Louisiana POST Legal Definitions Study Guide 2026–
2027 | Complete Law Enforcement Terms, Questions
& Answers
Another - correct answers -Refers to any OTHER person or legal entity, including the state of Louisiana
or any subdivision thereof.
Anything of Value - correct answers -Must be given the broadest possible construction, including any
CONCIEVABLE thing of the slightest value, movable or immovable, corporeal or incorporeal, public or
private, and including transportation, telephone and telegraph services, or any other available for hire. It
must be construed in the broad popular sense of the phrase, not necessarily as synonymous with the
traditional legal term "property". In all cases involving shoplifting the term "value" is the actual retail
price of the property at the time of the offense.
Apprehend - correct answers -To take in CUSTODY; to arrest.
Arraign - correct answers -To bring the ACCUSED before a judge, in open court, where he plead to the
charges against him.
Arraignment - correct answers -In criminal practice, to bring an accused to the BAR OF THE COURT in
order that he may plead.
Arrest - correct answers -Is the taking of one person into custody by another. To constitute arrest, there
must be an actual RESTRAINT. The restraint may be imposed by force or may result from the submission
of the person arrested to the custody of the one arresting him.
Arrest Warrant - correct answers -An ORDER in writing by judge authority to take a specific person into
custody to answer a specific criminal charge.
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, Bail - correct answers -To set at LIBERTY a person arrested or imprisoned, or security being taken, for his
appearance at a specified time and place, while charges are pending in court.
Bail Bond - correct answers -An OBLIGATION signed by the accused, with sureties, to secure his
presence in court.
Bailiff - correct answers -A court attendant whose duties are to keep ORDER in the courtroom and to
have custody of the jury.
Ballistics - correct answers -The SCIENCE of the flight of projectile (i.e. bullets fired from a weapon)
Bench Warrant - correct answers -Process issued from the "Bench" for the ARREST of one named or
described therein.
Burden of Proof - correct answers -In the law of evidence, the NECESSITY OR DUTY of affirmatively
proving a fact or facts in dispute.
Change of Venue - correct answers -The removal of a suit from one JURISDICTION to another or from
one COURT to another within the same jurisdiction.
Circumstantial Evidence - correct answers -All evidence of an INDIRECT nature; the process of decisions
by which a court of jury may reason from CIRCUMSTANCES known or proven to establish by inference,
the principal fact.
Civil Rights - correct answers -Rights guaranteed to every person by the U.S. Constitution, the State
Constitution, and the State Legislature, by virtue of THEIR CITIZENSHIP.
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2027 | Complete Law Enforcement Terms, Questions
& Answers
Another - correct answers -Refers to any OTHER person or legal entity, including the state of Louisiana
or any subdivision thereof.
Anything of Value - correct answers -Must be given the broadest possible construction, including any
CONCIEVABLE thing of the slightest value, movable or immovable, corporeal or incorporeal, public or
private, and including transportation, telephone and telegraph services, or any other available for hire. It
must be construed in the broad popular sense of the phrase, not necessarily as synonymous with the
traditional legal term "property". In all cases involving shoplifting the term "value" is the actual retail
price of the property at the time of the offense.
Apprehend - correct answers -To take in CUSTODY; to arrest.
Arraign - correct answers -To bring the ACCUSED before a judge, in open court, where he plead to the
charges against him.
Arraignment - correct answers -In criminal practice, to bring an accused to the BAR OF THE COURT in
order that he may plead.
Arrest - correct answers -Is the taking of one person into custody by another. To constitute arrest, there
must be an actual RESTRAINT. The restraint may be imposed by force or may result from the submission
of the person arrested to the custody of the one arresting him.
Arrest Warrant - correct answers -An ORDER in writing by judge authority to take a specific person into
custody to answer a specific criminal charge.
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, Bail - correct answers -To set at LIBERTY a person arrested or imprisoned, or security being taken, for his
appearance at a specified time and place, while charges are pending in court.
Bail Bond - correct answers -An OBLIGATION signed by the accused, with sureties, to secure his
presence in court.
Bailiff - correct answers -A court attendant whose duties are to keep ORDER in the courtroom and to
have custody of the jury.
Ballistics - correct answers -The SCIENCE of the flight of projectile (i.e. bullets fired from a weapon)
Bench Warrant - correct answers -Process issued from the "Bench" for the ARREST of one named or
described therein.
Burden of Proof - correct answers -In the law of evidence, the NECESSITY OR DUTY of affirmatively
proving a fact or facts in dispute.
Change of Venue - correct answers -The removal of a suit from one JURISDICTION to another or from
one COURT to another within the same jurisdiction.
Circumstantial Evidence - correct answers -All evidence of an INDIRECT nature; the process of decisions
by which a court of jury may reason from CIRCUMSTANCES known or proven to establish by inference,
the principal fact.
Civil Rights - correct answers -Rights guaranteed to every person by the U.S. Constitution, the State
Constitution, and the State Legislature, by virtue of THEIR CITIZENSHIP.
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