AAERT Practice Test: Questions With Proper Answers

AAERT Practice Test: Questions With Proper Answers

ACTION Correct Ans - a lawsuit

ADVERSE WITNESS Correct Ans - a witness whose testimony is
prejudicial to the case of the party who called him

AFFIDAVIT Correct Ans - written statement of facts made under oath

AFFIANT Correct Ans - signs an affidavit

AFFIRM Correct Ans - to declare solemnly and formally

AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES Correct Ans - considerations which
increase a sentence imposed

MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES Correct Ans - considerations which
decrease a sentence imposed

ALLOCUTION Correct Ans - formal statement by convicted defendant
as to whether there is any reason why judgment should not be rendered
against him

AMENDMENT Correct Ans - change/correction

ANSWER Correct Ans - response by defendant denying plaintiff's
complaint

ARBITRATION Correct Ans - dispute mediation by impartial 3rd party

ARRAIGNMENT Correct Ans - bringing an accused person to court to
plead a criminal charge

ARREST Correct Ans - restraint and detention of a person suspected of
a crime

BAIL Correct Ans - amount of money deposited as form of collateral to
guarantee that a person charged with a crime will appear in court when
scheduled

,BENCH CONFERENCE Correct Ans - a discussion between attorneys
and the judge outside the hearing of courtroom

BENCH WARRANT Correct Ans - authority to find and to bring into
court someone who has failed to appear

BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT Correct Ans - standard for conviction
in a criminal trial

PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE Correct Ans - standard for winning a
civil matter

BIRFUCATION Correct Ans - trial of certain issues separately

BLACK LETTER LAW Correct Ans - basic principles of law

BLACKS LAW DICTIONARY Correct Ans - standard legal reference
work

BRIEFS Correct Ans - papers submitted by attorneys

BURDEN OF PROOF Correct Ans - obligation to provide affirmative
proof on an issue

STANDARD OF EVIDENCE Correct Ans - how much evidence (or what
type) is needed to bear that burden

CALENDAR Correct Ans - court schedule

CASE IN CHIEF Correct Ans - primary presentation of evidence by a
party

CASE LAW Correct Ans - printed decisions and opinions of appellate
jurisdictions

CAUSE OF ACTION Correct Ans - situations causing a lawsuit

, WRIT OF CERTIORARI Correct Ans - appellate court order granting a
hearing to an appellant

CHAIN OF CUSTODY Correct Ans - record showing proper
maintenance of real evidence

CHALLENGE Correct Ans - objection to having someone serve as a
juror

CHAMBERS Correct Ans - judges office within a court house

CHARGE TO THE JURY Correct Ans - instructions from the judge
concerning the law which governs a case

CHATTEL Correct Ans - an article of personal or movable property

CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL Correct Ans - federal appellate level
immediately below the Supreme Court

CLASS ACTION Correct Ans - suit joined in by a group of people who
share a common interest in matter

CLOSING STATEMENT Correct Ans - attorneys final statement

CLOUD ON TITLE Correct Ans - claim or lien which impairs an owners
otherwise free right to use property

QUIET TITLE Correct Ans - remove a claim or lien

CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS Correct Ans - federal regulatory
agency rules and regulations which implement federal law

COLLATERAL ESTOPPEL Correct Ans - a bar to re litigating an issue
already been tried between the same parties

COLLOQUY Correct Ans - any formal conference, conversation or
discussion

COMMON LAW Correct Ans - customary law