AAERT MAIN CORE PAPER ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔CONTEMPT - ✔✔willfully disobeying a court order
✔✔COUNTER CLAIM - ✔✔defendant's claim against plaintiff
✔✔COURT MINUTES - ✔✔summary record of events in a case
✔✔CROSS EXAMINATION - ✔✔questions by an opposing party after the side calling
the witness has examined
✔✔DEADLOCKED - ✔✔jury is unable to agree on a verdict
✔✔DECLARANT - ✔✔having an interest in a matter who makes an unsworn statement
✔✔DECLARATION - ✔✔unsworn statement by one having interest in a matter
✔✔DEFENDANT - ✔✔person of whom a lawsuit is filed
✔✔DEMURRER - ✔✔assertion by a defendant that they do not entitle the plaintiff to
prevail
✔✔DEPOSITION - ✔✔questioning by attorneys of a party or witness under oath
✔✔DEPONENT - ✔✔the person being questioned
✔✔DIRECT EXAMINATION - ✔✔questioning by the attorney that called the witness
✔✔DIRECT TESTIMONY - ✔✔answers given during direct examination; or testimony
given under oath by a person who is Pro Se
✔✔DISCOVERY - ✔✔pretrial gathering and exchange of evidence
,✔✔DISMISSED W/PREJUDICE - ✔✔case dismissal that cannot be brought again
✔✔DISMISSED W/O PREJUDICE - ✔✔dismissal that can be brought again
✔✔DOCKET NUMBER - ✔✔identifying number assigned when case is files with the
court
✔✔EMEND - ✔✔change or correct to improve the quality of document
✔✔ENTRAP - ✔✔induce a person to commit a crime, who would otherwise not commit
one
✔✔EQUITY - ✔✔branch of law dealing with results of specific cases
✔✔ERRATA - ✔✔substantive errors found in a deposition or other document
✔✔EVIDENCE - ✔✔items presented to support allegation in a case
✔✔EXAMINATION - ✔✔questions posed to a witness or deponent
✔✔EXECUTE - ✔✔to sign, complete or perform
✔✔EXHIBIT - ✔✔tangible item of evidence
✔✔EXPERT - ✔✔having special expertise which may assist a court, but who is not
connected to the case
✔✔EXTRADITION - ✔✔bringing someone in custody from another place
✔✔F.2d, F.3d - ✔✔2nd and 3rd sets of publishes federal appellate decisions
✔✔FEDERAL QUESTION - ✔✔case or issue which involves federal law or
constitutional claims
✔✔FORUM - ✔✔venue
✔✔GRAND JURY - ✔✔special jury in criminal law which determines if evidence is
sufficient enough to warrant a trial
✔✔GRAVAMEN - ✔✔the part of the charge that weighs most heavily against the
accused
, ✔✔HEARSAY - ✔✔statement made by someone other than the person who was
testifying
✔✔HYPOTHECATE - ✔✔pledge property as collateral for a debt
✔✔HOSTILE WITNESS - ✔✔witness called by one side, but whose interest lie with the
other party
✔✔IMPEACHED - ✔✔testimony contradicted with sufficient proof as to affect a
witness's credibility
✔✔REHABILITATED - ✔✔reestablishing that credibility with further evidence
✔✔INDICTMENT - ✔✔formal criminal charge laid against a person
✔✔COUNTS - ✔✔the individual acts alleged to have broken the law
✔✔INFERENCE - ✔✔logical conclusion drawn from a basis assumed or known to be
true
✔✔INFORMANT - ✔✔someone who gives information
✔✔INJUNCTION - ✔✔order either forbidding or compelling an action
✔✔INTERLOCUTORY - ✔✔provisional, temporary or not yet finalized
✔✔INTERROGATORIES - ✔✔written questions posed before trial
✔✔INTERVENOR - ✔✔person voluntarily joining in an action; with permission of the
court
✔✔INTESTATE - ✔✔dying without having prepared a will
✔✔JOINDER - ✔✔joining lawsuits together
✔✔JUDGEMENT - ✔✔official court decision
✔✔JUNIOR MORTGAGE - ✔✔mortgage next in line to a prior mortgage
✔✔SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION - ✔✔cases or issues a court is authorized to
