: The power to hear and to decide cases. Jurisdiction exists over particular types of cases (i.e., over subject matter), and over parties (i.e., personal jurisdiction). Also used to refer to a particular unit of government (e.g., a state), particularly with respect to its judicial powers (e.g., different jurisdictions have different
legal tests for insanity).
•Larceny: theft
•Lechery: lewdness
•Levy: tax or fee
•Libel: written defamation
•Parole: A conditional release from imprisonment which entitles the person receiving
the parole to serve the remainder of his term outside of prison if he satisfactorily complies with all the terms and conditions connected therewith.
•Plea bargain: Plea negotiations can center around the defendant's pleading guilty to a lesser offense, or
to only one or several of the counts in a multi-count indictment or information. In return,
the defendant seeks to obtain concessions as to the type or length of his sentence or the
reduction or elimination of charges against him.
•Peremptory challenge: The right of a party to exclude a prospective juror from serving on the jury for any reason and without explanation, subject to the civil rights laws.
•Probable cause: Reasonable ground for belief that certain facts exist.
•Allegation: n. a statement of claimed fact contained in a complaint (a written pleading filed to begin a lawsuit), a criminal charge, or an affirmative defense (part of the written answer to a complaint). Until each statement is proved it
is only an allegation. Some allegations are made "on information and belief" if the person making the statement is not sure of a fact.
•Allow the Claim: To decide a claim in favor of the party asserting it. Also to deny
a pre-trial motion to dismiss a claim and thereby to allow the proponent to continue litigating it.