hear
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔CONTEMPT - ✔✔willfully disobeying a court order
✔✔COUNTER CLAIM - ✔✔defendant's claim against plaintiff
✔✔COURT MINUTES - ✔✔summary record of events in a case
✔✔CROSS EXAMINATION - ✔✔questions by an opposing party after the side calling
the witness has examined
✔✔DEADLOCKED - ✔✔jury is unable to agree on a verdict
✔✔DECLARANT - ✔✔having an interest in a matter who makes an unsworn statement
✔✔DECLARATION - ✔✔unsworn statement by one having interest in a matter
✔✔DEFENDANT - ✔✔person of whom a lawsuit is filed
✔✔DEMURRER - ✔✔assertion by a defendant that they do not entitle the plaintiff to
prevail
✔✔DEPOSITION - ✔✔questioning by attorneys of a party or witness under oath
✔✔DEPONENT - ✔✔the person being questioned
✔✔DIRECT EXAMINATION - ✔✔questioning by the attorney that called the witness
✔✔DIRECT TESTIMONY - ✔✔answers given during direct examination; or testimony
given under oath by a person who is Pro Se
✔✔DISCOVERY - ✔✔pretrial gathering and exchange of evidence
,✔✔DISMISSED W/PREJUDICE - ✔✔case dismissal that cannot be brought again
✔✔DISMISSED W/O PREJUDICE - ✔✔dismissal that can be brought again
✔✔DOCKET NUMBER - ✔✔identifying number assigned when case is files with the
court
✔✔EMEND - ✔✔change or correct to improve the quality of document
✔✔ENTRAP - ✔✔induce a person to commit a crime, who would otherwise not commit
one
✔✔EQUITY - ✔✔branch of law dealing with results of specific cases
✔✔ERRATA - ✔✔substantive errors found in a deposition or other document
✔✔EVIDENCE - ✔✔items presented to support allegation in a case
✔✔EXAMINATION - ✔✔questions posed to a witness or deponent
✔✔EXECUTE - ✔✔to sign, complete or perform
✔✔EXHIBIT - ✔✔tangible item of evidence
✔✔EXPERT - ✔✔having special expertise which may assist a court, but who is not
connected to the case
✔✔EXTRADITION - ✔✔bringing someone in custody from another place
✔✔F.2d, F.3d - ✔✔2nd and 3rd sets of publishes federal appellate decisions
✔✔FEDERAL QUESTION - ✔✔case or issue which involves federal law or
constitutional claims
✔✔FORUM - ✔✔venue
✔✔GRAND JURY - ✔✔special jury in criminal law which determines if evidence is
sufficient enough to warrant a trial
✔✔GRAVAMEN - ✔✔the part of the charge that weighs most heavily against the
accused
, ✔✔HEARSAY - ✔✔statement made by someone other than the person who was
testifying
✔✔HYPOTHECATE - ✔✔pledge property as collateral for a debt
✔✔HOSTILE WITNESS - ✔✔witness called by one side, but whose interest lie with the
other party
✔✔IMPEACHED - ✔✔testimony contradicted with sufficient proof as to affect a
witness's credibility
✔✔REHABILITATED - ✔✔reestablishing that credibility with further evidence
✔✔INDICTMENT - ✔✔formal criminal charge laid against a person
✔✔COUNTS - ✔✔the individual acts alleged to have broken the law
✔✔INFERENCE - ✔✔logical conclusion drawn from a basis assumed or known to be
true
✔✔INFORMANT - ✔✔someone who gives information
✔✔INJUNCTION - ✔✔order either forbidding or compelling an action
✔✔INTERLOCUTORY - ✔✔provisional, temporary or not yet finalized
✔✔INTERROGATORIES - ✔✔written questions posed before trial
✔✔INTERVENOR - ✔✔person voluntarily joining in an action; with permission of the
court
✔✔INTESTATE - ✔✔dying without having prepared a will
✔✔JOINDER - ✔✔joining lawsuits together
✔✔JUDGEMENT - ✔✔official court decision
✔✔JUNIOR MORTGAGE - ✔✔mortgage next in line to a prior mortgage
✔✔SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION - ✔✔cases or issues a court is authorized to
hear
